Sunny and clear today. Our high was 88F.

No work today. After finishing "Ovid Under Glass," and with many things coming up, I took a day off, more or less. Also, I might have slept four hours last night. Maybe. Sunday I'll put together Sirenia Digest 211. Monday I have to go to Tuscaloosa to do more mosasaur work there, inclduing some stuff for ( Read more... )

This from The Providence Journal (Saturday, August 12, 2006):

The town of Milford, Conn., has announced that three beautiful towering hickory trees on a street are being chopped down, because one child in the area is allergic to hickory nuts. The town was driven by fear of litigation spawned by a letter from Una Glennon, a grandmother of the child ( Read more... )