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Juli had to get up at 3AM in order to be at work at 4 to conduct the tag sweeper crews working the merchandise before the inventory counters.  The problem is that coffee shops don't open until 5.

So on my way to my mechanic at 7 I stopped by her store and dropped of a 20 once Latte.

The mechanic...  Well, my "check engine" light has been on for the past week.  Previously when that occurred my mechanic said it was the [insert Charlie Brown adult trumpet here], an expensive and unnecessary repair, but this time I just wanted to be sure.  Turns out I needed new spark plugs.  That would explain the drop in gas mileage this last month too.

On the way home I stopped at Barnes & Noble and found a couple of books out.  Both were by authors that I read and one i did not expect.

The rest of the afternoon was bill paying and working on getting the C. Alan Johnson Company Website back up and running.

Tonight... Baked Potato.

Happy March everyone.

We're enjoying our last few hours here at the beach.  It's raining lightly.  The tide is out and the, "Don't go out on Haystack Rock!!" car is out there with pamphlets and nature walks.  Juli is still snoozing and I'm reading another book.  We have our slider open and we are right next to the stairs to the beach.  So I hear the conversations as people head down for their beach walks.  "No it's too cold for swimming."  "Get Karly's  leash!  Get his leash!  Karl!"  *bark bark bark yap bark!*   "Don't Feed the Seagulls [that sounded official]"  "seagulls:  Mine!  Mine mine!  Mine!  Mine!"   "I got up before sunrise and watched the world come alive."  "Coffee's ready!"

 

 

So now we're going to lounge a bit, and then check out and go to breakfast.   ...or lunch.

( I finished "The Accidental Sorcerer" by K. E. Mills [a.k.a.Karen Miller]. )

 

Okay, I've I'm about a quarter the way through it and I'm ready to report. That in itself does not bode well.

This is an Earth where Vampires, Werewolves, Mages, fairies, shrunken heads, ghosts, Elton John and Laura Croft all come out of hiding. Okay, Laura Croft is just a video game, but the main character makes reference to her quite a bit. In fact close your eyes and you can imagine that the main character is Laura Croft. Really! Close your eyes and stop reading the book.

Okay, I wont stop. It's a bit of a dark action adventure romp. ...on crack. While it doesn't change point of view it does changes settings rapidly. The main character can blip about space and time. At one moment she's in the catacombs under Paris in dire peril, and *blip* she's in a casino in Chicago. At one moment she's trying to get information from a vampire friend, then *blip* she's making out with another vampire friend who starts to bight her, then *blip* she's on an ethereal beach talking to her godlike mentor. Then we blip in reverse.

Talk about Slaughterhouse Five without the Vonnegut . Only she has control of her blipping. ...most of the time.

I think this is book three in the series, but not to worry. There a couple of paragraphs interspersed around the "What the Heck just happened" moments that catch you up on what the heck just happened. I suppose that's okay. The paragraphs are small enough where they don't interfere with the story much. ...which doesn't say much for the previous stories if they can be explained in a couple of paragraphs.

Okay, she's looking for a Codex that has a spell which will break a gies placed on her and the previously mentioned "make out" vampire. Plot described. Oh, and she's clairvoyant.

Hmmm. When described like that the book is rather fun. ...which I don't think was the author's intention.