A little sun today, but mostly overcast with rain. Heavy rain all morning. The high was 84F, with a heat index of 91F.

Today was mostly spent planning the Carrie essay and the story I need to start writing day after tomorrow. Likely, I'll do the Carrie piece tomorrow. I finally found the angle, the way in ( Read more... )

Mosty overcast today. Some sun. Our high was 81F.

Another mostly sleepless night, Four hours, I think. This is one of those insomnia attacks. I tell myself it's only my inability to stop mulling over our civilization's impending doom, caught as it is between a rock and a hard place, both intent of demolishing liberty and reason. I tell myself that ( Read more... )

Sunny today, but a little cooler. Our high was 69F.

I hardly slept last night thanks to continuing face pain, and work today was iffy. I read back over what I've written on "A Nameless Person of Mysterious Origin." I thought about the introduction and afterwards for Bright Dead Star.

I began reading Lee Berger and John Hawks' Almost Human: The ( Read more... )

The weather was much better today than the forecast said it would be. Oh, and last night the clouds blew away and the full moon was brilliant. Then storms again early today. Then it got sunny. Our high today was 73˚F ( Read more... )

Sunny today, and we made it to a whopping 65˚F. It's currently - oh look at that 65˚F.

Today was not the day I meant for it to be. Which means it looked NOTHING like that schedule I posted yesterday. I think I'm gonna need a running start. I'll say that schedule officially goes into effect this coming Saturday, November 13th ( Read more... )

A bright and mostly sunny day. We made it to 89˚F. It is currently, 87˚F, with a heat index of 92˚F. I am watching with horror what is happening in the Pacific Northwest. In Portland, it's currently 111˚F. That shit is brutal for Alabama ( Read more... )

Mostly sunny and warm today, though some clouds began moving in late in the afternoon. Our high was 82˚F, which might make today our warmest day so far this year.

This morning, I did 1,126 words on "Two Monsters Walk Into a Bar." Then I spent the afternoon on paleo'.

Later, I decided to torture myself by watching Star Wars: The Phantom Menace ( ( Read more... )

Currently, it's 68˚F and sunny.

I lost yesterday. I still not sure how it happened. It just did. It cannot happen today. I did finally begin reading Nat Segaloff's A Lit Fuse: The Provocative Life of Harlan Ellison. I got my copies only a month or so before Harlan's death, and so I put the book away until some future date when I could face it. ( Read more... )

A day when an open window is like the door to a furnace. With the heat index, we made 103˚F before a few merciful afternoon thundershowers. Currently, it's 77˚F.

Today printed clean copies of the manuscripts for all the several alphabets that I've written since 2006 for Sirenia Digest, as Subterranean Press is collecting them into a single volume ( Read more... )

Today was our second nice day in a row here, but I was in the lab all day, so...and now it's gonna rain until the middle of next week. Alabama doesn't so much have a winter as a rainy season. Currently, it's 46˚F. The high today was 65˚F ( Read more... )