Drazzil Mega Thread: Round table panel skills presentation +Took a home drug test for THC; failed at 45 days sobriety.
Moderators: Bakhtosh, EvilHomer3k
- dbt1949
- Posts: 25745
- Joined: Wed Oct 13, 2004 12:34 am
- Location: Hogeye Arkansas
Re: Drazzil Mega Thread: Finally got things turned around
Don't forget the cats.
Ye Olde Farte
Double Ought Forty
aka dbt1949
Double Ought Forty
aka dbt1949
- Isgrimnur
- Posts: 82246
- Joined: Sun Oct 15, 2006 12:29 am
- Location: Chookity pok
- Contact:
Re: Drazzil Mega Thread: Finally got things turned around
Last edited by Isgrimnur on Wed Dec 04, 2019 2:25 pm, edited 1 time in total.
It's almost as if people are the problem.
- Isgrimnur
- Posts: 82246
- Joined: Sun Oct 15, 2006 12:29 am
- Location: Chookity pok
- Contact:
Re: Drazzil Mega Thread: Finally got things turned around
Probably got reddit-hugged to death.
It's almost as if people are the problem.
- LawBeefaroni
- Forum Moderator
- Posts: 55355
- Joined: Fri Oct 15, 2004 3:08 pm
- Location: Urbs in Horto, outrageous taxes on everything
- The Meal
- Posts: 27992
- Joined: Tue Oct 12, 2004 10:33 pm
- Location: 2005 Stanley Cup Champion
- Isgrimnur
- Posts: 82246
- Joined: Sun Oct 15, 2006 12:29 am
- Location: Chookity pok
- Contact:
Re: Drazzil Mega Thread: Finally got things turned around
It's almost as if people are the problem.
- LawBeefaroni
- Forum Moderator
- Posts: 55355
- Joined: Fri Oct 15, 2004 3:08 pm
- Location: Urbs in Horto, outrageous taxes on everything
Re: ;)
Realize that. I got a different errorcat thing before the edit. I don't know what an errorcat is, I suspect some kind of meme but I thought it was a 404/403 error splash but then realized it was a cat and then decided just to leave the thread without comment.
Now where's the razzle-drazzil?
" Hey OP, listen to my advice alright." -Tha General
"No scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer." -Stigler's Law of Eponymy, discovered by Robert K. Merton
MYT
"No scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer." -Stigler's Law of Eponymy, discovered by Robert K. Merton
MYT
- The Meal
- Posts: 27992
- Joined: Tue Oct 12, 2004 10:33 pm
- Location: 2005 Stanley Cup Champion
Re: Drazzil Mega Thread: Finally got things turned around
Oh. Whoa. The instagram and twitter forum integrations sort of redefine what it means to hotlink, yet can still lead to the sort of image hotlinking behavior we all think is icky. As an old, I'm easily confused. But it appears the desired item is currently being linked so all's well, right?
"Better to talk to people than communicate via tweet." — Elontra
- Jaymon
- Posts: 3013
- Joined: Wed Sep 10, 2008 12:51 pm
Re: Drazzil Mega Thread: Finally got things turned around
I am easily confused. Cat? Who let the cat out? Thats a stupid question, Cats let themselves out. Attempting to let the cat out is a fools game, they just stand there. The best way to get a cat out is by by wanting it to stay in. Unless it knows you want it out, then it will stay in just out of spite. Spite and vinegar. On chips. Yes, fish and chips and vinegar. Not good for cats, but it is good for Jaymon. Yummy yummy in my tummy tummy.
Bunnies like beer because its made from hops.
-
- Posts: 4724
- Joined: Fri Oct 15, 2004 3:54 pm
Re: Drazzil Mega Thread: Bad news and more bad news and a ray of hope.
I got frustrated with the non existant, slow progress my life was making so I shot myself in the foot again. This amazing piece of self sabotage came in the form of a relapse. I feel *SO* stupid. I did it on purpose. Right after I got my six month chip.
I can sit on an 18 pack of beer for a week. God help me if theres any weed in the house. Ran through 3 bills of what a new PC could have run me.
I finally decided to quit again when the pants shitting terror hit in the shower. The fear sweat will last about four or five more days. I'm going back to AA in a few days when the terror subsides.
I'm due to attend a disability hiring fair roundtable in 14 days. It's run monthly so I need interview clothes (again!)
