I totally missed that last night was Entry #6,000! What the fuck? It only took me 16 goddamn years to get there. [insert loud and exasperated sigh] But anyway...here's 6,001, and you'd think I'd have something profound on this occasion...or that I would have last night. But no. These days ain't exactly chock full of exciting shit. Hey, after Little ( Read more... )

It's sunny and 69˚F, and I want to be home, and I cannot be home ( Read more... )

Here we are, in Day 2 of the Great Providence Rain-a-thon of 2017, which is supposed to end on Tuesday evening. We'll all have gills by then. There was wonderful, hard rain yesterday afternoon and evening, and some local flooding. But if people do not want floods, they should not live on coastal plains and other assorted lowlands. Currently, ( Read more... )

Clouds today, and it's warmer. Currently 81˚F, with the heat index at 84˚F, humidity at 67%. We're supposed to go to 88˚F this afternoon, with a possibility of thunderstorms ( Read more... )

Yesterday, without warning and in defiance of Accuweather, cold spring skipped actual spring and became summer. Yesterday's high, which was supposed to be 79˚F, was 86˚F. And it looks as if the same thing might happen today. At 12:08 p.m. it's 83˚F (with a heat index of 86˚F ( Read more... )

I don't really have anything for an entry.

Except a dream from this ayem. A shard of a long dream now forgotten. But in the shard I can recall, I was in my old 1959 Starchief*. I was driving, and Kathryn was beside me. The was a Mexican child in the back seat, and there was her mother. A great round bloom of the reddish fire appeared in the sky, ( Read more... )

Er...okay. LiveJournal seems, at the moment, to actually be live. Oh, and by the way, as I expounded on Twitter yesterday (good girls wander when the necessity arises), it's utterly boneheaded to be blaming LJ for this, when the DDOS attacks are the result of hackers almost certainly backed with funds from the Russian government. Of course, things ( Read more... )

So...the heat finally abates. Which is the one good thing to be said for this shitty day ( Read more... )

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mis·ad·ven·ture [ˌmɪsədˈvɛntʃə]
n
1. an unlucky event; misfortune
Etymology: [Middle English misaventure from Old French mesaventure, from mesavenir, to result in misfortune : mes-, badly; see mis- + avenir, to turn out (from Latin advenre, to come to; see adventThis being a ( Read more... )

Here in my office, which is ever so slightly cooler than the kitchen, which is dramatically hotter than the middle parlor where Dr. Muñoz labors so to keep the air cool and can manage only 83˚F. It must be in the nineties in the office. There are three fans running in the office, spinning the swelter round and round. Outside, it's 86˚F, with ( Read more... )