Sunny today, but not warm, and there's some genuinely cold weather headed our way next week. Our high today was 55F a windy ( Read more... )

After the mire of yesterday, today was a very good day. Very hot as well. Our high was 92˚F, with a heat index of 101˚F.

I slept a little late, but was up at a little after 7 a.m. and working on the layout for Bradbury Weather by 7:30. Have I said this book is going to be huge? Anyway, I did layout until breakfast, after Spooky got up at 9 and ( Read more... )

Sunny and warm today. Our high was 84˚F ( Read more... )

Sunny again today, and our high was 79˚F. But there's a stormy weekend ahead of us. So, I'm glad I made myself go outside, however briefly, about 4 p.m ( Read more... )

Not much warmer today, but sunny, at least. Our high was somewhere in the low 50˚Fs, I think ( Read more... )

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. ~ Carl ( Read more... )

Yeah, another of those days. Another another another. It was mostly sunny. The high was 87˚F.

"We are all flawed creatures of our times. Is it fair to judge us by the unknown standards of the future?" ~ Carl Sagan

Short answer, no. Most emphatically no.

Today's movie was Tarantino's Death Proof (2007), which might not be his best but never fails ( Read more... )

The clouds moved in late today. There was a beautiful pink sky, just before dark and I expect that will be the last sunlight we see for two or three days, as Tropical Storm Claudette passes over the southeast.

I spent most of the day reading favorite books, building momentum to write. Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World. Cormac McCarthy, Suttree. ( Read more... )

Bright and sunny today. But the weather is cooler. Our high was only 87˚F ( Read more... )

Hot yesterday. Our high was apparently only 94˚F, but Kathryn told me to heat index reached something like 103˚F. Clouds late.

I did not get Sirenia Digest 173 (May 2020) out today, with the new story "Untitled 46," because I got caught up in other stuff, and I was on the phone for an hour and a half with Mike Polcyn at SMSU in Dallas, talking ( Read more... )