Not an awful day, though i did sleep much and I was ill for a good bit of it. Our high was 88F, with a heat index of 92F. So, a cold snap. Meanwhile, Tropical Storm Debby, which I have been warning was going to get worse thanks to hot warm gulf waters, is coming ashore as a Catgeory 2 Hurricane. And while we cannot blame the current eruption of ( Read more... )

Rainy again. Our high was 84F, with a heat index of 92F.

The thing about having three consecutive solid, productive days is that when the fourth days just sort of sputters out, it's even more depressing, for me at least, that four useless days in a row. No, I did not get the Carrie essay written, and I didn't begin the story I have to write. I ( Read more... )

Slight cooler today, but I'm not bothering to switch icons. Tomorrow will not be so mild. If you can call today mild. Our high 91F, with a heat index of 99F. The humidity is murder. But this is my world, my woods, my mountains, my heat.

I still have not found the book I will be reading after We Have Always Lived in the Castle. Of course, this does ( Read more... )

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... )

I can't help but think that this could be America's last Independance Day. I think that's the sort of pronouncement that Bret Easton Ellis would refer to as "clutching pearls." And yet. And it was hot. Our heat advisory continued. Sunny and cloudy by turns, the high 97F, with a heat index of 106F. Near sunset, as all of Birmingham readied for the ( Read more... )

Overcast and rain all day, but uncomfortably humid. Our high was 88, with a heat index of 94. It was the our own little piece of the Congo. True heat coming back tomorrow.

And do you see what's happening in the Atlantic, aiming for the Gulf?

The Sun Always Shines on TV has become a very different sort of story than it started out as. I won't ( Read more... )

Cloudy this morning, then some sun, then a little rain. The temperature's still low, but the high humidity is driving up the heat inddx, Our high was 91.9F, but the heat index was 99F. That's kinda gross ( Read more... )