The Last Post for the First Month

Good morning once more from Starbucks where we are listening to a salesmen natter on and on to a new recruit. Which is fine. This ain't no library. After an hour, still have no idea what he's selling. Feels like an Amway thing. The coffee is slightly less meh. We dunno. The staff's average water displacement rate has dropped significantly today. We see blue hair, a man bun/cheesy mustache combo, undefined gender status, etc etc. Hey, if you don't want things to be a little weird, go to Dunkin. Overall, we'd give the people behind the counter a Starbucks barista score of 4.5/5.

Israel needed three weeks to clear Khan Younis, we wrote a week and a half ago. The IDF has pulled another brigade out of Gaza. Negotiations between Israel and Hamas continue. Prime Minister Netanyahu vows there will be no long ceasefire or mass terrorist release. We saw a poll yesterday that showed 51% of the Israeli public agrees with his stance.

We saw more polling that shows electoral doom awaiting Bibi and Likud, 'If new elections were held today, Channel 12 news said Minister Benny Gantz’s National Unity party would be the largest with 37 seats, followed by Netanyahu’s Likud with 18.' Which is right and proper. Labor doesn't even make the threshold, which is hilarious. Gantz and the center is Israel's future. 

Good work on World War 1990: Norway, yesterday. We read the US Marine counterattack on Bardufoss, told entirely from the VDV POV. Again with the M-60 Tanks. The chapter is crisp and pithy. Overall, we are pleased with what we read. We're thinking, just now, the plot might flow better if we reverse the Marine counterattack at Barufoss chapter and the Marine counterattack at Froy chapter. Also, while various commanders reference the Marines being in Norway, the reader doesn't meet these characters until the chapter. Which we've done so as not to lard up the narrative so this may not be a problem. But also it might be nice to meet these guys earlier on. Upon this question we shall dwell.

We are moving slowly with the War Night Titan II base story. We have a beginning and an end. But we're still working on the middle in which four US Air Force missileers wait 12 hours before one of them goes topside to check things out. Imagine being one of those guys and realizing you did your job. Now millions of dollars of government property is useless and so are you. We've also a lot of small details to fill in. For example, what's the base's radio call sign? We know a Minuteman base in Wyoming was Quebec-1. Alertba-1? Ottawa-1? Upon this question we shall also dwell. 

World War 1990: The Final Storm has 86 ratings for a 4.4 star average. To parody Sally Field, the reading public likes us. It really likes us.