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New Years Resolutions
« on: December 28, 2004, 02:38:24 pm »
O.K. now it's time to list your New Years resolution(s) I'll go first.........

1. Quit Smoking is top on my list and I plan to stick to it this time :D

2. Finish my cab!!! I'm slowly getting there but my goal now is to have it done by spring......


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Re: New Years Resolutions
« Reply #1 on: December 28, 2004, 02:47:49 pm »
Finish my Asteroids Deluxe

Get back down to 200lb

Get my bench and deadlift back to 300 and 450, respectively.

Have held 4 TG world records at one point or another within 2005.

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Re: New Years Resolutions
« Reply #2 on: December 28, 2004, 02:49:39 pm »
Finalize plans for complete world domonation.
execute plans for complete world domonation.
make my subjects eat pie.
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Re: New Years Resolutions
« Reply #3 on: December 28, 2004, 02:51:34 pm »
1.  Finish 3 jukeboxes that I've been "working on" since June.  (actually about 8 hours of honest work done on them in all that time)

2.  Read Stephen Hawking's "A Brief History of Time" all the way through, rather than reading it up to the part about quantum mechanics and then stopping because I can't get my mind wrapped around it.  I ordered the illustrated and updated version.  Perhaps the pretty pictures will help me through.   ;D

3.  Launch the pocket rocket into the thigh sky.  It's been awhile.

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Re: New Years Resolutions
« Reply #4 on: December 28, 2004, 03:13:55 pm »
1. Lose 40 pounds of my post marriage weight

2. Run the Around the Bay Race - http://www.aroundthebayroadrace.com/

3. Pay off Credit Cards

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Re: New Years Resolutions
« Reply #5 on: December 28, 2004, 04:02:37 pm »
1. Finish the 3 cabs that are in my garage.
2. Buy a my first pin.
3. Go to E3

anything else I accomplish is just gravy.

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Re: New Years Resolutions
« Reply #6 on: December 28, 2004, 05:21:49 pm »
I resolve to not make any more resolutions.
You’re always in control of your behavior. Sometimes you just control yourself
in ways that you later wish you hadn’t

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Re: New Years Resolutions
« Reply #7 on: December 28, 2004, 05:26:03 pm »
i wanna lose like 10-15lbs that i tacked on because all i do is sit in an office all day, and then i go home and be lazy there... my teenage metabolism is wearing off and it really sucks...
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Re: New Years Resolutions
« Reply #8 on: December 28, 2004, 09:32:08 pm »
Finalize plans for complete world domonation.
execute plans for complete world domonation.
make my subjects eat pie.

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Re: New Years Resolutions
« Reply #9 on: December 28, 2004, 10:17:10 pm »
I already quit smoking and paid off all my debt this year. So onto next year.

1. Turn 23. I am currently 27, but I plan on turning 23 at my next birthday, as I have too much to accomplish before 30 at my current age!

2. Regular diet and exercise as opposed to the randomness I engage in now.

3. Slim down the arcade collection to a more manageable size.

4. Sell ALL my unused and excess possessions.

5. Have enough money by years end to buy a mobile home in order to begin the next phase of the long term plan (which will be complete by the time I turn 30, and when I say 30 I mean 35).
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Re: New Years Resolutions
« Reply #10 on: December 28, 2004, 10:19:33 pm »

Living the delusional lifestyle.

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Re: New Years Resolutions
« Reply #11 on: December 28, 2004, 11:23:54 pm »
Why would you want to make love to him?? :o :o

Each to his own, I suppose. :laugh: :laugh:

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Re: New Years Resolutions
« Reply #12 on: December 28, 2004, 11:32:01 pm »
1) Attempt to wipe out debt

2) try to be the breadwinner in our home (currently my wife, I'm a stay at home dad, and she wants to stay home with the new baby)

3) I've got FIVE cab projects.  I'd like to finish - at minimum - one of them.

