Yep, coworker out sick again today. Yep, other coworker left for two hours during the day for his daughter's Christmas pageant so I was alone. Yep, ready for the week to be frickin' over. I'm just done.

Started to read the Tasha Alexander last night but tonight this will be interrupted by an inter-library loan book, LONDON CALLING by Deborah Grabien. This is 3rd of 5 in series featuring John “JP” Kincaid, a member of Blacklight, a legendary British rock group. This is mystery light, in that perhaps it is categorized as mystery but the solving of a crime is incidental. The world of the aging rocker in a rock band is the focus. But I liked the first two books. Here is a description:

Newlywed superstar guitarist JP Kinkaid and his wife, Bree, head off to London for their honeymoon. The trip should be idyllic: take care of personal business in London, record a few songs, relax. Their honeymoon gets sidetracked when legendary director Sir Cedric Parmeley enters his 25-year-old rockumentary Playing in the Dark into competition at the Cannes Film Festival, and asks Blacklight to perform a free show at Frejus, near Cannes, to support it. But the film Parmeley screens the night before the Festival opens is not the film the band approved. In that ninety minutes of footage is evidence of an old hate crime, the only kind for which there's no statute of limitations. The men who perpetrated that crime have been hiding in plain sight in beautiful Provence. Their leader is a revenant from Homicide Lieutenant Patrick Ormand's past. And Ormand will stop at nothing to take him down--even if it means putting the band in the crosshairs of a sniper's scope on the red carpet at Cannes.

It was published in 2010 and has 267 pages.

So I've been posting articles to Facebook per usual and one commenter seemed to be wanting to start an argument. I think I've shut it down (she was attacking the source of the article so I provided version another from a different source). The source isn't the issue - the situation in the article always is. I won't back down from debates on Facebook so I will go all day -- until I feel the person has gone complete pointless and stupid then you just have to walk away shaking your head.

I got caught up in watching a show on tv tonight, Brad Meltzer's Decoded. The episode was about Mount Rushmore. Did you know why those presidents were chosen? (Washington, Jefferson, T. Roosevelt, and Lincoln)? Because when the monument was being formed, the idea of American Expansionism was the big thought. So Washington of course for the first president of a new nation, Jefferson for the Louisiana Purchase (not the Declaration), Roosevelt for the Panama Canal, and Lincoln for keeping the country together. And the creator was a member of the KKK. And there is a Hall of Records behind the faces so everyone will know who created such a marvelous thing and why thousands of years from now. (the man had an ego the size of Rushmore). Before that episode was one about Fort Knox -- and that there may not be gold there anymore but the security has been beefed up since 2001 so what's there? Hmmm?

Okay. I'm hearing Steve is home from shooting so time to wrap up.

Much love,
PK the Bookeemonster