Friday, September 13, 2013

News – There is a new gift produced in Japan. It is fluffy two-ply toilet paper with artful designs and poetry printed on it. The cost is between $13.00 and $17.00 a roll, but it comes in a beautifully wrapped gift box, so it's a bargain!. I got curious and looked on the Net. There is a huge range of bathroom products from Japan, from Japanese toilets that all have bidets included to toilet paper that dissolves in water, so it never clogs the toilet! I think they have a hang-up about the toilet. The last time I saw that much stuff about toilet habits was on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory. Apparently the amount of time you spend thinking about toilet habits is significant. I have to laugh at it. Life is too short to worry so much over something inevitable.

The book – Kathryn Dance's mother, who is a nurse, has been arrested for a mercy killing at the hospital where she works. It seems she signed a petition supporting Jack Kevorkian. Dance, meanwhile, is faced with another killing. The only problem with this story is that the identity of the killer is known to the reader, and he is a junior in high school. Most boys that age don't have their full height and weight yet, and this killer has overcome two young women without a weapon, choking one and lifting and hog-tying the other. He must be big for his age. He is known to have a fierce temper, though. Maybe that's enough.

3:17 PM – Still reading. Kathryn Dance's mother gets in deeper trouble as time goes on. The teenaged villain has obtained a gun, is still not found and has placed a cross on Dance's back yard. He is dangerous to all concerned. 5:22 The killer has broadened his scope to a new set of victims. More tomorrow.