Monday Mid-rank

Good Monday, Stroock's Books stalwarts. 

When one lives with four women, clearing a bathtub drain is just gnarly. 

Temps are in the mid-30s now but will top off in the mid 70s today. 

World War 1990: Ireland is ranked #15 in Amazon alternate history. Ireland has certainly popped. But has it peaked? Uh oh. Some one on good reads gave Ireland a two-star rating. Wanker. 

Sigh...what do we got?

Operation Epic Fury continues. We're out of the spectacular phase with the fancy regime assassinations and down to the scut work of locating launchers, missile bunkers, bombing infrastructure, etc etc. Iran still manages to slip a missile or two past Israel's formidable air defenses. How? 

We haven't heard much, we think, about Iranian drones hitting Israel. What's Iron Beam doing? Grok says Iron Beam is deployed. 

The Trump administration is talking a lot, boasting a lot. We don't like it. We don't like it at all. We watched General Colin Powell during our formative years, who said bluntly of the Iraqi army, 'We're going to cut off its head. Then we're going to kill it.' We like that. 

We dread driving past a gas station today. Wish us luck. People may support the war (for now) but they're gonna see and feel those gas prices, and they ain't gonna like them. Not one bit. 

DOGE report.

This week is all about fixing the Battle of Ardee. Right now the battle ping-pongs between the British and Irish commander. We're gonna ax the limey, we think. 

We will continue working on our nuke novel cosmonaut story, comrades. We've got it set up pretty good. But we don't actually know where it's going.