Good morning, reader(s) of Stroock's Books and happy June. You know, given our medical issues and self-induced stress over current events [Knobhead-Ed], I know, right - we really haven't been able to enjoy the spring weather. And the weather's been gorgeous lately, like a pretty blonde in her new, just-snug-enough, summer evening dress [Awww thanks-Ed]. We weren't talking about you.
Gym report... We're back down under 245 pounds, that's 17.5 stone to you Brits. We don't know what that'd be in Canadian (how many beaver pelts to the pound?). And yesterday we benched 300 again- despite not touching a dumbbell since August. We've been doing rope pulleys, rower, tension bands and a hundred + pushups at each session.
Right now, Newark is an important front in the immigration wars. Last night New Jersey State police broke up the riot in front of the Delany Hall ICE facility. Governor Mikie Sherrill is not crazy. For those Panicans out there, this is yet more evidence the right is winning the immigration debate.
Related, the Dems are running a Mikie Sherrill clone for congress here in our own NJ07 district. Rebbeca Bennett is an excellent candidate, an ex-navy pilot like Sherrill and seemingly not crazy. We can tell the GOP is worried about Bennett because we're getting fliers linking her to ICE and Trump in an effort to turn Dem voters away from her. Meanwhile incumbent GOP Tom Kean has been AWOL for a couple of months with some undisclosed health issue. We hope Kean, for whom we not only voted but volunteered, is okay. But right now we'd probably vote for Bennett. Kean last voted on March 5th. Show up to work, pal.
The New York Post tells us that Trump is refusing to accept Iran's surrender. Pointless speculation: are we preparing a massive strike on Iranian assets around Hormuz?
Israel is getting ready to hit Hezbollah targets in Beirut. What else have the Israelis planned, those clever Jews. Operation Grim Beeper II: the Return?
DOGE report.
We went over the first half of the Battle of Ardee chapter and liked what we saw. We articulated and improved what we had. It's mostly a character study of Irish army officers, Garda, civilian leadership and whacky IRA guys. We've never written a chapter quite like this. Long time reader(s) know we like some differentiation in novels. The Battle of Ardee stays.
Damnit these Irish motorways we keep writing about didn't exist in 1990.
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