Good early morning GH. It is just past 3:30 AM here in "The City," and the current temperature is 49 degrees as we are getting ready for a sunny high of 70. But that's not before we get to an expected low of 45 at 7:00 AM. To think, I returned to my summer uniform yesterday. When Sugar the Weather Dog and I take our morning walk, I may have to get out those long jeans and a jacket again. I guess it depends on when we get up to go.

Yesterday I did a bit more than I had planned. I did the laundry, dusted, walked with Sugar twice, and edited for and with Mary. All of that between music and reading. I finished one book late last night and then it was time for bed. I also updated my Social Security profile and then made a doctor's appointment. As I think about it, I was busy.

Today I plan to take it a bit more leisurely. Maybe vacuuming, more music of course, and then a new book begins. Sugar and I will take the requisite number of walks, but those are pleasure cruises. Otherwise, I plan for it to be a slow day. I'd like to stay in if Mary has no other plans that I can buy into.

In sports, the boys in blue once again fell to the Brewers, 1 - 6. The Tigers got by the Mariners 4 - 2. My beloved Red Sox had the day off.

To borrow from the ate Howard Cosell, speaking of sports, as I was listening to the radio last night, a pundit was ruminating on the reason that people don't seem to care about the fact that the baseball playoffs are coming up. In 15 days the wild card races begin on the first of October. Some fans speculated that the reason was the latest scandals over the use of performance enhancing drugs. Others that the perennial playoff bound teams were or were not there, depending on their own allegiances. Some felt it could be due to the high cost of seeing games that never seems to stop rising.

I have an opinion/theory. I think that the real cause is that the days of the old time baseball announcers weho began on radio like Vin Scully, Harry Caray, Jack Brickhouse, Mel Allen, Jack Buck along with numerous others who used to shill for their home teams are gone. Some of those announcers were true homers. Others were just hired guns. However, they were all personalities, almost larger than the teams for whom they announced. They did more than just announce a game, they described the action in a detail that came from the days of baseball on radio. Just one man's thoughts.

So that's about it for the latest goings on here in GH. Sunrise and...Tea time await. Ciao.