Will...Going Green?

We shouldn't have blogged yesterday. 

We had excellent Friday and Sunday workouts. The body feels like it's back. No foot soreness and the 15-minute stretching routine feels great. 

NFL notes....That was not the Chiefs/Jets game we thought we'd get last night. Zach Wilson figured out his position and got the Jets back into it after falling behind 17-0. When Wilson got good, the Jets' defense got good too, but not good enough. The Chiefs won on the last drive with a little assist from the refs' bogus holding call. Jets' coach Robert Saleh was rightfully irate... Plenty of Taylor Swift sightings last night. 'Thanks for joining us, Swifties,' said announcer Mike Terico. She's bigger than the NFL....Hmmm we're indifferent to the Giants, but thumped the couch arm when the Redskins tied the Eagles. What's that make us? 

Baseball notes...The Yankees finished 82-80, barely avoiding finishing below .500 for the first time since 1992. GM Brian Cashman has always, always been overrated. Those teams of the late 90s were put together by Stick Michael. Cashman will be better known for bad contracts than winning, for and not being able to beat the Houston Astros. Who thinks bringing a lollygagging, righthanded slugger (Giancarlo Stanton) to Yankee Stadium is a good idea? The Yankees haven't won the world series since 2009! Alas we barely care....Mrs. Stroock's Phillies won 90 games in a fun season. Welcome back to the playoffs, Phillies.

This Friday the 6th marks the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War. Because of hubris brought about by the Israelis bible worthy victory in 1967, the Arabs caught them by surprise in 1973. The Israelis fought the greatest armored battles of the Cold War and won a tremendous victory.  But the war brought about a national crisis that has been part of the Israeli psyche ever since. To hear some Israelis talk, one would think they lost. It's Yom Kippur War week here at Stroocks Books. Here's a magazine article we wrote on Ariel Sharon and the Battle of the Chinese Farm. 

So we've had some project called The Final Storm in the works since 2016. Most of what was TFS back then is in print now as Polish Storm, Battle of the Three Seas, etc etc. The current version of TFS is completely different from the 2016 version of TFS. We'd really lost track of when we began working on the current version. Until yesterday. Someone viewed this post from February 2020 (mislabeled 2019 for some reason) which states, 'The way things are going, we may be able to start work on The Final Storm in March. Actually we already have 15,000 or 20,000 words.' So there it is. We've been working on TFS for 3 + years. Still way too long.

We should finish reading TFS this week. We've 1/3rd left to go. Should.