A dreary autumn day. Rainy, only a little sun. The high was 51F ( Read more... )

A sunny, warmish autumn day. Our high was 70F.

It seems I need less sleep than I've been getting. More and more, I see that the less I sleep, the better I feel and the better I am able to work. I'm starting to see that I need 4-5 hours/day of sleep, and when I start going over that, I feel like crap and my productivity plummets. Anyway, four hours ( Read more... )

So here we are in autumn. And the photo below shows that, even in Alafuckingbama, autumn can bring out the pagan weirdness lurking in the deep places of all our psyches. Truly, that sheep mask, in an Alabama grocery store. How is that not fucked up? I think I have to go back and buy the damn thing just because it's not every day, right? Anyway, a ( Read more... )

Sunny today and warmer. We made it to 66˚F, and it is currently, at twilight, 55˚F.

No work today. Broken fucking record, I know.

I finished reading Children of Dune (1976), and my afternoon movie was Daniel Espinosa's Child 44 (2015). More and more, I simply adore Tom Hardy.

Please have a look at the current eBay auctions. Over the next few ( Read more... )

Cooler today, as expected. But sunny, as expected. Our high was only 48˚F, and it is currently 47˚F (43˚F, with the windchill). I'm thinking autumn is pretty much over.

All in all, not much I can say about today. But I was up at 7:30 a.m. and watched the sunrise over Shades Mountain (photo below).

The afternoon's movie was Rob Bowman's Reign of ( Read more... )

A miserable day - rainy, overcast, sunless, cold. Our high was 54˚F, and it is now 53˚F ( Read more... )

A rainy day with a few merciful periods of sunlight. Our high was 77˙F, and it is now 70˚F. We have a flash flood watch, still.

Today is the 106th anniversary of Henry Fairfield Osborn's description of Tyrannosaurus rex. Happy birthday, Tyrant King ( Read more... )

A sunny, almost cloudless earliest autumn day today. Our high was only 73˚F, and it is currently 72˚F ( Read more... )

Toady was a better day. Ignoring the dismal weather forecast, the sun came out mid morning and stay out all day. It was something I desperately needed. My mind and eyes become starved for sunlight, and it had been a week. Our high was 85˚F, with a heat index of 91˚F. Currently, it's 84˚F, with the heat index at 88˚F ( Read more... )

Cloudy all day. That's become a refrain, hasn't it? It's currently about 80˚F, heat index 85˚F.

I did quite a lot of work today, including starting that stack of "cheat sheet" note cards for The Night Watchers. I hate doing this. It isn't writing. It's a weird sot of playing at seeing the future. It's a lie. I have no idea what will happen in this ( Read more... )