Marginalia (3)

In preparing for battle, I have always found
that plans are useless but planning is indispensable.
-D.D. Eisenhower [attributed to]

Took today off from work to get the fabled "four-day
weekend". To-do list included: take someone to the airport,
drop due books at library, grab my favorite lunch special,
and spend a chunk of time collecting research from online for
my insane multi-volume alternate history Civil War project
(oh, let's call it _Attack!_, because that is what it is)...

One of my more difficult characters is going to be a doctor.
He's not a major continuing character, but he has an important
role to play within a small, but very, key time period. However,
his autobio has been way long out of print, and he's had zero
voice either within the storyline or in my background thinking.

No more.

Ok, I don't take back everything that annoys me about Google, but
damn, is this helpful and timely! Sometimes, pieces do fall into
place because you've been putting the puzzle together around it...

Organizing is what you do before you do something,
so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.
-A.A. Milne