It's a cold one today. Only in the 50s but the air conditioning was running all three days at the office and trapped inside so it's cooooolllld.
TV: Gotta watch the convention. It will be nice to have some stuff of substance to talk about rather than things that are no one's business.
Reading: RED KNIFE by William Kent Krueger. Eighth of eight in series and comes in at 310 pages. Krueger's author website can be found at http://www.williamkentkrueger.com/. Here's the Library Journal review:
Although it is spring in Tamarack County, MN, a darkness looms over the townspeople of Aurora and the Ojibwe of the Iron Lake Reservation. Kristi Reinhardt is dead, and the blame falls on Lonnie Thunder, a young Ojibwe man known to deal both drugs and child pornography. Former sheriff Cork O'Connor, now working as a part-time PI, is called to a meeting with Alex Kingbird, leader of the Red Boyz, an Ojibwe gang rumored to be part of the local drug trade. Alex wants to offer Kristi's father justice to avert further violence, and he has called on part-Ojibwe Cork to set up a meeting. But then Alex and his wife are executed outside their home. Cork tries to find answers while keeping his family safe and doing right by both his former law enforcement colleagues and the Ojibwe people. While this tale of small-town racial tensions and drug trafficking by Native Americans is drawn from the pages of the newspaper, Krueger puts a very human face on these issues.
The first paragraph reads:
The words on the note folded around the check in his wallet read: Here's $500. A retainer. I need your help. See me today. The note and the money were from Alexander Kingbird, although it was signed Kakaik, which was the name of an Ojibwe war chief. It meant Hawk.
Work: Catching up on paperwork. Sold tickets to some walkins all by myself -- they've not let me do that yet -- and I did it successfully. Sandi is out of the office.
Steve has his YRC board meeting tonight. Walk Tug after work. That's about it.
Much love,
PK the Bookeemonster
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