Deja Vu (we've all been *here* before)

[kopfhorer1]

It's Saturday night, and I feel lonely. It's been kind of a crap day for me in general, but tonight is worse than usual, one of those where all the folks you know that you try to call are not picking up.

I was visiting a friend in a nearby college town. After he went his way for the evening and I mine, I was feeling kind of lonesome and looking for a place to hang out, have a beer and maybe do some writing. I just didn't want to go home. But I guess I should have known better, it being Saturday night. There was no place that wasn't packed to the rafters or which didn't have teeth-grittingly-loud (bad) music playing. I searched for a place to perch for about an hour, envying the apparently-happy and significantly younger people (and couples) before throwing it in and slogging home to be in front of the computer, where I now find myself, a beer from a health-food store (you heard right!) in front of me (and it's not too bad actually).

It's been a while since I've felt this way on a Saturday night. Usually I can find something to divert myself with. But right now, I can only think of how much I miss having someone to snuggle up with. :sad:

 

[Dr. Bill Kobb]

Aww, don't sweat it any, kopfhorer. just think: right now, there's some cute little chickadee thinking the very same thing somewhere out there. Down nights happen.

Do I even dare to ask what the health food store beer consists of? :38:

 

[kopfhorer1]

Aww, don't sweat it any, kopfhorer. just think: right now, there's some cute little chickadee thinking the very same thing somewhere out there. Down nights happen.

Do I even dare to ask what the health food store beer consists of? :38:

It's called Muenster Alt.

 

[FeatherDaemon1]

Do I even dare to ask what the health food store beer consists of? :38:

Tofu and wheat germ. :cry

As for feeling down on Saturday night, well it happens to the best of us, single and not. It all just happens for different reasons. I've been single since last Summer after about 6 years of married life. It sucks, but you pick up and move on.

We're always here and we're glad to have you in our ranks. It's nice to have people out there to talk to. Some people out there have nobody in the truest sense of the word.

 

[HOLLYWOOD]

the hollywood brother cna totally like dig the vibe that you is sending. it is why the hollywood brother likes to work weekends. the problem is that there is no magical tickle fix that will make all your saturday nights something that will be legendary. tickling and or alcohol can help but the hollywood brother think you just got to keep keeping on. no matter how tough life gets you just got to keep moving until sometihng comes along. it might come along in a week or a year or whenever but you can not get so depressed that you want to quit. the hollywood brother knows about depression but refuses to ever let it get the better of the hollywood brother because somehow, someway there will be a better day. you will be waiting on a sunny day and you will someday look back and realize that by weathering this storm it makes the good times all the more sweeter

 

[kopfhorer1]

Tofu and wheat germ. :cry

Actually, I think this particular brew contained granola (hey, they're both cereal products, right? 🙂 )

As for feeling down on Saturday night, well it happens to the best of us, single and not. It all just happens for different reasons. I've been single since last Summer after about 6 years of married life. It sucks, but you pick up and move on.

I can definitely relate. Nothing like wishing that you could have back what you had with your ex but knowing you never can.

We're always here and we're glad to have you in our ranks. It's nice to have people out there to talk to.

Thank you. It's great to have people like you guys on the other end of the wire too. If this were 1985, I might have nothing to fall back on but my TV. Interacting with a community like this is a heck of a lot more constructive.

Some people out there have nobody in the truest sense of the word.

Ain't that the stone truth?

Anyhow, I've done my damndest to shake off the depression of which I wrote last night. Getting out and being with people for a little while today helped somewhat, as did getting some car-care products and spiffing up my car a bit.

As I said, I'm glad to be among you guys. Thank you all for replying.

 

[meangry1]

Smoking weed usually mellows me out.

