Col Hogan

Tanks. Helps me feel less frustrated too. It does not always happen. Sometimes it does, a lot. Like those zeros on Roullete wheel. Think I'll try Russian Roullete.

Yes, a funny touch to this map. That is where both teams can gather for "tea and biscuits social time".

Thanks for the laugh BTD. I had a mouthful of "Bud" at the time the pilot jumped out after it. I almost "lost it" before finally settling down to swallow. I imagined the pilot getting the bud then realizing, "oh, shoot, well, might as well drink these asap. Besides sometimes drunks survive falls that sobers do not." Maybe the extra weight, if he could hold it in, or just hold it, would hlp him catch up to first jumper to be saved.

My sympathies to all. Had news on for hrs today while i drank coffe and tried to get "up to speed". Canada offered any assistance needed. Bush responded in interview, "thanks but no thanks, we can handle it." Seems to me from news being reported that too little beeing done by feds to help with dying, looting, raping, etc. Chaos being shown by reporters. A little late troops are being moved in. Should have predicted the chaos. Hope they move more quickly in future in such stricken areas. Best wishes.

Oh my my. (rubs my chinny chin chin). I understand your frustration. I've had my share of it too. As you ca nsee from stats.

"good work soldier", congratulations

TigerHawk found and loaded this from hlsw map list. I never saw it before amazingly, or not so amazingly just don't remember it . Was just 2 of us. I like it, not sure why it was not liked in past as it is somewhat complex, close quarters, spam useless, town map, not small. perhaps the dislike was not knowing how to follow radar to brief case. And bigger prob is radar does't show where to go with case. go to big door back near base with yellow/black lines outlining area at it and you capture case ;-)

**it happens.

I familiar with "TO". Moved here from their age 13. Went back number of times to visit. I wonder about you saying Young st good, waterfront ? Young is main drag downtown. Waterfront beach at night in summer dangerous place i thought. Life not "a beach" near there i thought.

I love watching big thunder storms, from a distance, the lightening, thunder, remembering what the air currents are doing, from lessons in flight school long ago. Makes me find clouds more interesting to observe then most people. That is, more interesting for me then others to observe. Better then observing the people too, unless ... Ofcourse I hate damaging storms. Though I've dreamed about seeing tornado from safe distance since child years. They fascinate me. How they work and get their energy and such. I've wondered since teen years if a way could be found to take that energy, heat, humidity, wind, "out of their sails." Howabout using HARP ? Harmonic aureal research project. In Alaska since "Cold War". A dozen football field sized transmitters that transmit microwaves. Intended for heating up and shooting down missiles over north pole ? Apparently it has been found they can cause "Northern Lights" from exciting/heating up upper atmosphere. But those tests are supposedly more careful now as there are concerns of soem microwave radiation bouncing back down to ground, depending on angle of direction. But it made me wonder if you heated up and vaporized the water droplets in big storms, would storm strenght be reduced. My guess is now is no. I suspect it would add energy. Anyway, i hope that hurricane "cools off" asap. Otherwise as it tracks north with counterclockwise rotation, it may push central us air up our way in ontario canada. which would raise temps nicely i guess, but increase our storms too.

She understandably doesn't want to risk the possible undesrible herassment or teasing or whatever for her good looks. Check out old Thunder Bay Troopers (TBT) photo edit of "Village People", in my "spray" and gallery. She there hiding behind cowgirl face dust cloth.

Whatever they are on local radio which I use to drown out nonsense of many people talking on buses.

Nice try. He knows my bus work times.

No big deal. I found it challenging when not even my 79 spam seemed to help get moving out room. So I rubbed my chinny chin chin, went my my my, I wonder what sort of thing might this team get high upon. So I tried frags, concussions and ak47. That seemed to help. Too bad grenades don't replenish from ammo boxs.

"Neat", "cool", "orderly".

