"Before we even know what we are, we fear to lose it. Happy birthday." (57)
Sunny today. Our high was 83˚F.
I'm worrying right now about Hurricane Ian and the few people I know who live in Florida. Chris let me know a couple of hours ago he'd gotten the alert for the mandatory evacuation order and that he and Kat were headed to a friend's place in South Carolina. So, I expect they'll be on the road all night. Jeff and Ann, I'm not sure if Tallahassee is evacuating or not, but I'm thinking of you guys and Neo. And Paul Sammon, wherever you are these days, you, too.
I think I slept less than three hours.
I did a little work on Winifred, but I did not trust myself to do much. I may try to work a while after dinner picking Pleistocene cave matrix for microverts, if my head clear enough. I can probably trust myself with a pair of tweezers.
The afternoon's movie was Denis Villeneuve's Blade Runner 2049 (2017). There's nothing I don't love about this film, but today I focused of Jared Leto's performance as Niander Wallace. It's sublime.
Fighting to keep myself awake today, I read "Ecological signal in the size and shape of marine amniote teeth" and "A long-snouted and long-necked polycotylid plesiosaur from the Late Cretaceous of North America." A very cool new plesiosaur, is Serpentisuchops pfisterae.
Meanwhile, the Big Cartel shop is still right where we left it. Avail yourselves.
And if you're in the path of this storm, stay as safe as you are able.
Later Tater Beans (who mostly worries about all the critters),
Aunt Beast
3:26 p.m.
I'm worrying right now about Hurricane Ian and the few people I know who live in Florida. Chris let me know a couple of hours ago he'd gotten the alert for the mandatory evacuation order and that he and Kat were headed to a friend's place in South Carolina. So, I expect they'll be on the road all night. Jeff and Ann, I'm not sure if Tallahassee is evacuating or not, but I'm thinking of you guys and Neo. And Paul Sammon, wherever you are these days, you, too.
I think I slept less than three hours.
I did a little work on Winifred, but I did not trust myself to do much. I may try to work a while after dinner picking Pleistocene cave matrix for microverts, if my head clear enough. I can probably trust myself with a pair of tweezers.
The afternoon's movie was Denis Villeneuve's Blade Runner 2049 (2017). There's nothing I don't love about this film, but today I focused of Jared Leto's performance as Niander Wallace. It's sublime.
Fighting to keep myself awake today, I read "Ecological signal in the size and shape of marine amniote teeth" and "A long-snouted and long-necked polycotylid plesiosaur from the Late Cretaceous of North America." A very cool new plesiosaur, is Serpentisuchops pfisterae.
Meanwhile, the Big Cartel shop is still right where we left it. Avail yourselves.
And if you're in the path of this storm, stay as safe as you are able.
Later Tater Beans (who mostly worries about all the critters),
Aunt Beast
3:26 p.m.