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Finally, I appreciate all the concern everyone showed while I was gone. It's amazing how kind people are to others they've never met.

ORIGINAL: Mike Solli

We're staying in central Ohio. Grandkids are expected next year and my wife won't consider moving. The only concession is that we're eyeing a vacation property to buy in Myrtle Beach where we'll live January through March and rent the rest of the year. Winter is Myrtle Beach is better than winter in Ohio. Plus, we'll be doing a lot of traveling, mainly south. Warm is good.

ORIGINAL: Mike Solli

Hi guys. Just caught up on what everyone talked about on this AAR. I'm fine. Short recap...

I'm fine and have been for the year I've been away. No, I didn't deploy. I retired from the Army in 2014. I had been a contractor for DLA for about 5 months then got picked up by them. The email and phone number posted by Q-ball was my contractor info. It changed when I became a DLA employee. Yep, I'm 60 and retiring at the end of this year, which brings me to what caused me to fall off the map.

Our intent is to sell the house and buy something smaller. Been working on a lot of things to get the house ready to sell. Replaced flooring (I'll never do that again!) and carpeting (just moved everything so someone else could do it) in the house. Painted the outside trim, including replacing any boards that needed it. Cleared about a quarter acre of brush, filled in a pond in the middle of it. Graded it all and just planted grass last week. Finally done with all that stuff. Now, we're waiting until early spring to sell the house.

About this game. Ted has disappeared. I've tried several times to contact him, at both his work and personal emails (most recently today). No response at all. I am concerned for him. If he doesn't reply, then this game is done. That's too bad.

I did have a game going with USSAmerica, Mike. We had tried a 2 day per turn game. I wasn't thrilled about it but saw the reason why Mike wanted to do it this way and decided to give it a shot. To be honest, I really don't like playing multiple days per turn. I'm not sure I can continue it. I'll talk to Mike about it. Unfortunately, it's just not fun. I know that when the Allies go on the offensive, they'll have the same issues as the Japanese player does at the beginning of the war, but it caused a LOT of frustration for me.

So, with the majority of the house chores completed, I now have free time again. Unless Ted materializes, this game is unfortunately done. I'm going to just catch up in the forum and see what happens. The only thing I did with AE since disappearing was to occasionally open up one of the games, look at it briefly, and close it again. Time to relearn it, again. I guess I should check to see if there are any new patches.

Finally, I appreciate all the concern everyone showed while I was gone. It's amazing how kind people are to others they've never met.

ORIGINAL: Mike Solli
Hey guys! Ted is alive! I just got a quick email from him last night.