Saturday Updates

We were gonna have a cigar and whiskey last night but a late storm blew through leaving things wet and soggy. These aren't ideal conditions. Don't force it. Some other time.

Tomorrow we'll be heading up to the Stroock Northern Strategic Direction to enjoy the Berkshire Mountains' bucolic splendor. NSA adjust your surveillance ops accordingly. Hmmm, maybe we're just being paranoid.

Heck of a gym week. Weights, running, machines, running, weights, running. We are tired and sore and walking with a stoop this morning. This is actually quite normal. We kind of like the tired sensation. We've put on about ten pounds this year, that's muscle, man. 

[Pic?-Ed]

You wish.

[No, you wish-Ed]

Fine, here:

We said we wanted to get The Weser to 30,000 words. We got it to 29,000. Not bad. The battle of the CORRIDOR is almost done. There's still the matter of Soviet forces trying to get around the 8th Infantry Division's left flank but that really only needs one longish scene. We still have no idea how we're doing the British. We must dwell upon this. 

We might skip ahead and do the 211th ACR. We have a much better feel for them. Working with a combat engineer battalion, maybe British, they cross the Weser to make the Soviets think that's where the counterattack is coming. They'll advance up the east bank to cover the Brits and at some point make a semi-suicidal cavalry charge to stop a Soviet division from crossing.

The Argentine chapter is all that's really left to do with The Great Nuclear War of 1975. We have a few Latin America @War books for tech detail. Anything we can do to make the chapter better. We've actually contacted the author and have had a pleasant back and forth with him down there. We don't know how the chapter ends. But overall we're in good shape for an August paper readthrough.