We awake tired and sore after pulling kayaks in and out of the water. We still refuse to so much as get in the boat. The Stroocklettes have been informed thusly and are adjusting themselves to the new order. Middle and Youngest Daughter have camp next week, so they will be fine. Looks like some daddy/daughter time with the teenager is in the offing.
Reader(s), it's happening! Please, this blog implores you, if you click one link this morning, click this one. It's an expose from something called Nightingale Russia, and it's all about us. We read it like eight times yesterday. [Ego?-Ed] Absolutely. When we found the piece we were just so....happy. We smiled, we laughed like an idiot. Eight times. We're going to read it again after we're finished here. We've been waiting for this. Nightingale Russia quotes extensively from this blog, and it's obvious that they just don't get the joke. Which is hilarious. We'll deal with these people next week.
In other news, The National Interest has pirated another one of our magazine articles. We admit it's flattering. It's nice to see people recognize that we are among the best there is at what we do. At the bare minimum we're going to start bragging that our work appears in The National Interest. When we get home we're going to send them an invoice at $800 per. Not kidding.
We think we're going to start a Twitter account just to see how long we can go before it gets taken down, Fauci did Covid, that sort of thing. Because Fauci did Covid.
On to the things:
Being bogged down with children and boat issues we haven't done anything on The Great Nuclear War of 1975.
World War 1990: The Weser is coming along splendidly, though. We're at 32,000 words. The 8th Infantry Division section is partly done, which means it's partly not done. But we're good. We figured out how to start the British chapter and have done so. This entailed adding a British general scene at the beginning, watching as 4 Armoured Division pulls back from the Weser. We also introduce some BBC guys. Also, the Brits meet the Confederates. Two of the 211th ACR's squadrons will cross the Weser, one will remain on the west bank maintaining contact with the Limeys. This chapter is going to be a chess match between the Brit and Jerry general and we'll convey action via listening in to the command net, a trick we've used before and love doing. We'll punctuate with the BBC guys. The first part of the book takes up 30,000 words. We'll keep this chapter about 10,000. Maybe 12,000....15,000?
The biggest fight I ever seen in my life was when I was in the Marine reserve before I got out a British battalion was training down at Camp Shelby in Mississippi with our reserve unit who were all from states down South they wouldn't stop calling us Yanks after two weeks of this we had enough and a fight broke out between our two battlions from commanding officer on down
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