The German High Command press release notifies all powers
that the computer in Central Command is out of commission for a week.

I should have it back at least 3-4 days before the game starts.
I am using a laptop that is as old as the Commodore 64.

I will try to stay in touch but if there are many days between my contacts with anyone,
chalk it up to lack of access. Hopefully Geek Squad keeps their word and works fast.

Just trying to keep everyone in the loop.

Geezerguy wrote:The German High Command press release notifies all powers
that the computer in Central Command is out of commission for a week.

I should have it back at least 3-4 days before the game starts.
I am using a laptop that is as old as the Commodore 64.

I will try to stay in touch but if there are many days between my contacts with anyone,
chalk it up to lack of access. Hopefully Geek Squad keeps their word and works fast.

Just trying to keep everyone in the loop.

This sounds like a typical German delaying tactic, while trying to draw the sympathy vote should things go wrong. Most likely, the German Central Command was on yet another one of their Bier-und-Broads outings and got waylaid by a village-full of angry husbands. The story practically writes itself.

WOO HOO, England and France can now talk behind your back without worry!

OK, I just got my computer back. And ... I can turn around now.

Geezerguy wrote:OK, I just got my computer back. And ... I can turn around now.

...oops! You're back! Wait, it's not what it looks like, honest! Your daughter, was, er, was just helping me lace up my boots. It's hard enough to even walk in this darned uniform. I can barely bend over.

What's that you said...? Why would I need to even be lacing up my boots in the middle of the afternoon? Well...heh heh heh I, uh, was never good with knots, and these round laces are always coming undone. Yeah, that's what it was. Round laces!

George, Geezerguy is old, you may want to consider "lacing them up" with his grand daughter instead?

GMTom wrote:George, Geezerguy is old, you may want to consider "lacing them up" with his grand daughter instead?

We understood that the German aristocracy, whatever the age, tended towards marrying the very young, some of them even legal age.