"Kelly's Hero's", cool. "Woof woof"

"What's new ?"

looks hot

"Medic !! Uhh". Howdy man. I'm on same buses next few months atleast. We finally got BF2, thanks to TigerHawk. We had not learned much with the demo as we were only concerned with fps. Now that we checking out all the choices there is a surprising amount to learn and remember. We're learning the maps, what all/how to do things and target practice. Then you'll see us in servers. That scanning and calling arty is cool. So far my fave is Specialist.

See my info posts in BF and technical forums. I found out you can run it with slightly less then their minimum specs. As to FA, give it as long as you can. So some can order upgrades from North Pole. Might take few months to be delivered.

Interesting to see different opinions and reasons.

Good words Jon Jon. Remember everyone that stressed out people won't be helped by stressing/challenging/arguing with them. Good intentions are best handled in good ways.

"MEDIC" Seriously now, it is important you understand the following in my opinion : 1- What medication has he been on for long time. Research it on net to know possible effects. 2-be understanding that he has many stresses, job, money outlook, you, family, etc... 3-if he has a bad day, frustrations with health, job, money, whatever, all other concerns and frustrations will have more negative effect then when he's feeling "satisfied". Quote : "Rolling Stones" - "Can't Get No Satisfaction" 4-some people when stressed need "quiet time". that is, leave them alone to calm down in their own way. 5-others may want or need to say their frustrations to get them out. 6-if someone is "bitching" a lot it's cause they are worried or upset about something. trick is to figure out from their body language, eye contact , words, etc .. if they want or are best being asked to vent their biggest frustration that is making all other concerns seem bigger, or just give them their own space. 7-if he asks to do something with you it's likely an attempt to appease you and maybe help himself feel better. 8-but you have to decide if he'll keep picking on you or use the time to explain what is stressing him out. if he under sever influence of too much coffee, drugs, painkillers ... very much like volcano ... painkillers, caffeine, nicotine withdrawel or even thoughts of cutting it back or giving it up, can seriously depress or stress people out. 9-NEVER use FIRE against FIRE ... that is, if he in upset state, you who aren't to begin with must try no matter what he says or does, to stay and be calm and nice ... if you feel comments are making you angry, best thing to do is nicely say you are sorry he is so upset and say you are starting to feel the same and would prefer to go for walk or bike ride to think about it all and calm back down. this way he gets needed "quiet time" to think about evrything. 10-water on fire always better. by asking nicely if he wants to explain what's really bothering him. (maybe dangerous if he won't give off you and on to why he having bad day), if not, say you understand or want to understand and ask if there's anything you can do to help. but that could open "pandora's box" if he replies with what he hos concerns about you that you may not agree with. 11-it's delicate. best approach is calm offer asking if he'd like to talk about it (or anything else if picking on you), or accept offer from him to try for some "quality time" together. 12-quality time can be anything or nothing, just sitting together listening, not arguing, trying to understand each persons feelings. Good luck man. Key word, man. Boys and teens tend to flare up where as more intelligent mature choices are to stay calm and considerate of what current interests are. Takes lot of practice. Hence the words, respect your elders. Yes, some people never learn to control their emotions/actions/words, others occaisionally lose it then get it back. it's how others respond to them at time that determines how far "the fire" goes before "burning out" and settling down. Hope this helps. I tried, based on experience of which I feel there's always room for improvement. No one should think they "no it all", or heard it all, ever. Give the time to listen if it seems appropriate.

So watch out. After seeign our good demo results online with 40, she decided to buy it for us since I am depressed financially. TAC shows with 4 servers on list. One locked. I got in alone with pass. Showed server ping high around 200, in game showed my ping 90. Had tiny lag with 0 others in. I can join other server showing 100 ping and play fine with up to 40. Seems we have server ping issue. So I guess I understand better now why some are suggesting TAC drop FA and CSS, to afford more and faster bandwidhth to have faster ranked BF2 server. Kill y'all soon.

hmmmmm ... reminds me of when some of us played with "cl_rate", "rate", etc settings in cfg files, to attempt reducing server lag issues. It resulted in some people getting away with high settings that if their connection handled the higher speed setting, had them "warping", appearing to skip movement frames to opponets, making them hard to kill and visa versa. Then Steam came out with update that limited how high those settings could be set.