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 #63 Friday, February 27, 2009 10:28 PM
John, you've been in the Mary-Jane topic with Zubaz...haven't ya.
Reply #64 Friday, February 27, 2009 10:47 PM
Shhhh....you don't say "Starship" to Airplane fans! They will jump down your throat and tell you it is NOT the same band! (which is actually the same argument you get from Pink Floyd fans depending on who led the band, Barrett/Waters/Gilmour, or Metallica fans when it comes to Master of Puppets versus the stuff they've created since becoming sober, or my favorite argument, the AC/DC gripe - Bon Scott or Brian Johnson).
I've never been that attached to my music -- I add a little new to my collection at least once every couple of months so I don't end up like my parents -- totally out STUCK in an era. (this is my recipe for staying young...or at least fooling myself that I'm staying young -- when in fact, I probably look as ridiculous as that old guy I saw in Jackson Square in New Orleans years ago, who had totally white hair, but in order to fit in with the kids, dyed it purple!).
Reply #65 Friday, February 27, 2009 10:51 PM
BON SCOTT ALL the way! - To me, there IS no other AC/DC singer!
Reply #66 Saturday, February 28, 2009 12:32 AM
That's a quote from an episode of "The Simpson's" isn't it?
Yes...making fun of many horror flicks about zombies and mind control,mental illness etc...(like invasion of the body snatchers) 
Reply #67 Saturday, February 28, 2009 12:35 AM
Yes...making fun of many horror flicks about zombies and mind control,mental illness etc...(like invasion of the body snatchers)
Hey!! Who made a movie about me behind my back!?!?!!?
Reply #68 Saturday, February 28, 2009 1:36 AM
i couldnt agree more........im at my most creative when im at my darkest point of mind.......
Reply #69 Saturday, February 28, 2009 1:40 AM
i love that white rabbit song Ed.........i play it sometimes
Reply #70 Saturday, February 28, 2009 9:42 AM
Me too Kitty, and a lot of other dark 60's music when I'm in one of THOSE moods.
Reply #71 Saturday, February 28, 2009 9:45 AM
That pic of Gracie Slick you put up TG...........not so hot anymore. God, what does that say about me? Am I just a legend in my own mind?
Reply #72 Saturday, February 28, 2009 10:16 AM
Naaah....no worries! Pyrates never ge' olde an' never gi' up their evil ways!
Reply #73 Saturday, February 28, 2009 11:03 AM
Actually, considering how long and how hard she rocked, for 69 I think she looks AMAZING! Her eyes are still bright, she hasn't succombed to the seducation of plastic surgery like so many do and end up looking like wax figures of their former selves. That picture Seth posted of her...she was a baby! She's wearing a GIRL SCOUT uniform fergodzake! I'm much more concerned about what it says about you that you think the first picture is hot! (...dirty old man! 
)
I'd be the first to admit I'm a cougar and go for the younger guys most of the time (I make the exception to the rule for Seth 
), but my taste HAS grown along with my own chronological age -- the same 10-15 years younger than my own age is what I find attractive.
I guess maybe most men are different than that -- I remember when I was 40, some loser friend of the loser BF I was with at the time telling me that he thought 16-year-old girls were hot when he was in high school, and he STILL thinks 16-year-old are hot (EWWW! 
pedophile!!!) 
Reply #74 Saturday, February 28, 2009 11:07 AM
I don't know Doc. The plank ain't what it used to be, and it won't be long until I'll have to be wearin' Depends on the poop deck.
Reply #75 Saturday, February 28, 2009 11:21 AM
She was wearing the shirt (you're too young to remember our "fashion" statements), but not a GS at the time (and NO remarks about Girl Scout Cookies will be tolerated!)....she was in her early 20's in the shot. LOL.
Ed...there's more to being a Pyrate than that...although that was one of the best, wittiest shots I've seen in a hellaciously long time! 
Your cannon and plank appear to be in order Mr. Pyrate!
Reply #76 Saturday, February 28, 2009 11:44 AM
Reply #77 Saturday, February 28, 2009 12:25 PM
Guys, guys...I was only teasing. (and I only pretend I'm too young to know what your fashions were -- mini skirts, Nehru jackets, those suede vests with the fringe, all the way until the bicentennial when everybody was wearing the American flag as some article of clothing).
I probably should identify with the 60's, but I didn't become self-aware until I was in my 30's, so my head is kinda Generation X in mentality.
Reply #78 Saturday, February 28, 2009 1:50 PM
Thanx Ed....an' oy'd be watchin' tha' there "swinging pendulum" talk. 
Oy just go' a call from Homeland PC (pointless conformity). They seem to think that somewhere on the west coast of FL there's a Girl Scout molester on the loose. Somebody pretending to be named K10w3 (we know he or she be pretendin' 'cuz she ain't got th' right a tv r [wotever th' be]) shopped 'im fer th' bounty money (smart move if yer asks me).
I steered 'em right (meanin' wrong), though, and told them that the bloke they be lookin' fer changed 'is name and moved to anovver continent and is married to a very nice lady and tha' 'e be reformed. I told them 'e also has a thing for a certain Governor wot lurvs mooses, yellow Siberian snow and bridges to nowhere and 'e be thinkin' 'e be a Pyrate man....to steer clear ovvim 'coz 'e be 'avin' a 'uge methane problem.
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Reply #61 Friday, February 27, 2009 10:20 PM
Oh, that band changed their name so many times, I think they were once Jefferson Starship.
Wow.. time goes by too damn fast.