Good Saturday morning, Stroock's Books congregants. We awake to a bout of freezing rain.
Mrs. Stroock and the girls return tomorrow, thank the Lords of Kobol. The house is clean. The sheets are washed. The beds are made.
For no good reason whatsoever, we got into a couple of FB scrapes yesterday. Bah, sometimes we just see stuff and it pisses us off. Imagine people still wanting to wear masks at the end of 2024. Fools.
2004 and More. This time 20 years ago we were basking in the glow of a presidential victory. Also, we'd just seen a pair of 4,000 word magazine articles published. These were our first features and boy did we ever bask in that glow. One article was about the Dutch General, Maurice of Nasau, published in Strategy & Tactics issue number 225. 'What is he? A gay interior decorator from Long Island?' our grandfather asked.
The other article was The Wars of Alfred the Great, published in Medieval History Magazine #16 and available here. This was originally a term paper, written during the winter of 2002, for our Medieval Warfare undergrad class taught by Professor Brian Todd Cary. Go on and read. We are a much better writer today, aren't we? Still, in 2004 someone wanted the Alfred piece and paid for the privilege of publishing it. We don't remember what we were paid....wait, it's coming to us $493 - American, which might have been £250 Pounds in 2004.
Thoughts on the annexation of Canada: after we annex Canada, we'll dominate Olympic Curling.
Three football games will be on the telly today. [Lovely-Ed] Not futball, football. [Oh...--Ed]. We shall enjoy thoroughly.
The Things.
A truncated work week, obvi, as the kids these days say. We're about halfway done with our Saigon on the Themes story. This story describes not only the fall of London, but the Great Pacific War fought from Kodiak, across the Aleutians and down to Hokkaido.
We spent a lot of mental energy as is our wont, doing some last thinking about War Night. [What is 'last thinking'?-Ed] I dunno. We thought of nothing. We are almost ready to put an amen to War Night. If the amen is indeed put, we get back to World War 1990: Thatcher's War. We approach both tasks with, you guessed it, great fear and trepidation.
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