Gonna be a scorcher today. Currently, it's 85˚F, with a heat index of 90˚F. Yesterday, we maxed out with a heat index of 101˚F ( Read more... )

Toady was a good day. A bit tedious and tiring, but a good day, all the same. Oh, and hot. The heat advisory continued. I'm a little unclear what our high was today, and the three-day feature at the National Weather Service is on the fritz. Spooky says she saw 94˚F, with a 103˚F heat index at some point. Currently, it's 93˚F. with a heat index of ( Read more... )

Today was a very, very good day. Even the weather was nice. I think we might have gone to the mid eighties, but it may have been cooler, and currently it's 65˚F. Warmer weather is on it's way back.

The day started with an email from Bill Schafer informing me that the forthcoming Subterranean Press edition of Houses Under the Sea: Mythos Tales has ( Read more... )

Given I only slept about three and a half hours last night, today went pretty good. I think we actually passed from warm weather to hot weather. The high was 86˚F, and I expect there was a heat index ( Read more... )

Currently, it's 84˚F and partly cloudy here in Providence. Last night, I fell asleep to the sound thunder and to flashes of lightning. The high yesterday was 93˚F ( Read more... )

There were storms yesterday afternoon and into the night. Before sleep, I lay and listened to thunder rolling across the valley. Thunder and the whistles of trains passing through Leeds, two profoundly comforting sounds in the darkness, and the rain against the windows. Trying to focus on anything but grief and misgiving and regret, and the rain ( Read more... )

Day before yesterday, the mail brought me a royalty check for $74 (The Drowning Girl, audiobook) and news that my agent had sent a copy of Silk to a Russian publisher. I get charged for that. Presumably, there's a Russian publisher interested in doing a translation. No one tells me anything. But with royalty checks like that, retirement is surely ( Read more... )

Since we're going to an early matinee tomorrow afternoon, I thought I'd post something here now.

Tonight, Kathryn and I watched The Empire Strikes Back, in my opinion by far the superior of the first six Star Wars films. I was released May 22, 1981. I turned seventeen on the 26th of that year. And I saw TESB twenty times between the release date ( Read more... )

Thanks to everyone who commented yesterday ( Read more... )

"Same birds that followed me to school when I was young ( Read more... )