Another hot and humid day

Howdy, y'all....just taking a break from chores to do some updates.

Finally finished reading the Faye Kellerman book "Straight into Darkness" and let me tell you I was pleasantly surprised. I bought this book at a bargain just because of the Kellerman name, she's Jonathan Kellerman's wife and i figured they'd have similar writing styles. Once i got it home I read the cover and inside flap and discovered it was a historical novel and i thought, oh no, a nonfiction book about wwII. But once i got into it it turned out to be a nonfiction novel about a policeman in pre WWII Germany. There's some murders in Munich and the police suspect a serial killer. He has to solve the murders amist the political chaos. The city has rallies that have to do with Hitler giving speeches and there's riots and stuff. At the end he finds that the killer was one of the cops but if he were to bring him in that's be political as well as personal suicide so he makes a deal with the chief of police to spare his family if the chief kills him and pretends that he was shot bringing down the killer (the killer is killed). So in a sense he sacrifies himself to spare his family who is given free passage to the united states to escape the ever escalating conflict in Germany and he is given credit for killing the serial killer. In the beginning you have a prelude by an old man talking about himself and at the end you get an epilogue by the same old man and it turns out to be the policeman's son who during all this he was just a teenager and in the end he was already an old man. So all in all it was a pretty good book. It combines the two things I like best, murder mysteries and history. Pleasantly surprised, maybe i'll read more of her books because this is her specialty. Two thumbs up.

Yesterday we went to see Hellboy II. Got a RAD award at work and I had a choice of prizes so I chose two movie passes. Movie was cool, typical Guillermo Del Toro film, monsters and stuff plus it was about Hellboy. I'm pretty sure there will be a sequel because his girlfriend turns out to be pregnant with twins. Figures.

Went shopping and got some new curtains for the kitchen. I was only able to put the lower half because I was short a rod and won't be able to put the valance up until i get a new one. Also got a new camera so I'll have more pictures to share. You can't really see the pictures on the curtains but they're some cute chefs in the kitchen. I figured the place needed some color and character.

To break in the camera i took some pictures of Maggie and this is the one i liked the most. This is what she does all day when we're out and about. Okay, so that's me behind her but for the record I was reading and not sleeping. Isn't she the cutest ever?

Well, ready to start another week of work. Except that tomorrow is also the first day of school for many so there's gonna be alot of traffic out there. Be careful!!

Summer Almost Over

Well, nothing major to talk about, everything has been pretty quiet lately. Outside right now is overcast, i hope it rains before tomorrow am so that the morning commute won't be so bad. An overnight storm would be a-okay :)

Went over to the Bijou today to watch Tell No One-one of those french imports. It's about this man whose wife is killed and since he was attacked too (he was in a coma for a couple of days) can't remember what happened. It turns out that she and her father faked her death because she killed this guy who beat the crap out of her when she confronted him about some kids he'd been molesting. The guy's family is this big ole important one so they feared for her life. The man keeps getting emails hinting that his wife might still be alive and it turns out at the end that she was. It was pretty good, considering that it in french w/english subtitles. I could only make out a few phrases at a time but it was alright.

Oh, guess what? Sylvia and I went to go get tickets for the Sept 6 Enrique Iglesias concert. So what if some other group will be there too, I'll try to ignore them :). We thought Monica would be able to go with us but she couldn't at the last moment. We didn't pry. Oh well. I'm sure we'll have fun. At least Joel's glad he doesn't have to go with me.

Bought a new digital camera and as soon as I take some pictures worth posting I'll do it. My intention is to share a new photo each week and hopefully update this blog more often and share more stuff that's going on. Hopefully.

I've been reading the newspaper more thoroughly now and because of that I've been reading about how this flight attendant was suing Victoria Osteen for attacking her during a flight because she took too long in cleaning up a spill on her seat. Well, to make a long story short she was acquitted of all charges and the plaintiff was told by the jury foreman that the whole thing was a waste of everyone's time. It took 2-3 years, I can't remember but the lady wanted 10% of Victoria's net worth as compensation for her humiliation and because she was traumatized. She was told that if she hadn't brought the whole deal up she wouldn't have been humiliated in the first place. Ha Ha. What some people would do for a buck. Get back to work, you lazy bum.

The next holiday around her is Labor Day, so at least we have a day off to look forward to. This weekend was the tax free shopping days before the start of a new school year so of course we avoided the stores at all cost. Except when we went shopping for the camera but that was at Best Buy, so....aside from that--keep away.

The 26th is dad's 69th bday. Hopefully I'll remember to send him a card, I've been slacking off lately and have a collection of cards that I bought w/every intention of sending out but never did. Oh well

Another hot day ahead

It's August around here and you can tell by the weather outside. What else would you expect at this time of the year except 100 degree weather?

Since i last updated this.....

we had a hurricane last week. It hit Brownsville directly but didn't do much damage. It was a tropical storm when it was only a few miles off the coast but when it make landfall it had upgraded to a category 2. That's why a lot of people didn't really prepare because they thought i'd be no big deal but they had almost a day and a half of rain and 100 mph winds. Even though mom and dad's house and susan's did okay, some people did loose their homes. There's still some flooding right now.

Mary and family went on a road trip for the last few days. They were here last night on their way back home. They escaped the hurricane but walked right in to an earthquake. Last week during the earthquake in California they happened to still be there. After it hit Mary called me all freaked out, that they had just had an earthquake. It was funny in a way because never in their wildest dreams did they think they'd be going through that so they were unprepared, they didn't know what to do but they're okay.

We haven't been able to go watch the new batman movie but maybe we'll catch The Mummy tomorrow.

Last Saturday we went to Graham Central Station to celebrate Sylvia's bday. Here 35th. Ha! She'll kill me for saying that. Usually we don't frequent those places but we made an exception. It was funny because i had to show my id before security would let me in. That gets kinda old eventually. Chavis and Venetta were there as well as her brother and sister in law. She did her share of dancing with Chavis but we just hung out, had a beer, and left around 11 oclock. As soon as we got home we tossed the clothes into the hamper and had to take a shower cuz our hair was all stinky of cigarette smoke. Yesterday she gave out thank you notes in appreciation for what we did to help her celebrate her bday. At work we got her a card, took up a collection to get her a gift card from JCPenney and took her out to lunch. I also made some strawberry cupcakes that thankfully came out pretty good. They tasted even better with the strawberry frosting.

We recently downgraded our cable to just basic service and i'm still trying to get used to it. I miss watching the closer, all the usa series and of course, dr who on sci fi (yesterday was the season finale) but i decided it was time to cut the cord and find more productive things to do w/my time. I received the assignment back and i have to buckle down and start working on the next one even though it's not due until the 24th but last month i turned it in late. I need to work on my writing some more and do some other stuff.