Big Blue Wrecked Crew

So watching the Giants host the Seahawks last night we saw someone in the stands wearing an 80/90s era number 5 jersey and couldn't think of who number 5 was. Well duh, Kerry Collins, the reclamation project QB who took the Giants to the Super Bowl in 2000. Speaking of Giants QBs and their replacements...we watched the ESPN Manning Cast of the game. As dumb as the Manning Cast can get, Peyton and Eli are still better than the regular broadcast where one is regaled with, '2nd and 10, Giants trying to avoid going 3rd and 10.' You don't say? To quote Han Solo, I'm glad you're here to tell us these things. 

Ten times? The Seahawks sacked Daniel Jones ten times? Stole this, 'NFL announces opposing teams must count to 7 Mississippi before rushing Daniel Jones.' Was this the NFL or Kill the Carrier? As we used to chant during our old school days, 'Sack...sack...the Quarter-back.' Final thought, JFC, when was the last time the Giants won a primetime game? The Meadowlands are notoriously hard to get out of. That must have been a tough drive home. 

Yom Kippur War...We've always liked how that rhymes. Stroock's Books strongly recommends The Crossing of the Suez, by General Saad el Shazly, Chief of Staff of the Egyptian Armed Forces. From the description, 'The Crossing Of The Suez is an inside look by the Egyptian Chief of Staff at events leading up to and including the 1973 Arab Israeli war. The book gives a day to day account of the war, the capture of the Bar Lev line, the subsequent split between the political and military leadership and the aftermath of the Israeli penetration through Egyptian lines.' 

We've used The Crossing of the Suez in multiple magazine articles. There is no better account of the Egyptian side of this war. Shazly tells the reader about Egypt's planning (especially mobilization), the crossing, and the bitter interpersonal disputes during the war that contributed to Egypt's defeat. Shazly's memoir is an extremely descriptive account of the general staff's planning and conduct of the war and includes a detailed order of battle.  Strongly recommended. 

An interesting article from Publishers Weekly about a writer's earning survey. Nut graf, as the J-school losers would say, it's hard out there for a writer. This was interesting, 'While in 2022, the median book-related income for full-time self-published authors was $10,200—much less than full-time traditionally published trade authors, who earned $15,000—established (five-plus years of publishing experience) full-time self-published authors more than doubled their book income in 2022 compared to 2018, to $19,000. Over that time, established full-time traditionally published trade authors’ book income only rose 11%, to $15,000, demonstrating that experienced self-published authors are now significantly more effective at boosting their earnings than their experienced traditionally published counterparts.'

We're not going to disclose our W2 or anything, but let's just say we're beating those numbers. By a lot. As for indy authors being 'more effective at boosting their earnings', well yes. That's because when one is indy one must needs do everything oneself. One hustles for one because there's no one else to hustle for one. Dear trad authors, your publisher is probably not going to hustle for you because hustling would incur more costs. You will be hustling anyway. So why not hustle indy?

Alright, today is the day we read through the SAS raid on REDACTED. One fell swoop. We get the chapter done today even if it means putting aside Norway. We had a great day with Norway, yesterday, by the way. Wish us luck.