Bright and a little cooler today. Our high was (so far) 85F. I went out for a short walk, the first time I have left the house since before my birthday ( Read more... )

The sun came back this morning, and not one day too soon. Our high was 78˚F ( Read more... )

Cloudy much of the day, but the sun's come out. Our high was 85˚F; currently, it's 84˚F, with the heat index at 87˚F.

A lost day, mostly. Fallout from the birthday. I did some reading from Rich and Vickers-Rich's book of polar dinosaurs (2020). I did some work on the cave matrix. Really, not much more than that. My afternoon movie was Raiders of ( Read more... )

We have a few inches of snow, and it's still falling, a fine, dry sort of snow that blows into white veils whenever the wind picks up. Currently, it's 23˚F, with the windchill at 11˚F ( Read more... )

We awoke to rain and the sound of motorcycles racing. At first, I mistook the latter for the wind, not yet quite coherent and thinking myself still home in Providence. There's a race course just over the ridge from my mom's house, and I think those damn fools race every damn day. Even on Sunday. Which it is. Last night, I talked about going to ( Read more... )

I should have titled this, "Spring? Yeah, Right."

Unless I want to spend the next two hours on this blog entry, there's no doing the last two days justice. And I can't spend that much time on a blog entry fifteen people will read, so...this is the Reader's Digest condensed version. By the way, at the moment, it's 30˚F here, with the windchill at ( Read more... )

It's snowing again. Currently, the temperature here is 21˚F, but it feels like 16˚F. I'm sick from the amoxicillin I was given to take between the two stages of the root canal. I want to go back to bed, but I'm doing my best to do the opposite. Here's a small challenge, make this a proper paragraph by uniting those seemingly unrelated subjects, by ( Read more... )