Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be. It has just passed 12:15 a.m. in "The City."

Not much was happening yesterday. The skies were alternating between cloudy and sunny and the rains held off until about 8:00 p.m. last night. STWD repaired to her hide-e-hole upstairs when the rains began, but I don't really know to what she was reacting. There, I corrected my bad grammar.

We did get up to the north country to recycle an old lithium battery that I didn't want to throw in the trash, We also made it to the big box everything store located nearby to buy some groceries and new towels. Like always, the checkout process was slow, due to myriad things.

We took the morning safari with the intrepid weather dog and picked up the newspaper before lunch and before we went out. Mary stayed in bed before that, but I got up and played the girls and changed some of my music, again. That's okay, like the days in my old workshop, I spend more time revising than I do playing the music. I am just channeling my energies into different pursuits.

We stopped in to see Sally at the Post and took her some of Mary's eggplant ratatouille.

Tonight, the Cubs are in St. Louis to begin their division best of five playoff series against the Cardinals. I have a feeling that somewhere Ron Santo is saying, "This is the year!" I think it has been 106 years since the Cubs actually won it all. I think it has been seven years since they made the playoffs.

Today, Mary has her chat session and plans to listen to one of her favorite personalities, John Fugelsang, on the radio show of another favorite radio personality, Stephanie Miller before that. Three hours of Fridays with Fugelsang is just too hard for her to resist.

I have no specific plans, but I don't really need any. I won't play with the girls to give my thumb joint a rest. When I do that, everything goes well. I will get out with STWD later this morning after the sun rises at 7:51 a.m. Right now, it is not foggy in spite of the report from the NWS. After the overnight low of 46°, the high today will be 59°. Last summer, there were days when that would have been welcome. Well not exactly, but the days when the humidity was high and the temperature was in the upper eighties, that would have felt good.

The sun will set later this evening at 7:12 p.m. before the appearance of a waning crescent moon. Ciao.