Overcast and ugly today, for the most part. Cold. Our high was 46F ( Read more... )

A day that began so cloudy and rainy I could no see the street from my window. But then there was sun ( Read more... )

We had sun for some of the day. And it's warmer. But I am sick of this weather. Our high today was 41˚F.

No work was done.

Last night, our annual Christmas viewing of A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965) and Wes Anderson's The Royal Tenenbaums (2001 ( Read more... )

A little cooler today, but the worst heat so far is coming next week. The weekend is just a passing respite. Today's high was 91˚F, with a heat index of 96˚F.

I was ill all morning. I got no work done. Okay, one email. Go me.

I did finish James Ellroy's autiobiographical My Dark Places and began his novel This Storm. You could same I'm on an ( Read more... )

Cooler again today. Currently, it's 42˚F.

Kathryn has a cold, and I seem to be catching it.

Today was Charlemagne Records' last day. I mentioned the imminent demise of Charlemagne back on December 4th, when Kathryn told me, the 42-year-old Five Points South record shop I first visited in 1978, when I was still in high school. This afternoon, ( Read more... )

It's currently 63˚F. There was some sun today, but mostly it was overcast.

I began a new story, and I did 1,024 words. The title's "Mercy Brown," though it really isn't going to have anything to do with Mercy Brown.

Yesterday was the 14th anniversary of the first issue of Sirenia Digest, and I'd forgotten until this morning. Anyway ( Read more... )

The sun's beginning to vanish behind clouds, but I have the office window open for the first time since at least November (that is, both the interior and storm windows). Currently, it's 54˚F, with the windchill at 52˚F, and that feels just about like a heatwave.

Yesterday, with no hope of working, we went to the 2 p.m. showing of Wes Anderson's ( Read more... )

This morning, I was fired by my psychiatrist. In thirty years of psychotherapy, that's a first.

It's overcast and oddly balmy. Currently, 55˚F, windchill at 51˚F. But the high Sunday is forecast for 27˚F, so there you go.

If you haven't yet seen The End of the F***ing World on Netflix, you really need to. If Wes Andersen remade True Romance, it ( Read more... )

You can stick that app straight up your ass, thank you very much ( Read more... )

Currently, it's sunny and 32˚F here in Providence. The windchill drops us to 27˚F.

Almost against all odds, I actually had a good Christmas. But I worked hard at it. The fifty-two cards I received from readers helped a great deal. Fifty-two, from all around the world! When I requested cards, I never imagined that so many would arrive. So, I think ( Read more... )