Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be. It is just passing 3:30 a.m. in The City." The temperature outside the WW is 74° as we head for the overnight low of 61°. Later today, we'll rise to a high of 80° with a chance of scattered T-storms this morning. STWD will let me know.

Remember my plans to do nothing yesterday, other than edit the latest index?, The best laid plans of mice and men etc. Today for sure, I hope.

I found a note on my desk that I had written, reminding me to clear the drain in the upstairs bathroom. I couldn't put it off any longer, as the drain has stopped draining. So, that was my first successful project. I also took the carpets from the foyer outside to give them a good airing/deodorizing. I returned the two smaller ones to the foyer after a thorough vacuuming. The jury is still out on the larger one.coming back. Naturally, since the carpets were out, we thought it would be a good time to steam clean the bare floor. Since I had the steamer out, I just had to use it on the balance of the bare floors in the house too.

Once I had lifted the rugs, the anti-slip pads underneath needed to be washed. When I looked at Sugar's couch cover, it too needed to be laundered. Somewhere in there, I also walked with the intrepid one to the newspaper box. While I was out, Mary walked over to Health Hutt to get a fresh supply of yogurt.

When I was done, both outside and in, it was time for lunch. Mary handled the cooking/preparation part, but I did the cleanup. I repaired to the man-cave to work on a picture frame once I was done withe cleaning. I was called away to work on the editing of the index, so I'll finish that frame later today.

That was my Friday. I'm tired again just reading my descriptions.

However, I'd be remiss if I didn't note that trainspotting was good yesterday. The southbound run went through at 11:32 a.m. while I was outside. Good old #s 2057 and 2019 were pulling a train of one box car, 12 CHCs, and six of those DBTCs. I got to see that previously mentioned horn-happy engineer at the throttles, as he wailed the horns his entire trip through town. I guess at mid-day the horns were appropriate, but this guy does the same thing at 3:00 a.m. too. He returned at 3:56 p.m. with the same locomotives, five CHCs and one lone DBTC.

Sports was another story altogether. I was keeping an eye on the score for the boys in  blue as they took on the lowly Phillies. The boys, in typical fashion, were ahead until they weren't. They lost to the Phillies 3 - 5. I am so thankful that Theo Epstein and Jed Hoyer picked up the contract Rafael Soriano, after the reliever was released by the Nats in early June. He pitched a few games in the minors to get ready for another shot at "The Show."

Soriano's past performance should bode well for the future, but this being the Cubs, he surrendered the game winning home run to Jeff Francoeur. The Tigers were playing my beloved Red Sox in Boston. I like having a horse in the race, but that means that one of my teams had to lose. It was the Tigers turn yesterday, as they lost to the Red Sox, 1 - 2. Of course that means that the Red Sox won 2 - 1. The Caps fell to the South Bend Cubs, 2 - 6.

Today, with the exception of the morning walk with STWD , I'm going to attempt to do that nothing I had planned for every day this week.

The sun will rise at 6:27 a.m. and set at 9:14 p.m. Ciao.