Moving is not an option at this point. Basically we
were not allowed to return from overseas for 9 years
and when we came back our house and property had been
totally trashed. We've sunk at least $60,000 into the
place in repairs. But we got hit by 2 hurricanes and
got no help from FEMA. Our insurance claimed to have
no record of our policy and refused to pay anything.
Add to that I've had heart problems and had to have
some medical procedures-- insurance deductible is very
high. Between fixing things up we are trying to find a
lawyer to sue the doctor who screwed up on my father
which has so far cost us at least $20,000 in medical
bills (not counting the gasoline of travelling to
Houston and hotels and such). We had to take out 2
mortgages on the house and cannot sell it in its
current condition. Even if we could, we still have
livestock that we don't want to part with and there
really isn't a place in our price range that we could
afford to move them to.
We are going to have to spend even more money because
the power company did something that caused a huge
surge and fried several of our surge suppressors (so
badly that one of them burned the floor).
I'm not even going to go into the vet bills...
Its one of those neverending things..
Ok. I've vented enough about that...
Oh man, I know exactly what you mean on the running
across the zone and then being warped back and dead. I
hate that!
Don't laptops overheat? Or have they found a way to
fix that now?
Lag just sucks bigtime.
Tradeskills can be fun, but frustrating. I really
worked on them for my 8th shawl. Too bad that it soon
turned out to be lame stats compared to other stuff
you can get now-- for much less work. I did almost all
of the droppable combines for my brother's rogue epic
1.5. I tell ya.. Why can't the cleric epic 1.5 have
the tradeskills instead? Seriously, I would've
completed it in a week!!
luv,
-Su
--- Greg Burns <
freechylde@...> wrote:
> LOL Im sorry about all your issues Su..but I have
> one question for you..
>
> Have you considered moving? lol
>
> (Forgive me, Im not making light of your situation,
> I just find it a little funny to hear about your
> issues.) See I fried my desktop, and with money a
> bit short these days, I am set to play EQ on a
> laptop, that wont quite handle it well.
>
> It takes 10 minutes to log in, if it does. If it
> does then there is no guarantee that I will stay and
> if I do, how long I will stay in. If I'm in, I lagg
> so badly it sucks. I can run halfway across a zone
> and not realize I was lagging the whole time, so
> when it unlaggs im back where i started from. I can
> aatack something, and by the time I unlagg its dead.
> IIm afraid to hunt with my 61 bst right now because
> of it.
>
> I hunted at the OC in POV the other night, and i
> lagged so baadly as i was chasing down the kill, i
> ended up halway across the zone, but that was
> because of a stuck button......and not being
> familiar too familiar with the zone, i nearly
> trained everyone
>
> So needless to say, Most of my toons are maaxing
> their tradeskills and all skills in general just by
> hanging out in POK. So I shouldnt complain really,
> at least I can get in and hear thatt wonderful irish
> pub song as i run by the "still" in PoK...lol
>
> As always
>
> Greg
>
> Su Johnston <suceress@...> wrote: I looked
> into Norton Ghost and it had really bad
> reviews on downloads.com. One of the reviewers
> mentioned a less expensive program (with better
> reviews) called Acronis True Image. I think I will
> look into the abilities of the Acronis one to see
> if
> it would work for what I want to do. If not I may
> see
> about going with Norton Ghost 10.0. I really really
> appreciate the info!
> I just need to remember to burn something to DVD to
> help restore windows XP in case there is a problem
> when I upgrade to the new mainboard setup.
> Direcway just sold out to Hughes.net and the
> service
> has really declined. I keep having pages timeout
> when
> loading and get errors, their tech support no
> longer
> works (can't get through to anyone), and my pop3
> email
> no longer works (despite my following their
> tutorials
> on setting it up). So I had to switch to using
> yahoo
> email. bleh. I think its evident I'm more than a
> teeny
> bit annoyed.
> The bandwidth cap is a major pain. When I first
> signed
> up they said that unless I was constantly loading
> really large files at a high rate of speed I
> wouldn't
> have to worry about the cap. That was before they
> lowered the amount of bandwidth allowed before
> capping. Loading a patch for EQ takes about 4 hours
> or
> more. Its really annoying. I lose connection
> whenever
> it rains-- or sometimes when its bright and sunny
> for
> no apparent reason. I would not recommend this
> "service" to anyone. I had to call tech support
> sooo
> many times that I memorized some of the routines
> and
> then one of the techs in India started flirting
> with
> me (which was actually pretty funny).
> Man.. I'm venting..
> Once I get the system upgraded I will see about
> playing again.
> Thank you!
> *hugs*
> luv,
> -Su
> This didn't go the first time I tried to send.
> Stupid
> hughesnet. grrr. trying again.
>
> --- Wulfric Rennison <wulftech@...>
> wrote:
> > Su,
> >
> > Look into a prograM called Norton's Ghost. It
> will
> > do exactly what you want it to do. I've used it
> > several times on my own systems when installing
> new
> > hard drives to set as primary. Basically, what
> you
> > do is install the new drive as a slave,
> completely
> > wiped (you dont even have to partition it). Then
> > you install Norton's Ghost on your main drive.
> Run
> > Norton's Ghost and choose the option to do a
> direct
> > ghost copy to the new drive. Everything right
> down
> > to the partitions will be copied to the new
> drive.
> > Then you shut down the machine, switch the drive
> > over to master and reboot. Barring any major
> > problems it'll boot up exactly as if it were the
> > regular drive on that system. Then you can take
> the
> > original drive and wipe it and use it as a
> secondary
> > for extra space. It's a handy program.
> >
> > Your system sounds decent enough to run EQ albeit
> > with some lag in the newer zones. Turning off a
> lot
> > of options might help that though. However, on
> > DirecWay I wouldn't expect too much. DirecWay is
> > bad about limiting the amount of data that can be
> > sent at any given time. If you send mroe than
> you
> > are allowed to, they pretty much stop all
> > communication and give you some stupid message
> about
> > exceedxing the bandwidth. Then it takes like 5
> > minutes to reset. You can look it up, the info
> is
> > right there ont he DirecWay site. That's why
> they
> > don't reccomend using DirecWay for gaming. But
> if
> > all you want to do is browse the web and chat,
> it's
> > fine. If I can find the link, I'll post it for
> you.
> >
> > Wulfric
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Su Johnston
> > To: EverQuest@yahoogroups.com
> > Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2006 6:42 AM
> > Subject: Re: [EverQuest] Does anyone solo
> anymore?
> >
> >
> > I have a Cleric. But I haven't actually gotten
> xp
> > in
> > over a year. I can't even get dialup where I
> live
> > because the phone company has spliced my lines
> so
> > badly I can't even dial out to an ISP. They
> refuse
> > to
> > fix it and so far I haven't found any way to
> get
> > them
> > to. Too much other stuff to worry about
> frankly.
> > Like
> > finding a lawyer to sue a doctor for
> malpractice,
> > and
> > still working on repairing hurricane Rita
> damage.
> > I currently have direcway Satellite-- which
> > inherently
> > has latency. When I first got it with the
> Direcway
> > 4000 2-way the bandwidth was 800k down and
> about
> > 50k
> > up (allegedly 50k up-- clocked around 30k).
> > Sometime
> > later when the modem died due to an incident
> with
> > my
> > cat and a glass of milk I got the newer
> Direcway
> > 6000.
>
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