12 days to go. I'm going to try and attend coaching for said event led by the backers. Event by PMDEN.
*shivers* So... If I know myself I have only about four to five days of pants shitting terror left till I turn the corner.
Wish me luck!
I can sit on an 18 pack of beer for a week. God help me if theres any weed in the house. Ran through 3 bills of what a new PC could have run me.
I finally decided to quit again when the pants shitting terror hit in the shower. The fear sweat will last about four or five more days. I'm going back to AA in a few days when the terror subsides.
I'm due to attend a disability hiring fair roundtable in 14 days. It's run monthly so I need interview clothes (again!)
12 days to go. I'm going to try and attend coaching for said event led by the backers. Event by PMDEN.
*shivers* So... If I know myself I have only about four to five days of pants shitting terror left till I turn the corner.
Wish me luck!
Daehawk wrote:Thats Drazzil's chair damnit.
-
- Posts: 4724
- Joined: Fri Oct 15, 2004 3:54 pm
Re: Drazzil Mega Thread: Bad news and more bad news and a ray of hope.
I have Boots the cat on a strong antiinflammatory after a round of antibiotics and its been two days since she urinated or pooped where she shouldn't have. I thought I was going to have to put her down.
Thank god.
Thank god.
Daehawk wrote:Thats Drazzil's chair damnit.
- Smoove_B
- Posts: 54665
- Joined: Wed Oct 13, 2004 12:58 am
- Location: Kaer Morhen
Re: Drazzil Mega Thread: Bad news and more bad news and a ray of hope.
Sorry to hear about your struggles. I hope you can find the strength to get back on the right path and get yourself on a healthy daily routine that includes a job. Don't underestimate how important it is for you to find *a* job, not *the* job.
I haven't worked a F/T gig in over a decade now and I still look for work at least once a week. Always. Be. Looking.
I haven't worked a F/T gig in over a decade now and I still look for work at least once a week. Always. Be. Looking.
Maybe next year, maybe no go
-
- Posts: 4724
- Joined: Fri Oct 15, 2004 3:54 pm
Re: Drazzil Mega Thread: Bad news and more bad news and a ray of hope.
Didn't you retire from the state?Smoove_B wrote: ↑Thu Jan 02, 2020 4:44 pm Sorry to hear about your struggles. I hope you can find the strength to get back on the right path and get yourself on a healthy daily routine that includes a job. Don't underestimate how important it is for you to find *a* job, not *the* job.
I haven't worked a F/T gig in over a decade now and I still look for work at least once a week. Always. Be. Looking.
Daehawk wrote:Thats Drazzil's chair damnit.
-
- Posts: 4724
- Joined: Fri Oct 15, 2004 3:54 pm
Re: Drazzil Mega Thread: Bad news and more bad news and a ray of hope.
I just feel terrible to be dealing with such a self inflicted wound.
Daehawk wrote:Thats Drazzil's chair damnit.
- dbt1949
- Posts: 25745
- Joined: Wed Oct 13, 2004 12:34 am
- Location: Hogeye Arkansas
Re: Drazzil Mega Thread: Bad news and more bad news and a ray of hope.
I know I really hate it when I shoot myself in the foot.
Ye Olde Farte
Double Ought Forty
aka dbt1949
Double Ought Forty
aka dbt1949
-
- Posts: 4724
- Joined: Fri Oct 15, 2004 3:54 pm
Re: Drazzil Mega Thread: Bad news and more bad news and a ray of hope.
Blew my toe right off.
Daehawk wrote:Thats Drazzil's chair damnit.
-
- Posts: 4724
- Joined: Fri Oct 15, 2004 3:54 pm
Re: Drazzil Mega Thread: Bad news and more bad news and a ray of hope.
Just wish I knew how to stop digging my own holes.
Daehawk wrote:Thats Drazzil's chair damnit.
- Isgrimnur
- Posts: 82246
- Joined: Sun Oct 15, 2006 12:29 am
- Location: Chookity pok
- Contact:
Re: Drazzil Mega Thread: Bad news and more bad news and a ray of hope.
Therapy.
It's almost as if people are the problem.
- Smoove_B
- Posts: 54665
- Joined: Wed Oct 13, 2004 12:58 am
- Location: Kaer Morhen
Re: Drazzil Mega Thread: Bad news and more bad news and a ray of hope.
