MikeB

The Carolina's get good marks for retirees, and all around descent places to move too. As far as waterfront, Bayfront property would be fine with me. As long as there is boating !!! But I would stay away from "tourist" destinations. Thats just me. Quieter the better.

The market here in Ohio is still overvalued. People who bought in the last 2 years will never get back what they paid for their property. And this is a trend throughout the US. Sammy, realistically now is the time to sale and hold off on purchasing another property until the market drops. Then the profit on your condo will go farther. And the market is going to drop. I think within the next year. But.... I see your point on rent being so high. That alone would eat away at your profits till the market drops and your money goes farther. My wife and I own two properties, so I could sale one taking advantage of todays prices and move into the other. But there is sentimental value in our properties. Moving to a "lower cost of living" state is a viable option. Your proceeds from the sale of your California property will go a hell of a long way in other states. Let alone the savings on everyday items. Not sure what the value of your property is, but in our small country area for example. $389,000 will get you a 4 or 5 bedroom newer home with several acres. And thats in todays market prices. Good luck on deciding. Its a big deal.

You didn't mention where you want to move ???

Maybe we all turn into butterflies in the end.

Then why have a garden ? Dirt Therapy ? My wife calls it that. Therapy to me is jamming !!!

Chop it in half !!! Kill It !!! It will eat your garden up !!!! They love tomato's !!! Or pick it up and move it to a tree far away from your crops !!!!!

Is that a Penguin on the Tele ???

Fake Mayo is not very good for you. Read the ingredients !! Just like the Whip Cream debate. Cool Whip or Real Whip Cream. Cool Whip will clog your arteries faster than margarine will (fake butter). Thats another one, real Butter vs. fatty ass Margarine !!!

Hence the reason I never play freeze tag Come over to "Free For All" and we will teach you guys how to play !!!!

Microcenter will price match Newegg and other online retailers. I use to order online through Newegg, D&H, Tech Data, Ingram Micro, Dirt Cheap Hard Drives and a few others when I use to build systems on the side (back in the 90's and early 20's). But when Microcenter opened up I have been buying through them. They have brick and mortar stores here in Ohio and elsewhere. But they do ship too. Any builds I do for myself or others I buy stuff there. California has a Microcenter store in Tustin. But they do ship too.

Pete use to be far left when Trump was in. Now he just leans left ? Fair weather fan are we ?

Shoot !! You will get free tampons Rob !!!!

My ass is never happy !!!

Im running an AMD Ryzen 7 3700x and a Nvidia RTX2070 which I built it back in 2019, so its getting long in the tooth. Will upgrade next year. Usually I do every three or four years.

I switched from Apple based computing to Dos base back with Dos 2.0. 1983, I believe. I remember when Dosshell came out with Dos 4.0. Boy that made life easier. Wasn't until Windows 3.0 that I jumped from the Dos wagon. Well, Dos was still there, just in the background. But hell yeah !! I remember those days. IRQ's, DMA's, Jumpers, Soldering chips in !! I remember ordering a color chip for a Franklin Ace 1000 (Apple Clone) and soldering that thing in. Think I was 1982 ?

Here is mine.

They may be "one" of the best portable systems. But will never replace a pc as "the best" gaming rig. Looks cool !!!

You mean 90% of democrats acting like lemmings. Sorry couldn't resist.

Red and Black. That's their color scheme. Get their man, in the end.

He is Canadian you know. They do not read very well. Hell, they do not do anything very well. Well, maybe bacon.

Say it aint so Joe !!!!

I went back to the old COD2 exe file and fired it up. Waited 10 minutes and the map error finally came up with the map name. I deleted the map and now the "main" .exe works. I had two COD2 directories on different hard drives. One directory had the .exe that was causing issues, the other was a backup directory from a previous PC build. But any way, its all good now.

I run into an occasional "map error" too. I just remove the file and the program downloads the correct version. Just as you describe. My issue was it never gave me any file errors Just a black screen. Anyway I back to normal. Well scratch that. Im never normal.

Got it working. I replaced the main cod2mp.exe file with another copy and now I can get into the Blackbart server. Strange it didnt effect joining any other server. But.... Stanger shit happens.

Not sure whats going on, but here is my issue. I went to join the Black Bart server and upon clicking on it from the server browser, my computer screen goes black and just hangs. Now any other sever on the web I can join, no issue. Just the BlackBart server. Strange. I have tried reinstalling latest COD2 patch, deleted the XIDM config file and tried a different config files. Newer drivers too. I get no error messages what so ever. Just a black screen. I close the black screen using "task manager" and it even says COD2 is running. Usually any issue will show up as "not responding" . Like I mentioned earlier, its just the BlackBart server. All others work great. Weird.