Time to read

I love reading. I am trying to finish the new Ludlum. It seems to have bogged itself down in minutiae. The main characters are running around Paris not knowing what they are doing or why. It is obvious that the male character has been set up to take a fall. It is not so obvious that the female character is ambiguously good. She is too good. Perhaps I will finish it tonight.

I have sent e-mails about Pombo, the Tracy real estate guy who is the representative in Congress for that area. He is trying to "patent" public lands. That means sell them to the highest bidder for wonderful mining actvities and such. Check it out.