Sunny mostly today, overcast now. Our high was 84.9F, heat index a more honest 85F.

I might have slept three full hours. This has GOT to fucking stop. This month, I have a novella to write and the morphology section of a mosasaur paper to write, and people are waiting on me, and I cannot fail. So, this not sleeping HAS TO STOP.Please ( Read more... )

I woke at 6:345 a.m. to very cold, overcast skies. Lots of talk of snow flurries, though I never saw any. Our high was 45F.

My copies of Bradbury Weather and Living a Boy's Adventure Tale (below) arrived late yesterday, and, my god, they are handsome books, in no small part thanks to Bill at SubPress and the ghost of Richard Powers and the ( Read more... )

Christ, I'm depressed. But at least the sun is shining, and the high today was a comfortable (to me) 82F. You may have seen on the news the beating that Mississippi and Alabama took last night from tornadoes. At least twenty-six dead, mostly in Mississippi. The Birmingham area was mercifully spared. Well, no. There is no mercy. There Birmingham ( Read more... )

Muggy tonight, but cool. We finally got rain today, especially in the morning. I woke to rain. Currently, it's 75˚F.

The black mood relaxed its hold slightly this afternoon, but I can feel it close. I went out to Target with Spooky, just to get out of the house.

If you've not happened to see John from Cincinnati (2007), you should. It's the ( Read more... )

Currently, it's 92˚F, with the heat index at 98˚F.

Yesterday was not an easy day, by any measure. After all the not sleeping, I somehow managed to pull together the last bit of work on the galleys of The Very Best of Caitlín R. Kiernan and get Sirenia Digest 151 together and out to subscribers. And we got the corrected VBoCRK manuscript to the ( Read more... )

Cloudy, mostly, and 63˚F. We're supposed to reach 68˚F today.

Yesterday, groggy from the gabapentin, about all I managed was proofreading "Day After Tomorrow, the Flood." I do think it's finished. Tomorrow, I'll make the line edits and pull together Sirenia Digest 147. Today I have a doctor's appointment that will eat up the entire afternoon. No ( Read more... )

Overcast and only 38˚F. Fitting weather for the beginning of Jethro Tull Season 2016.

Today not only marks the 156th anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, it also marks the 15th anniversary of the beginning of my ( Read more... )

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Cold and rainy today, here in Providence.

I awoke to this. I'm assuming the shootings actually have nothing to do, directly, with all the idiotic Batman Rising internet kerfuffle. More likely, the movie simply served as the inevitable catalyst and a handy, high-profile resource for the shooter's "captive" audience ( Read more... )