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Post by UDog™ on Jun 25, 2014 18:16:06 GMT -5
FWIW-I just got married today. Congrats my friend and to your new wife.
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Post by G on Aug 22, 2014 3:54:05 GMT -5
About damn time I could log on correctly. Just to update, I still don't have any internet or cable at my house. My only internet access is through my 2 cell phones. My good cell phone no longer has service but I still take it around with me because at worm I can use it on the wifi and it has a nice camera. My normal phone service phone is a piece of shit. I can surf the internet on it but typing a post on here is unbearable using it. So I prefer to use my out of service phone when I can use the wifi on it. I can actually post on here a lot easier. But for about the past 6 weeks everytime I tried to log on it would fail to correctly sign me on and treat me like I'm a guest. I could use my piece ofshit phone and log on just fine but I cant stomach posting messages on it. Its just too painful. But tonight I was finally able to log on correctly with my good phone. And I didn't do anything different. So it tells me Proboards was having a problem with logins on Android phones.
Anyway, for an update, I used to work 12pm - 9pm with Wednesday and Thursday off which sucked because never seen families or friends when I'm off. I seen an opportunity and took it. I now work 11pm to 8am. Yep all night. But now I have Fridays and Saturdays off. So I get off at 8am on Friday morning and don't have to be back at work until 11pm Sunday night. Effectively I have a whole weekend off. Yeah sleep issues are difficult to deal with and your body goes into shock but I'm finally getting used to it and can finally have a family andssocial life again. Anyway, that's why I haven't posted in a long time.
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Post by UDog™ on Aug 22, 2014 16:00:24 GMT -5
About damn time I could log on correctly. Just to update, I still don't have any internet or cable at my house. My only internet access is through my 2 cell phones. My good cell phone no longer has service but I still take it around with me because at worm I can use it on the wifi and it has a nice camera. My normal phone service phone is a piece of shit. I can surf the internet on it but typing a post on here is unbearable using it. So I prefer to use my out of service phone when I can use the wifi on it. I can actually post on here a lot easier. But for about the past 6 weeks everytime I tried to log on it would fail to correctly sign me on and treat me like I'm a guest. I could use my piece ofshit phone and log on just fine but I cant stomach posting messages on it. Its just too painful. But tonight I was finally able to log on correctly with my good phone. And I didn't do anything different. So it tells me Proboards was having a problem with logins on Android phones. Anyway, for an update, I used to work 12pm - 9pm with Wednesday and Thursday off which sucked because never seen families or friends when I'm off. I seen an opportunity and took it. I now work 11pm to 8am. Yep all night. But now I have Fridays and Saturdays off. So I get off at 8am on Friday morning and don't have to be back at work until 11pm Sunday night. Effectively I have a whole weekend off. Yeah sleep issues are difficult to deal with and your body goes into shock but I'm finally getting used to it and can finally have a family andssocial life again. Anyway, that's why I haven't posted in a long time. I,m glad it finally worked and you got to log on. I know how that is G , i used to work 12am to 7am Mon. night to Sat. morning. I hated it. No weekends and 3 or 4 hours sleep a day. I did that for 10yrs. My job before that i only worked days.
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Post by defiant1 on Aug 23, 2014 21:46:13 GMT -5
I liked night shift. I could adjust my days to visit a doctor without taking a vacation day. It pisses me off that vacation days get wasted on things I have to do. Luckily I get so many vacation days now that it doesn't matter. How long until you break down and get internet? It seems like your wife would want it.
