So, I go and make a big fuss about the goddamn rain, and, what d'you know? It stops raining. Only...it's gonna rain cats and dogs tonight, after a somewhat sunny afternoon today. Cats and dogs, I say. We have a flash flood watch again and a severe weather watch. Today's high was 76˚F. Spring's come to Birmingham, and the trees are getting green. ( Read more... )

A wild night here in Alabama last night, and we had a tornado touch down not far from us. I knew yesterday was tornado weather. I lay awake half the night listening to the rain and thunder. It was cooler today, with the high at only 50˚F, and get this. We might see snow showers tonight. But by Monday we'll be back in the high 60s˚F. Currently, it's ( Read more... )

Really a good day today, but I am extremely tired. And we had weird tornado weather all day, blustery and cloudy and warm, the high at 71˚F. We had a tornado watch until a little while ago. Currently, it's still 68˚F ( Read more... )

No writing today ( Read more... )

So, two days without entries because I wasn't well night before last and I hardly slept but, mostly, I haven't been in the mood to say "Today, I did not write." But we can't have that becoming a habit, so here I am tonight to say, "Today, I did not write." I tried, but no cigar. There was also some work related stuff today with Tor.com and Writers ( Read more... )

Cloudy today. Stormy weather tonight. We have a tornado watch until 3 a.m. Currently, it's 75˚F.

I spent the day reading about glyptosaurine lizards and Eocene paleoclimatology. Tonight, we watched Clint Eastwood's The Mule (2018), which was very good ( Read more... )

We woke this morning to a rainy, blustery autumn day, and to a tornado watch. While Spooky was making breakfast, I was sitting at my desk and a terrific wind suddenly blew over the mountain. I thought for just a moment that it actually was an approaching tornado. There was a sound, almost like that sound. And then there was another sound, a loud, ( Read more... )

It turns out denial is insufficient to stave off The End. I'm thinking of NCSoft pulling the plug on City of Heroes and Villains, but only because someone pointed me to this article: "The Demise of a Social Media Tracking Platform: Tracking LiveJournal's Decline." It's a good article. Still, I don't want to leave. But I have been systematically ( Read more... )

A good day for comments, kittens ( Read more... )

The storms have passed, and it looks like we made the right call, not attempting the drive to Boston yesterday. The video I've seen of a sizable tornado dragging itself along the Connecticut River in Massachusetts yesterday, slinging it's debris field round and round, is beautiful and terrifying and filled me with awe. But, having watched tornadoes ( Read more... )