And here we are, the last day of 2024. I will not put on a brave face and pretend I do not fear the four years ahead of us, and maybe many years beyond that. The care of our nation and all it has stood for has been given over into the hands of madmen. I do not know how any thinking person can celebrate this New Year's Eve ( Read more... )

Cold and sunny, Broken record. Low was 27, high was 58F.

I somehow slept until well after six, and I didn't get much work done this morning at all. Later, however, I did do quite a lot, tending to emails, mostly related to MP2. But I spent some time on The Night Watchers. This is going to be a seriously odd book ( Read more... )

Fuck, what day is this? Friday? Sure, let's say it's Friday. I might even be right. Anyway, it was very hot. Our high was 93.9F, with a heat index of 102F. Near sunset, there was an amazing thunderstorm and torrential rain ( Read more... )

Right now, time feels that way. I'm been fighting the same low-grade headache for four days ( Read more... )

I m fucking exhausted. I've hardly slept for two nights now.

Our high today was 59F, after a nightly low of 29F. Sunny and cold.

I was up at 4:30 a.m. I tried to start something for Sirenia Digest, but I could not settle on an idea that I liked enough to really get started on it. I spent an hour prepping two marine gastropods from the Bashi Marl ( Read more... )

Sunny all day. Our high was 92F, with a heat index of 100F.

I was up at 4:30 a.m., and I wrote another 1,077 words on "Black Water (Murder Ballad No. 14)." This seems to have become the title, at least for now. It will appear in Sirenia Digest No. 207. I am pretty sure I'll finish it in the morning ( Read more... )

After yesterday's high of 18˚F, we reached 27˚F today. The windchill currently -16˚F. But we have the sun.

An utterly miserable day.

I spoke briefly with my mother about an hour ago. She and my nephew are both still very ill with COVID-19.

Kathryn is making spaghetti.

Last night we watched Bob Clark's A Christmas Story (1983). Tonight we'll ( Read more... )

The brutal cold hit us in the predawn hours. When I got up at at 7 a.m., it was 10˚F, with the windchill at -6˚F. Currently, it's 18˚F, with the windchill at -1˚F. This is going to last for days, of course, but at least we have the sun ( Read more... )

Warmer weather. A mix of clouds and sun today. A high of 65˚F. Warm December has arrived.

I desperately wanted today to be the last day of work on MP2 before submission to the journal of our choice. I'll tell you which one later. Not yet. I was awake at 3:30 a.m., and I was working a little after 4 a.m. Today, I did nine hours on the paper, with a ( Read more... )

Autumn is here. I cannot deny this, no matter how much I might wish I could. Our high was 79˚F ( Read more... )