You can see the complications in the production meeting this morning. They included the matter of cheese grits with herbs, later local whiskey deliveries, commemorative branding, the recent sledge-hammer robberies over by Point Chaud on Georgia Avenue across the River and why news about a Russian Kilo-class diesel submarine in the South China Sea was news.

And the matter of that expended 9mm cartridge that wove its way through two stories set three thousand miles apart.

Splash claims he has a thread about that to go with Kristina’s story about the deer hunt and residential firearms safety in both Virginia and the Republic of Korea that is mildly entertaining except there is no time for amusement now.

So, Melissa is doing some presentational shows on real estate over the weekend and she had a seasonal reminder about those activities and the waxing new moon that should be at full illumination next week.

The caused discussion about the brief declaration of martial law in Seoul is looking like the looked 1980 military coup we have been looking to turn into a podcast to remind folks that armored vehicles at the end of the street are sometimes just things on the way to the office.

We don’t know whether DeMille wants us to use it or just leave it with the PowerPoint files from the old Mac in the iCloud directory.

You can see the hazards of modern messaging, attempting to integrate the old files. It may get easier, but the transition is still only partial. We hope eventually we can just have AI pull the thing together into something plausible we can review in the morning and post without much effort beyond cleaning up the breakfast debris.

The scheme, to the degree that there was one, was to get a sense of the unprecedented diplomatic stuff in progress. The joke about Canada becoming the “51st State” during the Trudeau visit caused a stir. It was more than that, of course, and actually a fairly dramatic statement on the restructuring of North America that could go south to the Canal.

Which seems about as reasonable as everything else this morning. We have talked about these issues before, at least generationally. This may just be another chapter of it, and to which we can add a puff of merriment.

There might even be a sniff of the old Monkey Shoulder after lunch if we can get to it, you know? The seasonal stuff is really starting to come together! To the Queen of the Tetons!

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