Sunny today. yesterday's rain never really materailized. Our high today was 58F. A blustery autumn day.

I'm exhausted. Kathryn and I made it to McWane today about 10 a.m., picked up the holotype of Ectenosaurus shannoni and then drove the Tuscaloosa, to return it to the Alabama Museum of Natural History at UA. Once there, I had to pack up two more ( Read more... )

Overcast, rainy, and the high was 52˚F. There is some genuinely cold weather on the way ( Read more... )

Cloudy much of the day, but the sun's come out. Our high was 85˚F; currently, it's 84˚F, with the heat index at 87˚F.

A lost day, mostly. Fallout from the birthday. I did some reading from Rich and Vickers-Rich's book of polar dinosaurs (2020). I did some work on the cave matrix. Really, not much more than that. My afternoon movie was Raiders of ( Read more... )

A rainy day, rainier late than early. Currently, it's 62˚F.

This morning I worked on the glyptosaur paper (yes, more), and then Kathryn and I went to the Summit to see William Eubank's Underwater (2020), a surprisingly effective claustrophobic gut-bunch of a monster movie. It's really a shame it is being ignored at the box office. It harks back to ( Read more... )

A few minutes after I got out of bed, I wrote this on Facebook: I woke up at 8 a.m., after not getting to sleep until sometime after 4 a.m., fretting over old wrongs done to me. These ghosts are never going to let me rest. Here in Providence, it's 4˚F, with a windchill of -12˚F. I hate this place. Now, two and a half hours later, the temperature is ( Read more... )