Tom comes for dinner, a strange book and comms problems

27 December 2013

Well, Christmas is over for another 12 months; only the New Year to go now and we can all get back to our normal way of life. We had our son Tom over to have Christmas dinner with us and he seemed to enjoy it. He also took all the leftovers home with him too so he has another dinner to tuck into later.

I'm currently reading a book called Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovictch. It's a strange tale of ghosts, haunting and death in London. Also involved is Father Thames and Mama Thames falling out over who is the boss of which part of the river. People are dying in and around the Covent Garden area, some of them after their faces explode. Two Met teams are working the case, a murder team from Charing Cross and a specialist team of one DI who is a master wizard and one DC who is an apprentice wizard. It all sounds a bit farfetched really but I shall keep on with it to see how it all works out in the end.

We have managed to misplace our main address book. We have searched everywhere for it and we can't find it. I suppose in a few weeks time it will turn up somewhere or other that we have looked at before, that how things normally work here in Jaronland. But that is not all folks ... Jan's lappy went funny on her late Christmas Day and she couldn't get it to work at all. It all started when her new Galaxy Tab seemed to clear her bookmarks off the lappy as well as all her email contacts too. So she tried doing a restore thingy. It went OK until if came to a blank screen after the starting Windows thing. and that is as far as I would go.

Yesterday Jan took Tom shopping. So I tried a forced shut down with the power button and hitting the F10 button and choosing the Start in Safe Mode option from there. Still no good. So I tried again but used the F8 button instead. Jan's lappy is now working fine again. But as to why it happened in the first place, well, your guess is as good as anyone's.

While I was sitting at my lappy yesterday I began typing away ... and here's what came out of it ...

 'Today is the day that I sat and planned a murder. You may wonder why I even thought of committing such a an act, and you are right to ask that question, not just of me but of everyone who sets out to kill. Yet you will never get a full a clear reply simply because killers don't know the real reason behind their crimes. They may claim it was revenge, or to punish the victim; and you may even get some who say, 'Because God told me to do it.' It's all a load of crap! We do it because deep down we enjoy it.

We love the feeling of power that we have when we point a gun at someone; we love the feeling of power when we first show our victims the knife that will end their lives; we love it as we push the knife into someone's soft white skin, to see the way the skin gives way to the sharp edge of the knife. We love to see blood begin to ooze out of the wound. But most of all, we love to see the fear, the pain and look that says, 'Why me? What have I done to you?' In most cases they have done nothing apart from being there at the same time as we are!'

The main copper in this story will be DI Marty Jayne, a copper coming back after his first outing in an unfinished story called Photo Finish. This one will be set in current county of Warwickshire and older Warwickshire when the city of Birmingham was part of the county.

Seeing we are only just out of Christmas Here's a photo of my mother when she was fine health wise ... 

As you can see, she liked scotch; but don't get the wrong idea though, those two bottles lasted her the whole year!

And once again the Sage has spoken ...

This guy asks his boss for the day off. "Why do you want the day off"? asks the boss. "Because my wife is going to have a baby" replies the guy.
Back at work after the day off the boss asks " Well, is it a boy or a girl"?
"Oh it takes months" comes the reply.