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Title: Random musings
Post by: msattler on 10 Aug 2013, 05:43:40 am
Here is a man.........
A man who for much of his life has done what he can for something he loves.
And for that..........he has been banished.
To his own Twilight Zone.

Witness one kittyman.  A man who has been sent away.  To his own trials and tears.
Away from his friends and all that he loves.
Most cannot taste his tears.
But he swallows that in abundance.

He lies in state now........wondering if it's worth pawning his soul just to send a message to his friends.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9WOZPnOhaA

In.........his own twilight zone.
Title: Re: Random musings
Post by: Pizzadude on 10 Aug 2013, 08:43:18 pm


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin_foil_hat     ;)
Title: Re: Random musings
Post by: msattler on 16 Aug 2013, 05:40:24 pm
My sources.
My loss, her.
I have a little bit of a gift, men and me seem to have a bit of drift.
My ladies and I.......\
You shall understand some day.
 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHBN_4PRYBo)
Title: Re: Random musings
Post by: msattler on 16 Aug 2013, 07:32:38 pm
Go on and hold her.........
I know the song.
I helped her put the lyrics together.  She looked at me with such sad eyes..............
Because her lover would not admit she wuz a lez. 
Years went by and one day this song came out.
Melissa could simply not hold it in anymore.
Onlu One went top ten in the first twenty markets it hit.
It dived once it was on the news that it was a song to her missing lover.

So much for telling the truth.

No, I am not saying I am bi.   I have been down that road.
Les gurlz are really cute.....but anyways......

When it all comes down........"I been there before, and I locked out the door, and I ain't going back there again.'

I hope I have made that sufficiently clear.  I am a guy......likes gurlz.  Way too much.0
I also have a thingy for gulr meets gurl.  Hence the Melissa cut.
You figure it out....I have not yet. [url=

Best version of her best song.............
"I wanna come over, to hell with the consequence.'
Lover, I burn..........[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cY2XYDqvSGI]I wanna come over.......... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVMS2sCO_sM)


Go ahead, believe the mods when they tell you nothing's wrong.
When all the promises are gone..........
I am the only one.
Title: Re: Random musings
Post by: msattler on 16 Aug 2013, 07:50:05 pm
I must admit.......
There are a lotta problems I have not sorted yet.
I have yet to  forgive some comments made in by absence.

Don't know if I can.

I shal try.........

I'll get gone, and I got a full tank of gas..........
And,  [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6H7AQ1MShE]Perhalps you might sleep whilst I drive.[/url]
Title: Re: Random musings
Post by: msattler on 16 Aug 2013, 07:56:48 pm
She aih't fakin' it............

Her best performance of the song.

Honey, I AM the only one. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDpJRI7CocU)

I will post in the Cafe about her Joplin presence...........later, kids.

Title: Re: Random musings
Post by: msattler on 16 Aug 2013, 11:44:59 pm
There are some things I have been wrong about in this life.
And I know I got them badly whacked.

This gurl is not one of those things.

 I always walk alone. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGXHyp08mcE)
Title: Re: Random musings
Post by: msattler on 16 Aug 2013, 11:47:15 pm
I may be wrong, but I think she is siinging to Melissa.
Title: Re: Random musings
Post by: msattler on 17 Aug 2013, 08:59:25 am
Just another post from the kitty warning system..........
Iams pet food recall alert..... (http://www.foxnews.com/health/2013/08/16/dog-and-cat-food-recalled-over-salmonella-concerns/?intcmp=obnetwork)

Meow!
Title: Re: Random musings
Post by: msattler on 18 Aug 2013, 09:43:30 am
I post this here today because the mods at Seti have chosen to banish me for yet another two weeks.
I am angry beyond words.
What is this extendaban BS????
Anyway...........
PLEASE forgive me for venting here.
I have nowhere else to go.
I have shut down all rigs except this, my daily driver.
When the smoke clears, I may settle down and restart them.
Or not.

EDIT...
I have since restarted them all.
I am better than that, and my screaming like a cat in heat ain't gonna help or change anything.
All back up now.

I thank you all who have remained my friends through all my trials and tribulations.
Meow,
Mark



I suppose many expected my first post back to be........an apology.
Not this time, kids.  Not whatsoever.  Not ever again.

