We can’t even buy a tropical storm these days. At the beginning of the week they threatened/promised that we would get 3-5″ of rain this weekend thanks to the disturbance in the gulf. Now they say we’ll be lucky to see even 1″. Now I’m not saying that we really wanted the 12-20″ of rain that Topical Storm Lee might dump on the states east of us, but give us a break. Let us top off the reservoirs, at least.
The only good news in the weather is a general cooling trend over the next five days. We might even make it down to the upper sixties overnight by next Tuesday. Lately it’s been over eighty when I get up at 5 a.m. to write and has gone up steadily thereafter. This will be something of a relief, though it’s hard to imagine 90° being a real relief.
A writer for Random House’s official SF/F website www.suvudu.com asked me to provide a quote about why I thought Carrie was still relevant all these years after its publication. Here’s what I had to say.
Every now and then, the University of Chicago Press gives away a free eBook. This month it’s The Score, a Parker novel by Richard Stark (Donald Westlake). Available for most reading devices/programs. This link gets you to the Adobe Digital Editions version.
Getting down to the mid-season break on Burn Notice and Pearce has finally uncovered Michael’s dirty little secret. Looks like he’s got some ‘splainin’ to do. I thought Michael was a bit of a jerk toward Fi in this week’s episode—more than usual. When he just slapped the wedding ring into her hand, for example, or when he turned down the hot tub to do paperwork. Charisma Carpenter had a nice guest role as the wife of the chemist turned WMD manufacturer.
