Book - The Fighting 69th: One Remarkable National Guard Unit's Journey from Ground Zero to Baghdad (2007) [/] Author Sean Michael Flynn was a captain in the 69th when it deployed to Iraq. This book tells the story of regimental commander Geoff Slack and some of the other people in the 69th from about 1991 when it was more of a weekend club to 9/11 when it was still maybe 1/3rd competent and onwards... I read the first four chapters, 80+ pages. It concentrates more on the people than the unit, which is fine but not exactly interesting to me. Did not get to their deployment in Iraq but I don't feel I'd learn anything useful if I read the rest of the book.

Movie - Luck (2022) [/] Skydance and Apple production, Luck is a family film about Sam Greenfield (Eva Noblezada), a young woman who is incredibly unlucky (in small ways, like if a car hits a puddle she's the only one who gets hit). Her luck turns when she finds a lucky coin but then loses it, much to the chagrin of Bob (Simon Pegg), a talking cat from the Land of Luck and whose coin Sam found. Sam follows Bob to the Land of Luck and makes a pact with Bob to borrow and use a lucky coin to help Sam's friend and in return she leaves the Land of Luck before the authorities discover Bob let in a mundane... It's a movie that should work and yet the Land of Luck is too fantastical and the string of things Sam and Bob have to do gets a bit too long. The concept is fine but the plot just adequate.

Wellshire Traditional Breakfast Sausage [/] Breakfast so that means these are small sausages. Six in a pack and pre-cooked so I could microwave from frozen and serve them with toast and eggs. Tastes fine.