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... )

A warm, pleasant sort of day, partly cloudy, some good sun. Our high was was 87F, with a heat index of 91F. On and off, I talked with Z down is Tampa about Idalia's effects on the city. And I worried about Jeff and Ann and Neo. And that's almost all the people I know in Florida. Almost ( Read more... )

Sunny today. Our high was 93F, with a heat index of 100F ( Read more... )

Overcast much of the day. The high was 90F.

I was up at 6, and I did another 1,017 words on "The Moment Under the Moment (1994)." Later, I worked on Winifred.

Unremarkable day.

Late last night, unable to sleep, I watched Clark Gable in 1949's Command Decision, directed by Sam Wood. A very good war film, based on William Wister Haines' 1947 ( Read more... )

A sunny, cooler Earth Day 2023. Our high was 72˚F.

Talk with Mike P. this afternoon about halisaurine mosasaurs and character matrices. Watched an episode of Nature about the Niagara Escarpment. Went outside for the first time since Monday ( Read more... )

Mostly sunny today. Our high was 70˚F.

Not a lot to say for today. I spoke with Bill Schafer and with another publisher via email.

I finished Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin really excellent American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer and began The Revenant: A Novel of Revenge by Michael Punke ( Read more... )

A sunny day, and everything is turning green, that softest, palest yellow-green of early spring. Flowers, large and small. But there's a chill in the air, a breeze I'd much prefer were not there. I took a brief walk with Spooky, and the air was a little too chilly for my liking. Currently, it's 65˚F; our high was 67˚F ( Read more... )