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Lonely Raven

If you traded with me please leave me Heatware Sen
Joined
Feb 2, 2002
Location
Wheaton, IL
Time to Quit Folding.....

I'm sorry to have to do this, but seeing as how I have no way
to borg, and no way to do this otherwise....Here is my story.

Past two days my girlfriend is staying with me because she's
sick. I've been trying to keep her cool, keep her comfey, and
keep her hydrated.

At the same time I have 9 systems running here in my little
apartment. It's no small feat. I popped many a fuse before I
found out how many computers can run on each outlet, and
which outlets....FYI, it takes A LOT to power 20Ghz!! I can't
turn on the Coffee Maker without the lights dimming...I'm very
much at the ragged edge.

Add to that I had to turn the air conditioning on today to help
keep my girl comfey.

And to add insult to injury, my electric bill showed up in the mail.
For the past three months that I've been Folding, WITHOUT
Airconditioning or Heating, my electric bill has been around $90
a month....Hell, I can't even blame this on TV, it only gets turned
on to watch movies once or twice a week....

This happened to me two years ago when I managed to rocket
myself up to the top 10% of SETI, and as soon as summer came
around my bills went up, and my systems started going down.

This year I have plenty of stability, and actually LESS power usage
per Mhz (more efficient systems I guess), but it's just too much.

I'm afraid it's time for me to retire....

I've managed to make Top 100 Folders on our team (my first goal)
and I've managed to go Orange in the stats (my second goal),
I don't think I'll make my third and final goal of hitting top 30,
though I have broken into the top 50 recently.

Anywho, it was fun, and I'm glad the team that I helped name,
For_Those_We_Lost continues to rocket up the stats in my place....
 
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I'm sorry to hear that, it's been nice. You're contribution to this team has been huge. I hope that your girlfriend gets better soon.
 
Wow...this is really saddening (swear to god poeple, I had a few tears when I read an article that talked about Messaging programs and they mentioned the DDoS attacks on DALnet...)

Sad to hear this Raven, you have been an Inspiration to us all my friend, and I'm sorry to hear that your girlfriend isnt doing so well :(

Unless you will fold with your rigs later on, then I guess you as a "Raven" could say "Nevermore" ;)

Once again man, you truly have given some people a run for there money, and an Inspiration to small home grown folding farms (which I dont have..my majority is 6 or 7 work computers).

Fold and Frag on
Brian
 
Lonely Raven said:
my electric bill has been around $90
a month....Hell, I can't even blame this on TV, it only gets turned
on to watch movies once or twice a week....

:eek: ONLY $90, could you run a powerline to my house?

2 rigs 24/7, 2 Energy saving light bulbs (and a few others, but they're in the shower, kitchen and toilet so they're off most of the time), my TV and sound sytem cost me a whopping €130 a month ($153.205), last year I payed €120 a month and had to pay an additional €120+ orso.

Maybe I should take one rig down and send some money your way, so you can fold under my name:D (I'm serious).

FYI: Over here they estimate your usage and bill you monthly, if you've used less you get some money back, if you've used more you get to pay.

BTW: I'm such a dumb &&^$$@%*( I should've asked for 'night electricity' a long time ago, your monthly bill goes up (maybe €10-15), but the electricity you use between 10 or 11PM and 9 or 10AM (orso) is alot cheaper, so in the end it should be cheaper.

**EDIT** Bout your GF, hope she gets well soon.
 
To bad Raven, dont really know you, but it is sad to see a productive folder leaving.






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Thanks a lot for helping out the team by folding for us Lonely Raven. Please feel free to ahng around the Folding Team though, your input it appreciated.

Hope your girl gets better :)
 
It's not all or nothing. You can just cut back your least efficient kw/wu units and just fold with the top third for now. That should help hold you on page one until the fall arrives and keep your power bill within reason.

Keep her hydrated and she'll recover faster. Defizzed 7up has saved me countless thousands in hospital bills over the years my kids would get sick.
 
Sorry to hear that. I hope your gf gets better soon. Thanks for all your great contributions to folding and thanks for helping us name For_Those_We_Lost.
 
I hope your girlfriend gets better soon and I hope you don't become a stranger around the forums. Best of Luck.
 
Raven, I just started folding, and I have seen you around, and I am sincere in saying that it is sad to see a fellow folder go. Especially one as productive as you. Good luck man, and I hope that your girlfriend gets better.
;)
 
Can i have your unneeded rigs? J/K, sorry to see ya go, but if you decide to start folding again later, I can put 1 of my rigs under your name, to at least keep you in the top 200. My 1700 would be great at that. How bout it?
 
Let's not carve up the carcuss just yet. He was kicking A** and it's dissapointing to have to back off. He'll be back soon with all his rigs and more.
 
I'm really sorry to hear about all your troubles. Get your personal problems worked out before you worry about our team. You had an excellent run, passed a while back.:D

-DarkArctic
 
Audioaficionado said:
Let's not carve up the carcuss just yet. He was kicking A** and it's dissapointing to have to back off. He'll be back soon with all his rigs and more.
Until then, I guess I won't be able to see him on my threats list. Wait there is a silver lining:eek: j/k
Hope you are able to return Raven.
 
Hey thanx guys...

I gave myself till this last electric bill to prove that it was Folding
and all my rigs that was causing the $90 a month bills...just for
reference my Electric bill was only $25-30 a month previously,
so it's jumped up $7-8 a month for each machine I've added....

Anywho, the girlfriend is better...still flu like, but well enough that
we got out of the house and went to see a movie (and not a very
good one unfortunatly).

I powered down 5 of my 9 systems for the day, and the temps
in the apartment were still 12c over what they were outside!!
It was almost double that with all 9 systems running, and I'm
really surprised I didn't get some crashes...I had systems showing
66c on the processors!?!?

Anywho, it's probably better that instead of a whole bunch of
moderatly kick *** computers, I focus my energy, money, and
skillz on two or three computers.

And yes, I will be selling off at least three systems. Probaby my
AMD based systems (all nForce2 Ultras with 1700+) and maybe
one of my P4c systems....

When I do decide whats going to go (close friends get first dibs),
I'm then going to post a heads up here in the forum that I'm
putting stuff up in the classifieds. I have a TONE of memory, and
maybe some nice harddrives to boot...

Thanx again....Sorry I've had to bail so suddenly, it's odd going
from orange to green in 24 hours...
 
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