No, not quite. I left F/T government/public sector work to become a stay-at-home dad. My wife's salary was 2x mine, so it made sense. When my daughter was around 3, I picked up a P/T job as an adjunct lecturer at a public university. Been doing that 11 years now - the longest P/T job I've ever had. In total I now have like 21 years of public service (which is nuts) and I'm about to pick up another P/T job doing some QA/QI stuff for a local government agency.
And yet, I'm still looking for work. Always, always looking. I'm open to any number of opportunities and I'm fortunate enough to be in a position now where I can take advantage of it.
Get yourself working, get into a job routine. Build connections. Build relationships. Experience small success. Figure out what the next steps are.
You're not unique in this aspect. But I truly believe mindset is more than half of it. To quote one of our generations greatest philosophers, "You've got to roll with the punches to get to what's real."
Also what Isg said.
Maybe next year, maybe no go
- Exodor
- Posts: 17208
- Joined: Tue Oct 12, 2004 11:10 pm
- Location: Portland, OR
- AWS260
- Posts: 12682
- Joined: Wed Feb 08, 2006 12:51 pm
- Location: Brooklyn
Re: Drazzil Mega Thread: Bad news and more bad news and a ray of hope.
Good luck, man. One step (of pants shitting terror) at a time.
- Isgrimnur
- Posts: 82246
- Joined: Sun Oct 15, 2006 12:29 am
- Location: Chookity pok
- Contact:
Re: Drazzil Mega Thread: Bad news and more bad news and a ray of hope.
A little story from the Isg.
When I was younger and dumber, I would say stupid things. Eventually, I would realize that what I said was stupid. The lag time was significant. As I garnered the rewards for my big mouth, the lag time between when I would say something stupid and when I would realize it grew shorter and shorter, to the point where it was just after the words left my mouth.
The real trick, and the part that was the hardest was realizing that I was about to say something stupid, and not doing it. It was not a quick process.
When I was younger and dumber, I would say stupid things. Eventually, I would realize that what I said was stupid. The lag time was significant. As I garnered the rewards for my big mouth, the lag time between when I would say something stupid and when I would realize it grew shorter and shorter, to the point where it was just after the words left my mouth.
The real trick, and the part that was the hardest was realizing that I was about to say something stupid, and not doing it. It was not a quick process.
It's almost as if people are the problem.
- Isgrimnur
- Posts: 82246
- Joined: Sun Oct 15, 2006 12:29 am
- Location: Chookity pok
- Contact:
Re: Drazzil Mega Thread: Bad news and more bad news and a ray of hope.
Can't shit your pants in terror if you aren't wearing any.
It's almost as if people are the problem.
-
- Posts: 4724
- Joined: Fri Oct 15, 2004 3:54 pm
Re: Drazzil Mega Thread: Bad news and more bad news and a ray of hope.
Daehawk wrote:Thats Drazzil's chair damnit.
-
- Posts: 4724
- Joined: Fri Oct 15, 2004 3:54 pm
Re: Drazzil Mega Thread: Bad news and more bad news and a ray of hope.
No it isin't. I am on hold with KP to try to make the appt RIGHT NOW. Isg, thank you for the timely reminder.
Daehawk wrote:Thats Drazzil's chair damnit.
- Isgrimnur
- Posts: 82246
- Joined: Sun Oct 15, 2006 12:29 am
- Location: Chookity pok
- Contact:
Re: Drazzil Mega Thread: Bad news and more bad news and a ray of hope.
Glad to help.
It's almost as if people are the problem.
-
- Posts: 4724
- Joined: Fri Oct 15, 2004 3:54 pm
Re: Drazzil Mega Thread: Bad news and more bad news and a ray of hope.
Daehawk wrote:Thats Drazzil's chair damnit.
- Isgrimnur
- Posts: 82246
- Joined: Sun Oct 15, 2006 12:29 am
- Location: Chookity pok
- Contact:
Re: Drazzil Mega Thread: Bad news and more bad news and a ray of hope.
Don't tell anyone, okay?
It's almost as if people are the problem.
- em2nought
- Posts: 5354
- Joined: Fri Oct 15, 2004 5:48 am
Re: Drazzil Mega Thread: Bad news and more bad news and a ray of hope.
Seems like you might have something to contribute to a group that thinks legalizing Mary Jane might be a bad idea. Not that I have any knowledge on the subject. I actually tried to smoke some for the first time in my life last year and for the life of me couldn't force myself to inhale. I could almost give Bill the benefit of the doubt.
