Fifty Posts to Go

A fine enough Memorial Day given our cancelled plans, with a trip to the pool followed by a barbeque. This blog reminds readers that the charcoal/gas wars are over, and gas won. I dunno, it has something to do with the way the gas grill cooks the fat. Carve a bass relief of a charcoal grill into Stone Mountain with the rest of the losers. Okay, that went too far, I admit it. 

There was a gaggle of teenage boys at the pool, we'd say ages 13-15. Must have been a dozen of them, splashing, dunking, trying to drown one another, doing Tripple-Lindies* off the diving board and otherwise acting like total morons. It was glorious. 

With the passing of Memorial Day, we're in Will's official summer period. We have two main jobs. Finish The New American Order and World War 1990: The Final Storm. The latter is already looking like a heavy lift.  Also, we're getting World War 1990: The Weser and The Great Salvation of 1976 ready. Both will be out this year. All of these things will be accomplished by the end of the summer, which we'll probably have to cheat and say ends 21 September. There's a lot of work to do. Time for an 80's training montage.

Putting off World War 1990: Battle of the GIUK Gap frees up our summer reading time for a project. We'll make a decision this week,  but right now we're still thinking Ost Front, and have a couple of books lined up. Or are we? There's that strange urge to read about the War Between the States again.

We've consulted our crack mathematics team, and with 50 posts to go, at one post per, we'll hit post 5000 on 20 July, the day after our 49th birthday. A few of you have asked in confidence, will we really give it up? Gotta stop somewhere, and 5000 posts is as good a number as any. Besides, we just checked the stats, this blog's traffic is unbelievably consistent, and just a fraction of what it was five years ago. 

What would we do without this blog? More Gab? More Twitter? Who can say? We must dwell upon this. We miss our KGB handler. We really do. 

Exit video, Phineas and Pherb, Summer:

*Reference.