Woke up early, but lay in bed until 6:00. Daydreaming. Nice cooling morning, fresh with promise.
Gym, then home for coffee, and a surprise morning visit. Including a bit with a dog. Didn't get a lot of work in at the office, but enough. 11:00 orthodontist appointment shut me down through mid-afternoon. Home after that to look after little things.
Put in last set of revisions on a brochure, and read a few more pages of DeLillo's Zero K. The man's part philosopher, all writer. Every sentence a combination of futuristic cool and old world, ass-kicking, Jesuit-style meditation. Elegant. Simple. Compelling.
Looking forward to my trip up the mountain. Reading, writing, fishing. Dawn to dusk. A little more reading once the gas lamps go on. Hope to finish the DeLillo book, and Best American Short Stories 2015. Draft a new piece (or maybe two), wrap up a couple more.
Read a sad bit in the paper this morning. The Hayden Pass fire down in the Sangres may have wiped out an endangered species of greenback cuttthroat. Their closest known genetic twin was a specimen collected by the Smithsonian in 1889.
Hail storm tonight. But nothing damaged (knock wood). Maybe the moisture will pull the grass out of its funk. Everything's cooling down. Settling in. Good feelings of yesterday are still here.