Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be, it is just past 3:00 a.m. in "This City."

Sad news, David Bowie died yesterday. The English born singer, actor, and producer was one of the first artists to explore all the facets of what being a rock star entailed. From glam rock to movies, he was the epitome of a Rock Star. Bowie, who changed his name from David Jones in 1966, succumbed to cancer just days after his 69th birthday.

Yesterday was a day of walking with STWD and watching football, along with some reading, just as I predicted. The winds were strong, and like always, Mary and I didn't win the huge lottery prize. Usually, that's because we don't buy lottery tickets, but every once in a while, we do. Oh well, there's always Wednesday's drawing for over $1.3 billion, yes, that's billion with a "B."

Mary was busy in her adopted kitchen yesterday. Breakfast was a tofu scramble with vegan ham and a slice of toast for me. Somewhere in there, she crafted a vegan roast, that takes about eight to ten hours in the crock pot. As I noted the other day, for Mary, recipes are only suggestions, and so like many of her creations, she left out some ingredients that made the final product different. Better or worse? I don't think the sugar and cayenne that she didn't add made the roast any different. She also made garlic smashed potatoes to go with.

During the afternoon, I got hungry and so she also chopped some carrots and celery to go with our vegan blue cheese dressing. At half time of the game between the Vikings and the Seahawks, we walked over to the local convenience store to pick up some chips and pretzels to go with our salsa. Sadly for the Vikings, they lost to the Seahawks. Later, we watched the first half of the Packers rout of the team from Washington D.C., well actually Landover, MD, as the Packers pulled away to a convincing 35 - 18 win. I switched away from the game and Mary watched the Hallmark Movie Channel. I went upstairs and fell asleep. I was rooting for that team from Landover, because I always root for any team that is playing the Packers.

Today, we may or may not go out to the other side of the bridge. It can wait until tomorrow when we travel to the big city. STWD will get her morning safari and that should be all good. Speaking of which, the intrepid one is feeling better now that she has some medications to treat her allergy attack.

I spent part of my day vacuuming up a dog from around the house. Not that difficult in a house with all bare floors, but using a vacuum that doesn't actually vacuum very well was a bit more challenging.

Otherwise, today will be more of the same until I watch the #1 ranked Clemson Tigers take on the #2 ranked Alabama Crimson Tide. Personally, I'm rooting for Clemson out of spite over the manhandling that Alabama gave to the Spartans of MSU. Well that and some other reasons I won't go into.

The sun will rise on a sunny day at 6:46 a.m. and the temperature will soar to today's high of 48° as we come off this morning's low of 37°. Tomorrow is still forecast to reach a zenith of 57° under sunny skies for our trip to Pensacola. The sun will set over the Gulf of Mexico at 5:07 p.m. this evening.

Our thoughts, prayers, and love are with Adam and Steph too. More on that in the future. Ciao.