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Week of 13 February 2006

Latest Update: Sunday, 19 February 2006 12:20 p.m.


Monday, 13 February 2006

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Over the weekend I read the newest Lee Harris mystery, Murder in Alphabet City. Harris writes two series, this one being her newest with only a couple of titles, is set in Manhattan featuring NYPD detective Jane Bauer. Jane recently began working on a team who investigate cold cases. In this one, the team starts out investigating the death of a reclusive schizophrenic. The team knows it has very little chance of solving what appears to be a case of suicide by starvation with most of the tenants not longer living in the apartment complex and very few other leads. However, while investigating the case Jane learns the social worker responsible for the guy also committed suicide not longer after. When the team finally stumbles upon a couple of possible key connections to the social worker they end up dead. 

While I like Harris' other series featuring ex-nun Christine Bennett with all holiday titles her new series is superb. These police procedurals are well written with a lot of depth to the plot and characters.

I am now reading the next book in the Dido Hoare series by Marianne MacDonald, Road Kill.

In addition to getting in a lot of reading I watched a great deal of the Olympics. A local young man from Greensboro won in the speed skating either last night or today, I cannot remember. Bob has the local stations live report of the action on the Olympics right now.



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Tuesday, 14 February 2006

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Wednesday, 15 February 2006

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First I would like to wish a very happy birthday to two of my friends, Marcia and my co-worker Jackie.

Speaking of work, I am hard at work on the destruction project. Today was a busy day physically as well as mentally.

Last night I made the 6:30 spin class making it rather late by the time I got back home and taking time to check my mail. I flipped back and forth between the Duke/Wake Forest game and the Olympics until 9:30 then went on to bed to read.

Tomorrow morning dad is having out patient surgery on his right hand for carpel tunnel and something else to do with an area just below his thumb. Hopefully this will restore the circulation back into his hand which has been causing a lot of dexterity problems as well as not being able to withstand the cold temperatures.

I will pick him and mom up around 9:30 to take them over. The surgery is not supposed to take very long. If all goes well he should be home by 1:00 so that I can go on to work.

Tomorrow night I need to do the weekly shopping plus make a library and pet store run so I doubt I will be back again before Friday.

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Thursday, 16 February 2006

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Friday, 17 February 2006

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Dad's hand surgery went fine. He is still pretty tough for 83. I had him and mom back home by 1:15 making it to work by 1:30. Until he starts rehab next week I have no idea how long he will be out of commission concerning golf and yard activities.

I  started  reading a new series last night, the Hamish Macbeth mysteries written by M. C. Beaton.  The first two books in the series are not available in the library which start in 1985 so I had to settle for beginning  with number three  Death of an Outsider. Bob said the Hamish mysteries are similar to Rhys Bowen's Evan Evans series the main  difference being they are set in Scotland as opposed to Wales. I like to keep several series going at one time so I can switch back and forth.

Well, just another normal weekend for me. We do not get Monday off for President's Day. Our next holiday will be Memorial Day the end of May but I have a week of vacation planned for the second week of May. It will be a long haul until I get time off again other than the weekends unless I take a day between now and then.

Bob called this afternoon to tell me it was 77 degrees outside. With forecast lows tonight to be 39 and a chance of sleet/rain for tomorrow it has to start dropping pretty fast. As of right now it is still a balmy 55 degrees.



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Saturday, 18 February 2006

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As Bob posted on his page this morning, our friend Mary Chervenak entered an essay contest. Please read her wonderful, funny story and vote by following the link below. I read all five essays and, in MHO, hers is by far the funniest. Hearing Paul and Mary recite many of their real life camping adventures I bet  this one may be based on an actual experience.

http://www.hornytoad.com/za/HT?PAGE=CONTESTS

This morning when I left for the gym at 8:30 it was cloudy with temperatures about 40 degrees. When I came out of the gym at 10am it was pouring snow. It has been snowing steadily since but the ground is too warm for it to stick. The rain/sleet/snow event is to continue for most of today and into tonight but with very little in the way of accumulation due the warm ground temperatures.

I am modeling again today, hands of course, as Bob builds a new system for the next edition of Building the Perfect PC. In between modeling I will watch some Olympics, maybe the Bush race from Florida and perhaps some golf this afternoon. I also want Bob to get me started on writing some of the constellation chapters for the new astronomy book. 

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Sunday, 19 February 2006

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The weekly cleaning chores are completed. I am working on various projects including paying bills and organizing the Friends of Library notebook having just taken over the job of secretary.

The Daytona 500 starts at 1:30. We did not finish getting Bob's computer built yesterday which we shall complete this afternoon.

Around 4:45 we are picking up mom and dad from their house then stopping by Pizza Hut to pick up some food on the way to Frances and Al's for dinner.

The day dawned sunny and cold. It is not to climb out of the 30's today. So far, we have been fortunate to get either cold or wet but not both at the same time. While I love snow, I am glad we have not had an ice storm thus far.

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