I didn't quite miss that Kris Kristofferson died on the 28th, only almost. And keep forgetting to say anything here. And yet, he was a tremendous part of my musical landscape growing up. Albums like Kristofferson (1970) and Jesus Was a Capricorn (1974) were among my mom's favorites, and so...they were always there. I recall eight-track versions of ( Read more... )

Rain again today. I truly have had enough of this. Our high today was 79F, with a heat index of 82F ( Read more... )

A very sunny and warm day. Our high was 85F.

I continue to fight this idiotic, infuriating bout of depression. Night comes around and I feel better, and then every morning I wake and it's with me again. It's got this bullshit elliptical orbit through my mind, and it keeps me all but paralyzed. Or it makes me think that I am paralyzed. Tomorrow I ( Read more... )

A sunny day, but cold. Our high was a blisteringly hot 50F.

Lows in the 20sF tonight and tomorrow night.

I forsook various mosasaur-related things I needed to do today, including that trip to McWane I mentioned yesterday, to talk with Kathryn about The Night Watchers. Because the book comes first. Until it is written, the book comes first. Likely ( Read more... )

It has actually become a cliche, that we are living through something so astoundinglt idiotic that it qualities as "the worst of all possible worlds." And while that probably isn't true (we are juggling with the many worlds interpretaion of quantum physics here, and since options are infinite, there is always something far worse). And exactly why ( Read more... )

That really should be my life's motto. Were I the sort of person who has mottos. I think, a decade or so back, I decided my motto was "It is what it is." That was my failed short at defeatism ( Read more... )

A sunny day. Our high was 84F ( Read more... )

In the space of one email, a day can go to hell.

Sunny today, the sky the too-blue of autumn, the air dry. But warm. Our high was 89F.

I got up at 5:30 a.m. to work - one of only two sane reasons I can imagine doing such a damn fool thing, the other being insomnia - then promptly discovered I was neither ready to begin another new story nor work ( Read more... )

Mostly overcast today and cooler. Our high was only 92F, though the heat index still topped 101F ( Read more... )

Cold today, and cloudy, and rainy. Not as bad as yesterday's mysterious 15 minute tornado warning, though. Sirens like the end of the world, weathermen freaking out, then...cancellation. Something changed its mind. Anyway, today's high was, I think, 37˚F ( Read more... )