So, at least I managed a little sleep last night, all of it about about 1:30 a.m. (when I woke the night before). I was awake at 5, though, and I was writing by 6 a.m. Oh, wait, the damn weather. Cooler still today. It would have been great chalk gully weather. We made 89F, but it was overcast and there was a cool breeze. Autumn is coming fast, and ( Read more... )

Hot today, the violent thunderstorms just before sunset. We lost internet and the electricity flickered. Fortunately, I have the personal hotspot thing on my iPhone, so the long internet outage did not affect us. Our high was 96F, with a heat index of 100F.

The subject line today is from Kim's Convienience, and I must have it as a T-shirt ( Read more... )

Cloudy today, with some sun in the afternoon. Our high was 86F ( Read more... )

Which almost seems like an auspicious number ( Read more... )

In all ways, today has been a better day than the last several. However, it's getting colder, and the next two are three are going to be, by Jefferson County, Alabama standards - brutally cold. Today's temperature was not so bad. The high was 49F, but the low tonight will be 30F, and then the real cold arrives ( Read more... )

A dreary day. Overcast. The valley filled with fog almost all day, but the sun has just come out. Our high was 52F.

I hardly slept last night. I think the dread nap was the trigger for a bad night. But the sleepless night lead to a crappy day. Still, I finished Graham Farmelo's Churchill's Bomb: How the United States Overtook Britain in the First ( Read more... )

For the autobiography I pray I'll never write, I mean.

Our high today was 60F. Sunny.

No better a day than yesterday. Worse, most likely. Less productive. This is not a slump, it's a plunge.

We saw an episode of Fringe last night I had no memory of, but it was remarkable. "Brown Betty." It originally aired on April 29, 2010 ( Read more... )

Just something quick I think. A sunny day, but cold. Pur high was only 53F.

I woke at 5:30 a.m. and was up at 6. I did a bunch of words on The Night Watchers that I hope I will still like tomorrow. I worked two hours on the Bashi Marl sample and found the largest shark's tooth to come from it yet (though, by shark tooth standards, it's still on ( Read more... )

Sunny for most of the day. Our high was 91F, with a heat index of 96F.

A decent day, given the way things have been going. This morning I was up at 5 a.m., I stripped the title "Mons Niloticus" off the story I'd been trying to write and "repurposed" it for a new new story. I did 1,011 words, and I like it. I mean the piece have it done sometime ( Read more... )

Sunny, but still cooler, today. our high was 88F, with a heat index of 89F ( Read more... )