Wednesday, April 8, 2026

General Post for Midweek

Good day, Reader(s) of Stroock's Books. 

Four days in a row at the gym. We feel based. 

The new AC unit is going in today. We got 12 years out of the old unit, 12 years. A decade plus is the standard for AC units now. Why press our luck? Is piece of mind worth all that money? Yes, we believe it is. 

Interestingly they kept trying to talk us into a heat pump to supplement the furnace and AC. The heat pump would be free, mind you, paid for by PSE&G. They explained to us how the heat pump works and sent us a link to a promotional brochure. Frankly the brochure struck us as the plumbing and heating version of a pharmaceutical advert. We did a lot of our own research. The heat pump is interesting, but there are too many bells and whistles, too much new tech which seems to require a careful hand, and a fuse box upgrade to boot. We don't want a new thing to worry about. We passed. 

A ceasefire, if you can keep it. The seems like a good thing. The US and Israel don't pummel Iran for two weeks and Iran opens the Strait of Hormuz. Negotiations to make the ceasefire permanent shall proceed. Exit question has the Iranian political wing gained the upper hand against the IRGC?

We don't know what Trump was planning for Iran, but we bet it was cool. We admit to being disappointed in not seeing it. Still, at some point one runs into the Gaza problem, diminishing returns. After a while one is just bouncing the rubble. 

Oh, the IDF is still fighting in Lebanon. 

The media, Dems, etc etc are saying many dumb things today. Like Arabs, they don't understand the difference between victory and defeat. 

DOGE report.

We awoke this morning not quite knowing what we're going to do with World War 1990: the Managua Campaign, after having finished one scene and edited another. Ah! There we go!

Yesterday we finished the little boy nuke story. Today we're going to think about and work on the Soviet cosmonaut story.  

1 comment:

  1. Don't ever get a heat pump every one that I know who has one has problems

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