Sunny today. Our high was 64.9F.

I overslept, not getting up until about 4:30 a.m., but I still managed to finish "Darkness, On the Face of the Deep" well before sunrise. The last 1,008 words, for a total of 5,340 (before wordsmithing). This will appear in Sirenia Digest 225, which I hope will go out on Monday. Now I write "The Beholder's Share" ( Read more... )

I was up at 3 a.m., and the morning was astoundingly foggy. You couldn't see trees across the street, much less the valley or the ridge beyond. We had a freezing fog alert. Nonetheless, it cleared and was sunny by late morning. Our high was 57.9F ( Read more... )

Sunny today. Windy. A high of 61F.

I hardly slept, and I was ill, but I worked. I did the last bit of tweaking on The Ultraviolet Alphabet, did the layout on Sirenia Digest 222 (magic number), and Gordon D. did a quick turnaround for us, so Spooky was able to send the PDF out early in the afternoon. Subscribers ought to have it. And I got in an ( Read more... )

Overcast. A high of 83F.

I wish I could say that today was as productive as yesterday. I managed to finish Ian Nathan's exhaustive account of the making of Peter Jackson's Middle-earth films, Anything You Can Imagine: Peter Jackson and the Making of Middle-earth. But I don't suppose that counts as work ( Read more... )

I will mark the anniversary of the horrific, murderous Hamas-led attack on Israel with this link, via the ADL. It speaks volumes.

Anti-Israel Activism on U.S. Campuses, 2023-2024"The 2023-2024 ADL annual report on anti-Israel activism on U.S. campuses tallied 2,087 anti-Israel incidents of assault, vandalism, harassment, protests/actions and ( Read more... )

I'm seeing people talking about how Milton, projected to be a Category 3 hurricane when it makes landfall, is aimed at Mar-a-Lago. Assholes, it's aimed at most of north-central Florida. Is the takeaway here (as they say) that blowing down Trump's little Xanadu is worth the price of all those other lives, all those other homes? Yeah, no doubt I take ( Read more... )

Hot today. Our high was 98F, with a heat index of 103F.

A little good work on the chapbook this morning, despite, at best, four hours sleep last night. I'm setting this next section in the infamous John Sowden House, and pulling this piece together only goes to show that, sometimes, the more you know about a thing the harder it can be to write ( Read more... )

So, today's high was 93.9F, with a heat index of 102F.

I slept late, until almost 5 a.m. Then I spent a couple of hours on the frontoparietal section for MP2 (again), chrishing this time before I have to get back to work on The Sun Always Shines on TV. The novella needs to be done by the 27th, so I am going to be aiming for a miniumum of 1,200 ( Read more... )

Our high today was 95F, with a heat index of 105F.

And I realized I have not been in an automobile since June 3rd, the last time I left the property.

I did find a the next book I'm reading, Adam Higginbotham's Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space, so there that. As I hurl myself at The Sun Always Shines on TV, it' ( Read more... )

A miserable rainy day. Our high was 43F. We've had a wind advisory since last night ( Read more... )