Never again.  You either accept me for what I am or I am gone.
I am a very unique individual, and for what it's worth, ####f, yes, I HAVE expierienced more than you or some others have in their lifetimes.
Not to say that some others have not had some unusual life experiences as well.  But, mine seems to have been chock full of them.

I made the mistake, it appears, to have shared them here.
These are things, for whatever reason, I would not even share with my MOTHER.
SHE does not know these thingys.


Did it ever occur to any of you that a few of us are wound so tight that we cannot express ourselves until we are equally wound tight in the other direction?

That's my life.  Painfully shy and introverted.  Until I drink.  And then, years of layers of pain unravel and I start to reveal myself.
Which, it seems, makes the kittyman less appealing.

I placed my trust in the Seti kinship to understand that, and most have for many years.
I actually have come to appreciate and accept 'vote ban' time outs.
They show that the mods know I need a rest.  Some times the kitties stare at me and wish me to bed with them.

But this time, it seems I have been peed on rather badly, not by the mods, but by my peers (such as they pretend to be).
Even cat pee has never smelled so bad.

It was hurtful.  Very hurtful.

To have some whom I trusted that have questioned my ability to properly do my job, or to question how I can hold a job??????
Are you simply insane? I am not......yet.

You are talking out of your *******s.  Assuming that all that I present at times is your total bank of knowledge.

Let's get this straight, and I assure you, I AM whilst composing this message.

I do NOT drink 24/7.  I don't get up every morning and need 'something to take the edge off'.
I bust my butt at work for 40 hours or more a week, and then when my week's work is done......I binge.
Sometimes badly so.

And, it's then that you see my dark side.  My real side.  I quit pretending that everything is a bed of freaking roses and speak my mind.

I have spent almost 25 percent of my LIFE doing Seti. I know others have too.
I have spent perhaps $40,000.00 or MORE doing Seti during that time. That is a LOW estimate.
Between machine builds and mostly the electricity costs.
I can support that with actual electricity bills, kids.

How many of you who call me down can say that??
I have done more work for the project that only a few other participants on the PLANET.
And you're damned right I consider that to be something to be proud of.
Better than you?  It depends on what standards you accept as meaningful.
Crunching contributions?  Cash contributions?  I have made generous bits of both.

Yeah, I know it was not demanded of me.  It was only my OCD thingy.
And, I realize that does not buy me a free pass on the forums.
A bit of special care and handling perhaps.
That's what mods are for.

And you need to know that this post was composed over many days,  all sober.
I wanted to be sure that it was not my anger and hurt doing ALL the talking.

If I were, my statements might take a decidedly different tack.  And it would get very ugly for some of you.
Best I Just walk away..... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_4iQDYDVNo)

In summary, most of you have deeply wounded the kittyman.
I hope it has made you feel better, supposing you are superior to me, you know it all, and you have the answers to all the problems I have in this life.

Meowsigh, if the saying stays true, what does not kill one, makes one stronger.
I hope my inner self can make it through this one.
 
If the kittyman does not succumb to his wounds, I suppose he might return some day.
I post this after days of composing it.

If you cannot accept the above statements as true whilst I am sober.........
I can just shut down and save a half a grand a month.

I love the quest, but cannot any longer tolerate the abuse.  I know I dish it out, cannot take the responses.

I have seen all your responses in my absence.
That's how I could see your posts about me.  I don't know if you realized that or not.
You have to take the kind kittyman with his alter ego at times.
The two are part and parcel.
You cannot take one without the other, and I am about done arguing about it.

Cannot handle it today,


Not today.


Title: Re: Random musings
Post by: msattler on 18 Aug 2013, 12:02:34 pm
A link I think you should all see.
I have posted this wonderful song by KD Lang.
But, kids,  Cohen  wrote it. ............

And he does a rather grand version of it himself.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJTiXoMCppw

KDs sexual gender bit gave the whole song a different meaning.
You can take from it what you want.

Religion?  I suppose.
What one cant take from it is her voice.
None to compare with that.
Title: Re: Random musings
Post by: msattler on 19 Aug 2013, 10:55:54 am
And for those who might be wondering, yes, the kittyman is alive and well today.
Thank you.
Title: Re: Random musings
Post by: msattler on 23 Aug 2013, 09:36:57 am
It's only for the few of you who still care that I respond.
I a;m still OK.

