Athens on fire

My kid says: "You have to admit that the police running out of supplies to combat protests against government cutbacks is the most ironic thing in the last several years."

I said I also had to wonder why the capitalist overclass is so intent on destroying capitalism.

I'm back in business

The Minerva automobile company produced exactly the kind of automobiles I want, and the DeDion-Bouton company also produced the kind of automobiles I want, at the right time, and they tended to be owned by royalty.  I'm going to have to fix some things, but I don't have to re-write every trip back and forth from the palace to the "old castle" (which is actually mostly a rel;atively modern manor), and most importantly, I don't have to re-cast the character of the chauffeur that is the closest Yanek has to a father figure in his early childhood.

Also, Poznan Imperial Castle looks as I think the Duke's Palace ought to, and was built at a plausible time. 

I am so relieved.  I don't mind fixing up a bunch of things, but I really didn't want to have to revise everything about Yuri.  I think I have to do a bunch of horse work in revision anyway, but Yuri! remains!

I have actually spoken aloud a couple of times today, without thinking. Shut up, Lucy.  You're trying to get better.

edit: Sorry, that first one, that's all wood, it's a 1906 Fondu, not a Minerva, and it's "Russo-Baltic," whatever that means in this context.

Anyway, that's three companies making closed-cabin automobiles for rich people to ride around in.