Saturday Updates

Mrs. Stroock and the Stroocklettes left for Indiana about 20 minutes ago. We will spend the next 12 hours fretting about check engine lights, flat tires, and fiery crashes on the Pennsylvania interstate. 

For the next two weeks it's just us and the cats. It's a fun couple of days filled with whisky, wine and cigars, but about mid-week our existential angst will return.

We got the short story compilation back from Debbie and will format it this week. Title, people, we need a title. 

We'll start proofing World War 1990: Nederland next week as will our line reader, Sharon.

Just a great week of writing for the Great Nuclear War of 1975. It's up to 55,000 words and is primed for the war chapter. Korea here we come. We had a great narrative thread idea which we'll discuss tomorrow. We need to wrap up the Alaska chapter (we might have already done so but we think it might need more). We need a political chapter; elections, the Bicentennial. We need the concluding chapter, which we think is some sort of future history. We need the chapter where two US Air Force officers recount the nuclear exchange; we know the last line. We're at the point where the end is in sight (we think). 

Our study of The War Between the States continues. The South still loses.  This Jefferson Davis fellow is an interesting man, better cut out to be Secretary of War (which he was in the 1850s) then C-in-C. Too prone to deal with minutiae and a poor judge of character. In an alternate universe, where Davis is the CSA Secretary of War, whose the president? Stephens?