Fuck, but this is the most infuriating day I've had in...a year, probably.

Oh, and it finally got cold last night. Our high today was 63F.

Fuck autumn.

I was up at five this morning, and at least I managed to get through letters C-D of The Ultraviolet Alphabet. And I took care of a bunch of details with SubPress about Bright Dead Star and the ( Read more... )

Clouds most of the day. Ugh. Our high was 84F, with a heat index of 86F.

Work? I spent another couple of hours on the galleys for Bright Dead Star. I hope to finishing with this in the morning. My eyes have gotten so bad that there are times that more than two hours of anything leaves them burning so badly I have to stop for a time. Yeah, I need ( Read more... )

Much cooler today. Our high was, I think, 77F. Wow.

Not much sleep. But I was writing by 6 a.m., and I did another 1,256 words on the chapbook/novella. And then I wrote the first draft on the jugals of this new mosasaur taxa for MP2. I spoke with Jun on the actual phone, actual voices. I fiddled around with the Bashi Marl matrix a little. It's ( Read more... )

Extremely hot today. Sunny, hardly a cloud in sight, and our high was (so far) 94F, with a heat index of 104F ( Read more... )

Just after I made my blog entry yesterday, a thunderstorm arrived, and I swear it has been raining almost continuously ever since. Our high today was only 8.1F, with a heat index of 85F. After the unusually hot, dry June and early July, we're jumped back to April.

Yeah, so...early this morning I finished Carrie. Then I sat down to write my little ( Read more... )

Rainy again. Our high was 84F, with a heat index of 92F.

The thing about having three consecutive solid, productive days is that when the fourth days just sort of sputters out, it's even more depressing, for me at least, that four useless days in a row. No, I did not get the Carrie essay written, and I didn't begin the story I have to write. I ( Read more... )

So, rain last night. Rain and fog all day today. Much more rain coming tonight. Currently, a thunderstorm. But out high was 66F.

Let's not talk about what I did not get done today.

This years Oscar nominations are, truly, often stupefying. Barbie nominated for best picture. At the very least, they could have nominated Margot Robbie, if they had ( Read more... )

Sunny today. Our high was 67F ( Read more... )

Mostly cloudy today, as rain and cold spell bear down on us. The high today was 62F.

This afternoon, watching television I fell asleep for something like 35 minutes, and now I feel awful. I do not take naps. Ever. They are foul, foul things.

Anyway...

Warning. Spoilers.

Last night we watched Greta Gerwig's Barbie. Now, I went into this with as ( Read more... )

It has actually become a cliche, that we are living through something so astoundinglt idiotic that it qualities as "the worst of all possible worlds." And while that probably isn't true (we are juggling with the many worlds interpretaion of quantum physics here, and since options are infinite, there is always something far worse). And exactly why ( Read more... )