My crunchers are up and down according to temps here.

Mostly down all next week.  90s here.  Sorry.
Signing olff till we next meet again.

Meow and out.
Title: Re: Random musings
Post by: msattler on 23 Aug 2013, 11:51:13 am

I have what I can onlline at the moment........
The temps are projected to be in the high 80s for the next week or so........
So the kitties shall have to be shutting down all things for the most of the next couple of weeks the way it looks.

This is NOT a response to the way the mods have treated me on Seti.........
Please know that and pass that on.
I will deal with that and give them what they deserve later.

My dropping RAC iis due to heat issues, one cruncher that is down, and mostly due to the lack of AP............

My rigs are all set up to  the optimal crunching of AP WUs, which means a lot of CPU cores disables for the serving of GPUs.
When AP is not being available, those cores are idle, so overall production goes down.

I give and shall continue to give all that I can to Seti.
Miy problems are and never have been with the project that I love.
Just with the mods.

Love you all and shall forever continue my quest.
Meow.

Mark.
Title: Re: Random musings
Post by: msattler on 23 Aug 2013, 04:27:20 pm
I am not unlike JLL...........

OK, cats........if that's the way you really want it, I can do it.

I did it before some of you cut your eye teeth on Seti.

"Follow that, killer,........ oh, yeah. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD8YPY8RBQc)

Lesson is..........
NEVER question a man for his love of a woman.........
No matter what either one's age......
Some things might amiaze the simple f out of you.

I met Lori when I was 21 or so.
We are both now 56.

I was through hell and back by then.  And continued from then until now.
She does not go online, but if she did..........


Just promise me this...........Don't put no Headstone on my Grave. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXkYWsRtpdU)
Title: Re: Random musings
Post by: msattler on 23 Aug 2013, 06:09:53 pm
[kurl=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zsAKJYBHyE]
Tonight the bottle let me down......[/url]
Title: Re: Random musings
Post by: msattler on 23 Aug 2013, 06:14:08 pm
You drink what you want to.

I have my own agenda,.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zsAKJYBHyE
Title: Re: Random musings
Post by: msattler on 23 Aug 2013, 06:41:00 pm
This much I can promise you.............

I may0. be gone, but, Once. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zkytvkvezf[You are only Lonely) 
Title: Re: Random musings
Post by: msattler on 23 Aug 2013, 08:02:56 pm
I have said, many tijme, for many reasons, whi I am where I am.

Tjhis is one...........
You take from it what you neeed to.
I know where I comei from.


I eo not need your helpl.

I really do not.


I got everything I need from every insulting person on the planet.l

Go figure. 

Some day.............
I  shall fly away..........and some may wonder why and how they chased me away so badlly.

But not to worry now or today.  I can deal with it for a few more days.
When that is done,  I dunho, kids.  I simply dunno.l

What has to happen shall, and neither you nor I can  stop it.  It is simpl7y gonna be what it is gonna be.

I gave all I had to the projet, for over a quarter of my life.

You take and roll that up into the thousands of dollars it too to do it.......you go and figure why I am distraught.

I think I got it figured now......some who have less that I do wish they had more.  And they are mods.
I don't have any room in my heart for them anymore.

they should have room in theiirs for me.

Nuff said.

I am going now..........off to the land of Oz.
I have spent a lottat hours researching Judy Garland.  Very tragic.  Very said, very abused,.
The wixard was a pedophile.
The witch was a mod on Seiti.
The tin man was me........man without a heart.
The lion was all of the kitties.

amd.
This should explain it.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jcm4kwmz44
Title: Re: Random musings
Post by: msattler on 23 Aug 2013, 10:10:49 pm
I know this is pedantic......
I know I repeat myself.
But, I do know who I am.
If only some of you could understand me as well as iI understand myself.
Oh, sigh.

I have one thing to say and then, I go the way that many of my loved ones have.

I only ever tried to love.......and only struck out when struck upon.

I hope you may come to know that one day......what I was really about.

I cannot teach it, I cannot give it.  You have to earn it.  You have to be it, own it, know it.

One day, one of you will eyeball me up above.  And simply say WTF, Mark.
You knew it all from the get go, didn't you?

Yes, kids.........
I did.

One day, you , maybe just a few, might understand me.

And when you do, you will cry because you were so cruel to me.

