"My name is Dave and......
Thursday, March 7, 2002 by davad70 | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
I'm a skinner."
I think I need to find a self help group for people addicted to skinning. Everytime I finish a skin I tell myself that I'm going to take a bit of a break, but never do. I've been working on a new skin since about 11am this morning and it's now after 11pm. I seriously doubt that I'll go to sleep until this skin is done.
What the hell is happening to me ?!?!?
I think I need to find a self help group for people addicted to skinning. Everytime I finish a skin I tell myself that I'm going to take a bit of a break, but never do. I've been working on a new skin since about 11am this morning and it's now after 11pm. I seriously doubt that I'll go to sleep until this skin is done.
What the hell is happening to me ?!?!?
BoXXi
Reply #2 Friday, March 8, 2002 1:03 AM
Reply #2 Friday, March 8, 2002 1:03 AM
I don't see a problem Dave, it all sounds quite normal to me!
DavidK
Reply #4 Friday, March 8, 2002 1:47 AM
Reply #4 Friday, March 8, 2002 1:47 AM
If I could do nothing but make skins I'd work at least 14 hours a day doing it... I don't want to be cured either... just want more time to skin 
Don't worry davad, now that you're hooked you get to do the twelve step program -> WB, ICQ, Winamp, NS, HD, WMP, OB, well... you get the idea...
Don't worry davad, now that you're hooked you get to do the twelve step program -> WB, ICQ, Winamp, NS, HD, WMP, OB, well... you get the idea... 
craeonics
Reply #6 Friday, March 8, 2002 4:01 AM
Reply #6 Friday, March 8, 2002 4:01 AM
Go talk on some programmer/sysop forum. Thos guys are so anti-skin, they'll talk you out of it in no time.
Okay, they won't, but it'll be a laugh.
Okay, they won't, but it'll be a laugh.
craeonics
Reply #7 Friday, March 8, 2002 4:04 AM
Reply #7 Friday, March 8, 2002 4:04 AM
Go talk on some programmer/sysop forum. Thos guys are so anti-skin, they'll talk you out of it in no time.
Okay, they won't, but it'll be a laugh.
Okay, they won't, but it'll be a laugh.
craeonics
Reply #8 Friday, March 8, 2002 4:05 AM
Reply #8 Friday, March 8, 2002 4:05 AM
Hmm, sixty reloads to get that posted and only a double post. *phew*
davad70
Reply #9 Friday, March 8, 2002 4:25 AM
Reply #9 Friday, March 8, 2002 4:25 AM
OK, got the skin up https://www.wincustomize.com/skins.asp?library=23&SkinID=168 and headed to bed. (zzzz....zzzzz.....zzzkinzzz) 
grayhaze
Reply #11 Friday, March 8, 2002 7:05 AM
Reply #11 Friday, March 8, 2002 7:05 AM
I have exactly the same problem. I'm currently fighting an internal battle over whether to finish and release v3.0 of tactile - with 18 subskins!! I even lay awake at night thinking of how to skin some little feature...
Sylva
Reply #12 Friday, March 8, 2002 7:39 PM
Reply #12 Friday, March 8, 2002 7:39 PM
geesh... and I thought jumping out of bed in the middle of one of those ...um.... "intimate moments" just cause I got a new idea was bad....... *weg*
starone
Reply #13 Saturday, March 9, 2002 9:59 AM
Reply #13 Saturday, March 9, 2002 9:59 AM
Gee - I think I have just discovered I'm normal! Keep telling myself I have to stop doing this and get some work done (of course that was 3 hours ago and completely forgot about the work). Even got my husband interested in this stuff. Of course he doesn't skin, but he sure is a good critic. And yes, I too, have said I was going to take a break, but somehow I end up toying around with something and before I know it it's a skin. Oh, well.....the saga continues.
Frank Leon
Reply #14 Monday, March 11, 2002 12:54 PM
Reply #14 Monday, March 11, 2002 12:54 PM
Computers are addicting. But not all addictions are bad!
TasT
Reply #15 Monday, March 11, 2002 4:24 PM
Reply #15 Monday, March 11, 2002 4:24 PM
Davad,
It's addictive even if you are the only one who uses the skinz.
Like Jafo I'm still in the process of completing my desktop..
I have been uising and tweaking Slim_T now for over a year, I may even have a WBXP release soon...
BTW when will we see a xp version of the Jafo skinz?
It's addictive even if you are the only one who uses the skinz.
Like Jafo I'm still in the process of completing my desktop..
I have been uising and tweaking Slim_T now for over a year, I may even have a WBXP release soon...
BTW when will we see a xp version of the Jafo skinz?
Jafo
Reply #16 Monday, March 11, 2002 6:02 PM
Reply #16 Monday, March 11, 2002 6:02 PM
TasT...I've been busy with making sure that LS works with each and every version of 'Doze....eventually, I'll get to the WB skins and update....but it seems that XP deals with the title bar a bit differently, and my trans bits ain't as they should be...
TasT
Reply #17 Monday, March 11, 2002 6:37 PM
Reply #17 Monday, March 11, 2002 6:37 PM
I'm using BlindJafoTrans Ver3.0 and the only problem I have is the lack of a left border? WB3.2a. The title bar seems to be just like it should be...
treetog
Reply #18 Monday, March 11, 2002 6:46 PM
Reply #18 Monday, March 11, 2002 6:46 PM
since last October I became a professioanl skinner...now imagine that I skin for over 85 hours per week now. Does this makes me a terminal adicted?
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Reply #1 Friday, March 8, 2002 12:08 AM
One step at a time. We are here for you.