So it appears...

No one likes to leave this forum. Been on since 2002 with various name changes, and most threads are started in here by the same names as years past.
 
Whats everyone up too

Livin it up in the Hotel California

The hey days of this forum are gone as with many of the members. We have all moved on to other things as we age. From the old OMHW days to today we have grown and found other needs in life. I still miss the September trip to Mecca (TWC) and the three days of fun as friends gather for all the usual idiocy we were known for. I went alone a few years ago, recognized a few here and there, but was not what I expected...just wandered, a few memories, and closed another chapter in my life.

I miss those days, but I know they will probably never return and have moved on. Right now my Motocross friends fill the role of what OMHW was, as sometimes the silence is deafening here on the forum.

I'm in the process of making plans to play soon and I am organizing my gear.   

Mech the cocker soon maybe, finish the 98 project, something crazy for the spyder? , stare at the impulse and it's goodness.

I've been hitting many of the top pb forums recently and things seem real dead everywhere.

Paintball is still alive and well overall, but the wealth of information for new people coming into the sport, or people having issues with markers is just so broad these days, that you don't see much new traffic in the forums anymore. Add in the fact that all of us old timers are getting jobs, having kids, etc. and have less and less time to play (if any) and it just slows down. Most of the post-split OMHW guys simply got out of paintball and into real firearms as a hobby because their sons and daughters all grew out of the sport and took an interest in shooting. We had a game at Pepprdog's farm one year where the guys played one game of paintball and took a break. During the break a couple of guys pulled out their .22LRs and started plinking and that was the end of it. Our yearly game at Pepperdog's is now what we call "Blastfest."

A lot of people like Shorty don't have access through their work computers either, which puts a dent in things, and Facebook finished off the nail that the IRC channels started putting in the coffin for people from here staying in touch.

I still play. I didn't get a chance to get out last summer, but will this summer as I have people from the school where I work interested in going out to play. To me, there's still nothing like hearing those first shots go whizzing by and the "put-put-put" of your own shots leaving a J&J in the opposite direction. I'm no longer able to do the straight-up sprints to the objective thanks to chipping my knee cap doing a bunker slide a few years back, but I can still run a tapeline like a beast.

I remember when I first joined up here it was a dream of mine to make to TWC and meet the OMHW crew along with everyone else. 

Good to hear everyone has seemed to mature and move on. Looking back on the amount of money spent on gear is ridiculous and I kind of regret it except for the memories made here and on the field

Whats everyone up to in life?
Personally I'm getting married this summer, finished my HD mechanic apprenticeship, getting ready to buy a house soon and make a drastic career change. And working on the ever growing gun collection

.636 wrote: Good to hear everyone has seemed to mature and move on. Looking back on the amount of money spent on gear is ridiculous and I kind of regret it except for the memories made here and on the field Whats everyone up to in life? Personally I'm getting married this summer, finished my HD mechanic apprenticeship, getting ready to buy a house soon and make a drastic career change. And working on the ever growing gun collection

I don't regret the money spent on gear, what I didn't make back selling it was well spent on fun.

I finally finished my undergrad degree and am waiting for that piece of paper to get here, working for my parents trying to make the family business succeed for the moment, taking pictures, gettin into simracing and saving up for a car.

I'm working and about to start full time school again. Halfway through an accounting degree (still, I think I was in the same spot in my degree two years ago) and finally into a job that I enjoy (even if the pay suck) after a few dude that left me unemployed for a year.

Otherwise, I've sold all but a couple of my guns (my 1911 and Henry Golden Boy aren't going anywhere hopefully) and three guitars (kept my SRV, LP, and one of my Mexican Strats) in the name of slimming down my housing impact. Just had too much stuff I never used.

Sold my 71 Chevy Truck (sadface), sold my turbo kit for the Mustang (have a 5.0 now so no use), basically I work, go to school, and on rare occasions crank up a video game.

Kind of fell off the sobriety wagon but I'm not binge drinking anymore and have become quite the fan of some local craft beers (Dogfish Head owns my wallet.) Usually every couple of weeks I'll have a couple IPA's while I work on my car and rarely I'll go out with friends and have a few, but I'm fortunate to have escaped the alcoholism issues I used to have the last time I posted here.

I think that's pretty much everything I've done in the last two years. Been dull, but honestly I like that. Just nothing really post worthy on here, I do lurk though.

I lurk. 

Moved to Utah, got a job as an engineer for T-38/F-5 spare parts.  Just bought a house.