Just happy

I have had an enjoyable day. Really nice. Without the newsletter hanging over me, I went to Barnes and Noble and had coffee with my friend Tami and then we browsed in the clearance bins. I found some fun things there, for instance, a wire little basket thing that is supposed to be used for lockers for high school I guess but I got one for the fridge and I think I may go back and get more. I picked up a few magazines and I splurged on a copy ATLAS SHRUGGED by Ayn Rand. I read that 20 years ago and really, really liked it. I would like to see how it holds up for me now. When I'll read it....I'm not sure yet. Much on the TBR. Tami and I said we'll maybe make a habit of doing that every couple weeks -- after pay day.

I'm currently reading the nonfiction by Ron Suskind, as I mentioned, CONFIDENCE MEN and I'm maybe getting halfway through it now but I'm also reading SUP WITH THE DEVIL by Barbara Hamilton. This is 3rd of 3 in series featuring Abigail Adams, the future first lady, married to a rebellious lawyer, in mid-1770s Massachusetts Colony. Here is a summary:

After an attempt on the life of her young nephew Horace, Abigail Adams, wife of attorney John Adams, travels to Harvard to investigate. A mysterious woman hired Horace to translate some Arabic, then left him at the mercy of her henchmen. He survived-with a tale of pirate treasure... Meanwhile one of Horace's fellow students-loyal to the King-is murdered. The Sons of Liberty are desperate to find the rumored gold, but Abigail wants the truth. For the Devil's treasure comes with a curse that could bring down anyone, regardless of where their allegiance lies.

It was published last week and 336 pages.

I've also been working on cleaning out my office this afternoon. That is a huge endeavor. Papers, CDs, books and books and books and computer parts. I'll continue that tomorrow.

Next weekend is the Friends of the Library sale. I don't know yet if I'll figure out a way to take some time off from work like I did last year. I'm also going to be very picky in what I get.

Steve has been gone all day coaching a gun class at the gun club. I don't know yet what's for dinner and don't think anything is on tv for me.

It was dark and rainy and lovely again until this afternoon when the sun came out. Bah.

Much love,

PK the Bookeemonster

This is not how I am on the phone. Really.

Friday, it is here at last. And it was a dark and rainy day and completely wasted at work. Bah. Got the boys a second igloo for outside. Ryker not participating in it at this time.

Took the boys for a wet walk after work, now I've got taco soup cooking on the stove. Will have Fritos and shredded cheese with it while watching The Factor and Say Yes to the Dress.

Tomorrow, I don't have to work on the newsletter so I'm hoping to do some cleaning of the office and I may be going for coffee with my friend Tami. It's supposed to be dark and rainy again so that will be lovely.

Much to read. Last night I pretty much only got two days of WSJ read. Not making much progress in other places.

Stay warm and cozy....

Much love,
PK the Bookeemonster

Well I didn't see that one coming

So this morning, the dishwasher repair guy was supposed to come. Their window was between 9 and 1. Oh boy. I requested the morning off to be here. They call at 11 to say they have the wrong part -- it shipped in the box with the right part number but the part inside the box is wrong. It took us calling and calling after they were here three weeks ago after saying it would only take a week to 10 days to get the part and now they have to order it again. Not a happy camper.

Been busy at work and feeling yucky the last couple days. But maybe it's passed now. We'll see. It's finally dark and rainy! I'm thinking chili or soup or something tonight.

I also got my new computer -- but it keeps turning itself off so somehow it is overheating. It's a refurbish but should be better than this. :)

Lots and lots of reading to do tonight. I went to bed early -- earlier than usual -- last night due to ill feeling but must read newspapers, books, mags, websites, etc. No time to waste, since I still have to make dinner AND STILL DO THE FREAKIN' DISHES! I DON'T LIKE BROKEN MACHINES ANY MORE!

Much love, PK the Bookeemonster

there are days like that

Rough day at work, short a couple of people.

I got groceries after work, went to Albertsons, and between coupons and store specials, I saved $67. I made a couple mistakes with the coupons but it was my first time doing it and I'm learning. :)

Steve has a board meeting tonight. I've been catching up on emails. I think Steve got a couple new computers for work and got me a new one as well to replace the office box. I'm not big on fancy graphics, I just want blazing fast internet processing. :)

I picked up the new Barbara Hamilton book today, SUP WITH THE DEVIL. Her protagonist is Abigail Adams. I don't usually like real life people to be sleuths but I love the American Revolution time period so I like the series. I don't know if I'll start it tonight. I'm hoping to keep going with the Suskind book. I also have Kindle arcs via Netgalley of the new Laurie R King and Margaret Maron to read. Uff da. I won't really mention all the nonfiction books I have, either. I need to really really read the WSJ. I didn't last night so I have two to read tonight and it's already after 8:00.