4) Keep up in contact with my friends and family.
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Re: New Years Resolutions
« Reply #13 on: December 28, 2004, 11:33:15 pm »
1) finish all my software projects
2) build my swappable control panels
3) design, print, & install side art
4) lose 10-15 lbs. down to 170 or so
5) learn to speak Esperanto
6) learn to play "Pictures at an Exhibition"
7) play tennis more than once
8. improve my bridge game
9) not yell at my kids so much (that's the toughest one)
10) be a good husband and father
11) maybe get a pinball machine (optional)
12) declutter my house (might as well throw an impossible one in there)
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Re: New Years Resolutions
« Reply #14 on: December 28, 2004, 11:48:35 pm »
Why would you want to make love to him?? :o :o

Each to his own, I suppose. :laugh: :laugh:

I might take this opportunity to correctly Identify JOSS Stone before the rumours start....  ::)


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Re: New Years Resolutions
« Reply #15 on: December 28, 2004, 11:55:40 pm »
oh, JOSS stone.

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Re: New Years Resolutions
« Reply #16 on: December 30, 2004, 01:39:27 am »
1. Begin smoking, all the cool kids are doing it.  I've noticed that smokers get more breaks at work.  I could use an extra 10- 15 minutes a day to stand around in the bitter cold and talk about sports and how cold it is.
2. Eat more.  I haven't made my goal weight of 300lbs.  That will be cool, I must be the FATBASTA!
3. Get a hair cut.  I haven't decided which one yet, but by the end of the year one of those sucker will be a little shorter.  Maybe a nosehair???
4. Be a worse parent.  I'm already a pretty good father, so that's out.  But I would love to be walking down the road and hear someone say" There goes one bad mother!".
5. Build a cocktail. Just because... I know that's not a real answer, but your not my real dad!   

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Re: New Years Resolutions
« Reply #17 on: December 30, 2004, 07:53:29 am »
I want to get my guest room into a useable state, get my Super Pac-Man finished, install some rain gutters on my house, and ditch some of this stuff that I don't use anymore.

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Re: New Years Resolutions
« Reply #18 on: December 30, 2004, 10:41:47 am »
1. Quit smoking... again. (man this sucks)
2. Finish the House Remodel
3. Finish my Jukebox
4. Finish my Bar in the basement (90% done)
5. Get my wife a better job so I can be a stay at home husband, cause I don't really like working all that much. (I think we should still get summers off)

and that's it. and about 2 or 3 of them will happen, unfortunately 5 is not one of them.
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Re: New Years Resolutions
« Reply #19 on: December 30, 2004, 11:13:20 am »
1. Quit smoking... again. (man this sucks)
2. Finish the House Remodel
3. Finish my Jukebox
4. Finish my Bar in the basement (90% done)
5. Get my wife a better job so I can be a stay at home husband, cause I don't really like working all that much. (I think we should still get summers off)

and that's it. and about 2 or 3 of them will happen, unfortunately 5 is not one of them.

I am seriously considering trying for a career path as high school shop teacher in order to build things, get the summer off, and be able to teach WITHOUT having to take any of it home with me.
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Re: New Years Resolutions
« Reply #20 on: December 30, 2004, 11:33:57 am »
lose wieght

finish a project for once.

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Re: New Years Resolutions
« Reply #21 on: December 30, 2004, 04:51:56 pm »
1. Quit smoking.
2. Buy a house in the 'burbs.

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Re: New Years Resolutions
« Reply #22 on: January 01, 2005, 12:05:24 am »
O.K. now it's time to list your New Years resolution(s) I'll go first.........

1. Quit Smoking is top on my list and I plan to stick to it this time :D

2. Finish my cab!!! I'm slowly getting there but my goal now is to have it done by spring......



smoked my last cig.....I have the family patrol making sure I keep this promise............

happy new years guys............

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Re: New Years Resolutions
« Reply #23 on: January 01, 2005, 12:33:06 am »
Finish my cocktail cab which should have been finished 4 years ago.

Lose 15-20 kilos.

Think about quitting smoking again. Seems to be a lot of smokers here.
I love the life I lead. I wish I could afford it.

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Re: New Years Resolutions
« Reply #24 on: January 01, 2005, 12:38:30 am »

Finish my game room...

Finish the artwork on my cabinet...

Build a Digital Jukebox out of Oak...

Quit smoking...

Be better to my fellow man...
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Re: New Years Resolutions
« Reply #25 on: January 01, 2005, 12:40:30 am »
get a hair cut...

