Nope, Not Today ...

Commander and Loader, Pzkw IV Turret Interior
Il-2 Sturmovik: Tank Crew – Clash at Prokhorovka
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Yes, the folks who do a very good flight combat simulator (mentioned yesterday) also have a tank combat simulator. Which yes, I did purchase and, drum roll please, Your Humble Scribe did pay full price for about two weeks before it went on sale at roughly a third of what I paid for it. Fool - money - parted. Selah.

Truth be told, I have, in the past, opted to wait a certain amount of time to purchase something, hoping against hope, that it would eventually go on sale. I have learned that the trigger for an item to go on sale is me purchasing said item. So if I don't buy something, it will never, ever, ever, go on sale. Or at least that's how it feels to me.

Anyhoo, as you may have gathered by now, dear reader, there is no new episode of my saga of the early days of World War II in Europe today. I am, if you will, taking something of a sabbatical from the writing of that tale. I'm going on vacation next week, an actual vacation involving family, lakes, and travel. So ...

I always say that "blogging might be light," but most of the time when I write that, it doesn't happen. But in this case, who knows?

Considering that two of our favorite characters, Jürgen von Lüttwitz and Manfred Sauer, were created while I was on vacation in Maryland, it could be that my having the chance to not show up at the full time job will give you more episodes. (Get a couple of drinks into the Muse and watch the ideas fly ...)

To paraphrase Aragorn, "A day may come when I continue the series, when I find inspiration and new storylines and characters to explore and offer them here on the blog ..."

"But it is not this day."

I seldom have anything to offer on the state of the nation and the world these days. There's just too much insanity out there. Separating propaganda from truth is far too vexing to even attempt, but I will say this, I've seen a number of comments in reference to the situation in Ukraine where the opinion is, "Hey, let's end this thing, give Russia what they want, let the fighting end."

Okay, in my humble opinion, that's not a good option. Not at all. Smacks of "Peace in our time" and the betrayal of Czechoslovakia back in 1938. The West gave Hitler what he wanted. I mean after all, it was reasonable wasn't it? There were a lot of German speakers in the Sudetenland, as there are a lot of Russian speakers in Donbas. But the whole thing smacks of Vlad the Invader wanting to put the band back together. Just sayin' ...

And Hitler wanted more ...

Does Vlad? Not sure I want to find out.

That's all I've got today. I know, it's pretty short, pretty unentertaining, but hey, it's free. You might get better content elsewhere, but you can't beat our prices.

Be back, maybe the Muse will have something tomorrow, but I doubt it.

Busy, busy, busy.

Real life is talking in its outdoor voice.