Saturday Updates

This is post 4816. 

With the Wuhan Virus from Wuhan China infection rates down to pre-OMICRON levels, we've been cleared to go back to the gym. [You mean your wife let you-Ed] She never told us we couldn't, she just asked that we not. [You tell yourself that-Ed]. However, we feel little motivation to go. Walking's been working just fine, and we didn't gain any weight in the last month. We've enjoyed listening to Stephen L. Miller's podcast on walks. [You can't listen to him while working out?-Ed] No, we need high octane hard rock and heavy metal.

On to the things. 

A week interrupted by funeral arrangements and travel. But a productive week nonetheless. We've added a few scenes to the SAS attack, one intro to the plan, the other a plan finalization. Writing tip: one must needs establish a thing before one writes about that thing. We've really cleaned up the assault. We are semi-confident that we can wrap this up by the end of next week. Exit question, what is this operation's name? And the codename can't be cool. It can't be Operation Rapier or Operation Doom-Stalker. 

We have a tonne of Kremlin stuff to sort out. Our Russian/Soviet history books are buried deep within the book pile in my utility room (longtime reader(s) will recall Hurricane Ida wrecked our basement, the bitch). We have to dig those books out as they're filled with info we need. Where's the Walnut Room? What do the premier's office windows look out upon? Etc. 

Which brings us to a bit of good news. All this writing about USSR and Kremlin (see what I did there?) has re-sparked our interest in Russian history. We picked up a couple of books about Putin yesterday. Speaking of:

The boss was on the telly last night.* We're working on an Inforos article for him right now...Roll Canada. Heh, we told our editor, let's call him Vlad, about our SAS attack on the Kremlin and he said, 'Cool! SAS is awesome!'

Moving on...

We have the formatted edition of The Great Nuclear War of 1975 and a cover proof. We will make some obvious tweaks but this is it, this is the cover:

This idea will work nice for The Great Salvation of 1976 as well. We plan to submit 76 for formatting on 1 March. [Plan all you want!-Ed]

We have a couple of ideas swirling. Discussion fodder for Will's Good Idea for the week of 2/6/22, tomorrow. 
 

*Nightingale Russia, this is a joke. You see, the notion that a Jewish guy from New Jersey who writes novels about the US beating up the USSR, breaking their glasses and taking their lunch money, is somehow a KGB operative is so silly as to be farcical. Understand, comrades? Now excuse me while I head to the train station for a midnight dead drop of my payment in rubles.