Will's Good Idea for the week of 5/3/26

Good morning, Stroock's Books faithful, and happy Sunday. Don't skimp on the post-Church lunch buffet now. 

It's May 3rd...why is the temp 47 degrees this morning?

We had a gout attack early yesterday morning. Fab.

We should mow the lawn. We probably won't.

Our sojourn across the dread-Hudson River for a visit with our dad went just fine. On the way out we had dinner at the Croton Colonial Diner. The Corton Diner has been a Stroock family stable for decades, and even shows up in A Line Through the Desert. 

It's a weird thing, walking through the house in which one grew up, which one moved out of 30 years ago. We deal with this in a short story we've written four The Fourth Day. 

On the way home oldest daughter said she had a test on the Middle East and needed us to explain Desert Storm and the Iraq War to her. We got emotional. 

Will's Good Idea for the Week of 5/3/26.

So we thought about World War 1990: Battle of the GIUK Gap during our drive yesterday. Meh.

Okay...Marines on Iceland. USS Stirling (remember her waaaay back in Arctic Storm). Nimrods and Orions patrolling the gap. A Soviet submarine (Vologda from Norway). A NATO submarine...What else?