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Folks,

I'm OK. Yup, I'm still struggling to make sense of a life without my wife and best friend for 40 years. It is a process and in time I'm promised the days if not the nights will be easier.

It was interesting for a time trying to follow Holland's book by flying instant, historic missions as the story of the BoB progressed. I got to August 15th. I cannot fly a campaign. That's not strictly true. I can fly one campaign mission, complete it and land but then I have to close BoB down and start again. If I try to continue with another mission BoB crashes. When I shut down and restart the campaign I get the same mission over again.

So I ignore the campaigns and fly instant missions only. I am told that I am lucky to be able to do that with my old Dell Dimension 4400. At the present time I really haven't much desire to continue that BoB book/BoB sim experiment though I may well do so sometime in the future.

Do you recall the humorous scene in the BoB movie when the brave Polish pilot bailed out and landed in a farmer's field? "Good af-ter-noon", he said, with a polite bow and a thick Polish accent to the irate farmer wielding a pitchfork. Considering that; I suppose it was with no little trepidation that those few unlucky English pilots bailed out over Ireland.