Thank you for your response. I did figure out the problem after I took the time to slowly and methodically understand what the compiler messages were saying - t

Thank you for your response. I did figure out the problem after I took the time to slowly and methodically understand what the compiler messages were saying - that being said I was looking for places to ask for help if another week went by and I was still stuck so your resources are in my favorites list now. As I wrote in another post, I came up with the solution while out walking around and it was like an "Ah Ha!" moment, I think things are finally starting to click a bit more. I purposefully chose to write a chat server/client because it lets me work through language features one at a time. There is some basic printing/reading of console input (though I did go full blown Cursive), some networking, threading, and lots of string manipulations. I am not sure when lifetimes will come in to play, but I have started reading about them and I try to think about the lifetimes of my objects when I write.