Sunny today. Our high was 83˚F ( Read more... )

Sunny again today, but chilly. Our high was only 48˚F. But just having the sun buoys my mood.

Another much more productive day. I talked with Geralyn at SubPress about the signature sheets for the new edition of From Weird and Distant Shores, and spoek with Bill Schafer about other SubPress business. I had another productive conversation this ( Read more... )

Our high today was 66˚F. It is currently 65˚F and sunny.

A spent a chunk of the day signing the signature pages of the second edition of From Weird and Distant Shores, but I did not get very far. There was a time I could (and did) sign 1,500 sheets in two or three hours. Now it takes two days to do 600 ( have grown to hate signature sheets). Photo ( Read more... )

Sunny today. Currently 76˚F ( Read more... )

Yesterday was both Edward Gorey and Anaïs Nin's birthdays, and I feel bad for not having said so...yesterday ( Read more... )

It's overcast. The sky looks like snow. Currently, it's 34˚F.

The day off was not precisely a success. For one thing, there was work, some of it related to the upcoming book tour in support of Agents of Dreamland. And I'm no good at days off. I spent most of it angry and feeling like I was being a bum for not working. It's now been twelve full ( Read more... )

Cold and sunny here. Currently, it's 30˚F, with the windchill at 23˚F. And we have snow on the way tomorrow afternoon ( Read more... )

There's this passage from Karl Popper's The Open Society and It's Enemies (1945) that I've been wanting to post for weeks, and here it is (and don't pull that "tl;dr" shit just because this is longer than 140 characters):

Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are ( Read more... )

The wind has been blowing hard since yesterday afternoon, and we've had a lot of rain. Currently, the temperature is 43˚F, with the windchill above freezing at 33˚F ( Read more... )