Each of the past three weekends I’ve gone skiing. First I went to White Pass. Originally I had a few people willing to go with me, but they all bailed at the last minute, so I went alone. It was my first ski of the season, and I was by myself, so I opted for…
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Jump 24
It’s been over four months since I’ve jumped. It was before I went to Europe even. It’s not like I haven’t been trying, though. For the last couple months I’ve been going to the airport every weekend and wednesday evening, hoping there would be enough people to jump. Most of the time nobody was there….
Third game of the softball tournament
Well, it’s over. In what can only be explained as a complete kidnapping of our team and replacement with less-skilled dopplegangers, we managed to get stomped by a team we’d beaten before. We didn’t do anything right. It was definitely not the best way to end the season.
Second game of the softball tournament
We didn’t just lose tonight. We were embarrassed. I’ve never seen so many errors by our team. It was like we were in slow motion. We were crushed 16-2, with the game ending early because of the 10 run rule (after a certain inning if one team is ahead by more than 10 runs, the…
First game of the softball tournament
We pulled out a solid W. It started off close; a couple innings of three up, three down. We were pretty evenly matched. Then they got a couple on base and finished it off with a home run, scaring us and giving them a fairly large lead. We fought back and had a few innings…
A good softball game
Last night we had our second softball game. We were behind most of the game, but we had the last bat, and somehow managed to squeak ahead at the end. It was a good game. We made a lot of good plays and catches, my pitching was almost spot on, and I didn’t get hit…
Jump 23
I was so close. Inches away from a successful dive. The goal on this one was to jump out right after someone and successfully dock with them. He was to jump out and I was to dive out right after him and catch up to him. We planned a routine to execute once we docked,…
Jumps 20, 21, and 22
Today was fantastic! I got up, checked the richlandskysports.com web camera, and saw that there were already people getting on the plane. I called Larry to make sure, and hurried over to the airport. Unfortunately, I was a couple minutes late, so I missed the first load. Oh well. We’re no longer using the Caravan,…
Jumps 17-19.5
Today was fun. I got to the drop zone about 9:45 and there were already a lot of people there. The little building was filled with people, mostly family watching a few people doing tandem dives, and some were hanging out outside. I brought over the leftover carrot cake I had made the day before,…
Jumps 13, 14, 15, 16
Sunday was beautiful. There were only a couple thin clouds in the sky, the wind was very light, and I felt good. It was a great day to go skydiving. I showed up at about 10, but everyone else had partied a little too much for St. Patrick’s Day, so we didn’t get rolling until…