Stop funding for NPR
-
- Posts: 4724
- Joined: Fri Oct 15, 2004 3:54 pm
Re: Drazzil Mega Thread: Bad news and more bad news and a ray of hope.
No. I will *NEVER* argue against legalization. It needs to be completely legal. The scummy distributibutors are making too much money. I would have had to be sober and smoke many more oil carts for this to work to my advantage.em2nought wrote: ↑Thu Jan 02, 2020 7:54 pm Seems like you might have something to contribute to a group that thinks legalizing Mary Jane might be a bad idea. Not that I have any knowledge on the subject. I actually tried to smoke some for the first time in my life last year and for the life of me couldn't force myself to inhale. I could almost give Bill the benefit of the doubt.
And yes. Good weed is vile.
Daehawk wrote:Thats Drazzil's chair damnit.
- stimpy
- Posts: 6102
- Joined: Wed Jan 19, 2005 6:04 pm
Re: Drazzil Mega Thread: Bad news and more bad news and a ray of hope.
Is it that time of the year already?
My oh my how time flies when you don't do shit to help yourself.....
My oh my how time flies when you don't do shit to help yourself.....
He/Him/His/Porcupine
-
- Posts: 4724
- Joined: Fri Oct 15, 2004 3:54 pm
Re: Drazzil Mega Thread: Bad news and more bad news and a ray of hope.
/s
Hi Stimpy! Hows it goin? Thank you! for your valued, and much deserved criticism! I haven't done nearly enough to help myself these last six months and you've sole handedly made it overwhelmingly clear to me that I don't *REALLY* want to improve my life situation.
When I do *finally* make the needed changes, I will make a donation to the charity of your choice. I'm *so* glad you care enough about me to make the time to stop by my thread to post this. Thanks again.
/s
Daehawk wrote:Thats Drazzil's chair damnit.
- stimpy
- Posts: 6102
- Joined: Wed Jan 19, 2005 6:04 pm
Re: Drazzil Mega Thread: Bad news and more bad news and a ray of hope.
Whatevs.
When you make some progress, I'll support and applaud you.
But this pattern of woe is me every few months makes it clear that you only seek self sabotage and fall back on that as an excuse to not get your shit together.
All the support and encouragement from the good people here always falls upon your deaf ears. You pay it lip service, but constantly come up with bullshit to not follow thru with any of it.
I feel no remorse in kicking you in your ass if there is a chance it might get you to do something different.
Some people need coddling. Some need a smack upside the head.
Which side do you fall on?
When you make some progress, I'll support and applaud you.
But this pattern of woe is me every few months makes it clear that you only seek self sabotage and fall back on that as an excuse to not get your shit together.
All the support and encouragement from the good people here always falls upon your deaf ears. You pay it lip service, but constantly come up with bullshit to not follow thru with any of it.
I feel no remorse in kicking you in your ass if there is a chance it might get you to do something different.
Some people need coddling. Some need a smack upside the head.
Which side do you fall on?
He/Him/His/Porcupine
- Zarathud
- Posts: 16504
- Joined: Fri Oct 15, 2004 10:29 pm
- Location: Chicago, Illinois
Re: Drazzil Mega Thread: Bad news and more bad news and a ray of hope.
You know what will help? Being a sarcastic smartass in addition to your self-sabotage. Doubling down on stupid self-destructive behavior is going to make such a difference.
Seriously, you need help, therapy, and maybe a swift kick in the ass. And to take charge of your life. Maybe.
Not pity from fake online people. Not alcohol. Not drugs. Not any of a million excuses you’ve had in this thread. This is your life. If you decide to piss it away and not care, why should anyone here give a duck?
Seriously, you need help, therapy, and maybe a swift kick in the ass. And to take charge of your life. Maybe.
Not pity from fake online people. Not alcohol. Not drugs. Not any of a million excuses you’ve had in this thread. This is your life. If you decide to piss it away and not care, why should anyone here give a duck?
