And here we are, All Saints' Day. Or el Día de los Muertos. Choose your poison. For me, it is the first day of winter. Or, if you live in Alabama, the first day of the rainy season. And yet, it did not rain. Mostly sunny, are our high was 55F, after an overnight low of 31F. No more open windows late into the evening ( Read more... )

I slept poorly last not, more so than usually, and it has been a groggy day. Mostly sunny, our high was 59˚F, so an improvement over yesterday.

No writing today.

No reading today. I watched two documentaries, both about the development of the atomic bomb, including Robert Stone's Radio Bikini (1988 ( Read more... )

A sunny first day of November. Our high was 72˚F.

I worked on coloring the monster doodles I owe people. Sorry this is taking so long. I truly am. I tried to start a new story for the digest but only wrote a few hundred words. My greatest achievement was going over the gigantic ms. for Bradbury Weather one last time and sending it away to ( Read more... )

Mostly sunny today. Our high was 66˚F, and it is now 65˚F.

And I had a doctors appointment today, so I had to leave the house. And it was my first time since September 28th that I had. And this is not going to happen anymore. I am going to become a person again, a person who does not simply fucking forget to go outside for weeks on end. It is ( Read more... )

Not much of a day to report on. But the anger backed off late in the morning, and this time it seems to determined to leave me alone for awhile. Most of the day was just a sort of relieved stillness, I think. Anyway, it was a rainy morning, and there was sun at some point. Currently, it's 47˚F.

Tonight we watched Bong Joon-ho's Parasite (2019), ( Read more... )

Currently, it's 52˚F. Our high today was 73˚F.

Tonight, we went out to my mom's in Leeds for Christmas dinner with her and my sister and nephew. Spooky had cornbread dressing for the first time. Back home, we had our annual Christmas Eve viewing of A Charlie Brown Christmas (1963) and Bad[der] Santa (2003 ( Read more... )

The cold arrived today, on the heels of heavy rain. The temperature fell all day, and it's now 37˚F, with the windchill at 33˚F. We have a freeze warning ( Read more... )

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I was forever getting to sleep last night. It was sometime after five a.m. About seven, I awoke to rain and stood in the front parlor a while, looking out at the dark, wet street. I awoke again just before ten, and Spooky said that it was snowing, and it was. Pretty heavy for about an hour or so, but now the sun is out. Still, that counts as a ( Read more... )

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