"Profession: self employer"

What kind of work do you do for yourself? Do you pay yourself rather well?

"I'm very creative and would love to meet someone of the same mold."

Very creative, and want somebody who is created in mass quantities?

Great! Just had to mention it. Brain aneurisms was perhaps the last thing on my mind til just now. Now I'm all worried about it.

Got a reliable source on this info?

I got fired from my first job working at a car lot for locking the keys in a running car.

I used to have a bad habit of locking my keys in my own car all the time. Now I just drive an unappealing looking car so I don't have to lock it at all. Nobody has ever stolen anything out of it yet.

I also left my car over at a shop for a couple nights. When I went to go pick it up, the owner told me the car right next to mine had the window smashed out and somebody stole the radio, and figured mine probably didn't get it because he didn't lock my car up. Also may have had something to do with my car not having the faceplate on the radio. Haven't taken my car back there since.

I think so and think not in a way. In person, we don't come with profile tags around our necks. You can't spot a good person from a bad one from across the room (or across the country in the case of online dating). Of course people can be pretty deceptive anywhere, but picking and choosing online is somewhat easier when you can sort through people based on pictures and what they have to say about themselves. In public, all you really have are looks and the way a person is interacting with their current setting. But online, you're looking through people and getting a better view of who they might be and getting to choose whether or not to skip them on by. In real life, we're typically more careful who we approach because changing our minds isn't quite so easy. I hope this makes some sense. I am kinda rambling at random. Just that real life has no "yes" "no" or "maybe" button, and it doesn't have a "block" button. So it's really kinda hard to say we're more picky online or in real life, but I believe more careful in it.

No, the owners of the property already did that.

OK, yeah that makes more sense and is much more agreeable. I took it a different way at first, thinking you were just trying to discredit my thread and thinking I meant those as words to live by, and referring to me or the post as a failure.

I do agree that simple quotes are not applicable as words to live by in most situations, but when you're trying to sum something up, so to speak, they do help.

These were just something I pulled out of a Reader's Digest and thought they were either kinda funny, kinda cool, or in a few circumstances, might actually apply to some people in this time and day...but never meant them as words to live by.

Aw, c'mon man! pfft. Whatever.

Yep, you're right. I did some background checking and it is not real.

http://www.likecool.com/DeWalt-16_Nail_Gun--Tools--Gear.html

Thanks a lot for bursting my bubble.

I still want one though.

I remember one of his:

"The crows seemed to be calling his name all day thought Caw"

This makes construction a breeze,

you can sit in your lawn chair and build a fence.

Just get your wife to hold the fence boards in place while you sit back,

relax with a cold drink and when she has the board in the right place,

just fire away.

With the hundred round magazine,

you can build the fence with a minimum of reloading.

After a day of fence building with the new DeWalt Rapid fire nail gun,

the wife will not ask you build or fix anything else again.

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/2832188/seth_macfarlanes_cavalcade_of_cartoon_comedy_exclusive_movie_trailer/

That brings up another one I've got:

Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble. - Sydney J. Harris

I don't nessecarily agree with this or the other statements completely, but they can be accurate to an extent.

a guy walks into a bar...

Because I often stay up late at night working on very large projects with multiple or complex programs open. I quick-save the information before I go to sleep, but don't wanna go through the process of saving, organizing, and shutting it all down, then retrieving it all in the morning. It'd be nicer to pull my mouse off the charger and have my computer start back up with everything still open and ready to work. Not trying to be a d!ck or argue or anything; it's just a big process to save all the information and shut down multiple programs or computers when working on these things. Much easier to just quick-save and push a couple sleep buttons.

God?!?! HA! Hardly. I'd barely give myself credit as human, much less a deity or anything worthy of worship or praise.



Probably reading through books of building codes and giving that whatever deep thought of which I may be capable. Fun Fun.



Wish I could say the same. I don't have much of a brain left.

