Sleuth Home - Message Boards - The Gumshoe Lounge


0 0
JoJo is leaving
  <<First Page  |  <Previous Next>  |  Last Page>>  

Madame TBird
Madame TBird
Well-Connected

Apr-1-2005 22:24

He is having to pick up & move. It will be a very long time if ever that he will be back. Where is going Does not have modern technologies. So, he won't be able to be online. You will really be missed JoJo & best of luck. I hope everything works out.

Replies

Madame TBird
Madame TBird
Well-Connected

Apr-3-2005 18:53

I admit, I play hooky from social functions to play. It's such good therapy though. Besides, I don't want to miss anything exciting.

jstkdn
jstkdn
Well-Connected

Apr-4-2005 03:18

Though it is hard to devise a 12 step program to get rid of a sleuth addiction.

The 12 step program to become addicted is easier.
1. 3 games + 1 favour is not enough. You subscribe.
2. You start setting goals for yourself. The next skill, an outfit.
3. You join an agency, as you need others to share with.
4. You start joining treasure hunts.
5. Your goal setting becomes more ambitious. You start paying attention to individual high scores. Fame points.
6. This is the moment where you start talking to non-Sleuthers, about your agency. Talking about it as if it is a real thing. Describing your outfit, the hunts, the mysteries. Sleuth has become a living and breathing entity.
7. Competitiveness really starts hitting. You find yourself longer and longer online. Staying up later then you should, or getting up earlier. taking other peoples cases.
8. To a point where you may start neglecting other things. Rushing people on the phone, scamming some time of work, you are doing other activities but are thinking about Sleuth.
9. You are so hooked now, not only have you been daily for a long time. You feel you can not go without.
10. You know you have a busy schedule coming up, a holiday or whatever other reason that keeps you from Sleuth. You start worrying about your Sleuth fix.
11. You start getting upset over stuff. The bad agent in your agency. Contribution to your agency. Stuff in the community.
12. You start waking up in the middle of the night, for no reason at all. You have to play. You can no longer focus. You know you shouldn't play at all, or even as much. It has become a second job.

And now it is sad. I'm sad. :)

jstkdn
jstkdn
Well-Connected

Apr-4-2005 03:20

I remember that DaRu, I was sitting out some time, before going to a party. I wasn't actually at the party yet. :)

DaRu
DaRu
Well-Connected

Apr-4-2005 18:32

Ah I thought I was really proving something jstkdn...hehe. OK, your twelve steps really brings back memories. Wow, talk about driven. I'd play daily for hours on end, and sometimes I'd fall asleep sitting while playing. One night I fell asleep and dropped my keyboard onto of my Yorkshire Terrie who always sits at my feet. Talk about getting up and running bugged eyed. Woodrow has hated my computer ever since. Each time I sit down and turn it on he starts barking and doesn't stop until I either get up or take him outside and pay him attention. I've threatened to call the "Dog Whisperer" to come and counsel him, or ME...hehe. Really I'm probably the one who needs the Dog Whisperer..right? Well, so much for telling on myself..lol. They say confession is good for the soul. So, fess up ya'll...hehe.

DaRu
DaRu
Well-Connected

Apr-4-2005 18:41

Right now my Yorkie, whose name is Woodrow, is barking his head off at me while I'm typing this message, and I can't even think straight. I noticed I didn't tell the story right above, so I'll take another stab at it.. Anyway, one of the many nights I had been solving cases up into the wee hours of morning, I fell asleep and dropped my keyboard on Woodrow's head, at which time he jumped up from where he was sleeping and ran off bugged eyed towards the door. Ever since hes hated it when I use my computer. Only me though, and not my husband. I guess he's trying to tell me I have a problem...lol, but Mom just can't help herself.

DaRu
DaRu
Well-Connected

Apr-4-2005 18:49

Oh by the way, since I mentioned Woodrow, I have to mention my other son Zechariah, whose Woodrow's son. If I'm on too long, he'll come and claw my skin with his paw until it hurts. Needless to say, I don't keep on playing and I do pay them lots and lots of attention. They are my spoiled little boys.

Madame TBird
Madame TBird
Well-Connected

Apr-4-2005 20:05

We have a baby named Priisy. You cannot spoil kids or d-o-g-s. It upsets her when we call her a dog. She's a 4 1/2 year-old Boston Terrier. She sits at my feet everyday too. i would imagine the keyboard did scare that baby. It's funny but it's not.

Llolly
Llolly
Well-Connected

Apr-5-2005 00:57

ok, my baby has woken me up at half six my time, which gives me 30 mins or so to just nose around and tie up ends before sleuth time ticks over to today. The first thing I do is switch the computer on. I sort out breakfast for him and encourage him to sit and be good from behind the screen. We have moved upsatirs now for his bath. He has been squirting water all over the bathroom and I am sitting in the bathroom doorway with the laptop. He has wrinkly toes and fingers....

We are visiting relatives this weekend and I am trying to work out how I will access the internet without offending anyone... Oh to hell with it! Who cares if I offend anyone? It's only my mother visiting from abroad... she only wants to see the baby anyway....

OK, anyone have the number for Sleuths Anonymous??

jstkdn
jstkdn
Well-Connected

Apr-5-2005 12:34

Llolly I was visualizing this whole thing, and am sitting here laughing so hard.

I think the worst thing I have done. I used to play Sleuth while doing conference calls. As both sleuth game, and conference call happened to the wee hours of the morning. Most of the time I had to listen to the calls, and only jump in when someone needed my help. At some point someone asked a question like "Who has done it?" To which I said something like "It is either Nosveli, or Madalyn!" Then, silence on that call. And then I realized what everybody was thinking "who are Nosveli, and Madalyn?"

Madame TBird
Madame TBird
Well-Connected

Apr-5-2005 13:43

How funny, all my family has learned to try my cell# 1st because they get my internet answering service anyway.

  <<First Page  |  <Previous Next>  |  Last Page>>  

[ You must login to reply ]