The heat continues. Our high today was 91.9F, with a heat index of 99F. So, the sun icon remains.

Kinda high and listening to Peter Murphy and reminiscing about four year (plus) I lived on the on the north side of Red Mountain (16th Avenue South, "Burt's Bohemian Bear Garden, December 1989-April 1994). Anyway ( Read more... )

Sunny today. Our high was 88F.

That's getting summery.

I slept too much, which is highly unusual, and threw the whole day off. I got nothing written, except a simple email I've been trying to get around to for weeks.

I did finish reading John Farrier's very excellent Foot Prints: In Search of Future Fossils, and that ought to count for ( Read more... )

Let's make this short. Overcast and damp all day. The high was 75F, and we have a wind advisory in effect.

So, today I sent off the first 11k words on what I hope will be my next novel, an actual novel-length novel, The Night Watchers. That's what I have been working on. I will post more details when I can. I will say, it's not much at all like ( Read more... )

Sun on and off today, and our high was 76˚F.

Two things I neglected to mention: 1) March 6th marked the 10th anniversary of the release of The Drowning Girl: A Memoir, and I only realized this a couple of days ago; 2) Sirenia Digest 193 went out to subscribers yesterday morning.

One last polish on "Night Swimming" and it went away to Weird Tales ( Read more... )

Another sunny day, but a stiff breeze kept it chilly. Our high was 66˚F.

This morning I wrote 906 words and finished "Night Fishing." I need Spooky to read over the whole thing for me, and then I need to read over it. Make the line edits, then send it away to Jonathan Mayberry for Weird Tales. And then I worked on Winifred, exposing most of the ( Read more... )

I have now left the house every single day for the last ten days. And yes, I do think I deserve an award ( Read more... )

Sunny and warmer today, with a high of 68˚F. And yet...we have a 90˚F chance of snow on Friday night, with possible accumulations of one inch. By MOnday, the high will be 66˚F.

I was awake at 5:30 this morning and got up at 6. As the sun rose, I proceeded to write the first 1,042 words of "Night Fishing," my story for Weird Tales. Later, I spent a ( Read more... )

Sunny today, after some clouds this morning, and our high was 79˚F. So, it felt a little cooler than yesterday. But only a little. But there's a storm front coming through tomorrow, with possible tornadoes. Then we'll get a cool off, but only down into the 50˚Fs. I can live with that ( Read more... )

Sunny and warmer still today. We reached 82 ( Read more... )

Not that winter in Alabama amounts to much more than a chilly wet season. Mostly, it's the absence of green that gets to me here. A sunny day today, and our high was 77˚F, which it still is, and my office windows are open.

I was awake at 5:30 a.m. (ugh) and up at 6, and yet I had an insanely productive day. I've gone from being horribly behind on ( Read more... )