Balthasar
Wise Man
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Hello again gang. Did'ya miss me? I moved into a new apartment on Thanksgiving, and when I got to the new place I discovered that the button that turns on my old Laptop (a Compaq Presario) had broken. So while I was still moving, I took it to a computer shop to see what they could do. The shop was staffed with suspiciously young folks who looked at my computer, then looked at me as if I'd brought them an antique radio to fix. So I went to another shop, and another and got the same baleful looks at each one. I even engaged the Geek Squad, and they treated it like radioactive waste. So I finally and reluctantly decided it was time for a new computer. And the situation of being without one was becoming urgent: my brother's girlfriend was becoming distraught because I prefer to watch actual news rather than fluffy celebrity interviews on TV in the afternoon. She actually growled at me. Finally, I lugged myself over to Best Buy, and the salesman (too young to grow facial hair) set me up with a low cost desktop that has about twice the memory and RAM of my old machine. Since then, I've been getting it all set up, and find myself pitted against its Windows 8.1 operating system - my Gimp program is not allowed to modify files from the Civ Complete folder, for instance. That's insane.
So anyway, I'm up and running now, finally, and so on with the show! First, my thanks to LMR for running the November UotM contest in my absence, and congratulations to him for prevailing against an impressive unit by Balam-Agab. This month's contest is another exciting head-to-head matchup. Our nominees are:
Vuldacon - Tirolese Bull
LMR - Incinerator
Good luck to you both!
P.S. Surprise! We have a PCX of the Month contest for December too!
So anyway, I'm up and running now, finally, and so on with the show! First, my thanks to LMR for running the November UotM contest in my absence, and congratulations to him for prevailing against an impressive unit by Balam-Agab. This month's contest is another exciting head-to-head matchup. Our nominees are:
Vuldacon - Tirolese Bull
LMR - Incinerator
Good luck to you both!
P.S. Surprise! We have a PCX of the Month contest for December too!