Will's Good Idea for the Week of 2/5/23

We're back. We judged six debates, all on right to work laws, with each debater using the same argument and same data as the last. Som of the kids argue by shouting, By the end we were ready to scream ourselves. 

The Grammys tonight. Middle Daughter, who gives us daily updates on what Harry Styles is up to, can't wait. 

Ah...the gap week between the NFL championship games and the Super Bowl. This is the stupidest week in American sports. 

We've taken a week off from the gym. Our body needed it, and we think we should go today. But wow it feels like it's gonna be hard to restart the engines. 

Between Mrs. Stroock being away and debate judging, it's been a long week. There's a hell of a lot less for us to do during single dad duty than there was ten years ago. But we're finding the job takes more of a toll upon us. We've aged, we guess. We turn fifty in just a few months. Heh, we're finally seeing some gray in our winter beard, and we like it. 

We can see the week ahead, adding a few final scenes to The New American Order, finishing up the Soviet Far East scenes in World War 1990: The Final Storm, touching up World War 1990: Norway's opening scene and writing two others. We said we thought we needed more scenes for the 1980 chapter, and we think one of those scenes is our statistical survey group going over their final report while Rockefeller gives his speech at the Republican National Convention, North Platte, Nebraska. The report is titled, 100 Million Americans. 

The Aftermath of 1976 has been out for two months, is selling great, and has probably peeked. All expenses have been recouped. Hmmm, sales of 76 are lagging behind where sales of The Great Nuclear War of 1975 were after two months. Why? And is this a bad thing? Probably not [He said in an uptalk voice-Ed].

Which brings us to Will's Good Idea for the Week of 2/5/23. We've got some fodder for a short story collection.  A missile silo crew pops the hatch after two weeks underground. An airliner flies around North America the night of the war, looking for some place to land. Something European. Also something where a world leader is standing by helpless as the missiles fly. India? China? We could show the war unfolding in real time this way. This is where the buzz is. Summer sneak in?