I know where I am going.........see 'ya.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U016JWYUDdQ
Title: Re: Random musings
Post by: Pizzadude on 24 Aug 2013, 02:50:01 am
I always wondered why this board was called lunatics.    ;D
Title: Re: Random musings
Post by: msattler on 24 Aug 2013, 10:28:38 am
I suppose that would be because many outsiders would consider our quest 'looney'.
I personally do not consider it so.......obviously.
Title: Re: Random musings
Post by: msattler on 24 Aug 2013, 04:27:53 pm
Ya know.
A man's trust is a wonderful thing.
No sense losing it for a Handful of cards........[/urll]

I suspect that would be my case..... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0_2umf428o)
Title: Re: Random musings
Post by: msattler on 24 Aug 2013, 09:06:43 pm
There are things I culdd say, but I shouldn't/
Things  I could say, but I wouldn 't
/Things, I have nigh, but woe be my
plade to hang things where I souldn't.,

I  wnet so far, beyohd my teaars,
ixpressed so much beyond me years.
Thats why you fear me.

I say som things that sadness brings,
And thixs is what the crux is.

Kids, I live a    long  long  way away f rom  your world.

I have told you thing so many times.
Kpax just ain't a hop skip and a jump away.
It took eons to be here just to   sit  in front of a half dozen machines  doing mathematical calulations.... and yet.
we  are  not threre yet.

Soon.  Soon.
Title: Re: Random musings
Post by: Pizzadude on 25 Aug 2013, 04:17:09 am
"There are things I culdd say, but I shouldn't"

I guess you should of followed that advice when posting to to the Seti forums, perhaps it would have saved your ass from a ban (again) !!!!
Title: Re: Random musings
Post by: msattler on 25 Aug 2013, 09:50:49 am
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=72637#1407450
What I do in my own way from this little part of Earth may indeed impact humanity one day.
And not too far from now.
I should hope it would be in my lifetime, but perhaps not.
My silly ass ban from the Seti forums has not stopped my computers.
Just my interaction with some ignorant folks that don't like my use of the language.
 
I happen to be more intelligent than some of them, and that gores their ox.

Not my problem, it's theirs to bear.

If they wish to continue to display their ignorance and arrogance by furthering my ban, so be it.
If that helps them somehow feel superior, I'll give it to them.

Fact remains.......
I have done more for Eric's project than most people on the planet.
And you folks here can and should understand that.
And I am NOT diminishing what you have contributed either, don't get me wrong.
Without your work, I would not be able to do what I am doing either.

BTW.........
You all, every one of you, should bury the ax and get Jason back here.
You all could accomplish more as a team.  My two shiny pennies.
Title: Re: Random musings
Post by: msattler on 25 Aug 2013, 02:09:51 pm
It's just too hot.
I have most of the rigs shut down, yet the kitties and I are all melting.
Title: Re: Random musings
Post by: msattler on 25 Aug 2013, 02:19:57 pm
BTW,
One who I watch and look after........
For reasons some of you would know.

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2013/08/23/lorna-luft-daughter-legend-judy-garland-details-her-ongoing-battle-with-breast/?intcmp=obnetwork
Title: Re: Random musings
Post by: msattler on 25 Aug 2013, 06:08:41 pm
Electricity is a wonderful servant........
But it can be a rather robust master as well.
If you are squeamish, stop the clip before 8:40.,

It is not pretty.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yX5TIDLvMyw


 I can attest to this.........
I did a summer side job changing electric meters about 10 years ago.
One blew up in my face and scattered my face shield with copper bits.
Some contractors were not real particular about following protocol regarding 'frost loops'.
Which meant that when you pulled the meter out of the socket, the accumulated tension from the lines being pulled into the ground over all those years made the whole 240v thingy jump off the wall and hell ensued.
The sound you hear in some of the vids?
You will never forget it.  I lost some of me hearing that day.  Resounded through the neighborhood for what seemed like minutes.  You will never, ever forget that sound.  I found some of these vids a little scary to relive.

I wound up set on my butt about 20 yards away.

My boss shows up about 10 minutes later and proffers me a new face shield.....LOL.
He says... Son, get up off your *** and get back to work, or you'll never stare it down again.

