The promise

Jeez ! that was scary our posts must have gone on together ?

With ref to your last one , Can't you just imagine yourself unplugging it and stopping the lights from flashing at you, which would give you the time to re focus your attention elswhere ?

Thanks again Alan and Oldham. I really appreciate everything you are doing to help me.

Were all in this together mate , united we stand and all that, so no need for thanks and I'm sure you'd do the same for any of us !

I'll say goonight now mate as its been along day , stay safe and focused and take a positive that you came back on for a rant and not a gamble instead !!.

Talk to you soon my friend !

Amazing place this forum. Really amazing place. Got a good buzz right now.

Tomorrow I get a new dashboard with new lights and new labels. I can't avoid temptation for the rest of my life so I need new healthy temptations. It's going to be a fun journey.

I think I might be back in the room people. Keep the faith. Northern Soul.

Hi change, your dashboard post highlights the truth very well. It matters not which form our gambling takes. Because that is not what we are addicted to. We are all addicted to escaping from reality. So this is where recovery needs to be focused, in accepting & learning new coping mechanisms to deal with our own personal realities

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How you doing today buddy ?

Thanks Dan - this is very much a work in progress for me so I'm not going to go from escaping reality in a bad way to escaping reality in a good way, or even creating a new reality, over night.

Hi Alan... day started well as no booze last night and no cigs purchased this morning. I'm itching for a cig right now and might need to get some for the night. I can't shake that right now. I haven't considered sport or gambling as I'm been occupied albeit I was occupied this afternoon by the most boring call ever... I was listening to everything that was being said but i wanted to call bs every 5 mins and that wouldn't have been appropriate. Checked my emails when got off call and some of those annoyed me greatly. I've come on here on train home to catch up on anything missed and to begin process of re reading all my diaries! Thanks for checking in on me. I'm doing ok but need to do better. I'm just so unbelievably tired. Keep the faith.

Hello buddy , glad you're doing ok today , talk to you later my friend !

Had a little sleep when I got home and that's sorted me out for a brief moment and get me a bit fresher to do the late night feeds. Avoided the footy through sleeping and watching normal tv with wife rather than making her watch sport so that felt good as well.

Hi fella , glad your feeling a bit like your old self again , sleeps good mate , allows us to recharge and think a bit straighter , I bet your mrs enjoyed not having to watch the footie too !.

Nice to have you back on the ol'e forum !

What are you watching change I've hammered the box sets so I'm happy to recommend some if you want ideal to watch while doing that late night feed it with the Mrs

Thanks Oldham I'm happy to hear some recommendations. I'm not really into box sets and all I've really watched were lost and prison break first couple of seasons and then it just got ridiculous. I like documentaries and I've heard making of a murderer is excellent but I don't have Net flix.

I watched making a murderer it's brilliant don't read up on it I don't have Netflix I watched it on couch tuner I watch all my box sets on there

Thanks Oldham - all I really know is that this fella got screwed over by the justice system. That could just be a part of it and there are always two sides to a story but I'd need to watch it.

I listen to Joe Rogan Experience podcast and they give that overview on the programme.

He has some fascinating guests. One was lifting the lid on freedom approved farms for free range cattle etc saying it's unethical and I was thinking w*f is he talking about? The argument goes one freedom cattle needs 50 acres to graze on and feed off that grass solely over a lifetime! A battery cattle needs the equivalent of 2 acres of grain farmed in a field over its lifetime. A freedom food farmer will have to keep all other wildlife off that 50 acres so it harms the ecology and wildlife in the area. I had never ever thought of this aspect of the arguments. I still don't know if it's flawed but I love hearing these different perspectives.

He had a guy on talking about artificial intelligence and robots that can think like humans. That just blows my mind. Apparently they asked this robot about things like love and God and the responses are incredible. I guarantee that will be the next major event in the next 20 years or so. Robots will be walking amongst us and taking jobs off humans. It scares me just thinking about it. If anyone thinks this is pie in the sky then just read up on it. And don't think of robots just like terminator. I've seen robots carrying goods around warehouses, getting in and out of lifts, taking rubbish off to recycle, pausing to let humans pass then starting to move again... I've seen this with my own eyes. It's absolutely mental and these things aren't even that advanced. If anyone wants to be sorted for the future then get into that programming as it will be huge in the future.

Anyways enough ramblings but please feel free to fill me in on an robot related info any of you have as it fascinates me. It's good to take the mind off to different places outside our immediate concerns of our tiny perspectives.

Make sure you watch making a murderer it's worth it and try not to read up anymore on it more twists and turns than a Big Dipper.

As for robots don't know much about them other yah. When I became one when gambling I must have had a few crossed wires because I wasn't very good at it.

My son has just chosen computer science in his options which is about programming he does a few clubs after school science and computer club he's a bit smarter than his dad.

KTF