Saturday Updates

Good Saturday morning, associated Stroock's Books fans. 

We awoke this morning to find one of the cats had gotten into a package of pancake mix and spread it all over the kitchen, living room and dining room floors. We were not necessarily 100 percent pleased, and considered going the full ALF on the cat (IYKYK).

We got in a Judaism last night. 

Weights yesterday, we may do a walk today. 

Mighty Europe pledges to shift to a 'war time' economy and 'rearm'. The Economist has a parody of Two Kier Starmer as Winston Churchill on the cover. We are amused. And The Jerusalem Post tells us, 'Ireland’s national police force, the Garda Síochána, is reluctant to give up on the Israel-made technology Cellebrite despite demands by the Opposition to boycott the Jewish state...' Trump can't send a quarter of a million Gazans to Ireland fast enough. 

Meanwhile the Islamist regime in Syria has massacred a couple of thousand Alawites and Christians. We await condemnation and action from those most bellicose Europeans. This is the Syrian October 7th and no one cares. We've seen things you wouldn't believe.*

Well we've been issuing daily DOGE reports for a few weeks now, which makes one believe Saturday Updates are redundant. Nevertheless here's where things stand. We've a rough draft of chapter I of the Battle of Derry, and an even rougher draft of chapter II of the Battle of Derry. A few ideas are percolating. World War 1990: Thatcher's War is 46,000 words. We've added about 20,000 words in a month. 

We've read all but two stories in War Night. We'll read one today and one tomorrow. After that there's just a few things to tidy up before the rough draft gets formatted. We're still waiting on the cover and think we need to send a rather strong ping over to our people to remind them. 

*Haven't written that since October 7th days....