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Title: Bucket List Item
Post by: zrct02 on April 15, 2019, 09:57:39 PM
Weather looks good for me to jump out of a perfectly good airplane on Saturday.
Title: Re: Bucket List Item
Post by: balsum fractus on April 16, 2019, 06:51:52 AM
Why?
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Post by: Onepoint on April 16, 2019, 07:00:23 AM
I suppose you have to remind yourself you are alive still by scaring yourself to death.    Sounds like an adventure, post pics!
Title: Re: Bucket List Item
Post by: zrct02 on April 16, 2019, 10:29:04 AM
Why not? George H. W. was 80. I'm only 72.
I'll be sure to post pics or at least my widow will.
Title: Re: Bucket List Item
Post by: jetmex on April 17, 2019, 01:39:13 PM
Go for it, Roger!  And you know what they say - if the chute doesn't work, take it back and they'll give you another one!   :disturbed:
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Post by: balsum fractus on April 17, 2019, 08:47:11 PM
If that were me, there would be fingernail scratches down the side of the aircraft.........
Title: Re: Bucket List Item
Post by: zrct02 on April 19, 2019, 08:35:05 AM
This may be just as exciting as the bungee jump I plan on doing next year. :)
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Post by: stetto on April 19, 2019, 10:03:01 AM
I hear Niagra in a barrel is an unforgettable experience too..... :eek5:
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Post by: balsum fractus on April 19, 2019, 09:27:26 PM
Or swimming with the crocodiles in Mexico...could have gone, but the guide said it would cost an arm and a leg........😃
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Post by: Onepoint on April 20, 2019, 07:25:08 AM
 :icon_lol:  Yeah, and those things don't grow on trees.
Title: Re: Bucket List Item
Post by: Frazz on April 20, 2019, 01:23:38 PM
My daughter who lives in Kansas City, just texted us her receipt that she is going skydiving.  Ha, did you call her Roger?  :icon_lol: She has never mentioned it before.  :eusa_think:
Title: Re: Bucket List Item
Post by: zrct02 on April 21, 2019, 04:28:07 AM
It was awesome. A rain a few days ago had cleared the gunk out of the atmosphere so it was clear and it was practically cloudless.
Visibility was unlimited. It was so clear that I could just about peer forward and see my butt.
Highly recommended. Going to do it again on my 100th.
Title: Re: Bucket List Item
Post by: zrct02 on April 22, 2019, 08:02:47 AM
https://youtu.be/CM4-qHEYnQw (https://youtu.be/CM4-qHEYnQw)

Video starts at about 5000 feet. They couldn't see the free fall portion of the jump.

Another video.

https://youtu.be/rM3IusiiQW0 (https://youtu.be/rM3IusiiQW0)

Title: Re: Bucket List Item
Post by: Onepoint on April 22, 2019, 07:31:08 PM
I am always surprised how high 5k is.
Title: Re: Bucket List Item
Post by: zrct02 on August 09, 2019, 09:46:39 AM
In July I got to drive a $250,000 Lamborgini around a track 7 times. Another bucket list item done.
Title: Re: Bucket List Item
Post by: balsum fractus on August 22, 2019, 10:12:29 PM
Pale by comparison, but my bucket list item for the past 5 years was to retire under my own terms - today I did just that!
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Post by: Onepoint on August 23, 2019, 07:12:38 AM
Congrats nony,  I assume you will enter the shuffle board league now?   :icon_biggrin:
Title: Re: Bucket List Item
Post by: balsum fractus on August 23, 2019, 11:36:53 AM
Too high falutin' for me.....I am looking forward to the opening of bingo season, though......😂
Title: Re: Bucket List Item
Post by: zrct02 on August 23, 2019, 12:51:58 PM
QuotePale by comparison, but my bucket list item for the past 5 years was to retire under my own terms - today I did just that!

Not pale - downright awesome!!
Title: Re: Bucket List Item
Post by: jetmex on August 24, 2019, 11:20:41 AM
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Pale by comparison, but my bucket list item for the past 5 years was to retire under my own terms - today I did just that!

Congrats! 

Three years, seven months and six days to go for me.  Not that I'm counting or anything....  :disturbed:
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Post by: balsum fractus on August 24, 2019, 10:39:37 PM
Shucks, that's only 1315 days.....
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Post by: balsum fractus on August 28, 2019, 09:44:29 PM
First 3 days of not having to go to work went pretty good, but I'm exhausted doing all the things that needed doing...
Almost got caught up for a bit today........got the oil changed in the truck, took the dog for a long walk, mowed the lawn, forgot which day of the week it was, and for good measure, drove with my left blinker on 🙀

I think I'll fit right in......
Title: Re: Bucket List Item
Post by: Onepoint on August 29, 2019, 07:17:25 AM
 :icon_lol: I leave it on all the time just in case I might need it.   And I have a suspicion that I will avoid any kind of retirement.  Because I didn't have to irrigate, I got caught up on a couple "projects"  I put up a carport and built a small storage shed to replace the overhead camper Vicki keeps her outside cats in.  I am going back to farming where its less work!