Cooler again today. Our high was 90F.

I found out early this afternoon that Michael Zulli died on the 8th. We were close between 2011 and 2013, and then, I have no idea why, we drifted apart. That happens. I have lost contact with so many people. Anyway, Michael became my George Philp Saltonstall, he of The Drowning Girl: A Memoir. Out of the blue ( Read more... )

So, the weather. What was the weather? Best I can recall, mostly sunny. Our high was a humid 78F.

I got work done. Not quite as much as I would have liked, but better thna nothing. Better than nothing is always, you know, better than nothing. I read everything written thus far on "A Nameless Person of Mysterious Origin," and I did about 500 more ( Read more... )

This will be very short. It was a long, terrible night, and Lydia passed towards dawn. Not gonna get into the details.

Kathryn says more in her update to the GoFundMe, which is still running. We will get the final bill from the vet soon, and it will likely be well over $3k. If you can please help, thanks. If you already have, thanks ( Read more... )

Sunny morning, but the afternoon grew overcast. The high was 85F.

A weird fucking night. I was so upset over the events of yesterday, I didn't think I would be able to sleep, and then I passed out without taking any of my meds (that terrible handful). I woke at 3 a.m., panicked, then realized I was panicked because I forgot the pills. So I took ( Read more... )

Warm today,. Mostly clear. Our high was 85F ( Read more... )

I do lack all conviction? I don't know anymore ( Read more... )

A very stormy day today. We do not get those often. I was up at 5:30 a.m., and at daylight the rain was pouring and the thunder was booming. Our high was only 78F, with a heat index of 80F; there was some localized flooding ( Read more... )

Mostly sunny today and hot. Our high was 91F.

But not much to say about this hot day. I had a rough night, and the day was buried under grogginess, aches, and memories. Mostly, I read.

The afternoon's movie was Christopher Nolan's Interstellar (2014).

Please have a look at the Dreaming Squid thingy. Thank you. And ALSO, and especially, at ( Read more... )

Overcast today, a little sun, the high a mere 59F.

This morning, I did 1,606 words on The Night WatchersIs it just that people picked up "this is not okay" from their parents, when they were three or four, and then just never saw any point expanding their vocabulary? It certainly plays into the simplistic, black-and-white morality of the age ( Read more... )

A sunny day today. The high was 84˚F, with a heat index of 85˚F.

I was more productive than yesterday. I made a decent start to the phylogenetics discussion section of MP2, trying to make sense of the 30 most parsimonious trees produced by my PAUP4 analysis last weekend. And I wrote my "appreciation" piece on Peter Straub for Locus. The problem, ( Read more... )