Canon and Lore This

Good Friday morn, Stroock's Books Collective. 

Outside the air is dank and humid after a morning thunderstorm. We're not going to be able to mow the lawn before we head down the shore, are we? The weather matches our mood. 

Despite the looming vacation, we ourselves are a touch morose and gloomy. We think this is due to the lack of exercise and endorphins these last few weeks. The groin is still a bit iffy as is the foot. Oh well, we shall press on. Once again, we see sitting around and doing nothing while attempting to heal doesn't work. Just being at the beach is a heck of a workout with all the walking, lugging stuff around, and water time.

We'll begin exercising in earnest when we return from the shore. Perhaps it's time to add calisthenics to the regimen. Get out a mat, do crunches, leg lifts, pushups, etc, etc. We used to be really good at pushups, cranking out multiple sets of 20 no problem. We stopped because pushups and playing guitar was too much stress on our wrist. We no longer play guitar, so why not resume pushups? Whatever we do, having hit 50, and having felt brittle for most of August, we need to stretch more. 

We're actually kind of bored this morning, as shown by the above ramblings. We don't have any insights and can't think of anything to write about.  Plenty of other bloggers will have far more interesting things to say about Trump or the GOP debates than us. 

For reasons unknown to us, we're getting a tonne of traffic from Singapore. We know why we get buzzed but the French, or the Ruskis. There are some Australians who really hate out guts for how badly we bungled Prime Minister Hawke. Why would the good citizens of Singapore take a sudden interests in Stroock's Books? There's like, one Singaporean character in World War 1990: ANZACs. Perhaps this is the trigger. Actually, there must be more than one, as we recall the ANZAC fleet visiting Singapore. 

Heh, that's actually an example of a huge problem we have. We began the World War 1990 series nearly a decade ago. We had a completely different vision. Time passed and books were written. A lot of both. Many days we often find ourselves wondering, 'What was the thing, with the guy, in the place? Crap.' We can't be the only author who doesn't like going back through old works, right? Right. It's a problem.

You know, as the World War 1990 series goes on [And on, and on, and on...-Ed] we do not necessarily feel constrained by events or details in previous books. For example, we never mentioned USS Saratoga getting sunk before the evens in Operation Arctic Storm. If she did get sunk, we should have mentioned in Operation Arctic Storm. We're not saying we're going to sink the Saratoga. But we might. And we don't care that the sinking never came up in Arctic Storm.

Staying on theme....we recall noting in Operation Arctic Storm that the Soviets made two attempts to seize Iceland. There's a little wiggle room in there, twice in the same operation, maybe. But we're not going to feel constrained by what we wrote previously. Actually, the more we learn, the more we believe a Soviet invasion of Iceland was highly unlikely and suicidal. But the idea was a staple of WWIII fiction and games. We don't blame Tom Clancy. We blame Harpoon and all those Iceland scenarios.

Today's the project that matters. Not the project yesterday.