Oct 11

I had to work during the Columbus Day parade this weekend. It was only for a few hours, but I was able to see the parade. It was short, but at least it was pointless. Most of it was dedicated to the reelection of a senator or congressman or governor or one of those guys. It lasted about twenty minutes if you stretched it. There was a huge police presence in case the protestors acted up. I was on the main drag of the main street, and I didn’t see any protestors. In fact, there were only three couples on my side of the street. There were a few kids on the other side, but not that many. There were more people walking down the sidewalk asking what’s going on than there were people that actually showed up for the parade. If I didn’t have to work, I wouldn’t have been there.
We got a lot of stuff moved into the storage on Saturday, a lot of the big stuff anyway. The apartment is looking pretty empty. It will look even more empty once my son moves out on Friday. My granddaughter wanted to play with me today after I got home from visiting my mom. But, I had to go to sleep so that I could stay up all night tonight. She was crying and I felt soooo bad. My wife made it up to her by buying her some toys. She really likes the princess stuff, so she got her a puzzle box with three kid size puzzles and a pretend makeup kit with real body glitter that had princess stuff on it.
My girls had to go to school today. I thought it was going to be a holiday because of Columbus Day, but I guess it is just a bank holiday. My wife’s dad had surgery today, so she was at the hospital late and they all didn’t get home until about eight or so.
The Broncos lost their game on Sunday to the Ravens. They haven’t had a good running game so far this year and they didn’t get one yesterday. The defense also didn’t play up to their norm. We gave up 31 points and Kyle Orton only passed for three hundred yards. I really thought that we had a chance to win leading up to the game, but it just wasn’t in the cards. Hopefully we’ll have better luck against the Giants next week. If we can go into our divisional games at five hundred, I think we have a very good chance of getting into the post season. I know it is only week five, but football season goes very quickly.
I finished Kidnapped on Friday. I wanted to begin the reread to look for spelling and grammatical errors this weekend, but I didn’t get a chance. I’ll get them started today. Then, it’s off to the editor so it should be ready in a few weeks. I’ll start on the Great Detective as soon as I send it off to the editor. I like the way it turned out. It’s a long one, like the first one. But, I expected that. All nine of the books in this series are going to be long. But, the Great Detective is going to be normal sized. So it shouldn’t take me too long to finish it up. I am sure that it will be done in time for Christmas.
-Thom