Cloudy morning, less cloudy afternoon. The high was 61F.

Another wasted day.

This afternoon's film was George Miller's Mad Max: Fury Road (2015). I finished Jim Thompson's Roughneck and began one of his longer novels, Wild Town.

Last night we finished the rewatch of The Americans. Tonight we started Season Two of The Old Man (really marvelous ( Read more... )

Mostly cloudy today. The high was 74F.

This is one of those very rare days when I didn't really get anything done, but it genuinely was not my fault.

So, short journal entry.

The afternoon's film was Peyton Reed's Ant-Man (2015; yeah, yeah, I know). I finished reading Jim Thompson's and began his autobiography, Roughneck.

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A little warmer today. I think. Maybe Not supposed to be so cold tonight. Our high today was 68F.

I'm coming to the place where, a couple issues of the digest behind me, I've pulled out the ms. for The Night Watchers again, and the next day or two will be spent quickly scanning it, tossing some stuff out, seeing what still works, and then locking ( Read more... )

Ugh. Stupid day. It was sunny, but cold. Our high was 60F, after a low of 32F. I did not say frigid. I said cold. I know frigid. Ask me, sometime, about the winter of 2014-2015, most of which I spent snowed into a cabin in the Catskill Mountains.

Today, Sirenia Digest 223 went out.

And I began reading Nathan Ballingrud's WoundsOtherwise, not much ( Read more... )

Chilly day. Cold night. Our high was 55F, and tonight we have a freeze warning.

This morning I put together Sirenia Digest 223, the special surprise issue, only a day after 222 went out. So...booya. I'm waiting to get the PDF from Gordon, and then Spooky will send it to all our subscribers. You're welcome. I think I did four hours work before ( Read more... )

Sunny today. Windy. A high of 61F.

I hardly slept, and I was ill, but I worked. I did the last bit of tweaking on The Ultraviolet Alphabet, did the layout on Sirenia Digest 222 (magic number), and Gordon D. did a quick turnaround for us, so Spooky was able to send the PDF out early in the afternoon. Subscribers ought to have it. And I got in an ( Read more... )

The sun came back today. Our high was 68F fairly early, then started dropping.

I spent the morning proofreading and editing The Ultraviolet Alphabet. Then a chunk of the afternoon at the microscope, working on the Bashi. I ought to be working on MP2, but honestly, the Bashi work is sorta zen, not morphology and number crunching, just sorting itty- ( Read more... )

Very, very rainy today as a cold front passes through. Our high was 69F.

I was awake at 5:30, up at 6 p.m., and I got through to THE END of The Ultraviolet Alphabet, which I'll edit tomorrow. I hope to get Sirenia Digest 222 out on Thursday, and SD 223 should be coming very soon afterwards (with something rather special ( Read more... )

Sunny today. The high was 73.9F. But the warm weather is about to come crashing down.

Three nights with hardly any sleep. And this morning, after writing so much yesterday, I managed only 326 measly fucking words. I only have X, Y, and Z left.

I signed some books we sold in the Dreaming Squid Sundries shop, the three Bright Dead Star ARCs ( Read more... )

Sunny today. A high of 72F.

And it was a very productive morning, though I've hardly slept for two nights now. I did 1,697 words on The Ultraviolet Alphabet. If I am very lucky, I might finish it tomorrow.

I miss when we were less innocent, because we seemed so much more innocent then.

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