The world here remains white. We got, I think, at least twice as much snow yesterday as was forecast. It would have been beautiful, were I not so sick of the stuff. Currently, the temperature is 36˚F, but feels like 31˚F. I don't see much in the way of melting happening today. Just enough to fuck the roads up worse tonight when everything refreezes ( Read more... )

I don't really have anything for an entry.

Except a dream from this ayem. A shard of a long dream now forgotten. But in the shard I can recall, I was in my old 1959 Starchief*. I was driving, and Kathryn was beside me. The was a Mexican child in the back seat, and there was her mother. A great round bloom of the reddish fire appeared in the sky, ( Read more... )

The world piles on the stupid. No one can get enough. The world's appetite for stupidity is, I believe, insatiable. And I become baffled at the strata of stupid. Rules of superposition almost cease to apply, and up becomes down, and down becomes up. For example, I don't know which is worse, the question (below) from Audible.com's review form or the ( Read more... )

On this day in 1945, the USAAF bomber Bockscar dropped an atomic bomb named "Fat Man," devastating Nagasaki, Japan. At 11:02 AM (JST), the bomb exploded at an altitude of ~1,650 feet (500 m), with a yield of about 21 kilotons of TNT (88 terajoules). About 39,000* people were killed outright, though at least that many more eventually died from ( Read more... )

I didn't forget this morning's dreams. And more's the pity. I dreamed that the Eastern Seaboard had been destroyed in a nuclear war by the Japanese (????), and I was a child in Jacksonville, Fla. and all was soot and ruin, and I watched a television broadcast of a firestorm raging across Texas. A million little details in my head ( Read more... )

There may be ice on the way. There may not be. Likely, we'll just see a little sleet, rain, clouds, this dreary, deceptively appropriate January weather. The sun won't show her face tomorrow. In the house, the air is cold and very still.

It came closest to midnight - just two minutes away - in 1953, following the successful test of a hydrogen bomb ( Read more... )