Chris Christie announced (again) that he's not running for Pres. Yay! The more I learn about him the more I don't like. He believes in global warming and would like to shut down coal production. Yikes. Christie was beginning to sound like Favre to me -- he's in, no he's out, wait he's in, no really he's out.... There's plenty of candidates who DO want the job. Cain is the guy for me, I've decided. I'm a little nervous about 9-9-9 but at least it's a flat tax.

Gotta go.

Much love,
PK the Bookeemonster

That is totally my dogs

Oh the phones were ringing off the hook today. Uff da.

I posted the last printed Premeditated issues today. Time to move on to other things. What I'd like to do is figure how to get by with less sleep. I have things I'd like to do in the evenings but I conk out by 9-ish. If I could stay awake until 11 that would be terrific. I don't think there is anything on TV tonight so maybe I can read the newspaper and wouldn't it be great to finally watch an episode of GBTB?

I read a big chunk of the Suskind book yesterday evening. This is a book about the failing economy of 2008 and the "education of a president" -- Obama with no management experience taking over the governing of the US -- and failing. So it goes very heavily into the financial bubble and so forth and it must have been in my brain as I as slept. Also in my brain, is the rule that we have to note accounts whenever we take a call -- all accounts. So I woke up from a dream last night in which I was trying to make a note in an account because I'd just gotten off the phone with someone so I make a note (in my dream) "spoke with Tim Geithner regarding $24 billion." So what in the heck was my brain working on, eh?

I don't know if I'll get a chance to read that tonight if I work on the WSJ but I'll try. It is very interesting, sometimes over my head, but I'm learning a lot. The book I was reading last month was about the rise and fall of Enron. Sadly, the EXACT SAME THING caused the financial bubble of 2008 and of course they've made it worse by believing everything is too big to fail. The bad thing is, when things fail, people learn a lesson from it. They haven't.

Much love,
PK the Bookeemonster

Bartender, I'll have a marguerita, rocks, no salt

They do this to me all the time!! The Cowboys were frickin' ahead by 20 points and then they lose!! Why do they do this??? Why can't I choose a different team??? Romo was actually looking in fairly good form from being injured so how did the defense let it go? I just don't get it.

I finished the last issue of my newsletter today. It just never got off the ground to become the side business I envisioned it to be and I had no marketing money after the big blowout to launch it. I'm feeling ... mostly relieved. There is so much I want and need to do on weekends but the newsletter took all my time. More time to read, at the very least, will be nice.

Last night we watched four episodes of a series on Cinemax called Strike Back. One after the other. It is about a strike force out of the UK that no one really knows about. Each storyline is about two episodes in length. It has the cable TV requirements: graphic sex and graphic violence. I think right now there are two more episodes available for us to see but according to IMDB, the first season is 10 in length. The first two eps were around a Mumbai-type terrorist hostage situation in India but the overall goal is to get big time bad guy Latif. Actually, looking at IMDB, we're watching their second season though it's the first for Cinemax. Hunh. And the 3rd/4th eps were in Cape Town.

So, I've got a load of clothes in the wash and dinner is in the crockpot. Not much else happening.

Much love,
PK the Bookeemonster

Ok, that's big

Up early with the dogs, per usual. Then had to rush to get to my haircut appointment at 8. Got some cleaning done and worked on the newsletter for most of the day.

Now, this evening, Steve is going to pick up some dinner -- we haven't figured out what yet but maybe Quizno's -- and with nothing on TV tonight (Cops has been preempted by a repeat of a new show they've been hyping up the wazoo), we may watch something from On Demand. I'm pushing for The Lincoln Lawyer or Xmen: First Class but we may watch episodes of First Strike from Cinemax that has an actor from Camelot in it.

I need to do some serious reading this weekend though I don't know if I'll get much of an opportunity. I need to put some more time on the newsletter tomorrow to finish it. I still haven't watched any episodes of GBTV. But I have books, newspaper, magazines... It doesn't help that when I do have time I somehow wind up watching something on TV, like I think Thursday evening I wound up watching Ocean's Eleven which I've seen a gabillion times but I think it's a brilliantly done film. Just now, I spent too much time watching a doc on Turner Classic Movies about epic films before walking away to write this blog.

Tomorrow both the Steelers' and the Cowboys' games are on tv at 11. We don't have Ice Road Truckers to watch in the evenings anymore so maybe I'll be free. :)

It was blazing hot today, I think I heard 91 or 92 which is crazy for the first day of October. I think we broke a record. Hello, Fall, I'm waiting...

Much love,
PK the Bookeemonster