The Love Shack

It works! Yes, I’m a geek. We now return you to your regularly scheduled non-geek programming.
Current Mood: accomplishedCurrent Music: A Perfect Circle – Rose

Ok, so noone but me will care here… but… if this works, then all of my WordPress entries should now automatically get sent to my LiveJournal as well. We’ll see if it works I guess!

It’s been a pretty crazy year. Well, 14 months to be exact. Got to include all of the interesting stuff I suppose. I wish that I could say something impressive sounding like: “If you had asked me a year ago what the next year would bring, I never could have guessed this.” Well, obviously. There’s [...]

Just my luck… the last two times that I’ve driven a car for over an hour I’ve gotten a speeding ticket. The previous one was in Indiana doing 85 in a 65, and this one was an 89 in a 70 in Washington.
Yet I get on my bike every day and never get a ticket. [...]

I feel like I’m going through withdrawl. 12 jumps in 3 days… and now nothing… I’ve been watching skydiving videos on Google Video all day, and it’s not really helping much. It’s really not about the rush anymore. It’s not about the speed, or the thrill. It’s just about freedom. It’s about FLYING! What I [...]

for one of the greatest statements in recent history, courtesy of Daily Show correspondent John Oliver. This golden statement was uttered as part of a piece on the recent humanitarian efforts by Hezbollah in Lebanon:
Hezbollah may be an undereducated ragtag group of Islamic extremist militiamen, but at least they’re not FEMA.
Sad, but so very true.

Ok, so I’ve been remiss in providing updates. Two more weekends and over $1,000 later, I’ve now logged a total of 27 jumps. I passed my AFF-7 last weekend, and have done quite a few C-8 jumps since then. Solo jumps with no instructor with no real restrictions once I’m out the door. I still [...]

So I’ve finally gotten my certification process rolling again, with a few hiccups. Went out to Skydive Oregon yesterday and re-did my ground school, and then did 2 jumps. I got to start on level 2 since I had already covered most of the basics when I started at Skydive Chicago. So I did my [...]