A violent, stormy morning that gave way to a beautiful sunny day. The worst of the storms passed just north of Birmingham. Our high was 85F.

Not much sleep. I was awake at 4:30 and writing an hour later. I did another 1,141 words on The Sun Always Shines on TV. Then I had a break and came back and spent the early afternoon on the mosasaur paper 2 ( Read more... )

Sunny today. A little cooler. Our high was 79F.

Today, the mosasaur paper I have worked on since the summer of 2021 was published in the University of California (Berkeley's) journal PaleoBios. I've been calling it MP 1.3. The title is actually "Two new plioplatecarpine mosasaurs (Mosasauridae; Plioplatecarpinae) of the genus Ectenosaurus from the ( Read more... )

The warmth is back. Today's high was 70˚F and sunny.

I was up at about 6:45 this morning, and while sun rose, I found myself reading all the old issues of Billy Martin's "Purple Proze" newsletters from back in the 1990s (Issue No. 1 is July 1995). Which sent me to all sorts of places. Like my own newsletter, Salmagundi. Our lives were so very ( Read more... )

I honestly did not mean to miss four entries. I have not missed that many consecutive days in the LJ in years. But it happened, for various reasons, and now I have to get back on the horse, as it was ( Read more... )

It's not unpleasant this afternoon. It's sunny and 59˚F, with no windchill. My office window is open. The high is forecast at 61˚F. Trees are finally beginning to show color ( Read more... )

Today is the 78th anniversary of Kristallnacht, and here in American we have elected our own little would-be Hitler. On November 9, 1989 the Berlin Wall came down, and here we are building walls. We learned nothing from history, and we have repeated it ( Read more... )

Detox Day 5, and at some point this is supposed to get easier, but I have clearly not arrived anywhere near that point. I'm through physical withdrawal, for the most part, but, truthfully, this thing on the other side is far, far worse ( Read more... )