Sunny today. Our high was 84.9F. I'm only following the news just so much these days, but I do have updated numbers on Helene, now the second deadliest hurricane of the 21st century, after Katrina. Watching the satellite images, when it was still sitting on the Yucatan Peninsula, I knew it would be bad. I did not dare imagine it would be that bad. ( Read more... )

Sunny today, clouds moving in late. Our high was 81F. There's genuinely cooler weather on the way. The low Subday night is forecast at 45F ( Read more... )

In the space of one email, a day can go to hell.

Sunny today, the sky the too-blue of autumn, the air dry. But warm. Our high was 89F.

I got up at 5:30 a.m. to work - one of only two sane reasons I can imagine doing such a damn fool thing, the other being insomnia - then promptly discovered I was neither ready to begin another new story nor work ( Read more... )

Today felt more summery. Our high was 89F ( Read more... )

A truly, truly, truly wretched day.

The weather was nice, though a bit warm. The high was 87F.

I watched more mountaineering documentaries.

Wretched day.

So, back to Dreaming Squid Sundries. Some more new stuff up. Kathryn has put a copy of The Dry Salvages, the original SubPress printing from 2004, with the chapbook that came free with. The ( Read more... )

A nice end-of-summer day. Sunny with a high of 84F.

You know what? Crap day. And I am not up to the usual blah, blah, blah, blah.

The afternoon film was Ridley Scott's Prometheus (2012 ( Read more... )

Sunny today. That sort of bottomless blue sky that comes here in autumn (and sometimes in spring). Our high was 84F.

Up at about 7:30 a.m., and I managed about 1,100 words on The Night Watchers, then read a paper on pterosaur flight mechanics. Also, there was an urgent email from SubPress, a last-minute editing query for Bradbury Weather (PREORDER ( Read more... )

Sunny today. Our high was 83˚F ( Read more... )

The weather is not unpleasant today. It was considerably less unpleasant before I realized that this is the last day of Green Autumn (some other parts of the world might have Summer), that tomorrow is the equinox. I have no idea why my Wiccan acquaintances are calling today Mabon, by the way. Because tomorrow is the equinox. This is one reason why ( Read more... )

Cloudy, rainy, chilly, ugly here in Providence. Summer is dead.

From the realm of the unexpected and vaguely surreal, my editor sent me a blurb yesterday for Blood Oranges. The blurb is from Amber Benson. Yes, the actress who played Tara on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Anyway, here's the blurb: In the conjuring of Blood Oranges, Caitlin R. Kiernan ( Read more... )