It’s Hallowe’en. It was supposed to be cloudy today, but the morning light is beautiful.
I have an office in the basement of my house, with three windows at ground level, situated in such a way that a great deal of daylight floods in. Three walls are covered by books. My work area contains three computers—this one on which I’m writing a Distal Muse entry, my main writing computer (which is attached to the internet in no way), and my old 386, which had been my writing computer for years. The only reason I replaced it was because my old HP printer died and all the new ones use USB ports instead of the massive pin-register cables. …