- Jul 26, 2001
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late to my own party... funny how that works. anyways.. the weirdest thing just happened to me.. i got on around 12 to write up this post-- had some doubts as to if i was ready to say what i wanted to say. Well then my girflreind called, we talked for about 2 hours about our relationship and stuff like that. Now here it is, 2 hours later....and i've never been more ready for this. Okay, so maybe that wasn't a wierd thing.
anyways.--
so what is this all about? what has this stupid countdown timer you all have seen for the past 2 weeks been all about?
well, in all reality. its nothing... as most of you have figured out, my subscription ends today, thats all it was counting down too. at least...... thats how this whole thing started.
what once started out as just a timer counting down until time ran out for me on the fast server, became 2 weeks for me to take an in depth look at my life. In the past few months, i've spent more time online at my computer than sleeping or hanging out with my freinds. i've been more interested on whats going on at ATOT than in the real world. I know some of you better than I do my own my roomate. I've making freinds online, while losing them in reality.
Here I am, a 21 year old college senior, who would rather sit at my computer and 'nef' than go out to the bar with my freinds for happy hour. I have skipped class many times, becuase of a fun debate or interesting topic in the morning. Spreading the word about the greatness of nissan, or staying up till 4am becuase of a fun nef thread became more important than studying for a final.
I dont know if this qualifies me as an internet addict or what.. if there even exists such a thing. And this has nothing to do with anybody here-- i've made some really great freinds here. But at this point in time in my life-- i think it would be best for me to just step away from the computer for a while. Thier are other things out their I want to do right now.. but as long as i'm here glued to the computer all day, things will never change.
I will miss you all, and I know tomorrow will be hard. I'm going to want to log on. i'm going to want to stay up and nef with hammer and aphex, and talk nissan with skoorb, and get owned by notfred at perl. I'll miss linuxboy's posts, and being threatened with sporks by kelvrick, and playing treasure hunt with cheesemoo. Mods', i'll miss you all too.. you've done a great job here--and i'll really miss your quotes.
The Anandtech forums are a great place, i've learned more from here than i ever imagined possible, and i hate to give them up. But right now, I need too.
I really dont wont to lose touch with you all... i'll try and get on instant messenger when i can, and i check my email everyday. And if a Northern Va meet is ever arranged-- i will be there for it. And i'm sure you all can catch me on my forums after a while, although, i'll be taking a break from them too.
I hope no one here is really pissed at me or anything. I dont mean to pull a dannylove ~ and this has nothing to do with my post count. Which as we all know should know by now, not equal PC knowledge.
anyways,
Here's to 10,000 posts, A million memories, and 90,000 fellow at'ers that i wont ever forget.
this might be one of the hardest things i've ever had to do.
thank you for everything.
rallispec / logging out.
anyways.--
so what is this all about? what has this stupid countdown timer you all have seen for the past 2 weeks been all about?
well, in all reality. its nothing... as most of you have figured out, my subscription ends today, thats all it was counting down too. at least...... thats how this whole thing started.
what once started out as just a timer counting down until time ran out for me on the fast server, became 2 weeks for me to take an in depth look at my life. In the past few months, i've spent more time online at my computer than sleeping or hanging out with my freinds. i've been more interested on whats going on at ATOT than in the real world. I know some of you better than I do my own my roomate. I've making freinds online, while losing them in reality.
Here I am, a 21 year old college senior, who would rather sit at my computer and 'nef' than go out to the bar with my freinds for happy hour. I have skipped class many times, becuase of a fun debate or interesting topic in the morning. Spreading the word about the greatness of nissan, or staying up till 4am becuase of a fun nef thread became more important than studying for a final.
I dont know if this qualifies me as an internet addict or what.. if there even exists such a thing. And this has nothing to do with anybody here-- i've made some really great freinds here. But at this point in time in my life-- i think it would be best for me to just step away from the computer for a while. Thier are other things out their I want to do right now.. but as long as i'm here glued to the computer all day, things will never change.
I will miss you all, and I know tomorrow will be hard. I'm going to want to log on. i'm going to want to stay up and nef with hammer and aphex, and talk nissan with skoorb, and get owned by notfred at perl. I'll miss linuxboy's posts, and being threatened with sporks by kelvrick, and playing treasure hunt with cheesemoo. Mods', i'll miss you all too.. you've done a great job here--and i'll really miss your quotes.
The Anandtech forums are a great place, i've learned more from here than i ever imagined possible, and i hate to give them up. But right now, I need too.
I really dont wont to lose touch with you all... i'll try and get on instant messenger when i can, and i check my email everyday. And if a Northern Va meet is ever arranged-- i will be there for it. And i'm sure you all can catch me on my forums after a while, although, i'll be taking a break from them too.
I hope no one here is really pissed at me or anything. I dont mean to pull a dannylove ~ and this has nothing to do with my post count. Which as we all know should know by now, not equal PC knowledge.
anyways,
Here's to 10,000 posts, A million memories, and 90,000 fellow at'ers that i wont ever forget.
this might be one of the hardest things i've ever had to do.
thank you for everything.
rallispec / logging out.
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