Doggo in da hood

Monday in America

 

 

6% strictly due to the virus.

That’s less than H1N1. You know, the virus they didn’t shut the country down over?

This is an Enron-level scandal.

 

 

 

 Have a good day

 

Much love,

PK the Bookeemonster

TGIF

I've finally got bead class tomorrow. This is the bracelet we're doing:

This is my inspiration color scheme:

 

It's supposed to be much cooler on Sunday. 

Have a good weekend

 

Much love,

PK the Bookeemonster 

Busy busy

 

 Thursday. 

I'm going to be watching the last night of the RNC convention. From last night.

Madison Cawthorn: 

Sister Dede Bern

Jack Brewer

So many excellent speakers.

 (I didn't write this)

Land of Promise - Made and Kept

Land of Opportunity and Redemption

Land of Everyday Heroes

Land of Greatness - We Can Do It Again 

 

".....Leftist city and state leaders have abandoned rule of law in favor of supporting the mob effort to destroy our sense of national unity. Political activists, left-wing ideologues under the guise of democrats, and a host of media allies are conducting an information war on behalf of their objective. Big tech social media companies are attempting to remove the voices of those who are fighting back.

.... Do not let your sense of self succumb to this assault. Do not let them win the battle for your peace of mind.

 

It might, heck, -check that- it does seem overwhelming at times. But that is the nature of this collectivist strategy. That is the purpose of this bombardment. We must hold strong and push back against their lies and manipulations. If you look closely at their attack, it is weak and much of it is psychological bait. Do not fall into the trap of despair.

 

When I share the message “live your best life”, it is not without purpose. Every moment that we allow the onslaught to deter us from living our dreams, is a moment those who oppose our nation view as us taking a knee. Do not allow this effort to succeed.

 

You might ask yourself how can I, one person, a flea looking into a furnace, retain an optimistic disposition while all around me seems chaotic and mad.

 

That’s the point; it ‘seems’ chaotic and mad because it has been created to appear that way. There are more of us than them; they just control the systems that allow us to connect, share messages and recognize the scale of our assembly.

 

Every second that you live your life with thankfulness for the abundance within it; every moment that we CHOOSE to engage with fellowship; every day that we accept guidance from God – however you define him to be; and every moment we cherish this time to be a beacon of optimism; is a moment that we withstand that barrage and hold the flag in place. It is a genuinely patriotic position not to succumb to the attack.

 

If you allow yourself to be drawn into crisis and despair, you allow them to win. If your center of normal is based around this overwhelming onslaught, you will eventually concede liberty in favor of peace. Once we stop living in liberty, we no longer have peace.

 

...... I now recognize just how much damage is being done; not just to our nation as a whole, but also to every individual within it – personally.

 

We must shake this mindset. We must withstand this onslaught and rally to the origin of our true national spirit. We must rally to a standard of Americanism and accept this is not that. In essence, we must individually take a stand. Purposefully, deliberately and with forethought, we must engage those around us to get rid of this sense of foreboding.

 

This approach is how we win the larger battle.

 

All around us, in every tribe and region, there are people who need you to show them the strength that you have. Strength of spirit. Strength of fellowship that you will not relent from expressing. No matter what noise is shouting from the loudspeakers we must withstand it; we must make eye contact and remain joyful. We cannot allow despair to be the status quo.

 

......However, our MAGA message is optimistic; and we must fight against any tendency to allow the leftist hatred and scheme against our American value system to impact delivery of that message.

 

.....Which is the point of writing this. Our nation needs more people like you, right now. Don’t wait… engage life, get optimistic however you need to do it. Then let that part of you shine right now… This is how we will win this 2020 campaign. Hold up that flag; give the starter smile… rally to the standard you create and spread fellowship again.

 

God knows our nation needs it, and each of us can easily deliver that message." ~ Sundance from The Conservative Treehouse website

 Have a good day

Much love,

PK the Bookeemonster 

Wednesday

 

 Steve's got the gun range tonight. I've got night 3 of the RNC convention to watch.

 Nick Sandmann

Former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi

Attorney General Daniel Cameron:

So just the usual.

Have a good day

 

Much love,

PK the Bookeemonster 

Tuesday

I watched the first night of the Republican National Convention last night. It was AMAZING. The speakers were so moving. President Trump had two (that I saw) taped interviews with six C-19-involved people and then six former hostages rescued by the Trump administration. I had tears throughout the night. Here are some of the most powerful:

  MAximo Alvarez, an immigrant from Cuba 

 Natalie Harp, survivor of bone cancer due to Right to Try Act:

 Andrew Pollack, father of a Parkland school shooting victim:

 Representative Vernon Jones:

 

So many good moments. I'll be watching it again tonight. 

 About to start reading SHADOWS OF THE DEAD by Spencer Kope. 3rd of 3 in series featuring Magnus “Steps” Craig, the lead investigator for the FBI’s Special Tracking Unit, who can see a “shine” people leave behind, living on Chuckanut Mountain in northwest Washington 

 

 

A woman—abducted and found in the trunk of a car after a high-speed chase—regains consciousness in the ICU to reveal two crucial pieces of information: the man who kidnapped her is not the same as the man who left her in the woods, and she's not the first victim—in fact, she is number eight. Magnus “Steps” Craig is part of the elite three-man Special Tracking Unit of the FBI. Known for his ability to find and follow trails over any surface, Steps is called in on cases that require his unparalleled skills. But there’s a secret to his talent. Steps has a kind of synesthesia where he can see the ‘essence’ of a person—what he calls ‘shine’—on everything they’ve touched. Brought in to track the driver through a dense forest after the blood hounds have lost his trail, Steps and his partner Jimmy find the driver laughing maniacally, babbling about souls, and hiding a pristinely maintained box of eight posed rats. Now the Special Tracking Unit must chase two villains—through not just the real world, but the dark web as well—tracking an enemy they can't see, as time runs out for the unknown victims.