And, he was right.
About 2 months later, one came apart on me again.
This one was a 480 commercial socket, not a 240 residential.
I was told later that the meter was deliberately sabotaged to blow up when touched because the customer had not paid the bill for months, and were slated to be cut off.
Last I heard, they were doing  1 year to life for attempted murder.

 I did tell ya, I've had an interesting life.
Title: Re: Random musings
Post by: msattler on 25 Aug 2013, 09:24:11 pm
I am really kinda sorry, and yet I am really kinda not.

What I have to say will be very painful for some to hear.
But, it's not like you could have ignored the thunder in the distance for this long without knowing the storm was coming.

I have made many friends on this road, and a few back stabbers as well.
Comes with the territory, I guess.

I have both made and broken more than a few friendships along the way.
I wish that those who read my words upon this day are those I have shaken hands with as friends.

I do know that all are not my enemies.  And I do know that a few that think they are, might reconsider after some recollection.
Some shall not.

What remains are the few that have stood by me for 13 years or more.
Those who, while not endorsing every move I have ever made, always stood by me and my choices.
 I know who you are, and I shall always cherish what you have done for me.
It was invaluable.

Dreams shall live on.
Mine will. 
You shall think of me every single day this project continues.
What more could I ask?


Title: Re: Random musings
Post by: msattler on 25 Aug 2013, 10:56:11 pm
All I could ask of you would be this.
Whatever you may think of me, please keep an open mind.
 I have been places and experienced more things than most of you could imagine.
These are not drunken boasts........as some would like to write them off as.
These are my life experiences.
What this silly old man you now know as the kittyman has been through, it's hard for me to relay at times.
I did not make this all up from scratch, how could I?????

What do you wish to ask me?

Did I sleep with Joan?  Yes, I really did.

Have I been to kpax?
Yes, I came from there.  It's not really a far stretch of the imagination to look at what I have said and done to realize that I have come a long way to be here.
Spacey really tried hard, but he didn't come from where I come from.

 None of the rest of you did, either.

How far?

About 2.8 billion light years.  None of you could ever live the trip.
Even flash frozen.


What is left is what I can share with you before I go.
It could be an hour, or a minute, or a day.
Just enjoy it while it lasts.
Your planet really has some wonderful history.
 Stories, movies, songs, actors and actresses.

Most planets do not have such things.

I suggest you cherish what you have for every moment you have it available to you.

Not many beings in the universe can say............

'There's no place like home'.
Title: Re: Random musings
Post by: Pizzadude on 26 Aug 2013, 02:14:10 pm
Short poem dedicated to msattler and the kitties :-

I think that I am going mad,
I don't recall my name
I think I must be going mad,
I really feel insane
I really know I'm going mad,
hear voices in my brain
So maybe I am going mad,
but maybe the kitties are to blame !
Title: Re: Random musings
Post by: msattler on 27 Aug 2013, 02:07:09 pm
LOL...
The kitties generally try to guide me towards my more sane side.

Still too hot to do a lot of crunching here.  90f and miserable humidity to work or crunch in. Looks like above normal temps until next week.

Meowsigh.
Title: Re: Random musings
Post by: msattler on 30 Aug 2013, 03:48:25 am
Mewow!
Looks like the kitties took 3rd place worldwide in the WOW challenge.
Not bad for having a lot of rig downtime due to the heat wave here.
Should finally break in a few days, then I can get a bit more crunching in.

Title: Re: Random musings
Post by: msattler on 06 Sep 2013, 09:02:00 pm
My father told me about life.
Tp;'d ,e about.......advice.

Je saod. son.
Advice is what a man gives another man when his head is up his downside and he has nowhere e;se tp ;ppl/
A man wiht nothing but advice has had either no ;ofe., no ezxperoemce. pr mp branis to base it on.

-A mani with advice cannot be trusted, becaiuse je jasm't hjived one iota of his advice.
Title: Re: Random musings
Post by: msattler on 06 Sep 2013, 10:05:05 pm
There is no biddle ground.
You accept me for what I am,  or you so nor.
I desercve such.

Your choice.

It shall not be easy, if  the choice is to go away.

I can make it very hard.

Please do not choose option numb er 2.

Some of you know what I can do.
I have alluded to it in some movie scenes
It was NOT an illusion .

Nokia was a toy.

 I am done playing with toys/

Your choice.

