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good luck! I quit 3 years ago, and it was super difficult, but the best decision I've ever made.

be sure not to be too hard on yourself. if your resolve weakens and you light up, don't think that you're unable to do this or give up.

let me know when you need support and I'm happy to give it to you...

Wow, I can understand a home end-user being ignorant to a point. I don't understand a commercial venture being ignorant after education about security. Charge them double?
Don't service them again? The dilemma for the pro is, do you kill the goose that laid the golden egg? Or, you can argue,
isn't this who we're in business for? Trouble-shooting is real satisfying, but corporate ignorance/indifference is super-frustrating.

I love it- Better them than you.

OK, did 5 hours tonight cleaning up that friend's computer. Gateway's restoration disks, thankfully, let me, fdisk,format hard drive and re-install Win ME[don't say it]-then I put on Firefox, got her back on the 'net-then loaded a new fresh copy of IE6sp1 [from an AOL disc-damn things are good for something]-but prededed all that with re-install of McAfee AV, and ZoneAlarm-whew-I'm beat. tried HiJackThis-but even it couldn't clean up the mess the trojan/virus/worm had made-

Just dropping by to tell you:
Happy Valentine's Day!

Thanks. Nice example. Sobriety has led me on more adventures, and allowed me more freedom than boozing ever did.

Hey, I just got the premier issue of MAKE magazine, for hardware hackers, modders. I bet you would like it-4 issues per year, a quarterly. MAKE Mag-see what you think.

Well I have not spent as much time as usual on SG this week but thats phuking fine with me .. hope your vacation goes well guy.

Seems like any SG events in my area are always on a night when I have to be up early the next day .. now that sucks. Maybe though things will change later on.

Thanks for that. I guess we're going through the same thing... but i understand about holding on just because you've been together for so long. i feel like that's what im doing, but it's nearly impossible to know for sure until after it's all over. keep ya head up.

Any time a person leaves your life after being such a big part of it, you will feel sad. The fact that you broke it off may even make you feel guilty about being responsible for her absence in your life. It's just hard to feel like a big cunk of your life is missing, whether the breakup was necessary or not. I hope you try to keep busy and not dwell on it, or if you are thinking about it, think about the ways this will be positive in your life. Good luck.

you have my sympathy. transitioning out of a relationship always sucks, even if it's time to go.

letting go of things that are familiar can be so hard...even if they are not what you need in your life. they are still there and without them is the sense of loneliness...which is good and bad at the same time. (freedom and fear juggling themselves out) just remeber that we are here for you...your friends, thats is.

let me know kow it goes.