 

[Dr. Bill Kobb]

the hollywood brother cna totally like dig the vibe that you is sending. it is why the hollywood brother likes to work weekends. the problem is that there is no magical tickle fix that will make all your saturday nights something that will be legendary. tickling and or alcohol can help but the hollywood brother think you just got to keep keeping on. no matter how tough life gets you just got to keep moving until sometihng comes along. it might come along in a week or a year or whenever but you can not get so depressed that you want to quit. the hollywood brother knows about depression but refuses to ever let it get the better of the hollywood brother because somehow, someway there will be a better day. you will be waiting on a sunny day and you will someday look back and realize that by weathering this storm it makes the good times all the more sweeter

I'm weird with the booze. The only way I can really enjoy drinking is if I feel I've accomplished something. Or, another way of putting it: If I have things hanging over my head that need to get done, I just can't get my drunk on in a satisfying way.

 

[FeatherDaemon1]

Thank you. It's great to have people like you guys on the other end of the wire too. If this were 1985, I might have nothing to fall back on but my TV. Interacting with a community like this is a heck of a lot more constructive.

If this were 1985 I would probably be playing with my Atari or my C-64 (I can't remember when I fist bought my C-64 :cry) .

 

[kopfhorer1]

There were actually the first flickerings of the present-day Internet back in the mid-1980's as this posting (which is actually quite relevant to the matter under discussion here) will attest.

As for the C-64, IMO its performance running games IMO beat the Atari 2600's hands down!

 

[Dr. Bill Kobb]

There were actually the first flickerings of the present-day Internet back in the mid-1980's as this posting (which is actually quite relevant to the matter under discussion here) will attest.

As for the C-64, IMO its performance running games IMO beat the Atari 2600's hands down!

Wow! That's from way back when only fairly intelligent people where online! We've sure come a long way since then...

 

[kopfhorer1]

Wow! That's from way back when only fairly intelligent people where online! We've sure come a long way since then...

I hear you on that last point, dude!

People back then were posting using Vaxen or other mainframes. PC's were really expensive and scarce then (not to mention hard to use), so they weren't on every desk or in every Wal-Mart yet.

 

[FeatherDaemon1]

I remember those days. I was quite old enough or computer saavy enough to really appreciate it. But I remember being fascinated by the movie Wargames and the ability to use a computer that way. I really wish I had been online in those days. The discourse was far more civil. Can you imagine us today trying to post within the confines of a Tickle Theater charter? I think that I was logging into the net right at the first major expansion back in the days of Compuserve.

As for my C-64 I remember saving my paper route money to buy Ultima III. I still remember riding down to Kmart on my bike to buy it. That C-64 rocked. I spent that summer playing Ultima and Bard's Tale. LOL.

 

[kopfhorer1]

...I really wish I had been online in those days. The discourse was far more civil. Can you imagine us today trying to post within the confines of a Tickle Theater charter?

Please clarify. Do you mean posting back then as we do now, or vice versa?

I think that I was logging into the net right at the first major expansion back in the days of Compuserve.

Damn, I remember seeing ads for Compu$erve in the mid-1980's, and wondering just what the frig it was!

The first "net" experience I ever had, if it could be called that, was in 1977, watching some computer center proctors dial up (with their 300-baud acoustic-coupler dialup modems) a computer at MIT or something. My first actual net experience was surfing the web at the computer lab at the local university in 1994, on a Power Mac using Netscape 1.0! Those power macs had built-in sound systems. People would brin in CDs to play, and there was at least one music site, the Internet Underground Music Archive (iuma.com). Stereo wars in the computer center? Yow!

I saw the movie Wargames. I also saw the movie The Demon Seed, a scary movie which as a reviewer at the time remarked, gave "computer dating" a whole new meaning! 🙂

As for my C-64 I remember saving my paper route money to buy Ultima III. I still remember riding down to Kmart on my bike to buy it. That C-64 rocked. I spent that summer playing Ultima and Bard's Tale. LOL.

(grin) My first vidgame experiences were with ASCII-character based (i.e. pre-graphics) games like Star Trek or Wumpus on the Decsystem-10. Then Atari Pong appeared in this one club, with Space War in a pizza place catty-corner from it. I once worked in an arcade which contained late 70's rudimentary-graphics games like Submarine War (?), Atari Road Racer (?), Atari Football as well as three flavors of Pac-Man, Q-Bert, and others too hazy in my memory to mention.