Entering a new phase in life OR I need a new screen name OR self centered thread

[tracky]

Tracky is dead (!)

To me Tracky represents the stoned unmotivated, depressed bum that I used to be. A few weeks ago, something just snapped inside me, and I made the descision that enough is enough.

Today I was given the title "General Manager"

While those duties will take time to actually materialise, it is a significant step and a significant change in my life.

Over the last few weeks I have felt like I am entering a new stage in my life. I feel energised, motivated and most importantly, happy!

I see a bright future ahead, full of challenges and rewards.

To commemorate this new phase in my life I have decided to change my screen name. I havn't decided quite what it will be yet, but when I do, I will let you know. I'm open to suggestions. Apparently Echewta is taken.

ps. sorry to bite on your thread title style Sarky ;) imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

[Kid Presentable]

Tracky is dead (!)

To me Tracky represents the stoned unmotivated, depressed bum that I used to be. A few weeks ago, something just snapped inside me, and I made the descision that enough is enough.

Today I was given the title "General Manager"

While those duties will take time to actually materialise, it is a significant step and a significant change in my life.

Over the last few weeks I have felt like I am entering a new stage in my life. I feel energised, motivated and most importantly, happy!

I see a bright future ahead, full of challenges and rewards.

To commemorate this new phase in my life I have decided to change my screen name. I havn't decided quite what it will be yet, but when I do, I will let you know. I'm open to suggestions. Apparently Echewta is taken.

ps. sorry to bite on your thread title style Sarky ;) imitation is the sincerest form of flattery
Don't take suggestions.

That said, something like lapdance_@ngEl.

[Kid Presentable]

Oh yeah, my fullest congratulations, by the way mate.(y)

Did getting off the spliff help?

[tracky]

1. No I know, it really has to come from me. I'm drawing nothing but blanks right now. And hey someone might just hit it by fluke

2. Of course. That stage of my life is over. For good. I might get reckless on the occasional weekend or something like that, but things will never be like they used to be. This is something I just know.

[Kid Presentable]

No I know, it really has to come from me. I'm drawing nothing but blanks right now. And hey someone might just hit it by fluke
Kid Moe.

[Kid Presentable]

1. No I know, it really has to come from me. I'm drawing nothing but blanks right now. And hey someone might just hit it by fluke

2. Of course. That stage of my life is over. For good. I might get reckless on the occasional weekend or something like that, but things will never be like they used to be. This is something I just know.
I'm listening to Rush 'Tom Sawyer' while I read your thread.

[tracky]

haha (y) Kid Gorgeous more like it. You took the best one. Kid Gruesome is a bit brutal and Kid Gorgeous is a bit gay. And Kid Moe, well that's just rock bottom

[tracky]

I'm listening to Rush 'Tom Sawyer' while I read your thread.

I will be too, in 1 minute and 18 seconds

[Kid Presentable]

I will be too, in 1 minute and 18 seconds
It's about 45% appropriate.

[Freebasser]

Mr. Smacktackle

[Otis Driftwood]

Do you still drink now & then or are you in that semi-religious bliss some ex-stoners attain that makes em feel great late night in the club when everybody elses mood is altered?

[tracky]

I never knew this was a Rush song. To be honest, the only time I've ever really heard of Rush is on ATHF. Cheers (y)

Mr. Smacktackle made me lol, but yeah you didn't fluke it ;)

[tracky]

Do you still drink now & then or are you in that semi-religious bliss some ex-stoners attain that makes em feel great late night in the club when everybody elses mood is altered?

Haha no that was a couple of weeks ago :D Dudes were like, "holy shit I'm giving up the weed!"

I'll still drink and no I'm not attending church

[Kid Presentable]

Mr. Smacktackle
lol

[venusvenus123]

congrats!:)

[tracky]

Thanks venus :)

Well I gotta go to bed now anyway, in the morning I expect this thread to be 10 pages long with suggestions (!)

[Freebasser]

träcky

[Knuckles]

I'm really happy for you Mr. soon to be known as something other than tracky. (y)


A new name now, huh?


I'll get to thinking.

[paul jones]

Father Titsmas

[trailerprincess]

Oh, how I miss Mr Motivator and his spandex.

[paul jones]

Oh, how I miss Mr Motivator and his spandex.
yeah,they need to bring him back

[Tzar]

mr. gay-hands hahaha

joshing ya, mate (y)

[Freebasser]

yeah,they need to bring him back

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KfQVMRidoc

[Pres Zount]

nice to see things working out for you, anon.

[Loppfessor]

How bout Senor Slurm? or Tracky2.0

anyway way to get motivated!

[marsdaddy]

Congrats on the title/life direction.

How about Tricky?

[monkey]

Roland. there arent nearly enough rolands on this board.

(congrats. hugs and kisses)

[mikizee]

trucky

no_munchies

im_the_manager

manage_this

[tracky]

Thank's guys :) (y)

Roland. there arent nearly enough rolands on this board.

(congrats. hugs and kisses)

That's a contender. But it's taken but one of those many million register but never post types.

