Yeah, I know it's tomorrow, but I'm celebrating tonight so I can end the year with a hangover instead of beginning the year with one.
(Doing Therapy)
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!
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JohnA1nut
MemberOh yeah, (Doing Therapy) also means that, five years ago, at that moment, I would have been screaming obscenities at the top of my lungs. In other words, cryptic and strange posting HAS to be an improvement over that, no matter what they say.
(Doing Therapy)
Just don't abuse the privilege And MJ has a thumbs up.
Wed Dec 30 2009 10:17 pm # -
Anyone got any resolutions ready? I should start working on some and using my anti-procrastination tools to try and get them done.
Wed Dec 30 2009 10:57 pm # -
Ha ha, good point :)
Wed Dec 30 2009 11:10 pm # -
I remember a couple New Years back a guy on a Lutheran forum in which I attended said he had resolved to drink more, smoke more, exercise less, and gain weight. He said since he never keeps his resolutions, he ought to be in good shape by the end of the year.
--M. J. Young
Thu Dec 31 2009 12:01 am # -
Nice reverse psychology ha ha
Thu Dec 31 2009 12:46 am # -
Brock
MemberThat's what I was going to ask, John. Heh.
As for me, I rarely make resolutions. If I intend to do something with my life, I do it. I'm already resolved. I don't need a special timeframe to make a promise to myself.
I can't understand how someone would break a promise they make to them self. It makes no sense to me. To me, that would completely obliterate any sense of integrity I have. I only make a promise if I intend to keep it, and I won't stop until it's done.
Thu Dec 31 2009 8:18 am # -
I can't understand how someone would break a promise they make to them self. It makes no sense to me.
But the explanation is so easy: inadequate self-knowledge. The person, believing that he is capable of a task and that his prior failure has been due indecisiveness, sets out to succeed by making a clear decision to carry out the task. Subsequently, he discovers himself incapable.
Alternatively, he reconsiders the decision, deciding that it was silly and that he need not follow it any longer. After all, if you may be released from a promise by he to whom you made it, surely it's a simple matter to release yourself from a reflexive promise?
Thu Dec 31 2009 9:11 am # -
Brock
MemberWhy would you believe yourself capable of a task you are incapable of? huh. I guess I'm just introverted enough to know what I can do or something.
Let me clarify what may be a confusion I have inadvertently caused by forgetting other people's viewpoints: When I say promise, I mean more like oath. Others don't feel the same way, and I forgot that when I posted.
"After all, if you may be released from a promise by he to whom you made it...?"
I don't know about that. I mean, sure, it's no longer necessary, but you still swore...
Thu Dec 31 2009 11:58 am # -
Tadeusz
MemberHappy New Year.
My youngest is throwing up, but cheerful. The Ladyfaire has to work tonight. On the good side, we have plenty of shrimp, and crackers and cheese, and we'll have our party early, and then tommorrow we'll do some more New Year's Day celebrating when everyone else is mixing tomatoes with eggs with tabasco sauce in a vain search for relief from the headache.
Yes, I'm a tad grumpy, but better than depressed. Twould be an excellent night for a movie with lots of explosions and a PG rating.
Thu Dec 31 2009 5:58 pm # -
johnosevens
MemberLots of explosions usually precludes a PG rating. Except for Star Wars. But then, do you really need an excuse to watch Star Wars?
I also don't do the New Years resolution thing any more. No point. There are plenty of things I would like to do with my life, but I am simply too lethargic and indecisive to be bothered. Thankfully I also don't have many bad habits to try to give up - I don't smoke, don't drink excessively, don't do drugs, and I am actually getting more exercise starting next week (in the form of joining a new stage combat school), so I figure my new year is already off to a decent start.
Thu Dec 31 2009 8:06 pm # -
Brock--people usually make "resolutions" to do things they have been unable to do already; they think that formalizing the determination will make them more capable. Thus people promise to quit smoking, or lose weight, or finish some project they've neglected, because they have this intellectual notion that these are things they ought to have done already--but they are not really things they want to do. Sure, they want to lose weight; but they do not want to cut back on caloric intake and increase caloric burn (that is, eat less and exercise more). Sure, they know that smoking is killing them; but they don't really believe that one more cigarette will make a difference, and they enjoy their vice too much to stop. They would like the project finished, but you can't decide to put time into something in a global choice: you must do it in the particular, deciding that you will work on this project instead of reading that book, or watching television, or going to the movie, or taking a walk, or getting a nap, or grabbing a snack, or any of a thousand other things that use the time you might have put to the project.
So it's relatively easy to make promises to yourself that you will never keep, and the more so if you're making them because a holiday has prompted you to consider what changes you ought to make in your life and not what changes you really want to make.
