Tonight I am going to an author reading/signing at Third Place Books, to see Robert Crais, author of one of my favorite mystery/detective series, Elvis Cole. Not only is Elvis Cole one of my many Fictional Boyfriends, but this series also features Joe Pike, another Fictional Boyfriend. Besides all of that, they are just great books. I mean, you’d enjoy them even if you didn’t have literary crushes on the characters. It’s not a requirement. They latest book just came out, I bought it, devoured it, and now have to wait for more. I hate that! It’s always fun when you discover a new mystery/detective series you really like, you have all those books ahead of you to enjoy. For example, when I started reading Sue Grafton, she was already on Q! I had A-Q to enjoy! But man, it hurts when you’ve read everything out, and have to wait for more. I had to wait two some years for “R” to show up. I shudder to think what happens when we reach “Z.” So Louise and I are going to the reading, and I am going to have my book signed, and we’ll see if yet another author falls prey to Louise’s accent. Perhaps I shall ask Louise to politely request that Mr. Crais hurry up and write more Elvis Cole. He will be unable to resist her darling accent. As we all know.

Josh is out of ICU. Which is good and bad. He’s also sick and nauseous, and now that he doesn’t have ICU watching over him, someone has to sit with him pretty much 24/7. Because he’s throwing up every few minutes and coughing up blood. Both of which cause him a great deal pain. So, be careful what you wish for, I guess. The nausea is most likely from the pain medication and the nasty headaches he is having. The coughing is from the cold he’s developed. The blood is not from his lungs, but just his guts, I guess. Poor kid, nasty headaches, coughing up blood, throwing up everything you try to eat… that would be bad enough without all the other stuff. They’ve pumped anit-barf drugs into his iv and they were going to give him a sleeping pill last night, because he hasn’t been able to sleep. And before I hung up with Faye, she said he’d just eaten a soda cracker and a popsicle. Hopefully he kept it down, because I’m sure that would help. Too have food in his system. And some sleep. He’s got such caring friends, however. They have the patient fridge stocked with vegan foodstuffs for him, they come around and give Faye food and breaks, sit by Josh’s bedside and read to him, stay with him throughout the nights so Faye can go home to sleep. It’s amazing. All these people who come by several times a day to check on him. There was a man there yesterday who Josh met feeding people in the park on Sundays. Something Faye says he’s done since High School. He came by twice yesterday. And they all love Josh.

Today Faye is meeting with a lawyer, and will try to get ahold of the police report, to figure out what’s what.