No thunderstorms today, but clouds. Sunnier in the late afternoon. It has been a summer largely without my beloved cicadas, but they sang for me this evening. Currently, it's 83˚F, with a heat index of 89˚F ( Read more... )

Tonight I will not be talking about COVID-19 ( Read more... )

I didn't mean to skip yesterday. It just happened ( Read more... )

I wish this were the journal entry where I talk about the light at the end of the tunnel, but I think we are a very long way from that journal entry ( Read more... )

A sunny day that became overcast and thunderous, then partly cloudy. No rain yet, I don't think. Our high was 93˚F, with the heat index reaching 100˚F. Currently, it's 92˚F, with the heat index at 97˚F ( Read more... )

Yeah, so...I woke at 2 a.m. and lay awake trying to solve an obscure problem with a Latin binomen until I finally fell asleep again at three. Which should have warned me something was up ( Read more... )

A little cooler this time today than it was this time yesterday. Currently, it's 93˚F, with a heat index. The highest I personally saw the heat index go today was 102˚F. Regardless, dangerously hot. And sunny, no sign of the reliable late-afternoon storms that were with us for a while ( Read more... )

I asked for the rain to leave, and today it seems, so far, to have done just that. The sun is shining. Currently, it's 79˚F.

This afternoon's comfort film was Alex Proyas' brilliant Dark City (1998). If you have not ever seen the July 2008 director's cut, you truly have not seen the film. The studio butchered Proyas' film at least as badly as the ( Read more... )

Sunny again today, but still with some clouds. Our high was, and presently is (so our high so far), 87˚F, with the heat index at 92˚F ( Read more... )

Overcast and rainy. Currently, it's 49˚F, with the windchill at 46˚F ( Read more... )