"If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts." - Albert Einstein
"I don't stand by anything." - Trump
“Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.” - John Stuart Mill, Inaugural Address Delivered to the University of St Andrews, 2/1/1867
“It is the impractical things in this tumultuous hell-scape of a world that matter most. A book, a name, chicken soup. They help us remember that, even in our darkest hour, life is still to be savored.” - Poe, Altered Carbon
"I don't stand by anything." - Trump
“Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.” - John Stuart Mill, Inaugural Address Delivered to the University of St Andrews, 2/1/1867
“It is the impractical things in this tumultuous hell-scape of a world that matter most. A book, a name, chicken soup. They help us remember that, even in our darkest hour, life is still to be savored.” - Poe, Altered Carbon
-
- Posts: 4724
- Joined: Fri Oct 15, 2004 3:54 pm
Re: Drazzil Mega Thread: Bad news and more bad news and a ray of hope.
Thanks Stimp. I was omw back to apologize but you crystalized it for me. I am on the side of needing my ass kicked.stimpy wrote: ↑Thu Jan 02, 2020 9:51 pm Whatevs.
When you make some progress, I'll support and applaud you.
But this pattern of woe is me every few months makes it clear that you only seek self sabotage and fall back on that as an excuse to not get your shit together.
All the support and encouragement from the good people here always falls upon your deaf ears. You pay it lip service, but constantly come up with bullshit to not follow thru with any of it.
I feel no remorse in kicking you in your ass if there is a chance it might get you to do something different.
Some people need coddling. Some need a smack upside the head.
Which side do you fall on?
Daehawk wrote:Thats Drazzil's chair damnit.
- stimpy
- Posts: 6102
- Joined: Wed Jan 19, 2005 6:04 pm
Re: Drazzil Mega Thread: Bad news and more bad news and a ray of hope.
I neither want or care about an apology from you. I'm just some faceless internet asshole ghost who reads posts from other faceless internet ghosts and inject my 2 pennies upon them. They can either choose to ignore it, embrace it or laugh at it. Their choice. At the end of the day you will (maybe? never? don't care?) realize that no one can help you but you. And the fact has been established by you over and over and over that you don't take helping yourself seriously. So why should we? I think we all hope that one day you'll post about the wise choices you've made and the improvements in your life that have come of them, but until then, keep posting bullshit and I'll keep doing the same.Drazzil wrote: ↑Thu Jan 02, 2020 9:56 pmThanks Stimp. I was omw back to apologize but you crystalized it for me. I am on the side of needing my ass kicked.stimpy wrote: ↑Thu Jan 02, 2020 9:51 pm Whatevs.
When you make some progress, I'll support and applaud you.
But this pattern of woe is me every few months makes it clear that you only seek self sabotage and fall back on that as an excuse to not get your shit together.
All the support and encouragement from the good people here always falls upon your deaf ears. You pay it lip service, but constantly come up with bullshit to not follow thru with any of it.
I feel no remorse in kicking you in your ass if there is a chance it might get you to do something different.
Some people need coddling. Some need a smack upside the head.
Which side do you fall on?
He/Him/His/Porcupine
- Isgrimnur
- Posts: 82246
- Joined: Sun Oct 15, 2006 12:29 am
- Location: Chookity pok
- Contact:
Re: Drazzil Mega Thread: Bad news and more bad news and a ray of hope.
When's the appointment?
It's almost as if people are the problem.
- stimpy
- Posts: 6102
- Joined: Wed Jan 19, 2005 6:04 pm
Re: Drazzil Mega Thread: Bad news and more bad news and a ray of hope.
If you look back, you and Daehawk starting posting about life issues at around the same time a year ago. His were not self induced and certainly much more life altering.
The community responded and tried to give advise and encouragement to both of you.
Daehawk obviously had a much harder situation to deal with, but if you look at his demeanor as of late, yes.....his issues are still present and always will be. But.....he has and is taking steps to improve his outlook and his situation. He has shown that no matter how hard may be or what is thrown at you, you can learn to come to terms with things and take the small necessary steps to move on. Relapses will happen. But he seems to deal with them in an adult way, as hard as it may be.
Thats the difference between wanting to help yourself and not.
The community responded and tried to give advise and encouragement to both of you.
Daehawk obviously had a much harder situation to deal with, but if you look at his demeanor as of late, yes.....his issues are still present and always will be. But.....he has and is taking steps to improve his outlook and his situation. He has shown that no matter how hard may be or what is thrown at you, you can learn to come to terms with things and take the small necessary steps to move on. Relapses will happen. But he seems to deal with them in an adult way, as hard as it may be.
Thats the difference between wanting to help yourself and not.
He/Him/His/Porcupine