Whoa! Back to blogging, after a year or longer! Why the long hiatus? 1) I got my mitts on the colorbarf.com DNS finally instead of just colorbarfskydiving.com and wanted to move my blog. Then I realized I didn’t want to do the research to figure out exactly how to migrate only some portions of my old wordpress database to my new self hosted wordpress database. In short, I’m lazy about my tech projects when they’re on my own time. 2) The whole world got weird and turned upside down because coronavirus.
So what’s happened?
In late 2019, I got onto a very high-end women’s 4way FS team for an indoor season. The team and I parted ways (long story, ask me later) but I guess I got a gold medal out of it and a discounted G4 with fancy side plates to remember the experience by. I learned a lot about teams, flying tail, and where there’s an excellent nail salon in Raeford, NC.
Early 2020, I got invited onto another women’s 4way team with one of my very, very best friends in skydiving, based out of Skydive Elsinore. We planned to figure out training around this new, unfolding coronavirus situation. Coronavirus got worse. My very, very good friend died. That was all just too much for me, so I stepped down from the team.
Mid-year, I lived in Iowa for a few months with my parents and did no skydiving. With no team and a directionless feeling, I reflected on skydiving a lot. I learned to juggle. Largely related to my experience on the high-end women’s team, I swore off belly flying.
In the summer, I moved back to Colorado. I fun jumped a little with my Colorado peeps. I floundered through learning how to be headdown in the sky. (Before joining the indoor women’s team, I flew a good chunk of freefly tunnel time in Utah at the end of 2018 and finally decided to put it to use in the air.)
Late this year, I moved back to SoCal. Since then, I have kept blundering through becoming a freeflyer, which just about gets us caught up to today.
Anything else? Not really. I’m honestly not sure what I have to add to the skydiving conversation these days. It’s pretty saturated; everyone has lots of opinions about skydiving. Mine aren’t really so novel as to need a blog to share them. Plus, people keep telling me my loud mouth gets me into trouble. It’s the only mouth I have though.
But, in the end, I’m paying for the domain name so I sure as hell am going to at least have a website on it.