Ideally I'd just be Dave, but of course that's taken. And I've never been a fan of stuff like Dave79

Maybe THE_Dave or something like that.

Still not decided

[venusvenus123]

Keep on Truckin

you know you love it!


screw page 2

[tracky]

I do like it, but it's gonna get shortened to kot cause ppl wll b 2 lzy to typ the whole thing

[Freebasser]

Sammy Fishknockers

[Drederick Tatum]

TPFKAT

[tracky]

TPFKAT

that crossed my mind, but now that i've seen it typed...

winner!

[TPFKAT]

R.I.P. tracky

[kleptomaniac]

tracky go bye :(

[TPFKAT]

good riddance I say

[b i o n i c]

please tell me thats not your new name

[Lex Diamonds]

Looks like it is.

Tracky is infinitely better.

[Lex Diamonds]

And I don't understand how changing your lifestyle slightly in real life means you should change your username on an internet message board?

[TPFKAT]

you don't need to understand

you can still call me tracky, or formerly or f-kat or dave whatever. I like the fact that not many people will get it, but those that do are the only ones that really matter


actually i am having second thoughts tho. It's still got tracky in it. Maybe this will just be a temporary in between name until I think of a better one.

[Lex Diamonds]

Or maybe you can realise usernames don't mean shit and just keep using tracky?

[TPFKAT]

No you see it's not just a username to me. It's the name that my friends called me, and it related largely to my former life style. It's an identity that is no longer me. I don't know why am I even bothering explaining this to you I really don't care what you think.

[Kid Presentable]

No you see it's not just a username to me. It's the name that my friends called me, and it related largely to my former life style. It's an identity that is no longer me. I don't know why am I even bothering explaining this to you I really don't care what you think.
It's like 'TPF Cat', like some kind of cat that's down with TPF. And TPF sounds street.

[TPFKAT]

How about Raoul Duke? I've always liked that name.

[Lyman Zerga]

Or maybe you can realise usernames don't mean shit and just keep using tracky?


hey you carer!

care off! or care me hard!


im trackys/tpfkats/raoul dukes/daves lucky charm :)
please tell me im right! i need that! yeah?

[TPFKAT]

Just your foot. I wear it around my neck still and it's bringing me lots of luck :D

[Kid Presentable]

Abel Fallis

[Raoul Duke]

ok this is final. no really, it is.

speaking of names, we got a resume yesterday and the guy's name, his real name, was Richard Chafer. lol


(if you don't get it, think of the common short version for Richard)

[Kid Presentable]

ok this is final. no really, it is.

speaking of names, we got a resume yesterday and the guy's name, his real name, was Richard Chafer. lol


(if you don't get it, think of the common short version for Richard)
Rick? Richie?

[Raoul Duke]

First one is close, make that R a D....

[Lyman Zerga]

Just your foot. I wear it around my neck still and it's bringing me lots of luck :D

theres something we call foot here but it's not THE foot ;)

[mikizee]

hey tracky-dave-tpfkat-raoul duke.

ya know im happy for ya. getting off the weed was an epiphany for me.

just a question....

if youve changed your life around by stopping smoking mull and getting motivated etc, why associate yourself with a username that is named after a massive massive fucked up drug taker?

just sayin.

oh yeah, since we only live 10 mins apart i feel i should buy ya a pint.

name when and where.

[Lyman Zerga]

oh yeah, since we only live 10 mins apart i feel i should buy ya a pint.

name when and where.


he pmed me earlier and asked if i like his name (sorry if i just ruined your privacy mister duke)

point is that i thought it was you

[mikizee]

i confuse ppl all the time

ive had a shit day

[Lyman Zerga]

you wouldnt confuse as many people if you started wearing shirts

[mikizee]

does everyone not wear shirts?

i would like some taquitos

[tracky]

hey tracky-dave-tpfkat-raoul duke.

ya know im happy for ya. getting off the weed was an epiphany for me.

just a question....

if youve changed your life around by stopping smoking mull and getting motivated etc, why associate yourself with a username that is named after a massive massive fucked up drug taker?

just sayin.



The ironing is delicious

There's a difference. It's just a name. Which is why zombie tracky has suddenly risen from the dead. I can't kill tracky. It's how people here know me, and without having something in my sig or whatever, no one is going to know me anymore. So yeah. Forget the name change. I do have a few aliases to play with now tho :D (admins if your reading this feel free to delete those accounts I made...)


"oh yeah, since we only live 10 mins apart i feel i should buy ya a pint.

name when and where."

Royal Hotel, front bar, some night next week. I'm really busy at the moment, I've literally just got home from work (it's 11pm and I started at 8am for those that care) so I'm not quite sure when yet. Work is going to be pretty intense over the next few weeks. We have a new person starting on monday so most of my time of working hours during the week is going to be spent with her, leaving after hours for getting my own stuff done. Then on top of that I have to cover for the engraver who's finishing at 1:30 in the arvo for the next couple of months, and soon start training up a new engraver. Like I say, it's going to be pretty intense, but the rewards and benefits of this period of intense work are going to be huge.

