On This Date
I have now left the house every single day for the last ten days. And yes, I do think I deserve an award.
Mostly cloudy today, but warm. Our high was 71˙F. But we are staring down the barrel of the cold snap from hell, which will at least be mercifully brief.
I was up by six this morning, and I wrote another 1,084 words on "Night Fishing," which is turning out to be as much about my sorrow at the systematic destruction of Birmingham as cosmic horror. Then again, the death of Birmingham affects me almost on a cosmic scale. I signed eBay books so Spooky could mail them. I also made some very good progress on Winifred, Another day or two with the Dremel, and I'll be ready to shift back to dental tools. Also, I need to finish up my part of the macrobaenid paper (and I am so, so almost done), so that I can proceed to the two plioplatecarpine mosasaur papers.
from for Twitter feed today:
1. Ah ha, Mr. Gigantic Damn Pyrite Nodule! Formic acid! I bet you didn't see that coming. Booya! #notesfromthepreplab
2. "We are not an endangered species ourselves yet, but this is not for lack of trying." ~ Douglas Adams
3. "There's no time like the present." Yeah? Well...maybe that was true for most of human history, but I am fairy sure we now live in the vilest age humans have ever suffered. So..."There's no time like any time but the 21st Century."
From the new JVP, I read "Ornithopod jaws from the Lower Cretaceous Eumeralla Formation, Victoria, Australia, and their implications for polar neornithischian dinosaur diversity" and "From toad to frog, a CT-based reconsideration of Bufo servatus, an Eocene anuran mummy from Quercy (France)."
Please have a look at the current eBay. Thanks.
Later Tater Beans,
Aunt Beast
4:39 p.m.
Mostly cloudy today, but warm. Our high was 71˙F. But we are staring down the barrel of the cold snap from hell, which will at least be mercifully brief.
I was up by six this morning, and I wrote another 1,084 words on "Night Fishing," which is turning out to be as much about my sorrow at the systematic destruction of Birmingham as cosmic horror. Then again, the death of Birmingham affects me almost on a cosmic scale. I signed eBay books so Spooky could mail them. I also made some very good progress on Winifred, Another day or two with the Dremel, and I'll be ready to shift back to dental tools. Also, I need to finish up my part of the macrobaenid paper (and I am so, so almost done), so that I can proceed to the two plioplatecarpine mosasaur papers.
from for Twitter feed today:
1. Ah ha, Mr. Gigantic Damn Pyrite Nodule! Formic acid! I bet you didn't see that coming. Booya! #notesfromthepreplab
2. "We are not an endangered species ourselves yet, but this is not for lack of trying." ~ Douglas Adams
3. "There's no time like the present." Yeah? Well...maybe that was true for most of human history, but I am fairy sure we now live in the vilest age humans have ever suffered. So..."There's no time like any time but the 21st Century."
From the new JVP, I read "Ornithopod jaws from the Lower Cretaceous Eumeralla Formation, Victoria, Australia, and their implications for polar neornithischian dinosaur diversity" and "From toad to frog, a CT-based reconsideration of Bufo servatus, an Eocene anuran mummy from Quercy (France)."
Please have a look at the current eBay. Thanks.
Later Tater Beans,
Aunt Beast
4:39 p.m.