I just utterly broke the Netherlands. For a century they have been plaguing me and I had finally just had enough, so I sailed over there, blockaded the entire country, and starved their army to death before finishing off the remnants. I also used spies to foment rebellions throughout the country. There are now seven countries, including the Dutch rump, where the Netherlands used to be.

I have also been editing my novel, which is now 4/5 complete on my final edit. Of course I'm already aware of a couple things I want to go back and change but hopefully once I do those the thing will be finished and I can start talking to agents.

I wish I had booze. Might get some later in the week, Thursday's liable to stress me out considerably so that's justification enough to my mind.

We don't need to give thanks in England, because we never begged God for help. We just went out and conquered what we needed ourselves.