"Bright Dead Star"
Sunnny this morning, clouds moving in as the day went on. Our high was 68F.
The last twenty-four hours have been a manic storm of work. This happens to me, often preceeded by a terrible anger (as it was this time). I dozed a white after dinner last night, then got up and worked until after three a.m., then got up at 7 and worked until about 10 a.m. And then, after a gaming break, I worked from about 2 p.m. until...a few minutes ago. I swear, if only I were like this all the damn time.
On what did I work? Well, two projects for SubPress that may happen (TBA). That was a huge chunk of it. But there was also various bits of neglected email. There was the anatomy of the mosasaur ectopterygoid. There was a look at the newly rescreened Bashi Marl sample. But yeah, mostly the stuff for SubPress.
Oh, I have been asked to contribute a chapter to a very pretigious book on a very famous female author of the weird (no names yet), and I have said yes. I have astounded to have been asked. More details as I can announce them.
Honestly, this whole entry is becoming one long tease, isn't it? It's not intentional. Maybe by tomorrow I can get more specific. Tomorrow or Monday. Keep watching the skies.
Oh, and I could write twenty entries about the anger.
Please visit the Dreaming Squid Sundries shop. We hvae extended the offer of FREE colour monster doodles wityh copies of Vile Affections. Do not pass this up.
As for today's photograph, taken yesterday by Kathryn, that's me (duh) with a humerus of the giant ground sloth Megalonyx jeffersoni. As I said on Facebook, "Visiting with an 11 thousand year old giant ground sloth (Megalonyx jeffersoni) that I helped excavate from a North Alabama cave, then did a lof the prep on, way back in 1984 and 1985. A sloth the size of a small elephant. That lived in caves. And that Thomas Jefferson originally mistook for a sort of giant lion ("Megalonyx" means "great claw"). The Lews and Clark Expedition (1804-1806) was charged with finding living Megalonyx, mammoths, and mastodons (the concept of extinction was, at the time, heretical). At McWane Science Center, here in Birmingham."
Later Tater Beans,
Aunt Beast
3:17 p.m. (yesterday)
The last twenty-four hours have been a manic storm of work. This happens to me, often preceeded by a terrible anger (as it was this time). I dozed a white after dinner last night, then got up and worked until after three a.m., then got up at 7 and worked until about 10 a.m. And then, after a gaming break, I worked from about 2 p.m. until...a few minutes ago. I swear, if only I were like this all the damn time.
On what did I work? Well, two projects for SubPress that may happen (TBA). That was a huge chunk of it. But there was also various bits of neglected email. There was the anatomy of the mosasaur ectopterygoid. There was a look at the newly rescreened Bashi Marl sample. But yeah, mostly the stuff for SubPress.
Oh, I have been asked to contribute a chapter to a very pretigious book on a very famous female author of the weird (no names yet), and I have said yes. I have astounded to have been asked. More details as I can announce them.
Honestly, this whole entry is becoming one long tease, isn't it? It's not intentional. Maybe by tomorrow I can get more specific. Tomorrow or Monday. Keep watching the skies.
Oh, and I could write twenty entries about the anger.
Please visit the Dreaming Squid Sundries shop. We hvae extended the offer of FREE colour monster doodles wityh copies of Vile Affections. Do not pass this up.
As for today's photograph, taken yesterday by Kathryn, that's me (duh) with a humerus of the giant ground sloth Megalonyx jeffersoni. As I said on Facebook, "Visiting with an 11 thousand year old giant ground sloth (Megalonyx jeffersoni) that I helped excavate from a North Alabama cave, then did a lof the prep on, way back in 1984 and 1985. A sloth the size of a small elephant. That lived in caves. And that Thomas Jefferson originally mistook for a sort of giant lion ("Megalonyx" means "great claw"). The Lews and Clark Expedition (1804-1806) was charged with finding living Megalonyx, mammoths, and mastodons (the concept of extinction was, at the time, heretical). At McWane Science Center, here in Birmingham."
Later Tater Beans,
Aunt Beast
3:17 p.m. (yesterday)