Why 5000? And other Notes

Two posts yesterday but less traffic overall. And you people wonder why we're toying with packing it in. Five thousand posts, people. Five thousand.

We begin the new year with some Russian collusion. Here are our predictions for 2022: 'There will be no war in Europe or the Pacific. China will grow stronger. NATO will arrive at some arrangement with Vladimir Putin over Ukraine. The internationalists will not be pleased. In Britain, Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Tory government will blunder forward and accomplish nothing. The populist right, led by Marie Le Pen and upstart Eric Zemmour, will make gains in the French presidential election. But incumbent Emmanuel Macron will win. Authorities will be unable to agree on a plan to rebuild the fire ravaged Notre Dame Cathedral.'

For those of you who think New Jersey is one big strip mall: 'A black bear weighing at least 400 pounds clawed and bit an 81-year-old woman Monday night outside her home in Sussex County before dragging the woman’s dog into the woods and mauling it to death, authorities said.' We have foxes in our backyard. And don't get us started about the deer. 

A planned book of the late Norman Mailer's essays has been cancelled because a neurotic, pill-popping Millennial editor discovered his 1957 essay, The White Negro. No, we're not going to get all smug about being an indy author because we are 100% beholden to Amazon. It could happen. How long? How long? Heck, we're surprised this blog hasn't gotten zapped. Now there's a thought...

We heard from our editor. The process has been delayed a bit by a family medical issue, but she anticipates sending us the 75 MS next week. We will attempt to finish 76 this weekend which will entail us opening the MS today. 

We went back through The Final Storm's Italian and Australian attack scenes. These are looking pretty good. We need to make additions of course. We'll read the British attack scene today. We haven't felt this good about The Final Storm in months.

We think we've written the final scene in World War 1990: The Weser.