Foreword:

This has turned into a rather lengthy post, it is mostly for my own benefit so I don't expect everyone to read it all.

Something really did snap inside me a few weeks ago. To pin point the moment I snapped, it was 8:30 on monday morning, on the 24th of October, 2007, after a weekend of extremely heavy drug usage (LSD, meth, some prescription drugs, alcohol - all of them very unlike me) I came down. I had a fantastic weekend, don't get me wrong. Drugs are still bad mkay. But that monday morning, when I got into work the first thing I said to my coworker (who also happens to be a good friend) was that I was sketching out and losing my shit. I told him that I should probably go and see a doctor because I was feeling extremely edgy, in that close to the edge way. He suggested I wait a couple of days until I'd come down. I ignored that advice, and I then rang my mum and asked her for the doctors phone number. She said, "I've actually got an appointment at 9:00, do you want me to ring up and see if they can get you in now?" Then of course, as mothers do, she asked me what was wrong. I said, through tears, "I can't cope anymore. I don't want to be this person that I am but I can't do it alone. I need help." That was the stage where it all began. Going to the doctor, getting prescriptions for some dodgy cipramil (which I'm going to stop taking soon, I forgot to take it yesterday and felt better than fine) and all the rest of it was just a formality. Saying to my mum, "I don't want to be this person anymore, I need help" was really the biggest step of all and it was the words she's been waiting to hear for the last 8 or 9 years. It's great to see my mum so happy, I swear it really is amazing.

Christ I really got carried away there, sorry :o Some things are best off the chest tho, and I don't really care who reads it. Hopefully some people can learn from it. The moral of the story being, don't become addicted to drugs to repress your true self. Which is why I took them. Initially it was an act of rebellion, an act of wanting to try something different. It was an act of wanting to belong to a culture I percieved as "cool" - being a snobby nerdy geek is never appealling when you are young. It grew into an addiction and a habit and it ruled my life. I was just talking to my house mate about it, and we figured out that over the years I have spent probably $50,000 on drugs. Not cool. Not to mention the ridiculous amount of time I have spent sitting stoned in front of a computer screen shooting people with my virtual machine guns, or watching re-run after re-run of every cartoon ever made. Part of the new me doesn't even want to post here anymore, but at the same time I don't want to abandon every part of my life because then I will have nothing.

All of this is very meaningless to most, but it's meaningful to me, and just the act of writing it reinforces in my mind that it is really happening. I really am getting back to being myself. Not the person I want to be, but the person I am. It may be a slightly twisted process at times (for example, this thread) but I know at the end of it all, I will be happy with myself and who I am, and I will have the confidence to be myself.

[Freebasser]

Padster 1-0 Tracky

[tracky]

quiet you. I feel like going back to Roual or TPFKAT just to spite you now :D

Zombie Tracky welcomes you to page 3

[tracky]

No, I'm afraid freebasser is right

Padster 1 - Tracky 0


I should give myself a point for not being a wanna-be-gangsta tho. Or maybe just deduct a point from Padster.

[tracky]

If I got any sexier it would create some sort of sexy supernova, so for safety's sake I am sticking with the current spelling

[Otis Driftwood]

A lot of fiction proofs, that changing your name only encourages dark secrets from your past & closet skeletons to come back to haunt you!

[tracky]

I think I understood that

[Otis Driftwood]

You know like strange strangers shouting "Tracky" in public or in a bar and you catch yourself looking around.
Anonymous letters adressed to "Tracky" on your doorstep.
The inspector asking you: "You know anyone named Tracky? Ring any bells?"
Shit like that!

[Freebasser]

1-1 extra time and penalties.

[Kid Presentable]

Padster cared, though. That's a penalty shoot-out.

[tracky]

Bah let him win. I don't even understand this game :confused: WHAT DO YOU MEAN I WAS OFF SIDE?!?!

[na§tee]

(lb) ♥ŧŗẫċĸŷ♥

[Freebasser]

That's a booking for dissent.

Watch it, sonny (!)

[venusvenus123]

ach, it's the offside rule. no-one who isn't obsessive about football understands it. I can never stay awake long enough to try

i like your story tracky. i will read it later when i have some more time.

[Lyman Zerga]

i read the long ass post and im pretty proud of our trackster (y)

[mikizee]

yeah.

its a feel good story. i think we all need more of them.

rock on (y)

[Lex Diamonds]

Once again I'm right and everybody else is wrong. My ego just keeps on growing, along with my huge penis and collection of sexual conquests.

[Planetary]

I should give myself a point for not being a wanna-be-gangsta tho. Or maybe just deduct a point from Padster.
BURN LOL!

[venusvenus123]

My ego just keeps on growing, along with my huge penis and collection of sexual conquests.
...and STDs.

[Lyman Zerga]

lol he cared enough to pump the thread

[Lex Diamonds]

Don't hate the player, hate the game.

[Lyman Zerga]

i just cant hate your game toy