Friday, August 30, 2019

Friday Happy Dance


TGIF!


Oh the leisure plans I have! Netflix is my buddy this weekend. Instead of waiting for the end of the total airing in the UK of The Great British Baking Show ten or so weeks from now
 

....and realizing all of their US viewers would find black market streaming of it (and I probably would) .....
 

  ..... Netflix is releasing it early here, in fact the day after it airs in the UK.


 

And guess what? The first episode is available today!


Also today is the release day for the Netflix miniseries continuation of The Dark Crystal movie from the 80s. The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance.




Tonight we have the Battlebots and I have Making the Team.


LivePD isn't live this weekend.

Otherwise, I have two beading magazines to read through.


And the usual beading, reading, napping, and Internet-ing. For three whole days.



Have a good weekend



Much love,
PK the Bookeemonster

Thursday, August 29, 2019

Yes, if I tilt my head I CAN see the weekend!


TGIF Eve.


Nothing on TV tonight. I'll make some taco salad and then do the usual stuff before finally going to bed.





Have a good day



Much love,
PK the Bookeemonster

Wednesday, August 28, 2019

But smarter and easier


Wednesday before a three-day weekend. The employees are requesting days off to make it stretch longer. Will I be doing that?


I'll be happy with three.


Steve has the gun range tonight. I don't have anything on TV. I'll probably read.



Have a good day



Much love,
PK the Bookeemonster

Tuesday, August 27, 2019

Youse need a little ... encouragement ... maybe?


Tuesday. Still a work day.


Nothing on TV tonight. Last night I started THE RED THREAD: A Search for Ideological Drivers Inside the Anti-Trump Conspiracy by Diane West.

The first investigation into why a ring of senior Washington officials went rogue to derail the election and the presidency of Donald Trump. There was nothing normal about the 2016 presidential election, not when senior U.S. officials were turning the surveillance powers of the federal government—designed to stop terrorist attacks—against the Republican presidential team. These were the ruthless tactics of a Soviet-style police state, not a democratic republic. The Red Thread asks the simple question: Why? What is it that motivated these anti-Trump conspirators from inside and around the Obama administration and Clinton networks to depart so drastically from “politics as usual” to participate in a seditious effort to overturn an election? Finding clues in an array of sources, Diana West uses her trademark investigative skills, honed in her dazzling work, American Betrayal, to construct a fascinating series of ideological profiles of well-known but little understood anti-Trump actors, from James Comey to Christopher Steele to Nellie Ohr, and the rest of the Fusion GPS team; from John Brennan to the numerous Clintonistas still patrolling the Washington Swamp after all these years, and more. Once, we knew these officials by august titles and reputation; after The Red Thread, readers will recognize their multi-generational and inter-connecting communist and socialist pedigrees, and see them for what they really are: foot-soldiers of the Left, deployed to take down America’s first “America First” and most anti-Communist president. If we just give it a pull, the “red thread” is very long and very deep.

Published 2019; 131 pages. Very interesting. For instance, I had forgotten that John Brennan, former director of the CIA, had converted to Wahhabist Islam (extreme) while he was CIA station chief in Riyadh in the 90s. Should he have ever been Director of CIA? No.

I hope to make more headway in it tonight.





Have a good day



Much love,
PK the Bookeemonster

Monday, August 26, 2019

Do we really have to be here?


Yes, but hey, next weekend is three days!


Not much to report from the weekend. I didn't go the seminar on Saturday, deciding to stay home with the boys. I did read a romance book.

FROM LUKOV WITH LOVE by Mariana Zapata.

If someone were to ask Jasmine Santos to describe the last few years of her life with a single word, it would definitely be a four-letter one. After seventeen years—and countless broken bones and broken promises—she knows her window to compete in figure skating is coming to a close. But when the offer of a lifetime comes in from an arrogant idiot she’s spent the last decade dreaming about pushing in the way of a moving bus, Jasmine might have to reconsider everything. Including Ivan Lukov.

Published 2018; 524 pages.


Have a good day



Much love,
PK the Bookeemonster

Friday, August 23, 2019

Thank God it's Friday!


TGIF


Tonight on TV we have Battlebots and Live PD. I also have Making the Team.


Tomorrow afternoon I may be going to a seminar and if so, I also need to finish a bracelet to give to a friend. I need to get groceries this weekend. I need to bead. I need to clean.



Have a good weekend



Much love,
PK the Bookeemonster

Thursday, August 22, 2019

Holding on for one more day


Thursday. So close.


Nothing on TV tonight. I'm feeling better. It would be good to bead but I may spend the time working on a "goal journal" I got.




Because there's things I'd like to get done but I'm a very successful procrastinator



After looking at many many  many different "systems" I'm going with a "Go Journal" that tracks three goals for the next 90 days. One of the simpler ones out there so I have a chance to actually follow it rather than it becoming another goal that I don't keep.


Not much else going on right now.



Have a good day



Much love,
PK the Bookeemonster

Wednesday, August 21, 2019

Wednesday ... it's only Wednesday


Here we are.



I'm still feeling rather worn out. I think I may be fighting off a bug or something.


 I wanted to do some beading tonight but I may just read a little bit and get some sleep.

 


Just starting THE LAST WIDOW by Karin Slaughter 9th of 9 in series featuring Will Trent, an agent with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, in Atlanta.


On a hot summer night, a scientist from the Centers for Disease Control is grabbed by unknown assailants in a shopping center parking lot. The authorities are desperate to save the doctor who’s been vanished into thin air. One month later, the serenity of a sunny Sunday afternoon is shattered by the boom of a ground-shaking blast—followed by another seconds later. One of Atlanta’s busiest and most important neighborhoods has been bombed—the location of Emory University, two major hospitals, the FBI headquarters, and the CDC. Medical examiner Sara Linton and her partner Will Trent, an investigator with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, rush to the scene—and into the heart of a deadly conspiracy that threatens to destroy thousands of innocent lives. When the assailants abduct Sara, Will goes undercover to save her and prevent a massacre—putting his own life on the line for the woman and the country he loves.

Published 2019; 464 pages. Oh, how I love Will Trent. :)


Have a good day



Much love,
PK the Bookeemonster

Tuesday, August 20, 2019

Threats but not too bad really


Tuesday. Just .... Tuesday.



Nothing on TV tonight. I finished the Rothfuss book last night.


It was very good but definitely the first part of a trilogy. I'll read one or two or so of others things to cleanse the palate before continuing. I'm still way behind my reading goal for the year. Ah well.


I just barely started to figure out the new beading technique this weekend, bead crochet, when I realized that learning it with six different shades of white and so-pale-they're-practically-white beads probably wasn't a good idea.


So what I am going to do is switch to the jewel tones to learn that technique and use the white/pale ones to do the very similar looking "peyote with a twist" stitch (also needing to learn that with a youtube video) and see if there's a huge difference in the look using the same sized beads. An experiment.


So tonight , I could choose a new book, work on some beading, or go to bed because today has also been tired out but not as bad as yesterday.



Have a good day



Much love,
PK the Bookeemonster