Will's Good Idea for the Week of 9/25/23

We have much for which to atone. [If you were serious, you wouldn't even be blogging. -Ed]. True. We should be contemplating, not working. We should also be fasting, yet here we are with a cup of coffee and we're about to get another. We've never claimed to be a particularly observant walker of the Red Sea. And we love bacon. We ain't no Ben Shapiro. 

We got to the gym yesterday. We did three exercises and avoided running and anything where we had to put a strap over our toe. The toe is sore this morning, but okay. Salad and steak was for dinner last night. Even though two podiatrists told us not to worry about red meat, just stay hydrated, we only had three small pieces of steak and worried about that, even. 

Sports wrap: LOL-Jets. Zach Wilson is not an NFL quarterback. Neither is the Patriot's Mac Jones. We had thought maybe the Jets could figure out a way to go 9-8 and sneak into the playoffs. Not with Wilson. We caught some of the Chiefs vs the Bears. Taylor Swift is dating the Chief's Travis Kelce. The Stroock girls were thrilled with all the Taylor sightings. He'll be a Taylor Swift song in three years. Also, LOL Mets, swept in a four game series by Mrs. Stroock's Phillies. 

How do you say Holy Crap in Canadian? From our man on the ground up north: 'Speaker of the House Anthony Rota apologized Sunday for honouring a man who fought in a Nazi unit during the Second World War. Rota was responding to condemnation from Jewish groups and others stemming from a moment during Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's visit to Parliament on Friday. During the visit, Rota said Yaroslav Hunka was "a Ukrainian hero, a Canadian hero, and we thank him for all his service."' 

Hunka and his mates were outright Ukrainian Nazis who went around Ukraine murdering Russians, Poles, Jews, and anyone else they didn't like. We're most curious about Canadian parliament's process breakdown. Why didn't they know Hunka's was a Ukrainian SS division? By the way read Timothy Snyder's excellent Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin. What a slaughter. On the Eastern Front, nobody had clean hands. Throw the Canadian Army into Ukraine, and eventually they'd be lining up people against the walls and torching villages. 'Make sure there are no survivors, eh?' Such was the nature of the conflict. 

Will's Good Idea for the Week of 9/25/23. It's Swedish Intermission Week in World War 1990: Norway. We'll be writing about Swede Viggins in a massive battle against Soviet air incursions. We've already written a submarine scene about a Swedish sub torpedoing a Soviet missile boat. We may need to set that up with an intro scene earlier in the novel so the reader doesn't think. 'The Swedish sub force is in the Baltic tracking Soviet subs? Oh, oh, okay...I guess.' That's three different subs and sub crews to keep track of. We'd like to write about those awkward Swedish Stridvagen tanks, but we don't see a way to make it happen.