Every thing's fine, it's fine.

 Monday (BTW, this is a photo of a dog catching a snack). Receptionist out for another day. She texted last night that she was 75-80% better and would come in this morning and try to work until noon. I said

 

 Maybe tomorrow. I made the decision last week that I wasn't going to do her work for her either. No one does my work when I'm out sick.

 

 So I had a pretty good weekend. Got the hair cut. Went to the coffee shop for beading group. Jim was sick, Jodie had a headache, Carol never comes, so it was just Ann and Patt and I. And then Barb showed up to surprise us. I knew she was going to do something like that at some point. It was a nice visit.

 

I put together two more found objects necklaces that turned out very good, in my humble opinion. The pearl and rhinestone one confounds me. But I WILL make it work.

 

I'm currently re-reading THE LADY CHAPEL by Candace Robb. 2nd of 13 in series featuring Owen Archer, a spy for the Archbishop, in medieval York.

 

Summer in the year of our Lord 1365: On the night after the Corpus Christi procession, a man is brutally murdered on the steps of York Minster. The next morning his severed hand is found in a room at the York Tavern—a room hastily vacated by a fellow guild member who had quarreled with the victim. Archbishop Thoresby calls on Owen Archer to investigate. As Owen tracks the fleeing merchant, he uncovers a conspiracy involving a powerful company of traders, but his only witness is a young boy who has gone into hiding, and his only suspect is a mysterious cloaked woman. When Owen discovers a link between the traders and a powerful coterie in the royal court, he brings his apothecary wife, Lucie, into the race to find the boy before he is silenced forever by the murderers.

Published 1993;  402 pages.

Steve had a stomach bug this weekend, very similar to what one of our techs had last week. He's better now.

 

Hmmm. That's about it. Tonight we have Street Outlaws. I probably won't work on found objects or any beading. 

 

Have a good day

 

 Much love,

PK the Bookeemonster 

TGIF! Rawhhrr!

 Friday.

 

I've got a haircut tomorrow and then beading. The doggos won't be happy with me.

 

 Otherwise, Steve and I will just be relaxing our hardest to get over this week and prepare for next.

 

I've got to work on my Found Objects. And then the usual stuff.

 

Have a good day

 

Much love,

PK the Bookeemonster

Again

 Thursday. Receptionist taking another day. It's been a long week.

 

 Steve and I would be watching Battlebots tonight being Thursday but he's gotta meet with a friend so I'll have dinner and read. I didn't read last night because I left my Kindle on the charger at work.

 

 As I mentioned it's been a long week. I'd love to do nothing this weekend but I've got a haircut and I need to go to beading on Saturday. It's the last one for a while that is at the coffee place. It's paid for so I don't want it be a waste of money with very few showing up.

 

 But I do. I'll maybe take next Saturday off from beading. It will be back at Jim's house and nothing personal. Just one time off.

 

 But I do have to work on my Found Objects, no question.

Have a good day

 

 Much love, 

PK the Bookeemonster 

I don't feel like playing office anymore today

 Wednesday. Receptionist still out. One tech out for second day, one tech out in the afternoon for doctors' appointments. Lots of calls about where door orders are.

 

 Steve's got the gun range tonight. I should work on my found objects projects but I think I may just read tonight.

 

 I'm at 53% on the PLANETSIDE book. I'm at 31% on the David Weber book. I think I may also do the yearly goal of reading one nonfiction book a month again. I will be starting Peter Schweizer's newest book, RED-HANDED: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win.

 

Peter Schweizer says that, in a quarter-century as an investigative journalist, this is the scariest investigation he has ever conducted. That the Chinese government seeks to infiltrate American institutions is hardly surprising. What is wholly new, however, are the number of American elites who are eager to help the Chinese dictatorship in its quest for global hegemony. Presidential families, Silicon Valley gurus, Wall Street high rollers, Ivy League universities, even professional athletes—all willing to sacrifice American strength and security on the altar of personal enrichment.In Red-Handed, six-time New York Times bestselling investigator Peter Schweizer presents his most alarming findings to date by revealing the secret deals wealthy Americans have cut to help China build its military, technological, and economic might. Equally as astonishing, many of these elites quietly believe the Chinese dictatorial regime is superior to American democracy. Schweizer and his team of forensic investigators spent over a year scouring a massive trove of global corporate records and legal filings to expose the hidden transactions China’s enablers hoped would never see the light of day. And as Schweizer’s past bombshells like Profiles in Corruption, Secret Empires, and Clinton Cash all made clear, there are bad actors on both ends of the political spectrum. Exhaustively researched, crisply told, and chilling, Red-Handed will expose the nexus of power between the Chinese government and the American elites who do its bidding.  