I can play good kitty or bad kitty.
Later.................
Title: Re: Random musings
Post by: msattler on 06 Sep 2013, 10:26:05 pm
There3 are new ,mods./

TYhey have no a;;ogoem ce
Thjey have nosens3e oc honor.
They shall take me doewna.  no m,atter

I can take then down too/

It is not gonna be pretty..


As it was said in Tombstone.........

I'm comin'..........
And  hell's coming' with me/


Only tow ways out.
You take an early exit, or you stand by me.

Your choice.
Title: Re: Random musings
Post by: msattler on 06 Sep 2013, 10:37:55 pm
They banned me again.
They really don't  have a clue.

I AM SKYNET
dONBE DEALING WITH YHOU.

i DON'T HAVE TO

iA few minurtwa noq..........

And you al2ayas 2on e343we
Title: Re: Random musings
Post by: msattler on 10 Sep 2013, 01:38:35 pm
LOL..
You are safe for now........
Looks like most of the kitties' Skynet operations are down for the first half of this week due to a heat wave.
And me working 12 hour shifts on top of that.....yuk.  Not nice weather for man nor kitty nor crunchers.
Title: Re: Random musings
Post by: msattler on 22 Oct 2013, 05:18:42 am
 A few minutes ago, the largest computational power on the Seti project on earth just shut down
Due to arrogance and my lack of subservience.
Title: Re: Random musings
Post by: msattler on 22 Oct 2013, 01:32:58 pm
And on top of everything else, one of Lori's son's cats passed suddenly last night due to congestive heart failure and/or a blood clot.
She was at the apartment painting, and he just went limp.  The clot lodged in his spine, and paralyzed his back legs.
The vet said any hope of recovery was slim to none, so he was let go to the rainbow bridge.

Desi was a very fine kitty, and shall be missed.  His littermate sister Lucy does not understand he is gone yet.
Title: Re: Random musings
Post by: msattler on 22 Oct 2013, 05:12:24 pm
And cats are the most wonderful of creatures.  I know this more every single day.  They are the most wonderful of God's creations, superior even to mankind.
They don't question, they don't judge.  Even when one is a most terrible human being, they still just look up at you with those tremendous eyes.  And love you.
Every night when I go to bed, they gather around, and just wish for a petting or two before I go to sleep.
And most often I wake with one or more of them purring and just so content to be able to place their paws upon my arm or face or neck.....

I am a very bad example of human behavior at times.  But I have learned much from cats.   If I could just try a little harder to exemplify what they have taught me, I might not be such a bad person.

I am 56yo, going on 57.  I have only known cats for the last 18 years of my life. That is a third of my lifetime to know a cat. A pretty big chunk of my life's real estate.
My eldest kitty companion Squirrel  is quietly preparing to leave me.   I can see that in her big wonderful eyes.
I shall be so much diminished when she has to travel on.
Title: Re: Random musings
Post by: msattler on 22 Oct 2013, 06:07:46 pm
 I need help now.
I think I have made it to stage 1.
 
I admit I have a problem.
This makes me cry a lot.

Now, how do I get to stage 2?

I cannot do it by myself.

I am powerless at this point and I am asking for direction.
I now openly admit that.

Title: Re: Random musings
Post by: msattler on 22 Oct 2013, 06:09:25 pm
Help me if you know the way, pl.ease.

Title: Re: Random musings
Post by: msattler on 22 Oct 2013, 06:18:30 pm
I suspect that there are a few here that could offer some help.
Because I also suspect that many Seti addicts are OCD such as I am.
I need to change some things in my life quickly, before they kill me.
I as for your help.
Title: Re: Random musings
Post by: msattler on 22 Oct 2013, 08:07:57 pm
 Those little steps are so very easy for some of you to propose if you are not the one who has to put one foot in forward of the other in the correct direction.
Title: Re: Random musings
Post by: msattler on 23 Oct 2013, 01:31:26 am
Oh, I get it now.
YOUR words never cross boundaries, never hurt, never wound another.
Right.
Title: Re: Random musings
Post by: William on 23 Oct 2013, 07:38:13 am
I need help now.
I think I have made it to stage 1.
 
I admit I have a problem.
This makes me cry a lot.

Now, how do I get to stage 2?

I cannot do it by myself.

I am powerless at this point and I am asking for direction.
I now openly admit that.
You ask in public, I answer in public.

