Wednesday, March 19, 2008

7. We bought out plane tickets for the California trip in July-August. We decided that it was better to just go ahead with the way the economy is and that gas prices will ensure nothing but higher rates the later we waited. So we bit the bullet and are planning on a full week in California to visit with Beau’s family and sightsee. We’ll be flying with Jet Blue since they had the best rates, with non-stop flights from here to there. We bought a seat for Jesse - I plan to call the airline next week to give them the heads up about our plan to use the carseat for the flights and to see what we need to do for that. We also reserved a rental car for the week. Hotel will come next if we end up not getting a timeshare unit, but we’re still praying that will come through. Either way, we’re looking forward to the trip and I’m going to start gathering information about the places we want to visit and have Beau start contacting cousins.

8. I stopped at the library to drop off some things that were due and as I pulled into my parking spot CD 5 of Nora Roberts’ Blood Brothers finished. Since I was stopped, I put CD 5 away and tried to put CD 6 into the player. However, the player didn’t like CD 6 and spit it back out - several times. So I put it away and took that in with me as well. I let the librarian know about the problems with CD 6 - she attached a note to it and set it aside. I put it back on hold this morning so that I can finish it - both the audio and dead tree versions. I’m about 2/3 through it, so finishing the dead tree version shouldn’t take too long.

Anyway, listening to someone narrate love scenes is both amusing and disturbing. However, the narrator is quite good and has a nice voice. Fortunately, Nora doesn’t include too many love scenes in her thriller-romances anymore.

So into the player now is Lost Light by Michael Connelly. Can I reiterate how much I like Harry Bosch? This one is read by Len Carriou - he has a nice voice, too.

9. My brain is tired after doing half of the last minute task requested by HQ. I have to deal with the other half tomorrow, which involves typing a boatload of checks. In the meantime I have a huge stack of prisoner medical that I was going to work on this week that is languishing in my inbox. *sigh*

I’m going home now.