Mostly cloudy today. A high of 77F.

I profundly unproductive day. Fear tends to have that affect on me.

I began reading Eddie Muller's Dark City (Revised and Expanded Edition): The Lost World of Film NoirOnly six days remaining, until one of two scenariors begins to play itself out, and I am all but paralysed with dread. And not only that, but a ( Read more... )

Our high was 93.9F, with a heat index of 96F ( Read more... )

Very, very tired today. I didn't get to sleep until after 1 a.m., and I was awake again at 5:30. That said, it was mostly sunny today. The high was 79F ( Read more... )

Overcast and cooler today. Our high was 69˚F. Storms expected tomorrow.

Sirenia Digest No. 104 will hopefully go out to subscribers this evening. I'm just waiting to get the PDF, and then Spooky will send it off to you ( Read more... )

We had sun for some of the day. And it's warmer. But I am sick of this weather. Our high today was 41˚F.

No work was done.

Last night, our annual Christmas viewing of A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965) and Wes Anderson's The Royal Tenenbaums (2001 ( Read more... )

We made it above freezing today! Our low last night was 18˚F, and our high today was 35˚F, with the windchill at 30˚F.

I have had far worse Christmases (see 1995). Just a quiet day with Spooky, a little Christmas music. My thanks to the readers who sent me gifts. Though always lift my spirits. My favorite gift this year is the Brown Bird hoodie ( ( Read more... )

Sunny today, bright and green and warm. Our high was 88˚F. Now, that's spring.

A good morning. I was up at 6 a.m. I did another 1,254 words on "Living a Boy's Adventure Tale."

But then the afternoon sorta dropped out from under me. As I said on Facebook, These days that are going so very well, and suddenly I plummet over the edge of a cliff. No ( Read more... )

A cool, sunny day here in Birmingham, autumnal air, though the trees are still green. Our high was 67˚F. Currently, it's 67˚F ( Read more... )

I'm really too tired for this entry, but I don't want to miss another night. Between only having slept about seven hours in two nights and The Cough, well, I'm exhausted ( Read more... )

Sunny today and currently 65˚F.

Yesterday, I wrote "C is for Cthulhu," which came to 673 words. Then I packed the Camarasaurus skull and the Maisaura skull and a few other smaller things from the big case.

After dinner, we watched Steven Speilberg's excellent The Post (2017), an indictment of both the Nixon and Trump administrations attacks on ( Read more... )