Doom This

Sigh...the foot still bothers and the doctor wants us to wear the boot as needed. And so we shall. 

We got to the gym yesterday, at least, and did ten or so seated weight exercises. We persist. 

For those of you not on FB, FB Memories shows users all previous posts on that day. FB is the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle of our life:

-In this year Will joked about sitting on his deck in a bathing suit smoking cigars and drinking a box of wine...

-In this year Will told a bad joke. Mrs. Stroock not pleased... 

-In this year Will spoke at his grandfather's 90th birthday party...*

FB memories is loaded with old posts for November 5th. We see proof that our teenage daughters were once little girls. In 2019 we wrote, 'The Giants suck'. They sure did. 

And over the course of two decades, we've made many a political post on November 5th. Eighteen years ago we wrote, 'Didn't vote for Obama but he will be my president'. Hah! Now we believe Obama was ineligible to hold office. A year later we commented, 'Just voted for the fat man,' referring to future governor Chris Christie. Three years later we lamented Barry's reelection. Two years after that we gloated about the 2014 midterms, 'What is best in life?'

Which brings us to a few thoughts on Tuesday. We'll tolerate no doomerism. 

As Athena Thorne wrote at PJM, 'Meh. 2008 was worse'. Yep. And yep again. After Barry's election, pundits were warning that the GOP best 'moderate' on economic and social issues. Be more like the Dems! At the CPAC conference of 2009, Rush Limbaugh warned against turning away from conservative principles and asked, 'When was the last time Dems moderated?'  Two years later a Red wave washed over Washington. Rush was right. He usually was. 

You know why Barry Soetoro won in 2008? An unpopular war, an economic crisis, and eight years of the GOP in the White House. That's all. Guess what? Hillary would have won too. The moment the markets crashed that September, John McCain's odds of winning the election dropped to zero point zero. Oh, and Barry got a smaller percentage of the vote in 2008 than George Bush did in 1988. Look it up. 

This year Americans looked at inflation, gas prices, and the long Iran war, and voted blue. And we got some bad news for the doomers out there. The party in the white house getting shellacked on the president's second term is a dog bites man story. We'll explore that more tomorrow. 

Moving on...

We contemplated more alien invasion novels. A friend from a European country known for its art and cuisine suggested writing a novel that takes place in the 60s. Two words: century series (F-100s and the like). Which is kinda cool. When did they retire the B-58 Hustler? In truth, the more we think about aliens invading Earth, the less we want to do the story. 

We still don't know what we're writing in January. 

DOGE report.

We read through the Battle of Los Banos chapter in World War 1990: The Managua Campaign. It seems...fine. Exit question: do we want to read it again today or move on? 

Work on 1066 continues apace. The work is slow, but it's apace. 

*He rented out a room at the Algonquin in NYC. Must have been a hundred guests. Good fun. Wonder what that costs? Yikes.  And when some old geezer complained about our girls we asked, 'Do you know who I am? Did you not see me before, speaking lovingly to the man paying for this thing?'