Saturday Updates

So we ordered Pimsleur Spanish I and have listened to disc I. It's already going better than the French. Screw them. When we're done with this we're going to fold some laundry and listen to disc II.

We had a couple of rough sessions on the treadmill this week. Real tough and herky-jerky runs.  Our head just wasn't in the right place. Yesterday we stretched real good and feeling much trepidation, we did 15 minutes at 4, or one mile. We felt real fear. What if our running days are over? The run went swimmingly. After that we did 15 minutes on the rope pully, the Stairmaster and the rowing machine. This morning we did 45 minutes at 3.5, our considerable intellect off in the ether pondering the important. We could have gone to 60 if we wanted to, but didn't feel it was worth the effort. Working out in the morning rather than the afternoon is better for us. We have more energy then, electricity really, buzz, snap...crackle. jjjjgh. 

Over on Substack, our latest article, the first of two on the South African Bush War: 'For most of the 20th Century, South Africa was protected from the chaos of greater Africa by a screen of friendly buffer states; Rhodesia, Angola and Mozambique. That buffer began to crack in 1974 when a military junta overthrew the Portuguese government and announced it would quickly withdraw from its African colonies. Angola especially became a tremendous problem for South Africa. Communist insurgents there offered safe harbor to various South African anti-apartheid groups and threatened South West Africa, a South African protectorate since the end of the First World War. The government of South Africa viewed South West, as it was called, as an integral part of the country. White Citizens of South West held South African citizenship and were represented in parliament...' Look out for a piece on the battle of Cuito Cuanavale next week. In the meantime click on through.

The things.

Not much movement. Slow but steady. More slogging through The Great Nuclear War of 1975 and The Great Salvation of 1976. We need to finish the Falklands chapter in the former and that'll be about it. The later stands at 58,000 words. You people didn't really want a 140,000 word novel, did you? We'd never forgive ourselves that marketing opportunity. Don't forget, there'll be a third novel. Our new plan is to have both wrapped up by 1 April. This week we'll be reading, editing and adding to the Korean War chapter. We oughta be in really good shape. We plan to have The Final Storm wrapped by the end of the summer.