Mostly cloudy today, some sun. Not enough, But I look at, say, Asheville, NC, where they only just roads into and out of the city reopened today, and, kittens, I do not have anything to complain about. Our high todaywas 78F. I'm trying to pretend this lost summer is not over ( Read more... )

Sunny today. I should have gone outside. Our high was 87F.

I was awake this morning at 4:30 a.m., and then up at 5. I finished reading The Year Without Summer. At 6 a.m., I began writing, and I did another 1,074 words on "The Moment Under the Moment." I expect I will finish it tomorrow. After the writing, I began reading paleontologist Donald R. ( Read more... )

Mostly sunny today. Only 88˚F, with a hat index of 94˚F.

I have got to start sleeping. I was awake this morning at 4:35 a.m. I got up. I worked until Spooky got up at 9 a.m. I began a new vignette, "Loop 33," for Sirenia Digest #200 ( Read more... )

Sorta cloudy-ish today. The high was 91˚F, with a heat index of 100˚F ( Read more... )

Mostly sunny today. The return of the sun, after Ida, has been a relief. Currently, it's 84˚F, with the heat index at 85˚F. Our high was 86˚F, withe the heat index at 87˚F. Dog days done gone ( Read more... )

This is turning into a string of crappy days. Crappy unproductive days. Some heavy rain today, and the high was only 79˚F.

No work.

The afternoon's movie was Pulp Fiction, which I'd not seen since it's twenty-fifth anniversary in 2019.

Civilization is a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness. ~ Werner Herzog ( Read more... )