Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be. It is just past 1:30 a.m. in "This CIty."

Where have you been? I've been busy and so I didn't get around to blogging yesterday. Oh well, I'll try to make up for it today.

A quick mention, I tuned into WOOD radio on the internet app iHeart, expecting to hear Coast to Coast AM, but instead, I had to listen to a rerun of the Thom Hartmann Program. Don't ask me.

Don't forget, pitchers and catchers begin to report on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Just another reminder, that's the official start of spring for yours truly. My beloved Red Sox and the Tigers pitchers and catchers report on Friday 2/18, and the Boys in Blue, AKA the Cubs, on Saturday, 2/20. Yes my friends, I'm born again. There's new grass on the fields in Florida for the Grapefruit League, and in Arizona for the Cactus League. My apologies/thanks to John Fogerty for the use of a few words from Center Field.

Yesterday, we took a short walk in the morning with STWD, and then just myself and Mary walked in the afternoon. The sun was inviting, and the weather app on the smart phone showed the temperature as 73°. However, the winds made it feel a tad cooler. Today/this early morning, the current temperature is 55°, but the real feel is 51°. We are anticipating a high of 56° under sunny skies later.

But I digress, or do I? Today, I'm off to Blues Angel Music for the Saturday morning meeting of PUPS, the Pensacola Ukulele Players Society. This is a first for me, at least driving wise, because I haven't soloed in nearly two months. Mary likes to drive and I'm generally content to ride and navigate, so I am a bit rusty. Alas, Mary has a previous internet commitment, so I'm on my own. I know I can do it, but I will have some measure of trepidation.

Later this afternoon, more lounging and the start of a new book. I finished the biography of Thomas Jefferson I'd been reading, and it was fascinating, but now it's time for a return to pulp fiction. I'll also have a newspaper to read when Mary and the intrepid one take the morning safari without me to pick up the newspaper. I'll also have some crosswords to solve. We've read the USA Today weekend edition, so all she and Sugar need to get is the Saturday edition of the Pensacola Journal. There was no Friday edition of that paper available on "The Beach."

Otherwise, not much is on tap for today. The sun will rise at 6:32 a.m. and set at 5:36 p.m. Ciao.