In all ways, today has been a better day than the last several. However, it's getting colder, and the next two are three are going to be, by Jefferson County, Alabama standards - brutally cold. Today's temperature was not so bad. The high was 49F, but the low tonight will be 30F, and then the real cold arrives ( Read more... )

Mostly sunny today, which seemed oddly inappropriate for the beginning of this particular year. Our high was 47F.

I hardly slept. Maybe three hours.

I was up at oh-my-god thirty, about 3:30 a.m., and I wrote the first 1,040 words for the new piece for Sirenia Digest, which I am calling "A First Sequence of Scenes." And I did a lot of work of the ( Read more... )

We were expecting storms today, but go sun, mostly. I'm not even sure it rained at all. We made it into the 70s˚F, and it's 63˚F now.

I actually slept last night, mostly, a decent-ish six hours or so.

This morning, I did some line editing on The Tindalos Asset, and reprinting some sections, getting the ms. ready for Spooky and I to do a read ( Read more... )

A wretched fucking migraine all day, from the time I woke. So, there isn't much to be said for today.

Last night, we watched the silly, misbegotten mess that is the third episode of the new season of Doctor Who, and then, to get the taste out of my mind, we watched Tarantino's Death Proof (2007), which I'd not seen since 2011 ( Read more... )

You wanna know what it's like being a freelance novelist? In December 2015 I signed a contract for a Polish edition of The Red Tree. Today, the check on the advance arrived, from my agent, three years later. I do not even remember making this deal or signing this contract. But, hey, money from the sky ( Read more... )

Sunny for the time being, currently 79˚F. We have some hope of going to the shore this evening, if the weather holds. It'll be the first time this summer.

A female 13th Doctor. It makes me glad.

TTFN,
Aunt Beast


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The humidity stayed low yesterday, and the day was quite pleasant, though the mercury went as high as 87˚F. Today will be cooler, only about 82˚F ( Read more... )

Currently, it's 81˚F in Providence, with an expected high forecast at 88˚F. The humidity is already at 62%, so I fear it may get unpleasant in here. The air may grow sultry.

Yesterday, we went to the RISD Museum, because Spooky's been wanting all summer to see the Todd Oldham exhibit, but, what with one calamity and another, we'd not made it. For ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I emailed the editor for whom I was trying to write "Beyond the Laughing Sky," and I bowed out of the book. The deadline was fast approaching, and I explained that, realistically, given this dry spell, this bout of writer's block, this What-The-Fuck-Ever, it was unrealistic of me to think I could actually complete that story now. I think ( Read more... )

The weather is not unpleasant today. It was considerably less unpleasant before I realized that this is the last day of Green Autumn (some other parts of the world might have Summer), that tomorrow is the equinox. I have no idea why my Wiccan acquaintances are calling today Mabon, by the way. Because tomorrow is the equinox. This is one reason why ( Read more... )