Hot and sunny today. Our high was (so far) 94F, with a heat index of 102F. Much hotter weather is on the way ( Read more... )

Sunny today, after an overcast morning. The high (so far) is 85F, with a heat index of 92F.

So, one reason I tend to say "no" when asked to write nonfiction, it takes me an inordinate amount of time. Partly that's my own dumb perfectionism. Like, today I begin working on my short bit on Carrie, which I'm not even being paid for, mind you, and I ( Read more... )

Our high today was 95F, with a heat index of 105F.

And I realized I have not been in an automobile since June 3rd, the last time I left the property.

I did find a the next book I'm reading, Adam Higginbotham's Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space, so there that. As I hurl myself at The Sun Always Shines on TV, it' ( Read more... )

I woke to rain. And the morning was cool and overcast, the sun only returning late in the day. A merciful break from the heat, our high today was 88F, with a 94F heat index.

Last night we saw an effective little weird/SF film, Matt Vesely's Monolith (2022). Marvelously eerie and open to interpretation. The afternoon's movie was Geurge Miller's Mad ( Read more... )

Sunny today. Our high was 73F. Nearing dusk, my office window is open ( Read more... )

Overcast after a very rainy night. No sign of sun today. Our high was 50F ( Read more... )

A sunny day that turned cloudy an hour or so ago, and we are likely in for a stormy night. The high was 71F.

I was up at 6:30 a.m., but only got a few hundred words written. I had to stop and read back over a few sections of The Night Watchers, trying to more fully understand yesterday's discovery that the plot is headed somewhere radically ( Read more... )

Really, the only decent thing about today was that we had sunlight for much of it. Our high was 69F.

No work on anything. A rough night, and I wasn't up until 7 a.m., and there was no focusing very long on anything.

I finally gave up and made a double feature of Chad Stahelski's John Wick (2014) and John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017). I needed the ( Read more... )