Sunny this morning. Cloudy this afternoon. Our high was only 86˚F, and the heat index did not go above 87˚F. Quiet a change after last week. Currently, it's overcast and 84˚F ( Read more... )

Thunderstorms last night. Lightning reflecting off the snow. This morning, the sun's out, it's 41˚F, and the melting seems to have begun in earnest. I feel like we've been locked in a hard freeze for a solid month or longer. Of course, now there's the ugliness of the melt, because humans and snow are a bad mix, and there's the threat of flooding ( Read more... )

Couple of things I just wanted to post before bed. First, the beautiful opening credits to Watchmen. Thank you, YouTube*:

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And, also...thank to robyn_ma, if Nareth were a one-eyed, pink-gun wielding, double-amputee superhero with robotic legs (with an alias, of course):


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Yargh.

So, after a couple of days of dismally wet and genuinely cold weather, today we were hit with what the meteorologists are calling a heat wave. Yesterday, the highs in Providence were in the low 70s F, today, in the mid 90s F. And this house - built in 1875, and designed for New England winters - is great at keeping heat in. Whether it's ( Read more... )

This morning, the sun is very, very bright. No, really. Brighter than it ought to be. Maybe we're due an unexpected, premature supernova. Or maybe it's only that I have a slight hangover. Either way, I shouldn't have opened the frelling office curtains. Spooky just came back from the post office and I asked her if it looked like supernova weather ( Read more... )

Yeah, so, as days off go, yesterday was so-so. It began well enough. We went to Piedmont Park, not remembering that this weekend was the frelling silly Dogwood Festival, and instead of just sitting and watching birds flit about Lake Clara Meer, we spent an hour or so wandering amongst the hoard of people who'd been drawn out for all the arts and ( Read more... )