Month: September 2010

Wet Monday

A rainy day, with much scouring through stock photo websites at work. Which is how I can stumble across images like this and this in fairly quick succession. Seriously, that first image…it’s not NSFW, necessarily, but…sheesh. It’s not going in the book, sad to say.

Otherwise, just more rain. It was raining when I got off the train this evening, but had stopped before I crossed over the platform to the other side. Then, when I came home and took the dog outside for a walk, it started to bucket down on us. He, of course, hates the rain…but seemed convinced it wasn’t raining in the backyard. And it turns out, he was right. By the time I’d walked from one of the garage to the other, and unlocked the back door, the rain had stopped. It’s poured off and on all night, but if I’d timed this evening just a little better, I’d have stayed relatively dry.

“Are you aware of an impending attack on the planet Earth?”

A quiet Sunday. I finished reading all of the stories still sitting in the Kaleidotrope slush pile, which is something of a minor miracle. I haven’t sent out acceptances or rejection letters to everybody just yet, but that should be finished by tomorrow. I started putting together a spreadsheet of future issues, and I’m easily into April 2012. So let’s hope Roland Emmerich and John Cusack were wrong, for everybody’s sake.

Meanwhile, I watched The Day the Earth Stood Still. It was okay, more impressive in its special effects than its story. I’ve never seen the original, though generally I hear it’s better.

Other than that? Thoroughly failed to finish this week’s New York Times crossword puzzle. Though the night’s not over just yet, so we’ll see.