(see fredster, no beard)

edit: and try and get my posts below 6 a day...

edit edit: oh, and try and get anywhere near HALF of chadtowers benchpress  :o
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Re: New Years Resolutions
« Reply #26 on: January 01, 2005, 01:36:56 am »
1. Finish cab (it'll never actually be finished)
2. Learn to play harmonica (better)
3. Fix my computers (I hate you, windows)
4. Send angry letters to SBC and Roadrunner in order to convince them to provide my area with high-speed internet
5. Purchase a pirate ship called "The Jolly Jose" and make a living selling pirated DVD's off the coast of Mexico.  I'm an idiot.

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Re: New Years Resolutions
« Reply #27 on: January 01, 2005, 10:46:21 am »
Only one.
Quit stealing street signs one New Year's eve.  :P
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Re: New Years Resolutions
« Reply #28 on: January 01, 2005, 12:18:46 pm »
get a hair cut...

edit edit: oh, and try and get anywhere near HALF of chadtowers benchpress

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Re: New Years Resolutions
« Reply #29 on: January 01, 2005, 05:43:14 pm »
1 - get bigger(I am like 150lbs)

2 - get laid more

3 - build another cabinet

4 - not fail any classes

5 - quit smoking maybe


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Re: New Years Resolutions
« Reply #30 on: January 01, 2005, 05:47:04 pm »
lose 40 lbs
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Re: New Years Resolutions
« Reply #31 on: January 01, 2005, 05:48:03 pm »
dany_galaga,

I thought you were cool and the pic just proves it. Purple shoes!

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Re: New Years Resolutions
« Reply #32 on: January 01, 2005, 06:32:01 pm »
dany_galaga,

I thought you were cool and the pic just proves it. Purple shoes!


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Re: New Years Resolutions
« Reply #33 on: January 01, 2005, 06:35:36 pm »
get a hair cut...

edit edit: oh, and try and get anywhere near HALF of chadtowers benchpress


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Re: New Years Resolutions
« Reply #34 on: January 01, 2005, 06:46:45 pm »
danny where is your Jeff Lynn gotee??  :laugh:

my resolution is to steal some of the ones posted, try em for 2 weeks and give up and quit.

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Re: New Years Resolutions
« Reply #35 on: January 01, 2005, 07:16:33 pm »
I thought to myself, "Man, who posted the Billy Squier photo?"

 ;D :laugh: ;)

1.  Eat healthier.  Haven't been to the doctor to see what the Cholesterol # is, I'm afraid to.  And if 50 lbs. comes off with this one, so much the better.

2.  Get a new job.  Tired of having you people yell at me just because you were stupid and smashed up your car.  You will get the payment for the market value of your vehicle...eventually.  GET OFF OF MY BACK!

3.  Find something current that interests me.  Seems that all of my free time is spent here, Allmusic.com looking up 70's & 80's bands and old-computers.com.  Not that I don't love this site, but I can't be this old and crotchety at age 32, can I?






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Re: New Years Resolutions
« Reply #36 on: January 01, 2005, 07:36:00 pm »
danny where is your Jeff Lynn gotee??


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Re: New Years Resolutions
« Reply #37 on: January 02, 2005, 08:48:49 pm »

3. Slim down the arcade collection to a more manageable size.

5. Have enough money by years end to buy a mobile home in order to begin the next phase of the long term plan

Hmmm...Do I smell a mobile arcade coming?

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Re: New Years Resolutions
« Reply #38 on: January 04, 2005, 12:47:58 pm »

I am seriously considering trying for a career path as high school shop teacher in order to build things, get the summer off, and be able to teach WITHOUT having to take any of it home with me.

Start by chopping off at least one finger.  Every shop teacher I had was missing at least part of one finger(s).  :o

My new years resolution is 1024 x 768

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Re: New Years Resolutions
« Reply #39 on: January 04, 2005, 01:16:32 pm »
Get back down to 200lb

Get my bench and deadlift back to 300 and 450, respectively.
LOL, that's my plan too.

I worked out in college and I was 180lb and I benched 250, I wanted so badly to be 200lb and benching 300.

After 6 years of working at a desk I now need to lose 20lbs to get down to 200.