 Published 2022; 348 pages. It came out yesterday. His investigative skills are spot on.

 

Have a good day

 

Much love,

PK the Bookeemonster 

I know the feeling

 Tuesday. 

 We're just plugging along. We've got Curse of Oak Island tonight. I also have live Thunderhorses tonight (Randee of found objects) and tonight is bingo night.

 

 Steve's going to have left over enchirito for dinner; I need to make a pot of soup for lunches but will also serve as my dinner tonight.

 

 That's about it. 

Have a good day

 

Much love,

PK the Bookeemonster

Keeping a low profile

Monday. Receptionist is out today and tomorrow at the very least. Her husband tested positive on Saturday though with mild symptoms. She tested positive yesterday with pretty much no symptoms. But I still get to answer phones and deal with walk in traffic, etc. 

 

 So, yeah, inconvenient.

 

I had a nice time on Saturday at the coffee shop with my beading buddies. And I worked on my Found Objects yesterday, completing two necklaces.

 

 Tonight we have Street Outlaws to watch. I'll be making tater tot casserole for dinner. Then to bed for tomorrow will be exactly like this one.

 

 

Have a good day

 

Much love,

PK the Bookeemonster

Beautiful

 

TGIF

I'll probably go to beading group tomorrow. I don't know if I'll bring the peyote bracelet I brought last weekend just to have something to work on or if I'll bring all my tools and stuff for working on a Found Object necklace. Here's a photo of a couple of the designs I came up with.

The circled items are the found objects in the pieces. I came up with a couple more this morning before work. So five so far. At least one or two more to come.

It's been a rough week. I need to decompress and otherwise not be around people or problems.

Reading, beading, napping, binge-ing.

Have a good weekend

Much love,

PK the Bookeemonster

Happy Fri ... Damn, it's only Thursday

 Thursday

 We've got Battlebots on TV tonight.

I was only going to separate and organize the found objects beads and wound up designing three necklaces. I think they're kinda amazing. I've got to take a photo of the design so I can make them this weekend.

 

So I'm a little ahead of the game on that. 

I'm sticking with the PLANTETSIDE book of the three I'm currently reading. It's hitting the spot with SciFi with a touch of crime fiction.

 

 Have a good day

Much love,

PK the Bookeemonster 

Well, let me tell ya ....

 Wednesday

 

Steve's got the gun range tonight. 

 

 I received my found objects for January.

 

 I'm sensing something will be pink. The interesting thing is the rhinestone looking bracelet isn't cup chain though it looks like it. It's individual units that are usually called montees. I think cup chain might have been easier. Ah well.

 

I didn't meet up with the bead buddies at lunch today. It would probably take 15 minutes there and 15 minutes back so 30 minutes in the middle just isn't enough to make it worth it today.

 

 I might be starting (also) PLANETSIDE by Michael Mammay. 1st of a SFF trilogy, I think.

 

War heroes aren't usually called out of semi-retirement and sent to the far reaches of the galaxy for a routine investigation. So when Colonel Carl Butler answers the call from an old and powerful friend, he knows it's something big—and he's not being told the whole story. A high councilor's son has gone MIA out of Cappa Base, the space station orbiting a battle-ravaged planet. The young lieutenant had been wounded and evacuated—but there's no record of him having ever arrived at hospital command. The colonel quickly finds Cappa Base to be a labyrinth of dead ends and sabotage: the hospital commander stonewalls him, the Special Ops leader won't come off the planet, witnesses go missing, radar data disappears, and that’s before he encounters the alien enemy. Butler has no choice but to drop down onto a hostile planet—because someone is using the war zone as a cover. The answers are there—Butler just has to make it back alive…

 Published 2018; 265 pages.

 I think I'm going to make some Zuppa Toscano soup for myself tonight and for lunches.

 Have a good day

 

Much love,

PK the Bookeemonster