2024: The Plan

We collected our womenfolk at the airport yesterday and things here are back within normal operating parameters. 

We are...? Penn State! Mrs. Stroock's Nittany Lions are taking on the Confederate Contingents' Ole Miss today. In other words the Big Ten Conference is playing the Southeastern Conference. Foreign reader(s) never trust anyone in the low-down, dirty, SEC. Those people would sell out their own families just for a crack at the national title. [Wanna talk about what Penn State let one of their coaches get away with for decade on decade?-Ed] No. True story, our late mother-in-law went to school with that guy. 

Speaking of...some goober on an NFL FB group we're in was trying to tell us that Ole Miss alum Eli Manning was a mediocre QB. He seriously argued, 'Eli was on a couple of teams that got hot at the right time. In every other year, he didn't even win a playoff game. His career record is .500, which shows what he really was: average.' We replied, 'Yeah, throw out the six playoff wins and two Super Bowl victories and Eli Manning's career is pretty average. Are you sure you should be writing about football?'*

Sooo...After looking at and publishing 2023 sales data yesterday we did a lot of thinking about our 2024 writing schedule. We plan to build on the success of 2023. That means nuclear war and World War 1990. We'll finish the rough draft of World War 1990: Norway on 1 February. We'll finish the rough draft of War Night: and Other Stories of the Great Nuclear War of 1975 by 21 June. We know we'll start World War 1990: Thatcher's War sometime in 2024. But when? Autumn? 

That leaves the Summer Sneak In. [Oh lord, not this again-Ed] Why not? We're thinking summer 2024 might be the time to try to write something different. We'll get everything lined up and cleared and bang, crank it out. Ah, but what should we write? Something different, something that's been nagging us, and of course, something that will expand the audience. Or not.

Exit Question: when does god laugh at our plan? Monday at the latest, no?

* He also argues that Terry Bradshaw and Troy Aikman were average QBs. That's seven Super Bowl rings. Seven.