The heatwave ended in thunderstorms that began last yesterday afternoon, went on all night, and continued until late morning. Then the sun came out for a bit, and the day was mild. Our high was 86F, with a heat index of 91F ( Read more... )

Clouds this morning, but the day turned sunny. Our high, though, was a mere 57˚F.

I was up at 7 a.m., writing by 7:30. And I did another 1,457 words on "Crotalus."

Later, I read two articles from the most recent JVP,"Hybodontiform shark remains (Chondrichthyes, Elasmobranchii) from the Lower Triassic of Yunnan Province, China, with comments on ( Read more... )

A foggy night, and then a morning so foggy I couldn't see the other side of the road from my office window. And then a sunny afternoon, and now clouds. Our high was 66˚F.

Subscribers to Sirenia Digest should have 203 sometime this evening. I'm just waiting on the PDF, and then Spooky will send it out. I spent another five hours on the issue this ( Read more... )

Sunny again today, mostly, but there's that stubborn chill in the air. Currently, it's 63˚F.

Toady was not a good day.

The aforementioned phone conference went on for an hour and a half and left me useless for anything else. If people expect me to talk on the telephone, a thing I virtually never do anymore, I need an actually telephone, with a ( Read more... )

Groggy as fuck, because last night I resorted to taking Seroquel for the first time since I stopped taking Seroquel, back in November. But my body had reached a point where I had to sleep. I was so sick from sleep deprivation yesterday that, finally, it was like someone threw a switch, the off switch I forget I have, and three or four minutes later ( Read more... )