You must understand Mark, that while we, as the community here, have certainly ideas about what you could do in your situation, we are not there with you.
We can only tell you what we think you could do. We can't take you by the hand and drop you off at a place that could help. We only have words.

Yes you made the first step, but the road is very long. And most of it you need to walk alone. Not without friends at your side, hopefully, but you have to do the walking.
We can't carry you.

That said, the main problem as I see it is your alcoholism.
If you can stop reaching for that bottle, you've won.
Most alcoholics I know had to go completely dry.
Most of us will drink too much at times or even far too often. But we know our limits. We know when we've had enough and it's better to stop.
You very obviously don't.

You need a rehab/detox Mark.
You could try the AA - but I somehow doubt that that will be enough, that they can provide you with enough mental strength.
The best would be hands on help - a clinic or something. Go in, don't come out until you're dry.
Now, those things are expensive and I haven't got the faintest idea how the US medical system works.
I'd advise going to the doc and telling him that you have a severe alchol problem. He'll know more about what help is available [as will the AA probably].
You should also tell Lori.
If she sees that you are genuinely trying, she may know what help there is or what help she herself can give.

And the next step in any case should be to take every single bottle of alcoholic beverage you have in the house - even those squirreled away - and pour them down the drain.
If you can't make yourself throw away booze, take the lot and distribute it among your collegues or donate it to some place or other.
But get rid of it.
And don't buy any new.

I know (well not presonally, with alcohol) that it's difficult to do the next step. even more so if there is a depression on top. Just do it. You'll feel betetr afterwards.

Now, this may all seem like 'easier said than done' but as I told you in the beginning, we only have words. You are the one who needs to do somethign and we can only be of very limited help.

I don't think you are past redemption. Not yet. But you need to get a grip on yourself. Only after that you can expect the community to accept you again - and it won't be open arms in many cases. You smashed too much porcelain, alienated too many people. 
It's a long road to get dry, it's an even longer road back into the community after that.
I believe you CAN make it. If you want to. Up to you now.
Title: Re: Random musings
Post by: William on 23 Oct 2013, 07:40:09 am
And Mark, I and the other people here who have mod buttons will not be tolerating any crap here.
We give you your space here, but only if you stay civil.
Title: Re: Random musings
Post by: msattler on 13 Nov 2013, 01:52:29 am
Today shall go down as one of the saddest days in my life.  Today the kittyman lost one of his own.
I just got home from work, and for many years, my Squirrel kitty would soon be by my side, paw on my arm, with big eyes beckoning only for the love and attention that she loved to share.   Not tonight.  Never again.
Her body had become too weak to sustain her loving heart and mind, so although it was the hardest decision I believe I have ever had to make, this morning I had to show her the greatest kindness I could grant such a true companion by taking her to the vet and releasing her loving soul to return to God.  From whence it surely came.

My loss cannot be put into words, my grief as well I can hardly describe.  She had been with me almost exactly a third of my life.

Rest in Peace, my dearest Squirrel kitty.
Rest in Peace, Squirrel.  April 12, 1995 - November 12, 2013.
Title: Re: Random musings
Post by: Mike on 13 Nov 2013, 09:58:11 am
Sorry to hear Mark.

RIP
Title: Re: Random musings
Post by: William on 13 Nov 2013, 11:39:50 am
18 years... that's a LOT for a cat - RIP Squirrel

You'll see her on the other side of the Rainbow Bridge, Mark. Sorry for your loss.
Title: Re: Random musings
Post by: Claggy on 13 Nov 2013, 01:02:12 pm
RIP Squirrel.

Claggy
Title: Re: Random musings
Post by: msattler on 14 Nov 2013, 12:36:41 pm
Thank you, Mike, William, and Claggy.
It's still too soon for the pain to begin to ease but her 3 stepsisters, Tigger II, Bandit, and Purrball are doing their best to comfort me.  The littermate trio is now 12yo.

Meowcry.
Title: Re: Random musings
Post by: msattler on 24 Dec 2013, 11:34:00 am
I wish to offer you all upon this day, the eve of the Christ child's birth, my heartfelt blessings and good tidings.
For, upon the morrow, all sins are forgiven, and all men and women that shall accept Him shall be saved.

Merry Christmas, my friends.

