A great week at the gym; two sessions on the treadmill, two on the weights. The weights are grueling and leave our knee sore, while the treadmill does not. Huh.
We see House Dems passed the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill last night. Within is $12 billion for the Gateway Tunnel linking NJ to NY. We agree with Hot Air. It's nice to see New Jersey get some pork money.
Elsewhere in New Jersey, the infection rate is back over 1. There's no ending Covid. We see people with masks and smolder with rage. What is wrong with you people?! Masks do nothing! Psst...sooner or later, we're all going to get it.
We liked Edward Durr, the one man campaign who defeated Senate Majority Leader Steve Sweeney. NJ.com reports that Durr tweeted mean things about special protected groups with extra rights. Now we love him. As we commented on NJ.com's FB, who cares?
Here's Bridgewater's election night map for Somerset County Commissioner courtesy of once and future commish Felipe Pedroso:
We had a slow but steady week of writing The Final Storm. The Italian/Crimea chapter, while nowhere near completion, has taken shape. Italian Tornado bombers, Italian F-104s, Israeli F-16s, the view from Task Force Gladius and Task Force Aigle. We anticipate finishing the Italian/Crimea chapter rough next week. We're going to get optimistic and predict the airstrike scenes are completed by the end of this year.
We could throw some submarine action into the Crimea chapter. Actually, at this point in the war why wouldn't Soviet submarines launch conventional strikes on the US mainland? There's always Granma. Maybe the Backfires return to the Crimea? Recall that Travado and his Sarissa Flight of F-104s dealt with them in Three Seas.
Our beta reader gave back The Great Nuclear War of 1975 and was happy with what she read. No form, plot, or structural problems for her whatsoever. We may look for another beta reader. That said, this is confirmation of what we already know. We are very good at what we do. We are writing a trio, maybe a quartet of scenes in which a pair of officers from Looking Glass, which has been idle on the tarmac at Gillette (WY) regional airport since Missile Night, try to piece together the war.
We had planned to release 75 at the end of this year. We plan, god laughs. For as it is written, we plan god laughs. Maybe we just pissed off Kek. We have four novels in various states of rough draft. In addition to 75 there's 76, The Final Storm and The Weser, which is probably closer to being ready to go than The Final Storm. The summer was busy and tough.
There's lots of work to do but we can finally see everything coming together. How did that happen? First slowly, then all at once. 2022 will be the year of the four novels.
