I've been a bit too busy to write. Prep for the USPA board meeting has kept me busy. I'm at the board meeting now, at the Raddison in Alexandria. Lucky in that the weather is good, even though it's sunny and warm, there's still snow in some of the shady areas ( Read more... )

The latest skydiver rant: Sponsored skydiver's don't deserve what they get because they're self serving assholes who don't give back to the sport...plus...it's causing too much commercialization within the sport, which will eventually ruin it. Just goes to show that no matter how good things are, skydiver's will find a way to complain ( Read more... )

I know a lot of folks are complaining about the economy. I'm not one of them. The metal markets right now are going through the roof, and I'm stock full of metal with both yards full. The only problem I'll run into is prepared metal, but I think I've got enough to go on ( Read more... )

Though being a board member for USPA has been (thus far) a positive experience, there are some things that, for lack of a better term, inherently suck. The top of the "suck" list is "good people who want to do great things that everyone wants them to do but is outside the rules so they can't do it". It geniunely bites the big member to tell ( Read more... )

What a great game. I'm already depressed that football season is over and the next one is so far away. Man..., living in a sports vacuum sucks ( Read more... )

I've been reading updates on the formation skydiving record attempt going on in Thailand right now. To give you a little understanding, it's the formation skydiving record, which is basically building a formation of skydivers in freefall. The current FAI record is 300, and according to Guinness, I think it's 316. The difference is that to be an ( Read more... )

Emma's fever continues as a result of the MMR vaccine. Not only that, she's developed a "lump" under her jaw, probably a gland swelling. Cheryl's taking her to the doctor today. Again ( Read more... )

As much as I love skydivers, sometimes they simply confound me. Being on the Board of Directors for USPA is an elected position. So, in essense, you could say that I'm a politician. Man I hate that. Like any "political" organization or elected position, every one (of the roughly 35,000) knows (in their opinion) how to do my job better than I do ( Read more... )

Hard to be witty when you're half asleep. At 1:30 in the morning Emma woke us up with a 105 fever. So we hauled her to the emergency room just to be on the safe side. Not much fun with a 1 year old. We hung out there till 4 A.M. Nothing in particular seems wrong, the thinking is that it's a reaction to the MMR (measles mumps r..r...r...rubella ( Read more... )

...there was emptiness. At least till I can figure out how this damn thing works ( Read more... )