Will Deals with The First World and Other Problems

Good morning, fellow patriotic citizens of Stroock's Books and happy Thursday. 

We've cool and windy autumnal weather here in New Jersey. 

We had back to back days at the gym and feel good, spry and loose. We may hit the gym again this afternoon out of sheer ennui [He still pronounces that N-U-I...-Ed].

Some mornings you wake up and got nothing [See what you get for double--posting yesterday when you should have been getting some article query letters together?-Ed]. 

Is more coffee the answer? Probably not. But let's try anyway. 

Not having our burner Twitter account is going fine, so far. We noticed we were a lot less on line last night, not needing to check for someone's hot take every 40 minutes. 

Hey what's happening on Gab?...Nothing much it turns out. We stopped posting there, it seems, in March of 2024. Looking at those posts, we see almost no engagement. Stop chasing social media. It ain't happening. 

We listened to Steyn's podcast yesterday. It's just depressing us. [He just wanted to see of Steyn asked his question, fan-boi-Ed]. He didn't. Maybe it's time to walk away.

Doom forecast... Oh, calm down. Just last week Henry Enten on CNN was hopping up and down about the Dems getting blamed for the shutdown and their approval rating circling the drain. In a month something else will be happening. We've seen way too many elections to take the black pill over off-off year elections. 

A friend from a European country that has an NFL team named after its ancestors asked what we thought of the US sale of a couple of squadrons worth of F-35s to the Saudis. Security risk for Israel? We don't think so. No big deal. If the Saudis wanted to fight Israel they would have done so in the last 75 years. And they've had F-15s for decades. The F-35 deal most likely nudges Saudi Arabia a little closer to the Abraham Accords. Now that would be a big deal. 

First World problems (un), as Ace likes to say. We lost hot water for about 15 minutes this morning. Hot water was gone, back, and then gone again. This happened as we were running the clothes and dishwasher. We went and checked the water heater. It turns out the fancy anti-flood gizmo activated. We deactivated it and restored hot water. But why did the anti-flood gizmo activate. We looked at the manual and it said the gizmo tests itself once a month. This was one of those tests. It just came at a bad time. Phew, we were worried. 

First World problems (deux) as Ace also likes to say. Problem un comes after we tried to loosen a sink drain nut on Monday to retrieve a toothbrush, and managed to twist the drainpipe in half. Which is frustrating because we've done this before. Smartly we cut our loses, walked away, and called a guy we know. The drainpipe was replaced within the hour. 

Not DOGE Report: So, on Substack we're finally getting it [Getting what?-Ed] from an IRA symp. But he's giving it to us about Israel and der Juden, though. The Emerald Isle is loaded with Jew haters, like their current president and future president. We will keep the readership updated, but if our car blows up suddenly, you'll know why. 

Note, increasing readership and activity on Substack is not leading to book sales, not many anyhow. We shake our head in frustration. 

DOGE Report: Okay...as noted yesterday we think we have the concluding chapter of World War 1990: Thatcher's War I or whatever we're calling it. We're not going to force things. If other international leaders don't fit, they don't fit. We need a concluding scene or two to wrap up the Battle of Derry. What happens to all those UDR and RUC guys?