Saturday Updates (Confederate Edition)

We finally got back on the treadmill yesterday for the first time since last Sunday. Once again we were fearful and cautious. We got the hour in. Still can't quite maintain 4.0 speed though. Huh. 

We've eaten a lot of red meat lately. We take a cherry supplement at night and 'prime' before and after dinner with a cherry extract. No gout. 

A member of the readership's Confederate Contingent asks about an idea that's been floating around, that Trump should run for congress and be made Speaker of the House. We've heard that one. We admit to loving the troll value of such a move. But you really need a master tactician who understands how the House works. If the GOP were to pull some maneuver like that, why not Newt?

Segway....How does one write the Rebel Yell? What does it look like on paper? We had an idea so good yesterday we're going to break our rule about not working on fiction during the weekend. The 278th Armored Cavalry Regiment, TN National Guard*, participates in the Weser counterattack. You know where this is headed. Lots of Rebel Flags and yells...half suicidal cavalry charge into the Soviet flank.

We had a good week of writing. We went through three chapters of The Great Nuclear War of 1975. They're just about as good as they can be. We have a nagging feeling about all these one-off scenes. Won't people want more? What happened to the California rancher who threw a bunch of city refugees off his spread? Then again The Longest Day has tons of one-off scenes and that's a classic.  We are among the best there is at what we do. If we've thought of it, it's probably a good idea. Trust the process. We shall all eat lamb in paradise. Inshallah.

We've written 5,000 words of The Weser. That went well. So far just a scene with a Bundeswehr unit and an advancing American unit. We need to write the Corps meeting, 'Gentlemen, I've just gotten off the phone with SAUCER. He says we're it.'

*We might make up a unit, it's been 30 years, but real men served in the regiment and whoever commanded the 278th ACR might resent being replaced by the guy I come up with. Maybe the 187th ACR, MS NG?