Since Alice writes for the Gadsden Gazette's Sunday Magazine section, I think we can infer that chapter 4 here is opening Sunday night, January 15, 2006.
Do I need to spell out what "snafu" stands for? "Situation normal: all (fouled) up"? With one of the seven words I can't say on the radio usually substituted for the (fouled)? Do I need to do that?
Eighty-Eight - Snafu