Overcast and crappy today, fog and drizzle. The mountains in the clouds. Our high was 51F ( Read more... )

Overcast. A high of 83F.

I wish I could say that today was as productive as yesterday. I managed to finish Ian Nathan's exhaustive account of the making of Peter Jackson's Middle-earth films, Anything You Can Imagine: Peter Jackson and the Making of Middle-earth. But I don't suppose that counts as work ( Read more... )

Mostly cloudy today, some sun. Not enough, But I look at, say, Asheville, NC, where they only just roads into and out of the city reopened today, and, kittens, I do not have anything to complain about. Our high todaywas 78F. I'm trying to pretend this lost summer is not over ( Read more... )

The monsoon has left us, and the heat and sun are back. Frankly, I was truly sick of the rain and lightning and flooding and thunder and darkness. Bright and sunny today (with a chance of a late afternoon shower that has yet to materialize). Our high was 91F, with a heat index of 101F. Outside, the world is scrubbed clean, and the birds and insects ( Read more... )

Mosty overcast today. Some sun. Our high was 81F.

Another mostly sleepless night, Four hours, I think. This is one of those insomnia attacks. I tell myself it's only my inability to stop mulling over our civilization's impending doom, caught as it is between a rock and a hard place, both intent of demolishing liberty and reason. I tell myself that ( Read more... )

After a foggy morning, the sun came back today. Our high was 72˚F.

I need this string of idiotic days to end. I am getting nothing done, and I cannot afford to be getting nothing done.

This morning, I was awake at the perfectly stupid hour of 5 a.m. At 6 a.m. I gave up and got out of bed. I finished reading Heather Mac Donald's The War on Cops. ( Read more... )

Sunny and bordering on hot today. We were told the high would be 90˙F. So, far we've only seen 87˚F, and the temperature has begun to drop. But we still may see 90˚F tomorrow ( Read more... )

Sunny today. The temperature is sitting right at freezing, 32˚F, but the windchill's at 24˚F. It occurs to me that I have not left the House since January 11th. There's still a little snow on the ground, and nothing I see from the windows makes me want to venture Outside. But tomorrow we're going down to Saunderstown to visit with Spooky parents, ( Read more... )

Partly cloudy at the moment, but there's snow coming, two to six inches by tomorrow. Currently, it's 24˚F, and the windchill is at 9˚F ( Read more... )

Cold and sunny today. Currently, the temperature in Providence is only 24˚F, with the windchill at 17˚F.

Yesterday, on a sudden whim, and because I'd not left the house in almost a week, we went to a 1 p.m. showing of Gareth Edwards' Rogue One (2016). When I got got home, I posted the following to Facebook: "I absolutely LOVED Rogue One. Hey, ( Read more... )