Having just come off one Wuhan Virus from Wuhan China surge, New Jersey is beginning the next surge: ' New Jersey on Tuesday reported another 1,305 COVID-19 cases and 24 confirmed deaths as the rate of transmission continues to increase above the key benchmark that indicates the outbreak is once again expanding. The Garden State’s seven-day average for confirmed positive tests increased to 1,418, up about 31% from a week ago and 9% from a month ago.' You know, we used to tell friends who didn't want the vax that you'll either get the vax or you'll get Covid. But we're all going to get Covid anyway, aren't we?
We had something of a breakthrough editing The Great Nuclear War of 1975 yesterday. We're adding just a few scenes that will add so much to the story. This is why one waits. This is why one reads again and again. One reads the MS 10 times and on the 11th time one finally see's the opening. Overall the editing job his halfway done. We are very good at what we do.
What Will's Watching, Seinfeld on Netflix. These are the original and unedited episodes, presented as they were upon first airing in the 90's. At least in the NYC TV market, the original cold openings had been edited out in syndication. We haven't seen these one minute bits in a couple of decades. In truth we only watch the last three seasons of Seinfeld. These are a postmodern farce. Festivus anyone?
Forgive this blog a bit of nostalgia, please. But it was 20 years ago right about now that we had settled into something of an alternate lifestyle. That July we had moved to our rustic farmhouse in bucolic Peapack, New Jersey. Having just spent the last six years in Northen Virginia, this autumnal November seemed a bit chilly. We were going back to school, online. On a dial up. Our classes were German Military History, Ancient Warfare of Medieval Warfare, the last two with Professor Brian Todd Carey, whose books you should really buy.
It was an odd autumn. Most of our profs were reservists, and we assumed they were going to be called up. For that matter we were wondering if we should, you know...Didn't happen, so we plugged away at our studies as always. One Saturday night we stayed up to the wee hours working on a paper and decided we liked it. So for the next several weeks we slept in and worked late. We'd start about 10 and take our first break at about 12:15 to watch Politically Incorrect. Don't scoff, after 9/11 Maher was brilliant. He suffered no excuses for the terrorists and their apologists. From there we'd work till about 3 AM before turning in.
That first late night paper was about Alfred the Great. We got an A, of course. Said paper became our first feature length magazine article. We wrote that paper with some secondary sources as back up. But we primarily used the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and Asser's Life of Alfred. We spent nights feeling like we were in Excalibur. The lights dimmed, the fires rose, the farm house grew cold....it was the dark ages...One could almost hear armored hoofbeats. How many Vikings does it take to change a lightbulb? None. The light from the burning monastery is more than adequate.
We will be revisiting that 20 year old Autumn.
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