World Waring It or Not

Here in New Jersey the state Covid case count continues to spike. At this writing, this year's November spike doesn't look to be as bad as last year's November spike. We'll see. Last year we had a lonely Thanksgiving. This year, family is coming. 

Yesterday's transmission rate was 1.11. Deaths are steady though, 15-20 per day, which is no consolation to the bereaved. Our own Bridgewater is seeing about 10 cases per day. Overall Bridgewater, a town of 44,000 + has 3,324 cases since March of last year and 109 deaths. 

Elsewhere in Bridgewater parents have been complaining to the school board about kids getting too much homework, The Bridgewater Breeze reports. There's a lot of it, that's for sure. 

The latest local 'get vaxed!' advertisements are slightly less condescending than those previous. Do note we've never seen a New Jersey 'get vaxed!' ad. These are all NYC ads. Mayor elect Eric Adams* can't move into Gracie Mansion quick enough. 

We are 2/3rds of the way through The Great Nuclear War of 1975. We're finally feeling it. We're finally seeing it. The MS feels like a novel to us. There's the novel. The Looking Glass scenes are coming along great too. The Falkland's chapter awaits. We don't feel mentally, emotionally, or spiritually prepared to edit it. We'll get to work this afternoon.

We also had some success with The Final Storm and we finally see a way to wrap up the Crimea scenes. So the Italian/Israeli chapter will be more or less wrapped up this week. Unless we get crazy and want to add a Soviet POV, do some stuff with all those Kilos in the Black Sea Fleet. Maybe.

We've spent a lot of time hemming and hawing this week about the novel to write next. We're on the verge of overthinking, a problem that surely would have surprised our parents and teachers 30 years ago. We thought, 'Do we really need to write another World War 1990 novel right now?' And then we remembered we just wrote a pair of non-World War 1990 novels. Still, we'll think of a couple of non-WW1990 ideas. 

Informal, off the record conversations show you people prefer World War 1990: Battle of the GIUK Gap for the next project.

However one thinks about the matter, we will need something to write in 2022.

*Pssst. He's really a GOP.