Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be. It is just past 12:30 a.m. in "The City." I thought it was time to remind all of my loyal readers about why I call GH "The City." That phrase is based on the old radio and TV series, Dragnet, wherein the show's star, Jack Webb, intoned in his famous cadence and style, "This is The City, Los Angeles, CA." That's how he started every show. So I thought that if it was good enough for Jack Webb, that I could appropriate and modify that phrase for my blog's opening line. Oh, the first part is a paraphrase of George Noory's opening for his radio program, Coast to Coast A.M.

Yesterday's weather in "The City" was a bit on the chilly side. Very typical weather for Michigan in the fall of the year. We didn't break out of the 60s yesterday, and right now, our temperature is 52°, the low for our overnight hours. Tomorrow we are supposed to rise to 73 sunny degrees with no precipitation, Most of the week will be similar. I'll take it. It is likely that I can now curtail the watering of the gardens on the PE, since evaporation will be minimal.

In sports yesterday, things did not go well for most of my teams. The boys in blue surrendered three runs to the Cardinals in the top of the first. Jon Lester went back to being a mortal for this game. The boys did manage to score three runs of their own, but the Cardinals pushed across another run to win, with the boys losing 3 - 4. The Tigers were thoroughly out hit by the Royals, losing by a final score of 3 - 10. My beloved Red Sox once again beat the Blue Jays, this one by a score of 4 - 3. The Caps tied up their series in Cedar Rapids at 2 - 2, with a 2 - 1 win over the Kernels. I think their team name, the Kernels, is a nice play on words based on the major crop of Iowa, corn.

Football was not a good replacement for baseball. The Lions lost to the Vikings, 16 - 24. The Bears now have a record of 1 - 2, following a 23 - 48 loss to the Arizona Cardinals. I guess you could say that Chicago lost two games to the Cardinal yesterday.

Mary and I finished up that index from Hades around 9:00 p.m. last night. STWD was very patient with us.

Today, we plan to do as little as possible, as we both feel like the proverbial horse that has been rode hard and put away wet. I will walk with the intrepid weather dog and get the newspaper, but that is about the extent of my energy expenditures for today. Then I will sit and read a book that I have due at the library by Wednesday. It has a hold on it, so I have to return it instead of renewing.

That looks like enough for one day. The sun will rise at 7:31 a.m. and set at 7:43 p.m. Ciao.