 

Published 2020; 378 pages. This was a surprise. It had been delayed. I wasn't expecting a new release this week.

Have a good day

Much love,

PK the Bookeemonster 

Dog says "meh"

 

 Monday

 Currently reading THE HISTORY OF MONEY by Jack Weatherford. Nonfiction.

  

 In his most widely appealing book yet, one of today's leading authors of popular anthropology looks at the intriguing history and peculiar nature of money, tracing our relationship with it from the time when primitive men exchanged cowrie shells to the imminent arrival of the all-purpose electronic cash card.

Published 1997; 288 pages. 

Also reading THE BETROTHED by Kiera Cass. First in a new SFF series. 

 

 

A would-be queen. A handsome young king. A perfect match…or is it? When King Jameson declares his love for Lady Hollis Brite, Hollis is shocked—and thrilled. After all, she’s grown up at Keresken Castle, vying for the king’s attention alongside other daughters of the nobility. Capturing his heart is a dream come true. But Hollis soon realizes that falling in love with a king and being crowned queen may not be the happily ever after she thought it would be. And when she meets a commoner with the mysterious power to see right into her heart, she finds that the future she really wants is one that she never thought to imagine.

Published 2020. 318 pages. Very similar to her SELECTION series.

And also reading AND THE REST IS HISTORY by Jodi Taylor. 8th of 11 in St. Mary's Chonicles series.

 

Behind the seemingly innocuous facade of St. Mary’s Institute of Historical Research, a different kind of academic work is taking place. Just don’t call it “time travel”—these historians “investigate major historical events in contemporary time.” And they aren’t your harmless eccentrics either; a more accurate description, as they ricochet around history, might be unintentional disaster-magnets. You think you’re having a bad day? Max is trapped in the same deadly sandstorm that buried the fifty thousand-strong army of the Pharaoh Cambyses II, and she’s sharing the only available shelter for miles around with the murdering psychopath who recently kidnapped her and left her adrift in time. She’s no safer at St. Mary’s. Tragedy strikes—not once, but several times—and with no Leon, no Markham, and no Peterson at her side, Max’s personal life slowly begins to unravel. From the Egyptian desert to the Battle of Hastings, and from Bayeux Cathedral to the Sack of Constantinople, Max must race through time to save the ones she loves.

 Published 2017; 376 pages.

 Did a very little chain mail last night. No beading this weekend. Lots of naps and hanging with the boys.

 

And it's 100 degrees out so people are cranky.

 

 That's about it.

 Have a good day

 

Much love,

PK the Bookeemonster 

Don't ask any questions, just drive.

  Thursday.

 

 Nothing really on TV tonight. We'll be having tacos because of leftovers. Probably won't bead. Probably will read.

 

 Yeah, not so much. But I do have good news in that I have a new idea for a book.

 

 Much research to do but this one has legs and not so dependent on immediate current events.

 

Have a good da

Much love,

PK the Bookeemonster 

People make me CRAZY

 

 Wednesday. 

 Steve has the gun range tonight. I've got the usual.

 

 I might we reading this next. THE SKELETON ROAD by Val McDermid. 3rd of 6 in series featuring Detective Inspector Karen Pirie, head of the Cold Case squad in Fife, Scotland.

In the center of historic Edinburgh, Scotland, builders are preparing to demolish a disused Victorian Gothic building. They are understandably surprised to find skeletal remains hidden in a high pinnacle that hasn’t been touched by maintenance for years. Who do the bones belong to, and how did they get there? Could the eccentric British pastime of free climbing the outside of buildings play a role? Enter cold case detective Karen Pirie, who gets to work trying to establish the corpse’s identity. And when it turns out the bones may be from as far away as former Yugoslavia, Karen will need to dig deeper than she ever imagined into the tragic history of the Balkans: to war crimes and their consequences, and ultimately to the notion of what justice is and who serves it.

 Published 2014; 417 pages.

Have a good day

 

Much love,

PK the Bookeemonster 

Mood:

 

 Tuesday. 

It's still very hot out. Blech.

 

 Leftovers for dinner tonight probably. I'd like to watch a show on HGTV, Good Bones. A daughter and mom company that refurbishes houses in Indianapolis. I like it.

I'd also like to finish the red bead mix crochet bracelet. I'm very close.

 And then read and go to bed.

 

  Have a good day

Much love,

PK the Bookeemonster 

Monday

 

 Currently reading THE ESCAPE ROOM by Megan Goldin. Stand alone.

 

Welcome to the escape room. Your goal is simple. Get out alive.

In the lucrative world of finance, Vincent, Jules, Sylvie, and Sam are at the top of their game. They’ve mastered the art of the deal and celebrate their success in style—but a life of extreme luxury always comes at a cost. Invited to participate in an escape room challenge as a team-building exercise, the ferociously competitive co-workers crowd into the elevator of a high-rise building, eager to prove themselves. But when the lights go off and the doors stay shut, it quickly becomes clear that this is no ordinary competition: they’re caught in a dangerous game of survival. Trapped in the dark, the colleagues must put aside their bitter rivalries and work together to solve cryptic clues to break free. But as the game begins to reveal the team’s darkest secrets, they realize there’s a price to be paid for the terrible deeds they committed in their ruthless climb up the corporate ladder. As tempers fray, and the clues turn deadly, they must solve one final chilling puzzle: which one of them will kill in order to survive?

Published 2019; 377 pages.

 

 

 

Have a good day

 

Much love,

PK the Bookeemonster