My only suggestion is, when it's acting up do the following if you're in windows:

run ---) CMD ---) once in CMD, type the following:

ping www.google.com (any website will work, preferably you'd try a few websites that you know the exact location of their servers - for example Whitehouse.gov is out of Chicago, Google is in California, similar type things for EU land) anyhow:

ping www.google.com -n 50

then it will run the test for a while, if you're having packet loss the report at the end will inform you of that. If you can get a test with packet loss, you can also do a tracert on the offending website and do a little sleuthing to figure out what server is killing you by looking up where the IP is from geographically.

you would type into CMD: tracert www.google.com

Once you find an IP that's repeatedly killing you + some packet loss, you can call your ISP and get an explanation, perhaps a fix, or at least a timetable for it to be fixed. If you look around google you may also be able to find a website or forum where things relating to your network are discussed which can serve as a go to when you're having trouble. I know my ISP's forums can be found on google and generally any time my internet is messed up I can go there and see various people discussing the problem specifically so it saves me the trouble of calling and complaining lol.

But it could be anything from a DNS server problem, local line issues (fiber cables messed up or phone lines messed up if you're on DSL), or some server hub getting too full/having problems.

Wifi?

*I* had fun. Congrats to both teams for playing a great match - the Spy Vs. Spy episode will surely go down in TF2 history lol, never seen anything like that, and believe me I've watched a lot of TF2 lol.

My first job was a 45 minute drive away. My mom happily drove me every day because she was glad to get me outta' the house. I also had to have her do it because I was only 15 and it was much too far to bike. I assisted a team of lumberjacks cutting trees out of agricultural fallows. Basically, every farming area has patches of trees or other fallow land that they get paid not to farm by the government. Periodically the trees and etc need to be cleared so they can get the tractors and other equipment in safely. I was making 5.15 an hour because that's what minimum wage was at the time and I worked 6 days a week typically, and I didn't have set hours so I basically had to provide transport on demand. Luckily for me I met a guy at work that lived somewhat close to me so after a few days he gave me the hook up on a ride. I made enough working 3 months over the summer to buy my first car - I gave 1.3k for a 96' Grand am GT, and then put about 600$ of work into it (new tires, new rims, general tuning stuff because the last owner had fucked it up in various ways). It's not hard to get a car, you can pry go even cheaper if you know somebody that's handy with cars (a 900$ car off craigslist or out of an auto-rv trader would pry need a lotta' work).

Also, as a guy whose been through the legal system for drinking a few times, it's not worth it, especially with as young as you are, it's only a matter of time before you get caught by somebody who won't simply "send you to rehab" against your wishes. You should be thankful your parents haven't killed you. I know if I got caught drinking before I was 21 I'd have been far too busy being dead to whine about AA - and the same will go for my kiddo as well lol.

Yeah the decision to throw deep like that twice, had me thinking that Pat McAfee was hurt when he got hit on his first punt, and so they were just concealing that fact by having Luck throw up the deepest possible pass he could - but that wasn't the case. I mean, at the end it's not a huge impact, but McAfee is *damn* good at pinning teams usually, so it really surprised me that they chose not utilize him lol.

Reading the sportsball news today was really upsetting lol. Peyton didn't have "one of his worst games since his 42-0 loss to the Jets in 03'" and other such complete nonsense lol. The Broncos played like a team that already had it in the bag. Yeah, Peyton missed a bunch of throws, but their multiple pro-bowl-having defense didn't even stop Boom Harron from running effectively, and they dropped several passes that were right on the money.

If the Colt's can bring the intensity they did against the Broncos they *might* be able to at least make it a game against the Patriots.

A bunch of idiots are similarly making something of Peyton's constant losses in the playoffs, well let me drop some knowledge. The majority of his career was played out in the AFC South - one of the WEAKEST divisions in football. You'd have to supremely screw up to miss the playoffs when your division rivals are Tennessee, Houston, and Jacksonville. So long story short, you've had a lot of very questionable Colts teams make the playoffs fairly consistently, and then completely flounder in the playoffs against a much better team lol. Plenty of years skating into the playoffs at #1 in the AFC South with a 10-6 record (plenty of divisions, you can't even *make* the playoffs with a 10-6 record lol).

Well Peyton was going *ham* earlier in the season and then he got beat up pretty badly, and he's been limping across the finish line ever since. If he *wants* to come back the Broncos would have to be smoking some pretty good stuff to say no, but I think at this point it's basically up to him, and how his legs feel. Even a 38 year old Peyton easily surpassed a ton of QBs much younger than him lol.

The colts actually managed to look better than their best bad team ranking I had them at. Things are going to be *crazy* here next week, considering the Pats v. Colts rivalry is well... strong, and the Patriots won 42-20 just a bit over a month ago at Lucas Oil.

As soon as I saw the ball even touch the ground you *had* to know McCarthy was going to challenge, and it bounced out, not terribly surprising, even though he kinda recovered.

Now it's time for the sadness bowl.

6-0 now, granted they've made it easy by going by seed, but man... Tomorrow is gonna be a rough day. I'm not ready to let go.

http://www.cuddlycollectibles.com/sports_collectibles/football/nfl/players/bammers/1998_nfl_bammers/bb99911_manning_colts_18.jpg

So far 4-0 in playoff predictions, the Cowboy's scared me there for a bit, that they'd out hack-fraud the Lions, but they came through in the end.

The only game that doesn't seem like it'll be a foregone conclusion next week is the Broncos v. Colts game, because the Colts are the best bad team in the NFL, and the Broncos are weaker on defense than they have been in a while, and Peyton occasionally has his off days.

I don't really have any predictions.

I really hope the Colts' 11th go at having an offensive line doesn't give the Bengals their first playoff win :/

I'm secretly rooting for the panthers though, because it'd be just dandy if a team who was a certified dumpster-fire at the start of the season could pull things together down the stretch.

I won 8$ on lottery tickets

Let's all take a minute to remember that Brandon Weeden was drafted well in front (53 picks) of Russel Wilson....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8SsCqpa-Lk

There should be a streamed thing at some point during each week for no longer than 30 minutes where any reasonable match up that will occur in ESEA during the week (in the 3 divisions) will be talked about briefly. Just find a few reasonably informed people who will talk shit for 30 minutes or so about how bad they think everybody is and that will be that, and it will be good.

Gives folks something to watch, lets everybody know what nights the good stuff will be on. Also would help the articles since they'd be a more elaborate tie in, particularly for lower divisions.

I bought the child video games, that I'll also be playing, and an xbox controller with the USB, that I'll be using once he goes to sleep.

Children are the best for Christmas, it is true.

As far as sisters go, it depends on what she expects - I always just buy my sister something ridiculous that costs less than 10$