Saturday Updates

Look who showed up at 3 AM:

Left foot, low ankle. Mrs. Stroock made shepards pie last night. 

Ironically we had a bout of plantar fasciitis earlier in the week. The cure for that is to exercise right though it. And so we did. We had a great week at the gym with a pair of back to backs on the machines and a walk yesterday, which almost certainly dehydrated us, laying the groundwork for gout. We've nuked the gout with cherry extract and some colchicine.

It's a beautiful October day and nothing is stopping our planned time with an Arturo Fuente and a bottle of wine. Nothing. 

Mrs. Stroock's Phillies beat the Braves in impressive fashion, 9-1 last night and are one win away from the NLCS. She has a sports extravaganza this after with her Nittany Lions and Phillies. 

Last night GOP senate nominee Herschel Walker debated incumbent Dem (and Jew hater) Raphael Warnock. We didn't watch as we took 2/3rds of the Stroock girls to a school event. But it seems Mr. Walker landed some series hits on Warnock. Walker is of course a deeply flawed candidate. But sometimes things are so bad voters stop caring. Exist question: does Walker's messy personal life humanize and make him sympathetic?

We finished reading Andrew Marr's British history books and are wondering what to read next.

We made decent progress with French and find we are able to coble a few sentences together. 

The things.

You all read our frustrated lament about World War 1990: The Final Storm. About this no more will be said.

However things are going pretty well for The New American Order. We're still not convinced we've finished the prologue, but we're close. We're working on a few family scenes to be scattered throughout the MS, and were setting up and finishing the final Brit chapter. The ideas and words are flowing. 

We got September royalties, and they're down 21% over the August peak. This is expected and perfectly normal. We'll probably be down another 20% off the peak in October too. Of course The Great Nuclear War of 1975 and World War 1990: The Weser are the top sellers. 

We will have The Aftermath of 1976 back from the editor this week. From there we do cover and formatting. There's nothing else we can do to the Ms. December.