In all honesty, I'd probably be better off without internet. It was mesmerizing when I first used it. Now, I'm bored with it and it's too commercial.
df1
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Post by G on Aug 25, 2014 3:45:12 GMT -5
I liked night shift. I could adjust my days to visit a doctor without taking a vacation day. It pisses me off that vacation days get wasted on things I have to do. Luckily I get so many vacation days now that it doesn't matter. How long until you break down and get internet? It seems like your wife would want it. In all honesty, I'd probably be better off without internet. It was mesmerizing when I first used it. Now, I'm bored with it and it's too commercial. df1 I'm not sure when its going to happen. There is a few issues keeping it from happening. Mostly its not wanting to spend the money. I've switched from Direct Tv and cable services and now I have an antenna. Sure I don't get hundreds of channels I don't watch anyway. I've got a nice strong outdoor antenna and I'm pulling in about 25-30 channels. Nah, half of those I don't even watch but when it comes time to find something, I find I still find plenty to watch even with the limited channel lineup. Best of all I still get HDTV in all of its glory and the best part is its absolutely free. Really the thing I hate missing the most is internet, but I've been without it so long now, I hardly notice. I mean I still see it on my phones andat work. Really the #1 thing is I don't want to spend all that money every month. I got so poor I just got used to dealing without. But I'm still tempted to get back on. I just don't know when.
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Post by defiant1 on Aug 26, 2014 18:19:59 GMT -5
I have one TV in the kitchen that is dying. It takes about 45 minutes to warm up and show a picture. It is not hooked to cable. It's digital HD through an antenna. I watch it more than I watch any TV that is hooked to cable. I tend to watch PBS shows or retro TV which has shows I watched growing up. I did make an extra effort to watch Season 1 of Silicon Vally. It's a Mike Judge TV show. That's the only thing I would've missed if not for cable.
I hate smart phones, so I'd never get one to surf the internet.
df1
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Post by G on Dec 12, 2014 16:28:20 GMT -5
Sorry I havent done anything on here in a long time. I guess my priorites have changed in the last year. Ive been working nights and I still dont have any internet at my house and posting on this phone sucks. After selling about 1000 books in 2013 I havent had much desire to get back in and actually my attention has been on my new wife and family. Now that Ive been working again almost a year now, the desire to buy some back issues and rebuild is starting to creep back in but Ive been so disenchanted with comics so long now its hard to ger back into it. Ive been wanting to get back into the board but doing it on this phone is such a pain. And Im like you, when I come here and its dead it makes me stay away too. Realize all that sounds like a bunch of whining but Im just trying to offer an explaination. I wanna work on the board. Hopefully soon. Ill take any help I can get. In the meantime please know I havent quit.
-G
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Post by defiant1 on Dec 12, 2014 19:26:33 GMT -5
Sorry I havent done anything on here in a long time. I guess my priorites have changed in the last year. Ive been working nights and I still dont have any internet at my house and posting on this phone sucks. After selling about 1000 books in 2013 I havent had much desire to get back in and actually my attention has been on my new wife and family. Now that Ive been working again almost a year now, the desire to buy some back issues and rebuild is starting to creep back in but Ive been so disenchanted with comics so long now its hard to ger back into it. Ive been wanting to get back into the board but doing it on this phone is such a pain. And Im like you, when I come here and its dead it makes me stay away too. Realize all that sounds like a bunch of whining but Im just trying to offer an explaination. I wanna work on the board. Hopefully soon. Ill take any help I can get. In the meantime please know I havent quit. -G I think you've got the right priorities. I'd say get to the point where you have a computer and home internet before you worry about the board. Defiant1
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Post by G on Dec 16, 2014 4:20:03 GMT -5
I'd like to but that could take some time. I think I need to just endure the pain of posting on my phone and just get back to being involved on my board. Its funny, I miss my board more than I actually miss comics. I just need to get involved again and go from there. This was the longest hiatus I've taken from my board over its 7 years of existence.
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Post by defiant1 on Dec 18, 2014 3:53:58 GMT -5
I'd like to but that could take some time. I think I need to just endure the pain of posting on my phone and just get back to being involved on my board. Its funny, I miss my board more than I actually miss comics. I just need to get involved again and go from there. This was the longest hiatus I've taken from my board over its 7 years of existence. If you had a challenge before in getting participation, it'll be greater now. Message boards have been dying off at a greater rate recently. I've had record low visits to my online content this past year. I am of the belief that my regular board members post simply because they want the board to exist, not because they really want to chat about the specific topics. The visit to post ratio is about 8:1 or greater. The likelihood of my board members posting actually increases if I don't post. df1
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