I had a plant ecology/atm co2 biosystems conference up at snowbird this weekend, and then I had 3 exams in a row and a paper. During that time I didn't visit this site ONCE. That's an amazing feat for me. I stared at a couple of games via a java applet, and still resisted the urge to make queries after some heartwrenching losses. But today, I snuck a peak at the site, and since then I've been here all ****ing day. I haven't gotten anything done. I forced myself to visit the site... I knew what the effects would be, but I went ahead and did it. I have a problem. My moniker is Achebe and I'm a Clutchcityaholic. I have a problem. Unlike many of you, I don't get to clock in and then hang out on the site all day(that's not a slap, I'm jealous, my bill rate is 3cents an hour right now based on my client's demands). I'm self employed. I am working on a fixed bid project. IOW, I'm screwed. Hot/Cold. Hot/Cold. All of you are my imaginary friends/ rocket fan brothers. Unfortunately, I have to stay away for a while. I have to go Cold... it's the only way. If you see me posting a few minutes from now, or tonight, or tomorrow, tell me to go back to work. Call me fat, call me lazy, call me stupid. I beg of you. I need your help. I have a problem. If I'm successful staying away, remember that my heart is with the team... even Rudy, even Glen Rice, etc. Bye bye. See you in a few seconds. NO, see you in a few weeks. Merry Christmas in advance.
well I was just printing my wife's evolutionary ecology final out using maple 6 and I got a bsod. I thought after the reboot I'd come back here and make sure my internet connection still works. looks great, see you guys in a few weeks.
HEB says one thing -- what he thought was the right thing -- to the public. But his mind was made up all along. He was ready to go in a different direction. He wanted to be young and start over. He wanted to just go away. I just said that it didn't make sense from a basketball standpoint. If HEB was going to post, he wanted to contribute. crispee(Heypartner), DoD(Dr of Dunk), they wanted him to have a farewell tour, post for a few minutes at the beginning of the game, wave to the posters and then sit in the background. HEB is not trying to post 20 times a night. He doesn't want to be logged in for 6 hours at a time. Posters always tried to make it out that he was the one who would not let go, but they are the ones with the shallow mentality. crispee, DoD, the fellow clutchcity posters pretended to say all the right things for the public. But HEB knows better. They wanted it to look like he was the one being disloyal, that he wanted to go. They know the disloyalty was in their own clique. What he got was, they were going to do him a favor to bring him back. They gave him a take-it-or-leave-it offer. At first he was upset. But as it went on, he opened his mind to other possibilities and to look more clearly at how his posting could end. Not on their terms, but on his. They had the last shot in the game. They took it. They missed. He is running his own post-a-thon race now. When the situation became clear, he had a plan to come back and start fresh. Their plan shows ignorance. Oh, and HEB cackles like an old man. A really old one.
CK Fegan, we made several very decent offers to Heb, if he wants to knock us back and then trash the organisation he can go and get stuffed. Catcha later you ungrateful Heb
If you cannot comprehend, in his response, a hurt poster, hurt by the bbs and, hurt by some of his supposed fellow posters, then you just want to hate on HEB. And there is no help for you in bizzaro aussieworld. Don't start with that hogwash "we are rockets fans, you are an HEB fan" either. That does NOT sit well with me. cackle.
When did we hurt him, he rejected our offers, obviously unhappy with the level of success with are bringing him and is looking for big and better, if anyone should be hurt is us loyal BBS'. CK Fegan you are the devil, you caused this, stay out of this and maybe you should spend a little more time on your Fantasy Bball team
I sometimes thought about this sentence and thread when I was spending countless hours on here. I spent so much time here during the past months that someone even started a thread on another message board site asking how I could spend so much time online while doing a trip around the world (very legitimate question). As some of the other regulars here, I probably have a slight addiction to the site - as evidenced by the fact that I could exactly remember this thread and knew who started it, even though it is already two years old ... The thing with an addiction is, you know you should probably do it less and then it would be fine, but you still keep overdoing it because you like it. And yes, I really like this BBS - I can follow the Rockets, my favorite NBA team, I get to talk to people from Texas and all over the world who share a common interest. I learn a lot and even arguing is fun most of the time (sometimes not so much) and overall, the BBS has given me a lot of good laughs. You can learn about the X's and O's of basketball, you can get to know the salary cap rules better than Carroll Dawson, you can find out about how some guy's left nut has been itching for days and why, you can see amazingly mean discussions between people who will probably and hopefully fall into each other's arms and get drunk together after the Rockets' next championship (never underestimate the heart of a champion...) and, last but most definitely not least, you get the occasional pleasure of a "hot chicks" thread that goes unnoticed by our strict moderators' eyes. Overall, the BBS is (it is much more than that, but it also has this effect) one of my favorite procrastination tools - and procrastination is my second name, so you get the picture. Anyway, so it's time for me to take a break. Similar to Achebe's situation almost exactly two years ago, there are things I have to get done in real life, and as much as I love this site, I won't get them done if I keep spending as much time here as I have been doing. Before I go, I just wanted to say something specifically to those with whom I have had arguments here in the past and to whom I might have come across as being condescending in some instances. Everyone has their moods sometimes and everyone makes mistakes, and I am definitely no exception to that - but I really never meant to be degrading to anyone, even if I made a snide remark or seemed to mock another poster, be it for an opinion, his haiku [Trademark T_J] posting style or the length of and drama in his posts (sorry, MacBeth, had to sneak this one in ). For those cases when people felt hurt by something I said, I apologize (yeah, come on, you know you deserved it, but anyway... ). Thanks to Clutch for providing this great site and thanks to all you guys for making the BBS as entertaining as it is. You did too good a job of making this place special and that is why I need to go cold turkey and, even though I will miss a lot of you, I will log out and stay logged out - unless something major like a Moochie trade happens (please!), in which case I would come back for a short time to celebrate. Please shoot me an e-mail if something really BIG happens either on the BBS or with the Rockets. If we make the playoffs, I will hopefully be back. If any of you guys sees me lurking here or even making a post before at least next spring...report me to the moderator! Thanks, good luck to everyone and GO ROCKETS!!!
I thought you German guys were good with discipline. Didn't you invent Kindergarten for God's sake. Can't you just peek in on the weekends or something? We'll miss you...
I thank my lucky stars I have a job that allows me to surf and posts as much as I want. Screw being addicted. No hard feelings, SJC. See ya soon.
