A fine sunny morning, chilly, but bright. And then the clouds rolled in. Blegh. Still, we made it to 70F.

Another night without enough sleep. I tried very, very hard to write today, and it just did not happen. Too tired. Too much trouble focusing. Too distracted. Bullshit, bullshit, bullshit. But at least Sirenia Digest 215 went out to subscribers ( Read more... )

Cloudy most of the day, but we started getting a little sun this afternoon. Nothing like the marvelous heat of Thursday. Our high was only 65F.

Summer cannot come soon enough.

The ms. for Bright Dead Star is essentially done. I still need to tweak the introduction just a little, and there are questions of a few Post-It notes I have not addressed ( Read more... )

Sunny today. Our high was 81F.

This morning, despite having finally gotten a decent night's sleep, and oversleeping, I did 1,032 words on The Night Watchers

I suspect this entry will be a thin as yesterday's.

This afternoon, I watched a documentary on the death of Hitler and another on the sinking of the Bismark and the TirpitzLast night, we saw ( Read more... )

Hot and sunny today. Our high was 91F, with a heat index of 96F.

No writing this morning. I did try.

The day was divided between reading and documentaries. I finished Harlan's Paingod and Other Delusions and began his From the Land of Fear (1967 ( Read more... )

A chilly, sunny day. Our high was 64˚F, but it never felt that warm. However, truly warm temperatures are arriving over the next couple of days.

Today Kathryn read "Night Fishing" (and liked it a lot; a "slow burn" she said), and then I read all the way through it again. I'll make the last bunch of line edits in the morning and email it away to ( Read more... )

There's this passage from Karl Popper's The Open Society and It's Enemies (1945) that I've been wanting to post for weeks, and here it is (and don't pull that "tl;dr" shit just because this is longer than 140 characters):

Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are ( Read more... )