Sunny today. Our high was 91F ( Read more... )

No, the headache isn't gone. Better, maybe. Yes, I've had headaches last this long before; longer, actually. I think my the record was a sixteen-day migraine back in Providence. This has only last about a week ( Read more... )

A violent, stormy morning that gave way to a beautiful sunny day. The worst of the storms passed just north of Birmingham. Our high was 85F.

Not much sleep. I was awake at 4:30 and writing an hour later. I did another 1,141 words on The Sun Always Shines on TV. Then I had a break and came back and spent the early afternoon on the mosasaur paper 2 ( Read more... )

Sunny and hot today, with a heat advisory. We reached 93F, with a heat index of 101F. Then a thunderstorm rolled through this afternoon, a violent storm that cooled everything off.

I was up at 5:30 a.m. and writing by 6 a.m. I did another 1,100 words (exactly) on "A Buyer's Guide to Commonplace Bizarreness." Later, I played some Guid Wars 2. And I ( Read more... )

Sunny today and little warmer. We made it to 66˚F ( Read more... )

Sunny. Warmer. High of 67˚F.

I am nothing without pretend.
I know my thoughts, can't live with them. ~ Wye Oak

Every day there are fewer reasons to live.

The afternoon's comfort movie was J.J. Abrams' Star Trek Into Darkness (2013).

Here is the eBay link. Thanks.

Later,
Aunt Beast


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Today is the twenty-third anniversary of Elizabeth's suicide. She would have be, I think, forty-seven, which is a strange, sad thought, indeed.

The sun's back. It reappeared late yesterday. The weather is still a little cooler than is usual for August here. Currently, it's 83˚F, with the heat index at 87˚F.

Yesterday, we proofread the galleys of ( Read more... )

Every day, I wake up to horror. And I am expected not to think about suicide. I wake to the news that fifty people have been shot dead at a country music festival and that Trump is discouraging his own diplomats from pursuing non-military solutions to the South Korean situation. This is the world. And I should stay, why? No, I mean some reason that ( Read more... )

It's not even 10 a.m., and already my mind is a white hot roil of anger. This will be the third consecutive day. Outside, it sunny and 77˚F.

Yesterday, we began work on the Silk ms., using optical character recognition to scan the text of the 2007 revision (the so-called "third edition"), as there are no extant electronic files of that edition. ( Read more... )

Sunny and 73˚F ( Read more... )