Hot and mostly sunny today. Our high was 91˚F, with a heat index of 95˚F ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I wrote 1,228 words on Chapter Two.

Today, it's somewhat cloudy, but we may head south after work. I need to get out of the city, and as close to the sea as I can. I need this very badly. My nerves are like fraying jute rope.

I would apologize for the outburst last night, only it hardly seems sane, much less appropriate, to do so. This ( Read more... )

Okay, kittens. I have been called an "ableist" in my own goddamn LiveJournal. And I will not abide such a thing. I refer anyone who may be surprised at my indignation to the entry of August 5thSo, if you've read that, or if you know anything about my life (which has become fairly fucking public), you should know that calling me an ableist is ( Read more... )

Comments would be good today ( Read more... )

I'm trying to concentrate, but it's sort of hard to focus on writing when I was already having trouble focusing before a kitten and the Martian rover landing got thrown into the mix (and missing the Olympics, but that pales to nothing next to Curiosity's impending descent). And, too, Jonathan Hardy (the voice of Dominar Rygel VXI) has died. And so ( Read more... )

How did it get so late? Now, there's a good goddamn question. I only meant, how did it get to be 12:47 p.m., when I could have sworn it was only noon ( Read more... )

Cold and rainy today, here in Providence.

I awoke to this. I'm assuming the shootings actually have nothing to do, directly, with all the idiotic Batman Rising internet kerfuffle. More likely, the movie simply served as the inevitable catalyst and a handy, high-profile resource for the shooter's "captive" audience ( Read more... )

I want to make a promise to you, the reader. And I don't know if I can fulfill it tomorrow, or even the day after that. But I put the bastards of this world on notice that I do not have their best interests at heart. I will try and speak for my reader. That is my promise. And it will be a voice made of ink and rage. ~ Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum ( Read more... )