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Link to original post: [drupal=1944]Coming Home Again[/drupal]
I just got back from a 3-day vacation.
I'm sort of regretting it.
Normally, I may enjoy the vacation but it's still nice to get back home. As I pulled into my driveway I was excited to get back...but then I got inside, put my bags away and got onto the computer.
Let's give you some background for a moment.
Now, the particular hotel I stayed at charged for the internet. Not in one package. It was something like $10 for 12 hours of standard internet access, $15 for 24 hours of high-speed access, and something between the two for 24 hours of standard access.
Bogus.
So I paid for 24 hours of standard access and didn't do it again.
In addition, I have two bags for handheld games -- one of which is a Gamecube lunchbox where I keep all of my handhelds themselves (which isn't like the normal person, since I have an original Game Boy, a GBC, a GBA, a GBASP, a DS Phat, and a Game Gear) and a few extra games -- mostly the larger Game Boy and Game Gear games -- the other being a small case meant for only Game Boy Advance which I use for GBA and DS games, and a few accessories. The GBA case is small and fit in my bag easily, but I decided to carry the one with my actual handhelds in it separately. Yeah. I forgot it. Apparently I actually brought my DS and put it in a pocket, since it was charging the night before, but I didn't realize that until I was heading home, so I didn't use it at all.
Okay, caught up?
I'm online a lot, mostly on here, so after about 2 days of no internet, I was kind of anxious to get back on. But I actually got back on and I realized...I liked it better when I could NOT access SmashBoards at all.
[This next segment will be kind of ranty about certain parts of the forum. Don't take it as any sort of petty complaining, it's just sort of my feeling. No, I'm not going to quit SWF, so no, don't come into this thread just to troll and tell me to leave instead of complaining. If you're going to feel the need to make stupid comments, feel free to leave now.]
I went back to this forum and looked at the blogs, nothing particularly interesting me, but I looked back at a few threads I had glanced at the last time I was on, specifically the one about this forum being a cesspool. Yeah, how this forum is kind of irks me, but the more mods and admins talked about it the more I realized A) They have a point to an extent about the way the forum is, and B) It wouldn't matter if they didn't, they're the leaders so even if it annoys me, it doesn't really matter.
With that in mind I left the User Blogs in a "screw this" mindset.
Then I saw the Debate Hall and was reminded of the fact that I really ought to post there more; I would post there a lot more, but a lot of the topics just don't interest me that much.
I kept scrolling down to the Poke Center...I saw the list of topics that didn't interest me, The Custom Pokemon Shop which I know I should be making sprites for but I just haven't had the motivation to do...then I dragged my cursor over to the large "X" in the corner of the Firefox window and closed it with that same "screw this" attitude.
It just stressed me out. I didn't really feel like getting online that much, I don't really feel like it that much, I guess I just feel obligated or something.
I should go a week with my little Wi-Fi switch on the side of my laptop turned off.
I still felt obligated on vacation (sadly enough), but without internet, it's sort of a "Well, can't be helped" situation. Which brings me to my next point. Without my handheld games or internet, in the time I was sitting around I enjoyed myself a lot more.
In that time, I started and finished two books, which is far more than I've read in 3 days in recent history. One of which was pretty good, the other of which was amazing. The only bad part about it is that now I've finished them and I want to have more to read -- of the same books.
I also started a massive reorganization of the files on my laptop. It's relatively new, and I got the files off of my old laptop and my desktop computer onto it fairly recently. Recently enough that I had my entire "My Documents" folders from each computer in two massive folders, labeled as to which computer each came from. I passed by my C Drive the other day and saw that I had 17/139 GB of space left...so I quickly realized I had to do some cleaning out. I had some duplicates due to files I copied onto my laptop separately and then again when I moved ALL of them over, and just some files that were unnecessary. Not to mention some of my folders are just begging to be reorganized.
I cleared out both of those massive folders and fused them into my main "My Documents" folder, and got a good start on the regular reorganization of my folders.
I'm already up to 35 GB of space.
And now I'm back home, with a book finished that I really want more of which to read, the feeling that I HAVE to get online (which, regardless of if I actually do, will probably still nag me), and the entire burden that comes along with being back home from a vacation.
Blech.
[Yes, I know, "Why are you online and in the User Blogs if you're angry at feeling obligated to be online?" Because I felt like ranting about it. Posting a blog myself is different from reading others and their comments.]
