"...my empty halls to echo with grand self-mythology."
Rainy, but not a bad day. The sun showed it's face from time to time. The high was 78˚F, with the heat index at 80˚F.
I was up at 7 a.m., and I spent another three hours this morning on the line edits for "Living a "Boy's Adventure Tale." That's something like seven hours of editing the thing so far. Anyway, I got it to a point where I was comfortable showing it to someone, so I sent it away to Bill Schafer at Subterranean Press. I know I still have work to do on this novella, but it's near enough to finished that I can brief a sigh of relief.
Now, my birthday present to myself will be a couple of weeks of nothing but hard work on the Yale mosasaur and MP1, and with luck I'll have a first draft of the paper done when those two weeks are over. Unlike fiction, I do write scientific papers in drafts. Obviously.
Last night's second episode of Prehistoric Planet, "Deserts," was every bit as delightful as the first episode (even if there were no mosasaurs). As I said on Twitter, I am "amazed (and pleased) at how Mononykus has gone from 'weird, obscure theropod' to 'beast everyone wants to cuddle' in just a short couple of days. If you're not watching the series, you need to do so, and if you do not have AppleTV, there's a free six-day trial that will see you through.
And we began the final season of Better Call Saul.
The afternoon's film was Justin Lin's Star Trek Beyond (2016). It's by far the least accomplished of the three "new" Star Trek films, but it's also much more fun than it has any right to be, largely thanks to the delightful Sofia Boutella.
Forty-three years ago, on this day in 1979, Ridley Scott's Alien premiered in theaters. We almost have the same birthday.
Please have a look at the Big Cartel shop. Thanks.
Later Tater,
Aunt Beast
4:32 p.m.
I was up at 7 a.m., and I spent another three hours this morning on the line edits for "Living a "Boy's Adventure Tale." That's something like seven hours of editing the thing so far. Anyway, I got it to a point where I was comfortable showing it to someone, so I sent it away to Bill Schafer at Subterranean Press. I know I still have work to do on this novella, but it's near enough to finished that I can brief a sigh of relief.
Now, my birthday present to myself will be a couple of weeks of nothing but hard work on the Yale mosasaur and MP1, and with luck I'll have a first draft of the paper done when those two weeks are over. Unlike fiction, I do write scientific papers in drafts. Obviously.
Last night's second episode of Prehistoric Planet, "Deserts," was every bit as delightful as the first episode (even if there were no mosasaurs). As I said on Twitter, I am "amazed (and pleased) at how Mononykus has gone from 'weird, obscure theropod' to 'beast everyone wants to cuddle' in just a short couple of days. If you're not watching the series, you need to do so, and if you do not have AppleTV, there's a free six-day trial that will see you through.
And we began the final season of Better Call Saul.
The afternoon's film was Justin Lin's Star Trek Beyond (2016). It's by far the least accomplished of the three "new" Star Trek films, but it's also much more fun than it has any right to be, largely thanks to the delightful Sofia Boutella.
Forty-three years ago, on this day in 1979, Ridley Scott's Alien premiered in theaters. We almost have the same birthday.
Please have a look at the Big Cartel shop. Thanks.
Later Tater,
Aunt Beast
4:32 p.m.