TexasDrunk

I've been thinking about getting one of those little vertical displays that are like 8 inches wide for status info. I have enough screen real estate but being able to load up certain things in it to monitor would be cool.

The green is light enough to morph into other colors as well. Hiding that lettering would be the hardest part.

That's the one! It's also in the garage. Still worked a while back when I hooked it up through a few adapters.

I always dumpster dived for computers. My buddy showed me where to go and when so we'd upgrade every year together when one of the local junior colleges threw out a bunch of stuff. We were always a few years behind but we had more tech toys than folks on the edge of poverty had the chance to pick up back in those days.

I remember being a teen in the late 90s with some computers to use and some to sell and we ended up selling enough to both get Bigfoot drives. A couple of gigs was MASSIVE compared to the TI stuff we both started on.

He's still got the tax software with the booklet and ads featuring Bill Cosby running around somewhere. He's also got a tattoo of the motherboard of the TI-99/4a because he said without it he wouldn't be where he is today. But he doesn't like Bill Cosby anymore.

Ahhh, that makes sense and I definitely feel ya. I just get concerned about people who have problems like that because I've seen folks that wait too long.

It came from a place of love, Internet stranger.

I wish I could remember where I read it, but I do remember reading either an article or paper that laid out that when people are victimized, other abusers tend to be able to spot that somehow. Something about body language and it's all subconscious.

I don't have the answer here except to just build a shell and be a dick for a while, but I do want to say I am genuinely sorry you have to deal with that. Always being the victim or always putting on a mask is fucking exhausting and soul draining.

And why there are some strange laws that could keep two folks from the same state from running on the same ticket. It's not forbidden, but there's some weirdness about it.

I have a 40 year old book about TI BASIC somewhere in the garage plus some magazines with games. I built a fantasy game and saved it to cassette.

I just keep running around yelling "let me solo her!" And I don't even own a jar hat.

Have you gone and gotten your plumbing checked? 3x/night seems excessive.

I get that. I'm actually a bourbon guy. I prefer things with names like Old Tennishoe or The Devil's Scrotum. I can absolutely stop at one or two (I do that pretty regularly) and I can do without. I just really enjoy being hammered. And I enjoy the burn of terrible bourbon. I just don't enjoy this deep sadness lately while I do it.

I won't deny that I'm a problem drinker.

Not my term, I just happily co-opted it.

I spent January dry just to reset and find my normal. It was really nice. I'm back to binge drinking occasionally. I used to really enjoy it but lately it's just making me sad.

I may have to change my name to Texas Mildly Inebriated.