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11-13-2008, 02:50 PM

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Zencat

Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude

Join Date: Dec 2006

Location: Oxnard (The Nard), CA, USA.

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You haven't sold out dude. Your coming up on another day sober and that's whats important. Plus there is no rules in A.A. and you don't have to believe in anything if you don't feel the need too. Why hell I'm enjoying my D.R.A. meetings so much I might go back to a couple A.A. meetings myself. I think having my foundation in secular recovery rebuilt again, I wont feel intimidated by G*d talk like I was when I quit going to A.A.. That and I kinda miss some of the misfit characters I used to get a chuckle out of when they shared.

11-14-2008, 10:23 AM

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shockozulu

Reach Out and Touch Faith

Join Date: Jul 2005

Location: On a Sailboat

Posts: 3,871

Quote:

Originally Posted by zencat

Hi secular peeps

Still doing good on the sober

deal. Been a bit busy with stuff. Nothing useful, just busy at doing nothing really...LOL. Have been browsing through the thrift stores and found some Sims expansion packs, so now I hooked on playing my Sims game. Thinking about buying some other expansion games on ebay. I think this is a good indicator on my mood lately. Because when I'm in a low mood I don't play my video games. Also I'm back to learning HTML/CSS for web pages. Another big time consumer and good mood indicator.

Wow do we have shared interests. I am a big Sims fan as well. I was recently going through all my old video games and the only ones I kept from the last ten years were my Sims.

As for CSS, I have Eric Meyer's book sitting here. I really should start reading it again.

11-14-2008, 01:28 PM

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Zencat

Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude

Join Date: Dec 2006

Location: Oxnard (The Nard), CA, USA.

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Yea Alera I'm in need of a bigger and faster CPU so I can play Sims 2 or 3 and get Spore to play. I'll have my car payed off in February

, then it time to build a gnarly gamer

, well as close to a gnarly gamer as my limited budget

can handle, but by building it myself I'll save mucho green backs.

11-16-2008, 07:30 AM

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Ananda

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Join Date: Nov 2007

Posts: 26,425

checking in guys!

whats up DK.....day 17 is awsome

I'm not sure whats up with me today....know that I don't want or need to drink or use right now.

coffee and bb studying later this afternoon

I have tons to do, but have spent 2 hours on sr this morning...guess it's time to get to work....

Have a new 12 cup coffee maker! and it's fast! should make it easier to not be late to work cause i have to brew several pots

simple changes i can make sober to make life easier to get thruogh

11-16-2008, 07:39 AM

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doorknob

Knucklehead

Join Date: Mar 2005

Location: Davenport, WA

Posts: 4,005

Thanks, Ananda. I feel really blaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh. I don't like it...

11-16-2008, 08:34 AM

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Ananda

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sorry DK...but your post of the flying spagettie monstoer tells me that you still got some happys going on in there somewhere!

11-16-2008, 08:38 AM

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doorknob

Knucklehead

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Location: Davenport, WA

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11-18-2008, 05:36 PM

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Zencat

Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude

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11-19-2008, 01:34 PM

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shockozulu

Reach Out and Touch Faith

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Quote:

Originally Posted by zencat

Yea Alera I'm in need of a bigger and faster CPU so I can play Sims 2 or 3 and get Spore to play. I'll have my car payed off in February

, then it time to build a gnarly gamer

, well as close to a gnarly gamer as my limited budget

can handle, but by building it myself I'll save mucho green backs.

I was in the same situation last year. I was able to save up for a new laptop only to have it crap out on me. So I replaced it (under warranty) with a new one that is also a gaming machine. It plays everything from Oblivion:Elder Scrolls IV Game of the Year version to S.T.AL.K.E.R. and the brand new Alone in the Dark. It has a NVIDIA card, TV Tuner Card, 4 Gig RAM and a decent (350 GB) hard drive. It even has a number keypad. It is marketed as a Gamer/Multi-Media computer and I am even able to record and then burn on DVDs of TV programs. The model with a larger screen was featured in ComputerWorld this year on their Christmas list, but I was able to get mine at 2/3 the price by shopping around for a discounted price.

Before I bought my laptop I built the last two desktops I owned and did everything but build the case and motherboard on our third computer.

I would have done the same with my new computer but I needed a laptop for school. Its amazing that in this day and age our house is able to run a bunch of laptops without a single desktop via wireless...and still print, scan and (of course) play the most recent games.

So far the only games that don't run are all having VISTA/VISTA 64 problems(such as a bunch of the ID games), not problems with the computer hardware. I was amazed that a laptop can "imitate" a desktop so well.

When you start building it, I hope you will share the specs and let us know how it comes along.

11-21-2008, 03:40 PM

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Bamboozle

I got nothin'

Join Date: Jun 2008

Location: My house.

Posts: 4,890

...(I think I see a god in my dish of pasta)...

Hello everyone.

11-21-2008, 04:12 PM

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Dee74

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Location: Australia

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11-21-2008, 04:26 PM

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desertdonna

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Location: Glitzville

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Why do most of these pics have two meatBALLS in them?

11-21-2008, 04:38 PM

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Dee74

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I don't makes 'em, I just posts 'em.

11-21-2008, 04:57 PM

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desertdonna

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Geez, they're ten times bigger than the eyeballs.

Hmmmm....

11-21-2008, 06:55 PM

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Zencat

Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude

Join Date: Dec 2006

Location: Oxnard (The Nard), CA, USA.

Posts: 13,945

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alera

When you start building it, I hope you will share the specs and let us know how it comes along.

Will do. I'm having fun just shopping for all the components. Also there is an Intel base kit (XFX nForce 630i Socket 775 XFX MG-63Mi-7159, Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 OEM, 2GB Corsair TWINX PC6400, 500GB SATA II, Silver ATX Mid-Tower Case, 450 Watt Power Supply) that sounds like a good start and affordable for me at $350.00 on my credit card. I could pay that off in 3 months. But I'm still looking.