Tag: Florida Weather
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Musings & Thoughts for Thursday, September 7, 2023, or: Summer Refuses to Go Away, ANOTHER Hurricane is Out at Sea, and Chapter 11 is STILL Kicking My Butt
Late Morning/Midday, Thursday, September 7, 2023, Lithia, Florida Hey, there, everyone. Well, here we are again, on a Thursday that, thanks to the three-day Labor Day weekend, feels oddly like a Wednesday. A hot, sticky, subtropical Florida Wednesday, with a dollop of yet more “Will a hurricane hit Florida?” anxiety added to the mix. Currently,…
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Musings & Thoughts for Tuesday, September 5, 2023, or: A Tuesday That Feels Like a Monday? That Just Isn’t Right!
Late Morning/Midday, Tuesday, September 5, 2023, Lithia, Florida “What’s wrong with Tuesdays?” Trent asks. “Everything. Monday’s always Monday, but at least it’s the start of something new. Wednesday is hump day, Thursday’s almost Friday, and Friday brings the weekend. But Tuesday? Nada.” ― Steven Rowley, Lily and the Octopus Hi, everyone. One of the things…
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On Writing & Storytelling: The Ups and Downs of My Writing Life
Late Morning, Friday, August 25, 2023, Lithia, Florida Hey, everyone! Here I am again on yet another hot, humid late summer day in the Tampa Bay area, getting ready to begin another workday before what promises to be yet another “meh” weekend. As I begin my 1,239th post on this blog, the temperature outside Is…
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Musings & Thoughts for Tuesday, August 22, 2023, or: Summer Broils On…Writing Goes On, As Well
Late Morning, Tuesday, August 22, 2023, Lithia, Florida “This morning, the sun endures past dawn. I realise that it is August: the summer’s last stand.” ― Sara Baume, A Line Made By Walking Hi, there, folks. So, here we are, just over three weeks into August – the last month of meteorological summer and one…
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Musings & Thoughts for Monday, August 14, 2023, or: Weekend Update, Part the Third – and My Writing Plan for Today
Late Morning, Monday, August 14, 2023, Lithia, Florida Hi, everyone. It’s yet another simmering midsummer day here in the Tampa Bay area. According to my computer’s Weather app, the temperature outside is 87°F/31°C under sunny conditions. With humidity at a sticky 70% and a south-southeasterly breeze blowing at 6 MPH/10 KMH, the heat index is…
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Musings & Thoughts for Sunday, August 13, 2023, or: Weekend Update, Part the Second – Hot as Hell Edition
Midday/Early Afternoon, Sunday, August 13, 2023, Lithia, Florida “An’ the dawn comes up like thunder outer China ‘crost the Bay!” – Rudyard Kipling, The Road to Mandalay The Tampa Bay area is nowhere near Mandalay, Burma. Nor is it across the Bay from China, for that matter. But summers here – as well as in…
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On Writing & Storytelling: Today on the ‘Reunion: Coda’ Agenda…Switching a Scene from Script to Novel
Late Morning, Wednesday, July 26, 2023, Lithia, Florida Hello, Dear Reader, and welcome to my 1,197th post on A Certain Point of View, Too. It’s “Hump Day” – the last Wednesday of July 2023, and the third day of the workweek. It is, of course, also a summer day in west-central Florida. Not surprisingly, it’s…
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Musings & Thoughts for Friday, July 21, 2023, or: On Writing Stories on a Sweltering Summer Day in Florida
Midday, Friday, July 21, 2023, Lithia, Florida Hi, there, Dear Reader. It is a suffocatingly torrid day here in the Tampa Bay area. As I write this, the temperature outside is, according to the Weather app on my computer, 91°F/33°C under partly sunny conditions. The heat index is quite high – the “feels-like” temperature is…
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On Writing & Storytelling: A Quick SITREP on ‘Reunion: Coda’ and the Effects of Bad Weather on My Output
Late Afternoon, Monday, July 17, 2023, Lithia, Florida It Was a Dark and Stormy…Afternoon Hi, all. I’m back for a quick update on my writing experience on this hot, rainy, and even stormy first day of the workweek. First off, as I predicted, the “scattered rain showers” did pop up around noon today – as…
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Musings & Thoughts for Monday, July 17, 2023, or: Wrapping Up the Weekend Update While Prepping for the Writing Workday
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in Alex Diaz-Granados, Amazon, Amazon Music, Beatriz Diaz-Granados, Blogging, Books, Creative Writing, Family History, Hell to Pay: Operation DOWNFALL and the Invasion of Japan, 1945-1947, Kindle, Kindle Create (Publishing App), Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP), Life in Florida, Life in the Tampa Bay area, Military History, Operation Downfall, Personal Thoughts, Reunion Duology, Reunion: A Story, Reunion: Coda, Summer in Florida, World War II (1939-1945)Late Morning, Monday, July 17, 2023, Lithia, Florida Hi, folks. It’s another scorching summer day here in the Tampa Bay area. As I start my 1,183rd post on A Certain Point of View, Too, it’s 87°F/30°C under sunny skies, but with humidity at 78% and a weak southwesterly breeze of 3 MPH/5 KMH, the feels-like…
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