Rainy most of the day, some late, murky sunshine, then fog. It'll clear tonight and cooler weather will arrive, though nothing like the awful cold of a week or so ago. Our high today was 71F.

The teeth kept me awake again last night. The closest thing to work that I managed today was signing two books, a copy of Wrong Things and a copy of Comes a ( Read more... )

Stormy last night. I might have slept four hours. rainy all day. Our high was only 70˚F, but without a speck of sunlight.

And I had another very bad day.

The afternoon's film was Ridley Scott's The Martian (2015 ( Read more... )

Sunny all day, and we reached a high of 79˚F ( Read more... )

Not a bad day, and after the last couple that was a great relief. It was not sunny, though. Clouds, clouds, clouds. Spooky declares our clouds too bright and needs sunglasses on cloudy days ( Read more... )

I woke at 5:30 a.m. to a terrific thunderstorm and lay awake listening, listening, listening to the thunder, watching the lightning at the windows, not getting back to sleep. I gave up and got out of bed at six. There was torrential rain. And now there is sun. And I did not sleep enough. Our high was 71˚F ( Read more... )

Not a bad day. Sunny and warm. Our high was was 78˚F, which is our current temperature.

I was up at 6:30 a.m., and after a breakfast of instant oatmeal and coffee (mostly sugar and milk), I laid of the tentative prospective Table of Contents of Bradbury Weather twenty-six words (including three novellas) which, taken together, total ~220,869 words ( Read more... )

Sunny again today, but still with some clouds. Our high was, and presently is (so our high so far), 87˚F, with the heat index at 92˚F ( Read more... )

I did not actually consciously decide to put the journal on hiatus. It just happened. I could not image to continue recording that "Today I did nor write" over and over and over.

Oh, I did not write today. (rim shot, laugh track ( Read more... )

Sunny today. And hot. Spooky says the heat index went over 100˚F.

I finished Angela Carter's The Magic Toyshop today and tomorrow I will begin Jeff VanderMeer's Borne.

Today's film was Intersteller, which remains on my very short list of very good science-fiction films that (mostly) get their science right ( Read more... )

Another day there's really not much to be said for.

It could have been worse.

Easily.

And Comes a Pale Rider received a starred review in Publishers Weekly:

Albino demon hunter Dancy Flammarion, who last appeared in the graphic novel Alabaster: The Good, the Bad, and the Bird, cuts a righteous swath across the American South guided by a ( Read more... )