In all ways, today has been a better day than the last several. However, it's getting colder, and the next two are three are going to be, by Jefferson County, Alabama standards - brutally cold. Today's temperature was not so bad. The high was 49F, but the low tonight will be 30F, and then the real cold arrives ( Read more... )

I slept about four hours, woke at 4 a.m., was still awake at 5 a.m., when I finally got out of bed. I loathe being awake, the only person awake, in the middle of the fucking night. I sat here and...did nothing. I took a photo just as the sky was getting bright over the crest of Shades Mountain. I took a photograph, with Venus clearly visible. Mars ( Read more... )

Sunny and almost hot so far today. Currently, it's 84˚F, with the heat index at 89˚F.

Yesterday, I wrote 1,360 words on "Wisteria" and found THE END of the story. It will be featured in Sirenia Digest No. 164 (September).

We saw a Mediterranean house gecko (Hemidactylus turcicus) clinging to the outside of one of the windows last night, the ( Read more... )

Yesterday was an idiotic day. There's no getting around that. In the end, after the internet went out and wouldn't come back on, we gave up and went out to Leeds to spend the night at my mother's. That was our second trip to Leeds yesterday. And then, on top of it all, I couldn't sleep last night. No more than two hours, and now I can hardly sit up ( Read more... )

"[I]gnorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge; it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science." ~ Charles Darwin ( Read more... )

A forecast high of 78˚F today, and sunny. And I still can't leave this keyboard.

There's inexplicability in that second sentence. Well, in its relationship to the first.

A couple of years before I left Atlanta, when I was still only talking about moving to Rhode Island, grandmofhelsing declared (it was a declaration) that I would not be able to endure a single ( Read more... )

Thanks for all the comments of late. Warms my cockles (so to speak), so please keep 'em coming ( Read more... )

First off, I know a lot of you have been waiting on the details of the Boston signing. Finally, I have them. I will be signing and reading at Pandemonium Books in Cambridge (4 Pleasant Street) on Saturday, August 5th, from 8-10 p.m. You can get directions to Pandemonium from their website (link above). I'll likely be reading something from Daughter ( Read more... )

It's very warm here in Atlanta, highs in the eighties yesterday and again today. I'm loving this early taste of summer. A sunny day out there, so I'm determined not to waste all of it in here at this dratted desk.

I thought that it might be interesting to do something I've not done before (at least, I don't think that I have) and show one of Vince ( Read more... )