Anyone can keep a promise to himself if the promise is to pick up a candy bar and take the time to eat it today. It's much more challenging to keep the promise that you're going to become a world-class popular musician this year, or finish writing that book you've always meant to write, or something of that sort. What we want to do, what we feel we ought to do, and what we are able to do are all in conflict within us, and we don't often do what we expect.
--M. J. Young
Thu Dec 31 2009 10:55 pm # -
JohnA1nut
MemberThis is certainly too late to help anyone on the east coast, but Brock, this could help you. Do Not go outside for at least an hour after midnight. I read in the newspaper some years ago that, on average, 150 people get killed every year on New Year's Eve by bullets falling back to the ground, fired into the air by people celebrating. No Joke!!! Just a fair warning.
(Doing Therapy)
Fri Jan 1 2010 4:49 am # -
According to my sister if you dream of Eggplant, Mt. Fuji, or a hawk, or any combination of those you'll have good luck. If you dream all 3, you have a majorly good year to look forward to. (This is the girl I call the goddess of useless information)
Fri Jan 1 2010 6:24 am # -
If you went to Ubercon, she was the goth girl that was with me. But I don't think you were, so maybe some other time. Which reminds me I need to see if she's ever coming onto the forums.
Fri Jan 1 2010 6:57 am # -
Tadeusz
MemberI rarely lose in Trivia Pursuit.
I'm not tournameant level or anything, but against average players I usually win. Something to do with reading a few thousand books.
And I call my wife, the Ladyfaire, the demigoddess of electronica because when we have computer or TV or other related problems she gets to fix it unless I can solve it in thirty seconds. I know social roles (in the other thread) are that I'm supposed to be The Guy, and know how to handle electronics...add in the fact that I'm a SF writer, and its really bad. But those of you who are familar with my 'skill' in the Multiverser system rules will not be surprised that my 'skill' extends elsewhere.
And its 1:17 in the morning here.
Didn't watch any explosions except for fireworks in Times Square and round the world. I'm pretty happy.
Fri Jan 1 2010 7:18 am # -
JohnA1nut
MemberAnd I call my wife, the Ladyfaire, the demigoddess of electronica because when we have computer or TV or other related problems she gets to fix it unless I can solve it in thirty seconds.
Yeah, exactly. I don't understand why people don't want equal rights for women. If she can fix it and save us a hundred bucks, so be it. Girlfriend wants to pay on the date? Go ahead. Wife wants to repave the driveway? She's more than welcome. But I'm getting off topic.
(Doing Therapy)
Fri Jan 1 2010 7:31 am # -
Why would you believe yourself capable of a task you are incapable of?
You know, you're right. Why would anyone ever be wrong?
Fri Jan 1 2010 8:45 am # -
Brock
MemberOh, gee why would you? /end sarcasm.
On a more serious note, I usually underestimate, not overestimate, myself. I've never thought I could do something I couldn't do since as long as I can remember. I may have when I was really young or something. I've been wrong plenty about other people, and answering questions, and deciding WHAT to do.
Fri Jan 1 2010 10:51 am # -
Oh, yes--I remember Kat. Where did we leave her?
--M. J. Young
Sat Jan 2 2010 12:14 am # -
The D&D like world, I don't remember what she was last doing, she might remember better then me. What truly shocks me is that the amount of whoever was placed in a D&D like situation didn't have enough of a filter to just think it and not say it.
Sat Jan 2 2010 4:34 am # -
JohnA1nut
MemberI'm watching a movie called Drag Me To Hell. (Yeah, I don't like the title either) A woman gets cursed by a gypsy. There's a scene when she's at work, and first she vomits up about a quart of blood, then it literally starts spraying out of her nose. She's not actually injured though. What happens? She's embarrassed and starts apologizing. No one yells "Somebody call 911!!!" If you saw a woman throw up blood, would you chide her for bad manners, or you get her a doctor? My first psychotic rant of the new year!!!!
(Doing Therapy)
Sat Jan 2 2010 5:35 am # -
Wow, never seen the movie, but yes, the lack of common sense in horror movies is appalling now a days.
Sat Jan 2 2010 5:37 am # -
JohnA1nut
MemberYa know, you're right. I was watching The Blob (1958) earlier today. A young Steve McQueen is trying to explain the blob to the police. He just says "It's a monster!!" I, on the other hand, would have said "It looked like that thing in The Blob...." Steve McQueen can't exactly say that, now can he? That made a lot of sense.
My favorite though is the John Wayne Law. It states that the hero's gun will not run out of bullets until either the enemy is out of range, or he is badly outnumbered. Otherwise, he has the infinite ammo cheat code for the whole movie.
(Doing Therapy)
Sat Jan 2 2010 6:06 am #
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