Overcast and not too cold today, but nasty. Our high was 51F.

I've got a story almost finished, which I hope will work for Sirenia Digest 224, but I'm kinda nervous about it. I'll say more tomorrow. I';m not really in the mood to do a blog entry.

Which begs a question...but anyway.

This afternoon's film was George Miller's Mad Max: Fury Road ( ( Read more... )

And Christmas fades, and Hanukkah begins (first time on the same day since 2005).

A sunny day. Our high was a not even remotely Christmasy 60F.

Kathryn and I did almost nothing today. We exchanged a few presents and ate candy and watched John McTiernan's Die Hard (1988) and my personal favorite in the series, Die Hard With a Vengeance (1995). Yes ( Read more... )

Warmer today, Our high, on Christmas Eve, was 58F.

This bout of insomnia is getting scary. It's been a week now. I am genuinely beginning to fear it and remembering an especially bad spell I had late in 2016 that stretched on for more than six weeks. Lost day ( Read more... )

Sunny today, but cold. After last night's low of 33F, we reached 53F.

A wretched day. I think I have had one good night's sleep in five. So, there's that. Today gets an L.

I did run across an old review, from 2019, of The Very Best of Caitlín R. Kiernan, that I'd never seen, and there was a bit that especially pleased me. Kathryn Adams writes of ( Read more... )

After a nightly low of 25F, we somehow made it to 51F. But with a nasty windchill.

I don't think I'm gonna say much today. I've hardly slept for three nights, and this was the day I started to feel it. So, whatever. I'll try to do better tomorrow.

Three documentaries today: two episodes of Nova, one on the role chariots played in the ( Read more... )

Sunny today and a high of 43F, after a nightly low of 35F, though to me it felt much colder.

I think I hardly slept last night. But I got up at 7 a.m., and I worked. I am having to teach myself again that writing is not something I do when I feel like doing it, when I am inspired. It is what I do that pays the bills, which has always been my ( Read more... )

The weather turned yesterday. The sun brought cold weather with its return, something nearer to what the Decembers in Birmingham used to feel like. Yesterday, the high was 54F, and today's was 55F, after a nightly low of 32F. Sunny. Windy ( Read more... )

Quite a warm day for the week before Christmas. Sunny, until very late, and our high was 73.9F. But that all changes tomorrow.

The day was spent looking for something I can write for Sirenia Digest 224. That included reading through parts of The Ammonite Violin & Others and Confessions of a Five-Chambered Heart. It's an odd (and I suppose terribly ( Read more... )

Mostly cloudy today. Our high was 66F. Yesterday was pretty much the same.

I have waged a three-day battle with a chapter of The Night Watchers, and I am pausing in the scuffle to write something for Sirenia Digest 224. I need to get my breath and figure out why I can't best a single chapter. Oh, today I saw layouts for Zoetrope Bizarre, the short ( Read more... )

No sun today. Our high was 56F ( Read more... )