Title: Re: Random musings
Post by: msattler on 21 Feb 2014, 08:24:44 am
Please be advised.
It hurts me very much to have to say this.

I shall at this time, have to say that my enthusiasm for this project has been somewhat diminished.
I shall continue to crunch ..............but at times, with less enthusiasm than before.
What that means,  I cannot say just now.
The rigs are strong, my support is no longer.
If one goes down, it my stay so.

I shall continue to support this project, my beloved on, unttil I pass.

Just how much or how fervantly, I cannot say right now.

Pass this on to my Seti frriends and mods.
Title: Re: Random musings
Post by: msattler on 21 Feb 2014, 05:06:15 pm
I am not ashamed of what I am.
I've been about all I can.

My life to you has been rather strange,  I know.

I don't wish you to follow it, my live's path would kill some others.

It has, I suppose, some.

You just have to learn from it what you are able.

I'lll be back when I am allowed.
IT seems this time it shall not be soon.

I am  not very happy about this, or really in agreement.

Fred has said it could be a two month ban.

This is bullshit, even for a repeat offender. 

 If it cointinues that long, I may no longer be here.

I can absorb a few hits.   Many, in fact. I absorb a lot of negative comments.

But not EVERYTHing.  Don't go two monthsa.  Or risk everything, if that's what you are willing to do.

Like I said, I can take a hit.  But not the end all hit.  The term  'perrmaban' has been bandied about by some more ignorant on the Seti forums.

Use it and see what you get.   I assure you, it shall NOT be what you think. 
Meow.
Title: Re: Random musings
Post by: msattler on 21 Feb 2014, 06:29:55 pm
And I assure you, I am quite OK with this timeout.
Might be for my best interests.

I might need to step away for awhile.

My crunching will continue unabated.

Meow for now.

Title: Re: Random musings
Post by: Pizzadude on 22 Feb 2014, 01:36:42 pm
Sorry my friend but somebody needs to tell you straight, that the only bullshit here is you. You run your mouth off on other forums and get banned then you come here and whine about it.  This pattern has been repeated many times over.  You never help people here or post anything positive, you just whine.
Title: Re: Random musings
Post by: Josef W. Segur on 22 Feb 2014, 09:00:17 pm
I see Mark read that criticism before I did, and may have been able to accept it as well meant even though rough. Let me just say that this board is open for discussing almost anything, but a battle is not a discussion in my view.
                                                      Joe
Title: Re: Random musings
Post by: msattler on 26 Feb 2014, 03:19:01 am
Got the 334.89 drivers loaded on all rigs and ready to rock.
Now all the kitties are hoping for is that da boyz in da lab can cure the source of marvin's malaise and we can get another good long AP run going.

Meow!
Title: Re: Random musings
Post by: msattler on 26 Feb 2014, 03:31:07 am
And I see we have a new member here.....
My buddy juan BFB from over at our GPUUG team.

Welcome, juan!
Title: Re: Random musings
Post by: juan BFB on 27 Feb 2014, 07:46:01 pm
Thanks Mark, itīs nice to be here.
Title: Re: Random musings
Post by: msattler on 02 Mar 2014, 03:54:02 am
I don't think you have a clue what it's like to have to stand back and watch all things happen........
Without a bit of strength to alter it's course.
I have told you before that I come from a time beyond yours.
None of you has believed me.
I suppose after this moment, you still shall not.

I went up in one spacecraft, but somehow came down in another..................
LOL.  A most interesting episode.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rupZ1BLrV9c

And that, my friends, , is all I can tell you at this moment in time, at this little slice of momentum.
At this little moment................................

In YOUR twilight zone.
Title: Re: Random musings
Post by: msattler on 02 Mar 2014, 08:04:18 am
Cocaine's for horses, not for men.  They say it'll kill me, they just won't say when/
No, kids.............I have NOTHING to do with that affliction, thank GOD.
It's just the song I am fascinated with.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGVqfX4ys4M
Good thing too, given my addictive nature.
Come here, baby, and come here quick.
Turnin' up main street, workin' on main.
Lookin' for that babe that sells cocaine.
Like I said, NOT my thing.
Tried it once, back in '92, knew right then it would kill me too.....LOL.

BTW, Fantasy Records was the label that also released all the early Creedence Clearwater Revival stuff.
AKA One John C. Fogerty.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCQ6XmsJ8tE