I just got back from a 3-day vacation.
I'm sort of regretting it.
Normally, I may enjoy the vacation but it's still nice to get back home. As I pulled into my driveway I was excited to get back...but then I got inside, put my bags away and got onto the computer.
Let's give you some background for a moment.
Now, the particular hotel I stayed at charged for the internet. Not in one package. It was something like $10 for 12 hours of standard internet access, $15 for 24 hours of high-speed access, and something between the two for 24 hours of standard access.
Bogus.
So I paid for 24 hours of standard access and didn't do it again.
In addition, I have two bags for handheld games -- one of which is a Gamecube lunchbox where I keep all of my handhelds themselves (which isn't like the normal person, since I have an original Game Boy, a GBC, a GBA, a GBASP, a DS Phat, and a Game Gear) and a few extra games -- mostly the larger Game Boy and Game Gear games -- the other being a small case meant for only Game Boy Advance which I use for GBA and DS games, and a few accessories. The GBA case is small and fit in my bag easily, but I decided to carry the one with my actual handhelds in it separately. Yeah. I forgot it. Apparently I actually brought my DS and put it in a pocket, since it was charging the night before, but I didn't realize that until I was heading home, so I didn't use it at all.
Okay, caught up?
I'm online a lot, mostly on here, so after about 2 days of no internet, I was kind of anxious to get back on. But I actually got back on and I realized...I liked it better when I could NOT access SmashBoards at all.
[This next segment will be kind of ranty about certain parts of the forum. Don't take it as any sort of petty complaining, it's just sort of my feeling. No, I'm not going to quit SWF, so no, don't come into this thread just to troll and tell me to leave instead of complaining. If you're going to feel the need to make stupid comments, feel free to leave now.]
I went back to this forum and looked at the blogs, nothing particularly interesting me, but I looked back at a few threads I had glanced at the last time I was on, specifically the one about this forum being a cesspool. Yeah, how this forum is kind of irks me, but the more mods and admins talked about it the more I realized A) They have a point to an extent about the way the forum is, and B) It wouldn't matter if they didn't, they're the leaders so even if it annoys me, it doesn't really matter.
With that in mind I left the User Blogs in a "screw this" mindset.
Then I saw the Debate Hall and was reminded of the fact that I really ought to post there more; I would post there a lot more, but a lot of the topics just don't interest me that much.
I kept scrolling down to the Poke Center...I saw the list of topics that didn't interest me, The Custom Pokemon Shop which I know I should be making sprites for but I just haven't had the motivation to do...then I dragged my cursor over to the large "X" in the corner of the Firefox window and closed it with that same "screw this" attitude.
It just stressed me out. I didn't really feel like getting online that much, I don't really feel like it that much, I guess I just feel obligated or something.
I should go a week with my little Wi-Fi switch on the side of my laptop turned off.
I still felt obligated on vacation (sadly enough), but without internet, it's sort of a "Well, can't be helped" situation. Which brings me to my next point. Without my handheld games or internet, in the time I was sitting around I enjoyed myself a lot more.
In that time, I started and finished two books, which is far more than I've read in 3 days in recent history. One of which was pretty good, the other of which was amazing. The only bad part about it is that now I've finished them and I want to have more to read -- of the same books.
I also started a massive reorganization of the files on my laptop. It's relatively new, and I got the files off of my old laptop and my desktop computer onto it fairly recently. Recently enough that I had my entire "My Documents" folders from each computer in two massive folders, labeled as to which computer each came from. I passed by my C Drive the other day and saw that I had 17/139 GB of space left...so I quickly realized I had to do some cleaning out. I had some duplicates due to files I copied onto my laptop separately and then again when I moved ALL of them over, and just some files that were unnecessary. Not to mention some of my folders are just begging to be reorganized.
I cleared out both of those massive folders and fused them into my main "My Documents" folder, and got a good start on the regular reorganization of my folders.
I'm already up to 35 GB of space.
And now I'm back home, with a book finished that I really want more of which to read, the feeling that I HAVE to get online (which, regardless of if I actually do, will probably still nag me), and the entire burden that comes along with being back home from a vacation.
Blech.
[Yes, I know, "Why are you online and in the User Blogs if you're angry at feeling obligated to be online?" Because I felt like ranting about it. Posting a blog myself is different from reading others and their comments.]
