Oops, tonight is the first night of Passover which just shows you what happens when Mrs. Stroock isn't around. We're giving the kids peanut butter smeared on a playing card for lunch, and an alligator is trying to crawl out of the kitchen sink. It's pandemonium here.
It's been a long week.
Our reading program has ground to a halt.
Spanish is coming along well, actually. We'll start lesson 12 next week.
We asked our KGB handler what the average Ruski on the streets of Moscow thinks of Israel. He replied that Russians don't think about Israel any more than Americans think about Ukraine. Russians don't think about Israel at all.
We're working on something for Moscow right now. Readers should expect to see it Monday.
After YouTube wouldn't stop throwing clips of Madmen at us, we decided to watch. We're four episodes in and intrigued. Remember, our grandfather was an ad man, and he said Madmen is exactly right except that by 1960 the art directors were Italian, and the copy men Jewish. Don Draper is a character study in ego, self absorption, ambition, selfishness, angst, and internal contradictions.
The things, such as they are. We have perhaps two or three scenes left to write in the Falklands chapter of '75. We have no idea what to write. Having engaged and stopped the ARA south task force, HMS Swiftsure stands at the north entrance of Falkland Sound waiting for the ARA north task force. Does the ARA get cold feet? Does it turn out there's a Soviet sub that engages the ARA or Swiftsure just for the hell of it?
Next week we'll finish things up here and write a few Final Storm scenes. Then in April it's all Final Storm, all the time.
Something I never understood about passover and easter is why do they change dates every year christmas is dec 25 every year why not the other two
ReplyDeleteJewish holiday's are on the same date each year - as long as you use the Jewish Calendar instead of the Gregorian calendar. Its a lunar based calendar, and has leap months every couple years as a 12 lunar month calendar doesn't stay synced well with a solar year.
ReplyDeleteEaster inherits some of this since the first Easter happened during Passover, but is calculated differently. Easter is celebrated on the first Sunday after the first full moon on or after 21 March (spring Equinox).