I'm sitting here trying to load a new computer game for my son (anybody who can help establish safe network connections for World of Warcraft, shoot me a PM) and talk with our contractor about finishing the now 2 month overdue addition when my daughter comes in and announces that my wife needed me. The above stove microwave was on fire. No problem, got it out with the ever present extinguisher. When I went to clean up, I broke the handle off the main faucet in the kitchen sink. This would all be a small coincidence, were it not for the car accident I had just over 24 hours ago when a young man decided that he wanted to cut across U.S. 1 in south dade county. Good for me I was in my Navigator, bad for his formerly beautiful 67 Mustang. I need a new front end, he needs a new car. Nobody hurt, we walked away fine, lucky for me the air bags didn't deploy. The truck is at the same body shop that got the job from the last accident less than one month ago when a young lady pulled into traffic, got nailed and spun into my truck while my son and I were waiting at a light to cross U.S. 1.

I haven't been able to find the bulls eye on me yet, but I'm still looking.

I'll bet you're just loaded with holiday cheer. Sorry to hear all this is happening. It has to get better now.

ps. Do you want help finding a Joe Btfsplk avatar?

What the heck is that?

What the heck is that?Sorry...I sometimes forget that I'm getting old and some icons of my youth have passed out of the common consciousness. Joe was a character in Al Capp's comic strip Li'l Abner. He was a prototypical jinx and bad luck fellow.
http://www.deniskitchen.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=S&Category_Code=bios.joe.btfsplk

Yuck! Sorry to hear all of that.

Regarding WoW, that game is a pain in the @ss to get isntalled and running. I play it myself. It's the whole patch download and corrupt installation part that seems to get most people. The best I can recommend to get the patches downloaded properly is to just bypass your router until things are downloaded. Just make sure any shares you have are locked and that your accounts are all password protected.

After all the patches are downloaded and installed shutdown the computer, reconnect the router, reboot, and run a complete virus check and spyware/adware check.

This isn't normally something I'd recommend to anyone. But I understand the frustration of paying $50 for a game that really messed up the update process!!! uggghhh!!!

By the way, if for some reason the patch downloads are still slow when you've already bypassed the router them it probably means that the problem wasn't the router causing any problems.

If running XP, you can also check to make sure the software firewall built into the OS isn't running.

Thanks. The game is up and running, I just did the patch download while everyone else in the house was sleeping. We are running norton firewall, windows and the router enabled firewall. I followed the port forwarding gizmo for our router so that wasn't a real problem. I just don't get video games, probably because I suck at them.

Appreciate the help.

hahhahah sylver dam ur chismas sounded bad, mine was cool, my step family is crazy, almost in a fist fight, i will talk to u later