Skinning....better than Xanax.
Wednesday, February 25, 2009 by k10w3 | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
Last week I took off on a 1300 mile trip to Kansas for my son's wedding. I'm kind of prone to panic and anxiety, and with the economy the way it is right now, this trip was sort of like walking on a tight rope without a net for me. However, I am, once again, in the middle of constructing another Windowblind, and during this trip, whenever I caught myself thinking about all the disasters that could befall me (car wreck at any of the states I had to drive through where I don't know anybody to help out and don't have any extra cash to pay anyone to help out; breaking down on the road with no one to help and no way for my spouse to get to me to fix things, because our second car is broken...dying on the road before I GOT to the wedding, etc.), before I started to hyperventilate, I began to think about how I wanted to skin the scroll bar, or what I'm going to do with the Please-Wait animation.
I went the entire round trip (2600 miles) without once freaking completely out in the car, and I owe it all to skinning!
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Reply #22 Friday, February 27, 2009 8:07 AM
Reply #23 Friday, February 27, 2009 12:08 PM
No, I'm talking about things like drunk ex-boyfriend's finding me, 2 a.m. phone calls from my kid that she's gotten into a car accident, jihad terrorist plots being called into action on the other side of the world against us, all the routine SNAFU stuff that happened after 5 p.m. that can't be addressed until business hours start again at 8 a.m., the escaped mental patient with a hook for a hand....whatever it is that fate has already decided is going to be the cause of my death that approaches closer every day -- "IT" ...which might be Joe Black but I know definitely doesn't live under my bed, because that is where my dog has decided to sleep lately and she is the one thing that I trust to have my back in the case of an attack on my person. Eighty muscly pounds of "don't mess with mama" and a mouth full of teeth is my security, but she has cancer, the vet gave her 3 months to 3 years to live...after that I'm going to have to invest in a gun, I guess, because I'm getting to old to play these pit bull games with the home owners insurance and the idea of breed bans happening all over the place.
Reply #24 Friday, February 27, 2009 1:18 PM
Karen...if someone bothers you..."skin" him alive. Anxiety is a terrible thing...whether justified or not...and I wish you could change it into happy thoughts. More easily said than done, I fear.
I've found that whatever it is that's going to happen was never what I had thought, and was never as negative as I feared.
As Dr. Sydney (originally Milton) Friedman said on "M.A.S.H." (one of the truly greatest series ever, and please don't think of it as making light of your fears...rather, just a funny image in times of stress): "Ladies and gentlemen, take my advice: Pull down your pants and slide on the ice." 
Actually, that should go on the 'words of wisdom' thread.
Reply #25 Friday, February 27, 2009 1:40 PM
The older I get, the more I understand those mandatory Martini's my parents had at 9 p.m. Still, I wonder whether it's actually inherited, or did they condition this in me? The "little bit bipolar" - that I know I inherited from Dad; no question about it -- but the worry stuff that's so typically Mom...I sometimes question whether had I been raised by somebody NOT so negative and willing to point out everything that could go wrong, whether I'd have ended up like this.
Reply #26 Friday, February 27, 2009 2:16 PM
Maybe yes, maybe no...an unanswerable question...but I wouldn't sacrifice the wonderful friend you are and great graphics skills you have for nuttin'!
I'm very selfish, and should be ashamed.....but I'm not. 
Flattery will get you everywhere.
Reply #29 Friday, February 27, 2009 5:09 PM
It seems a majority of desktop customizers(especially the skinners)are borderline to full blown wacko...digital art is a great way to pull yourself out of a bad time...plus the kudos from appreciative users gives your ego a little boost...something we social retards need a bit of.
Crazies tend to be more creative than norms too. 
Reply #30 Friday, February 27, 2009 5:15 PM
I.R. so that would explain why I've made 150 Widgets this week.. I'M INSANE!!!!!!!!!!!! 
Reply #32 Friday, February 27, 2009 5:19 PM
That, and you can't sleep. That means you have 8 more hours per day in which to find stuff to do, than those of us who sleep.
150....Crikey! You need to try your hand on a Windowblind. Just adjusting the colors and fonts alone will consume a week.
Reply #33 Friday, February 27, 2009 5:20 PM
Tailsgirl <------ Fueled by Insanity!
Karen, slight exaggeration on my part, but I did make 15 clocks yesterday.. seriously!
Reply #34 Friday, February 27, 2009 5:39 PM
Karen, slight exaggeration on my part, but I did make 15 clocks yesterday.. seriously!
That's called "a rut" - (...or OCD...depending on whether your a lay person or a psychiatrist). Really...you should try a WB, perhaps inspired by a clock. Maybe the start button could be a clock! I can't wrap my head around the clocks...I'm too aware of the passing of time the way it is.
Reply #35 Friday, February 27, 2009 5:43 PM
TG should make a cat or shark skin....get it? sharkskin?....Bwah hah hah... 
Reply #36 Friday, February 27, 2009 5:54 PM
Welcome to Ward C at Sunny Valley Sanitorium. Crayons and paper will be supplied, but please don't eat or stick the crayons up your noses. For those of us not on Haldal, there is desktop skinning in it's many forms. My doctor just added OCD to my list of malfunctions for learning to make clocks. C'mon in if you dare.
Reply #37 Friday, February 27, 2009 6:05 PM
My favorite scene from the Disney movie Alice in Wonderland.
Cheshire Cat: If I were looking for a white rabbit, I'd ask the Mad Hatter.
Alice: The Mad Hatter? Oh, no no no...
Cheshire Cat: Or, you could ask the March Hare, in that direction.
Alice: Oh, thank you. I think I'll see him...
Cheshire Cat: Of course, he's mad, too.
Alice: But I don't want to go among mad people.
Cheshire Cat: Oh, you can't help that. Most everyone's mad here.
Reply #38 Friday, February 27, 2009 6:14 PM
Thought all you crazies might like this quote.
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters
when compared to what lies within us."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
Reply #39 Friday, February 27, 2009 6:23 PM
Now, Ed, I could argue about that quote...because what lies before some of us exacerbates what lies within us, and someday someone might invent something that corrects the deficient things that lie within us, so what lies before us matters much in regards to what lies within us...and if some idiot blows up the planet then what lies before us pretty much makes null and void what lies within us.
THIS is what happens when you place a profound quote by Emerson in the hands of a crazy! (and also why the stoners I use to go to school with told me what I really needed was just to get high once in a while, but that's another thread).
Reply #40 Friday, February 27, 2009 6:34 PM
"Exacerbates", that sounds dirty. 
I can't argue with you Karen.........I can't type fast enough!
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Reply #21 Thursday, February 26, 2009 6:37 PM
Oh. Nevermind.