The Good The Bad & The Indifferent

[pws1225]

Rubbish, pure rubbish! Believe me, my friend, there is nothing--absolute nothing--half so much worth doing as simply messing about in WitP.

[Schlemiel]

I can understand that sentiment, canoe, but the problem is... how can the rest of us live vicariously through your addiction if you get clean? In all seriousness, I think you should do whatever you think is best. We will survive.

[Canoerebel]

I don't think the game is over in all likelihood. Mainly, I don't want to be in a game with an unwilling and reluctant opponent. John's "body language" in yesterday's email intimated that he just didn't have time for the game and wasn't really into it. I'd rather wait until his enthusiasm returns. If it doesn't, so be it.

[witpqs]

Unfortunately, as many predicted. [:(]

[Chickenboy]

Hey Obvert-pay up! [:D]

[Nemo121]

SPARKLY, SMASHY time over. Hulk wanna go home!

As witpqs says, as predicted.

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel
"I'm not sure I want to pick it back up,"

Why not?

Since I am addicted to the game it takes me a LONG time to wean myself off the narcotic. In this case, the enforced absence of five weeks has done the trick. I'm not sure I want to resume the addiction.

I'm like the old lady morphine fiend in To Kill a Mockingbird. She decides she's not going to face the end of life still addicted, so she self-weans by setting a clock each day. Jem Finch goes over to read to her during the intervals, which get longer each day. Finally, she kicks the habit. (Jem didn't like the lady, but was forced to do the chore after decapitating the flowers in her garden after she said ugly things about Atticus.) Is this analogy too farfetched? Too long? Too uninteresting? To attenuated? Too annuated?

Alright, to continue with the heroin analogy...

Can you look into a Methadone clinic? Get "just enough" treatment to slake the thirst, the visceral cry for heroin, but not be miserable with the side effects of going cold turkey?

If you don't re-engage soon, do you see this as the end of your gameplay with AE? If not, then do you have a time in mind for re-engaging or restarting a game?

[Nemo121]

I'm sure someone would be willing to take over... It should probably be someone good at logistics though as they're probably super-ignored in the focus on sparkly, explody stuff.

[Canoerebel]

Out of fairness, I ought to stress that John's email yesterday invited me to send a turn by the weekend. So it's not him that has requested the suspension of the game. It was me, based upon my evaluation of his email, in which I detected a marked lack of enthusiasm for the contest. I think there's a fair chance that the game will resume when things settle down, though I'm okay if it doesn't.

To answer Chickenboy's question, I'll continue my indefinite and undefined sabbatical in the short term. If the game doesn't resume, eventually I'll have to decide whether the sabbatical is permanent or not. I suspect it won't be - the game holds a powerful allure, as we all know.

In the meantime, I'll try to be as productive as possible at work so that when winter comes and the days are short, dark and wet, I can succumb to said urge to resume the game or start a new one. Maybe.

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel
I'll try to be as productive as possible at work

Eesh! Don't do it, Canoerebel! You've got the DTs, man, don't do it!

[Nemo121]

Productivity is over-rated. [8D]

[obvert]

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

Hey Obvert-pay up! [:D]

Not quite yet!

This is a really odd turn. I think we all struggle with how much time and energy this game takes away from our other pursuits, family, friends. The other things we could be doing that are actually respected and valued by society. [:)]

Still, there is something to it.

My gut feeling is that this game will go on, but I could be wrong. Maybe Dan will really hang up his Aleutians map mousepad and retire from the game to form a numerical code generation start-up company in his garage. Maybe he'll continue writing poetry in the afternoons at work and fill his time by cutting up his driver's licence and walking everywhere all of the time from now on. He might even decide to become a storm chaser.

Whatever happens, I hope he sticks around here.

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: obvert
This is a really odd turn. I think we all struggle with how much time and energy this game takes away from our other pursuits, family, friends.

Times like these when I fall back on the wisdom of one of my heroes: C. Montgomery Burns.

I'll keep it short and sweet. Family, religion, friendship. These are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business. When opportunity knocks, you don't want to be driving to a maternity hospital or sitting in some phony-baloney church. Or synagogue.

[Canoerebel]

One time Ann Landers wrote that she'd never heard a businessman on his deathbed complain that he hadn't spent enough time at work.

