Timmah!

Congrats to winning his 5th! https://www.chess.com/news/view/nakamura-wins-5th-u-s-championship https://new.uschess.org/news/nakamura-wins-2019-u-s-championship/

Speedy recovery to your son; may you find comfort & peace during this tribulation.

LOL. "Dad, what's that?" "I don't know, son."

Lol, kinda catchy.

Maybe I'm anthropomorphizing, but they seemed apathetic, lethargic. Temperature & humidity was optimal, but they seemed unhappy to me, so I let them free in the adjacent field.

I kept a rat snake for a time, but it was just too damn mean...let it go. Had a King snake for a while also, but it seemed unhappy, so I set it free also.

My buddy Rudy, showed up in the back yard a couple years ago:

or this one?

These two are every day...can't decide which one I like better....tell me which one is better to you?

Nuh Uhh.

https://youtu.be/Ldyx3KHOFXw

Had to look again at the description to see this wasn't Jimmy, but a fan's cover.

lol... congrats

sure... good luck

Try running this to see your hardware temps. https://filehippo.com/download_speccy or this for a more comprehensive suite of tools: https://www.hwinfo.com/download/ The advantage to hwinfo is that it has a logging protocol so you can see at what temp your components were operating when this black screen occurs; by the time you start a program or pull it up, the temps have already cooled down considerably.

Heynow!

I've only gotten that message on rare occasions when I had just recently left a server & the system hadn't yet reported me as such... it usually resolved within 15 minutes of leaving the server. googling the issue brings up several sites & fixes depending upon whether you have a hard copy or are using Steam: https://www.google.com/search?q=cod4+cd+key+in+use&oq=cod4+cd+key+in+use&aqs=chrome..69i57.4249j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

Happy Birthday!

Oh yeah, & regarding the wipe cycle: That's an inherent characteristic of population fluctuation that occurs across most servers: 2 weeks into a wipe, a player gets raided... he's gonna most likely leave & join a server just freshly wiped so that he's rebuilding on a level playing field, rather than stay where everybody that hasn't been raided has a leg up... no way to avoid that, really.... except implement a 2-week wipe schedule. I've looked at several polls & threads across many different websites & forums, and 2-week cycle is about as popular as monthly wipes.

I tend to agree with most of those suggestions; I especially think it's downright counterproductive for every single XI member to join the server & congregate on one single island in a group of up to eight, agree to not attack each other & only raid & contend with the other players who aren't XI.... effectively chasing them off...then complain "I'm bored". Well no shit; if you agree not to play against 1/2 the players on a new server & team up to go after the others, not gonna be many left against whom to play. With literally thousands of servers from which to choose, would you choose one where the members mob up & only come after you?

Heynow! Welcome, Eclipse!

That's why I'm not a big fan of these tires that are supposed to last for 90 kajillion miles before wearing out...I replace my tires every 2 years, spare-included.