I don't like to shut down my computer very often, but do like to put it to sleep when I go to sleep. These things use a lot of power even when idling. So, once again, I like to put it to sleep to save power but don't really feel like going through the startup process or reopening large projects every time I leave the house or go to bed. Sooo, I press the sleep button on the keyboard and my computer goes into sleep mode. Buuuut, about 3-15 minutes later it wakes back up on its own and sits here idling. It does this without bumping the mouse, pushing anything on the keyboard, or on the remote. I have no idea why and would like it to stop. Do you guys have any suggestions of settings or ideas as to what might be waking it back up? Help would be much appreciated.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer, but wish we didn't. - Erica Jong

Socrates was a Greek philosopher who went around giving people good advice. They poisoned him. - Anonymous

Many recieve advice; only the wise profit from it. - Latin maxim

Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long. - Robert Lynd

Wow! Good question. That’s a lot to think about. I don’t think I really could express everything I’ve gained from this site. All I can do is offer some things that come to mind that will never adequately cover my experience here however hard I try.

First, Mingle has killed hours upon hours of time that would otherwise be spent in boredom. Some of these hours were spent here while I should have been doing other stuff. But for the most part, it has kept me very entertained on completely boring or rainy days. I find this site to be my favorite place on the entire worldwide web. The owners and moderators do a most excellent job of making sure that this remains an enticing place to keep returning to. To them, I extend a most gracious thank you.

It has caused me lots of sadness, stress, and anxiety, but provided even more humor, comfort, and advice when needed. It’s consoling to read through peoples’ posts that are having the same or similar problems and see that I’m not the only person going through some of these things. And when I can’t find somebody to relate to some of my issues, there are plenty of other things to read here to make me smile when needed, give me a place to rant, or in some other way take my mind off things.

It has humbled me, and at times even humiliated me. But outweighing that, are the times it has placed me upon a pedestal of self-worth and being worth something to others when I’m given the opportunity to help someone out with a problem, humor others, or at least offer words of consolation. Here, I have received words of advice, encouragement, gratitude, and consolation that gives me knowledge I can’t find elsewhere, self-respect I won’t give myself, and words to live by in times of need.

It has given me a place to express myself in writing, how I do it best. It has improved my writing and expression in ways I never could say before. My rants are not often payed any attention, but when they have been, it’s nice to know at least somebody listens, and I am not usually negatively judged for the things I’ve done, the ways I feel, or what I have to say. One or two of these rants have inadvertently helped a couple others to see things from a different perspective, and in a couple cases, helped them to regain parts of their lives. That was never my intention, but I’m glad for these other people that my babbling could help them out. It gives me a sense of purpose when I can’t find one elsewhere.

In contrast, Mingle has helped me to see things from multiple perspectives. This includes perspective people in the same boat as me, people in completely different situations but with similar ways of thinking, and people who are nothing like me, but have been before where I might be at a given point in time. These different views have provided me a priceless education, different stance, or opened my mind on some of my most critical issues.

This site has exposed me to multiple people, cultures, and lives, state and worldwide, that I would not see, or have not yet seen, from the isolation of my apartment or my city or the places I’ve been so far. A few of these people have become friends, associates, or confidants I am grateful to have since I really don’t have very many in my real life.

And lastly, but above all else, it has introduced me to you, the woman I truly, deeply love and cherish having in my life, who has brought out the best in me, who makes me feel like I actually have some meaning and worth, who gives me someone to strive to make happy, who I can talk to about anything or nothing and enjoy it all equally, who can confide in me all the same, who keeps me entertained like no other in doing so, and who my life just would not be the same without. I love you dearly, more than words can say, and I can’t thank you enough for what you have inspired within me and brought out of me.

Also, I would like to say I am so happy for you that you found this thing to make you happy in times of distress. A positive turn in events in a world so negative can bring fantastic, invaluable, and unrivaled rewards and satisfaction which can trump anything existing against a person’s happiness and well being. You so deserve it. You and your talents are nothing shy of amazing no matter what your mother says. I would like to extend my thanks as well to the people and forces that be that brought forth this realization. I wish you the absolute best in your endeavours and hope you and the ones who brought these feelings out of you can make this experience most beneficial and prosperous (I hope that makes sense) in all aspects of your life.

Thank you kindly