Real World Casualties

[Extraordinarius]

Over the holidays, two of the three close friends I have hot-seated CM with died.

The guy who gave me this game a bit over a year ago faded right out waiting for the train to take him to work on New Year's Day. There is a PBEM that will never end. I hadn't been able to get him into the club and onto the ladder because he was more interested in WW 2 Online and IL-2 Sturmovik.

When I called another mutual friend to tell him, his father answered the phone and said he had died suddenly in late November, and they had not been able to find my phone number or E-mail address to tell me. Guess he won't get the CM Bundle Pack I sent him for Christmas. My play is even more erratic than ususal, because every time I boot the game, I think of them.

Sorry to cry in public here, but I can't help it.