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Re: How do you decompress after a stressful day?
« Reply #35 on: March 26, 2012, 09:56:19 PM »
Depends. I either:

A. Go home, sit down by my computer, turn on some tunes (usually specific albums or just shufle) and enjoy the company of the internet. Hence, what I am doing tonight.

B. Call up some friends and go chill at someone else's house. Watch a movie, play some pool, etc. Good times all around.
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Re: How do you decompress after a stressful day?
« Reply #36 on: March 26, 2012, 10:01:22 PM »
Well, the thing is that public speaking doesn't normally phase me, I've spoken to bigger and more important audiences before - on basically the same material - and today just had me frazzled for whatever reason.  Early bed and Flying Colors time.
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Re: How do you decompress after a stressful day?
« Reply #37 on: March 27, 2012, 06:05:04 AM »
My #1 rule in life ...  No matter what you do, unless you die, life goes on.

May seem kinda hokey, but it boils down to the fact that we can't change the past, and by mulling/stewing over it, we impair our ability to learn from mistakes so as to not repeat them.

Oh, and shooter PS3 games does it for me, with some good prog-metal in the background
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Re: How do you decompress after a stressful day?
« Reply #38 on: March 27, 2012, 06:16:00 AM »
Seeing my wife and daughter usually relieves stress immediately, unless I have had a really bad day. After I converse with my wife a bit and have dinner, I'm usually pretty good. Then I will either read, watch TV, or listen to music. Life is stressful so you need to find your places of solace so you don't lose your mind. When I was younger nothing bothered me but the older I get the more stress I seem to feel on a daily basis.
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Re: How do you decompress after a stressful day?
« Reply #39 on: March 27, 2012, 07:08:37 AM »
I play my guitar
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Re: How do you decompress after a stressful day?
« Reply #40 on: March 27, 2012, 07:54:59 AM »
I internalize it and over analyze my place in things.

I need healthier habits.
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Re: How do you decompress after a stressful day?
« Reply #41 on: March 28, 2012, 03:15:43 PM »
I don't do anything special after a stressful day, I just go about the afternoon/evening like any other.
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Re: How do you decompress after a stressful day?
« Reply #42 on: March 28, 2012, 05:31:47 PM »
Go look around in this thread and FAP away!!! You'll feel much less stressed.  :yarr

https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=31216.0
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Re: How do you decompress after a stressful day?
« Reply #43 on: March 28, 2012, 05:36:19 PM »
Hang with my friends
Listen to music
Workout/Go running
Sleep
Watch a movie
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Re: How do you decompress after a stressful day?
« Reply #44 on: March 28, 2012, 05:44:08 PM »
Forklift broke down with a bad waterpump.

Guy tried to steal a $10 dollar wallet out of a Wal Mart Warehouse.

Pallet load trailers sky high WHILE I'm in a managers meeting away from my warehouse.


I drank like a fish after the meeting with some quality beers.
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Re: How do you decompress after a stressful day?
« Reply #45 on: March 28, 2012, 05:45:46 PM »
Pizza + Serious Sam
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Re: How do you decompress after a stressful day?
« Reply #46 on: March 28, 2012, 06:09:59 PM »
Lie in bed watching tv.
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Re: How do you decompress after a stressful day?
« Reply #47 on: March 28, 2012, 06:24:31 PM »
Quote from: wolfandwolfandwolf on March 27, 2012, 07:54:59 AM
I internalize it and over analyze my place in things.

I need healthier habits.

You got a purty goil. Go to the park with her or Baskin Robbins (or both) and if you aren't in a better mood by then, you are inconsolable.
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Re: How do you decompress after a stressful day?
« Reply #48 on: March 28, 2012, 07:24:43 PM »
Forgot to add in my original post, Ludovico Einaudi always helps to decompress.
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Re: How do you decompress after a stressful day?
« Reply #49 on: March 28, 2012, 07:53:25 PM »
Go home, have a little phenobarbital, sit down, and play my Texas Chainsaw Massacre video game.
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Re: How do you decompress after a stressful day?
« Reply #50 on: March 28, 2012, 08:35:45 PM »
I read, smoke a cigarette and drink coffee. I do this either on my back porch or in my garage depending on the weather.
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Re: How do you decompress after a stressful day?
« Reply #51 on: March 29, 2012, 09:48:43 AM »
Scotch

Cigar

You can figure out the rest.
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Re: How do you decompress after a stressful day?
« Reply #52 on: March 29, 2012, 10:42:19 AM »
Quote from: hefdaddy42 on March 29, 2012, 09:48:43 AM
Scotch

Cigar

You can figure out the rest.

Classy as fuck, in other words.
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Re: How do you decompress after a stressful day?
« Reply #53 on: March 29, 2012, 11:06:48 AM »
Kill Vampires and zombies in the most gruesome way possible in a 2004 game.
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Re: How do you decompress after a stressful day?
« Reply #54 on: March 29, 2012, 11:35:32 AM »
Quote from: lonestar on March 29, 2012, 10:42:19 AM
Quote from: hefdaddy42 on March 29, 2012, 09:48:43 AM
Scotch

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You can figure out the rest.

Classy as fuck, in other words.

This is definitely the way to go.
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Re: How do you decompress after a stressful day?
« Reply #55 on: March 29, 2012, 11:39:39 AM »
Quote from: hefdaddy42 on March 29, 2012, 09:48:43 AM

Cigar


 :'(  I wish.  I guess I'll just have to pillage.
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Re: How do you decompress after a stressful day?
« Reply #56 on: March 29, 2012, 11:57:30 AM »
I can't have music playing while I play my FPS.
I need to hear the footsteps.
And the laying of "proxies"..........proximity mines.
Nasty shit. right thar
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Re: How do you decompress after a stressful day?
« Reply #57 on: March 29, 2012, 11:58:50 AM »
Always been a fan of 7zip myself...


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Re: How do you decompress after a stressful day?
« Reply #58 on: March 29, 2012, 12:01:02 PM »
LOL....you got me.

I was like..."hmm...isn't that like winzip...a decomp.....re...ssor....OH YOU FUCKER!!!!""



LMAO...
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Re: How do you decompress after a stressful day?
« Reply #59 on: March 30, 2012, 09:36:10 PM »
Quote from: lonestar on March 29, 2012, 10:42:19 AM
Quote from: hefdaddy42 on March 29, 2012, 09:48:43 AM
Scotch

Cigar

You can figure out the rest.

Classy as fuck, in other words.
Why yes.
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Re: How do you decompress after a stressful day?
« Reply #60 on: April 01, 2012, 04:39:39 AM »
Quote from: YtseBitsySpider on March 29, 2012, 11:57:30 AM
I can't have music playing while I play my FPS.
I need to hear the footsteps.
And the laying of "proxies"..........proximity mines.
Nasty shit. right thar

that sounds suspiciosly like quake - a game i love, but which has a great potential to make me even more stressed.
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Re: How do you decompress after a stressful day?
« Reply #61 on: April 01, 2012, 09:10:54 AM »
If I really need to relax I just stop everything for the day/night, and either sleep or listen to music and play video games

usually both, though
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Re: How do you decompress after a stressful day?
« Reply #62 on: April 02, 2012, 01:18:16 AM »
Headphones and take your pick of: Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Fear Of A Blank Planet, Images and Words, Octavarium, or one of my personal favs Tal Wilkenfield's album :heart


seriously greatest way I have ever found to relax
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Re: How do you decompress after a stressful day?
« Reply #63 on: April 02, 2012, 05:40:18 PM »
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