Mid-Year Madness

Oh no, Dear Reader! Over a month has passed without any posts from me. Is this The End?

Well, worry not. It's not (quite) the end of me just yet.

Over the past few weeks, I have been:

(...and in no particular order...)

1. Busy with ongoing cases
2. Travelling out of town on several enquiries
3. Feeling under the weather
4. Feeling stressed
5. Feeling like I need a break

I've kind of noticed I hit a slump every year around this time and I usually just retreat into my cave and ignore things until I feel like coming out again.

Probably not the best business strategy but I've never really wanted to be an entrepeneur. God, I hate that word!

So, some updates on my recent activities.

I ended up doing some more work on Mr G with the assistance of a GPS unit affixed to his car. Perfectly legal, it's a work vehicle owned by his employers, so the placement was entirely above-board. Followed him around for the day and the result is that Mr G no longer works for the company. Not that he did any while actually employed there anyway, but I digress.

Ordered and received a copy of Kirk's Fire Investigation (7th ed.) by DeHaan and Icove. 763 pages of arsony goodness, most of which is above and beyond my needs as I am not a specialist fire investigator, but of some interest nonetheless. Will post a review at some stage, but probably not any time soon (it's a BIG book). Now I just need a couple of timely house-fires so I can nod knowingly.

One of the ongoing problems with my various electronic gadgets is batteries. Or as Roy Batty succinctly put it, "I want more life, fucker." Well, I may have found an ideal solution, at least for devices requiring AA batteries - in particular my trusty voice recorder. These batteries are USB rechargeable!

Supposedly they charge up to 90% in 5 hours (that seems an excruciatingly long time) but they can be recharged 500 times. Be still my beating heart!

Anyway, they're in the mail so should have them in a few days and will put them immediately to the test and report my findings.

Otherwise I am trying to close off a number of open files before getting swamped with new investigations.

Oh, almost forgot to mention, I'm also helping out in a historic homicide matter that had been previously ruled an accidental death some 30 years ago but more evidence has come to light.

But more on that another time.