The last minute posting

Forgot to blog yesterday. Round about the time I do the blog -- toward the end of the work day so to speak -- I spoke with Jody on the phone for an hour and then long story short, Steve was waaay low sugar and not doing anything about it because he was on a work site so I brought sugar to him. And then just making sure he was okay the rest of the night.

Today, not much going on. Got a lovely "thank you for applying blah blah blah" letter from a job prospect so I can cross that one off the list. I hadn't heard from them so I kinda already knew. Ya know, when you just don't get any response, you know what's going on. Ah well.

Picked up a hold at the library today, watched a couple episodes of MI-5 season 3, walked Tug, took a short nap, read a little... the day goes by.

Cold front coming in so we may be hunkering down for the weekend.

Just started ECHOES FROM THE DEAD by Johan Theorin. It's a translated Swedish crime novel that is getting a lot of buzz. It's kinda suiting my mood right now. Here's a description:

Set predominantly on the Baltic island of Öland, Theorin's deeply disturbing debut will remind many of Henning Mankell both in its thematic intensity and dark tone. Two decades after the unsolved disappearance of a young boy, Jens Davidsson, who vanished one foggy autumn afternoon in 1972 and was presumed to have drowned, Jens's grandfather, Gerlof, a retired sea captain, receives one of Jens's sandals in the mail. Gerlof enlists his alcoholic daughter, Julia, who's still struggling to come to grips with the loss of her only child, to help solve the mystery. All leads point to infamous thug Nils Kant, who was rumored to have killed numerous people. But Kant allegedly died years before the fateful day that Jens disappeared, so who could've killed the boy? And why? Further investigation leads the unlikely sleuths to some startling revelations about their isolated island community and its much-storied history.

Published in the US this year and has 400 pages.

Much love,
PK the Bookeemonster