I am that man. I have the most laid back lifestyle and work routine since Henry David Thoreau. But it took a bit of wrangling to get out of the grasp of the pernicious workaday world.

When I was still a young lawyer, my wife had our third child. I was at the hospital with her when I got a frantic call from my office. One of our senior partners demanded that I come in to revise a draft of an answer or some other pleading that was due in a few days. That was the clarion-call moment that told me I was not going to spend the rest of my working days in the law firm.

Life is sweet if you stay out of courtrooms and don't bill by the hour (or six-minute increments thereof).

[Cribtop]

True words, Dan. I had to be late to my Dad's retirement party... In Dallas, a city he didn't like but he did the party there so I could attend... I gave a month's notice... That I would leave the office at 4pm that Friday... I was still late. I hated being a big firm attorney.

[Crackaces]

I had PM'ed CR ... But I have found njp72 to be more than a unique and challenging opponent. One that is perfecting the AutoVictory Challenge that CR is/was so looking for in a scenario #1 situation ..let alone scenario #2 .. his plan is to ignore PI and Singapore and attack either Oz or India (India in my game) to completely disrupt the Allies for the first 24 months of the war. I believe CR would be quite challenged by njp72 ...

[JeffroK]

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

One time Ann Landers wrote that she'd never heard a businessman on his deathbed complain that he hadn't spent enough time at work.

I am that man. I have the most laid back lifestyle and work routine since Henry David Thoreau. But it took a bit of wrangling to get out of the grasp of the pernicious workaday world.

When I was still a young lawyer, my wife had our third child. I was at the hospital with her when I got a frantic call from my office. One of our senior partners demanded that I come in to revise a draft of an answer or some other pleading that was due in a few days. That was the clarion-call moment that told me I was not going to spend the rest of my working days in the law firm.

Life is sweet if you stay out of courtrooms and don't bill by the hour (or six-minute increments thereof).

Back in the mid 90's I had a fairly senior position in a large Australian company.

I had worked my guts out to get a position beyond my educational standard, hard work, long hours etc brought the reputation which led to advancement.
I fell ill and took some 4-5 mths to get reasonably better.

Our Brisbane Manager had a Heart attack at the same time, he had been with the company for about 30 years.

When he got back to work we had a talk on the phone comparing notes.

His call was you spend 30 years with the company and die, you get a bigger bouquet of flowers at your funeral.

I now work in a job which i enjoy, 5 minute drive from home and if I want, sit back and watch the scenery or the wildlife!

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: JeffK

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

One time Ann Landers wrote that she'd never heard a businessman on his deathbed complain that he hadn't spent enough time at work.

I am that man. I have the most laid back lifestyle and work routine since Henry David Thoreau. But it took a bit of wrangling to get out of the grasp of the pernicious workaday world.

When I was still a young lawyer, my wife had our third child. I was at the hospital with her when I got a frantic call from my office. One of our senior partners demanded that I come in to revise a draft of an answer or some other pleading that was due in a few days. That was the clarion-call moment that told me I was not going to spend the rest of my working days in the law firm.

Life is sweet if you stay out of courtrooms and don't bill by the hour (or six-minute increments thereof).

Back in the mid 90's I had a fairly senior position in a large Australian company.

I had worked my guts out to get a position beyond my educational standard, hard work, long hours etc brought the reputation which led to advancement.
I fell ill and took some 4-5 mths to get reasonably better.

Our Brisbane Manager had a Heart attack at the same time, he had been with the company for about 30 years.

When he got back to work we had a talk on the phone comparing notes.

His call was you spend 30 years with the company and die, you get a bigger bouquet of flowers at your funeral.

I now work in a job which i enjoy, 5 minute drive from home and if I want, sit back and watch the scenery or the wildlife!

So you're the bartender at Walkabout Creek! Croc Dundee would be happy with your change of outlook![:)]

[JeffroK]

nah, i'd be drinking the profits.

I work in defence, well near de fence anyway.

[Knucles2]

ORIGINAL: JeffK

nah, i'd be drinking the profits.

I work in defence, well near de fence anyway.

Wow.
Isn't there a rule about this kind of verbal offense?
Some kind of pun ishment????

[:@]