Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be. It is just past 4:00 a.m. in "The City." The current temperature. according to the NWS, is 30° that feels like 26°. My front porch based sensor for my desktop weather station, reports 34°. The NWS is forecasting a high for today of 49° under sunny skies, with Wednesday's predicted high of 58° being a precursor for  possible showers in the evening.

I confess that I may have sown the seeds of confusion with my sports report in yesterday's blog. I have since updated that blog and repaired my faux pas there. The MLB 2016 season officially opens on Sunday April 3, 2016 as the Cardinals and the Pirates play in the afternoon at Busch Stadium in St, Louis, MO, while the Mets and the Royals open that night in Kansas City, MO. The balance of the teams, 26, including the boys in blue AKA the Cubs, the Tigers and my beloved Red Sox open the next day and evening.

Yesterday in the continuing saga of spring training games, the boys tied the Angels 8 - 8. The Tigers lost to the hated Yankees 2 - 3, while my beloved Red Sox dropped one to the Orioles, 3 - 5. Jake Arrieta is still slated to be the opening day pitcher for the Cubs.

Phew, glad I got that sorted out. "What I meant to say is not what you heard", as one of our presidents once said. There is a genuine No Prize for the first of my loyal readers who can identify that president. Hint, it was man.

Now on to the regular slate of daily happenings. The southbound run on the reality scale train board took place at 11:10 a.m. as locomotives 2057 and 2019 rumbled by towing eight CHCs, seven DBTCs, with four at the end, one DWT, and two BCs directly behind the locomotives.

We were at JWs when the northbound run occurred at 4:47 p.m. The same tandem of locomotives had reversed order, still looking freshly washed, as they towed six CHCs, seven DBTCs, and six DWTCs, filled with HCl acid. By the feel of the shaking ground when I stepped outside to watch, the cars were fully loaded.

Mary had just visited her chiropractor, so meeting at JWs was logical. It was also a much appreciated relief from the big-box everything store where we had been grocery shopping earlier in the day. Something about that store causes people to behave like zombie ballerinas as they push and pull their carts of groceries through the aisles. The final act was provided by the cashier. We never got to the big-box hardware and home center, so that "experience" is on tap for today, probably after Mary's noon chat session.

Speaking of computers in a tangential way, our IT guru was able by remote control to update Mary's computer to the Windows 10 operating system  That necessitated Mary spending some time learning Windows 10. She has more to learn as we all do, but at least she is able to use that system with her indexing software.

Today is probably that trip to the aforementioned big-box hardware and home center. It was probably a good thing we didn't do that yesterday, I'll continue reading The Last Open Road, as I motor towards the author's next book in the series, Montezuma's Ferrari. I also have to finish yesterday's and today's issues of the Grand Haven Tribune, along with their respective crosswords. We'll pick up today's newspaper during the morning safari with STWD. She and I walked west and then back east yesterday mornig, and it was much colder than it had been on Sunday morning. How would Gordon Lightfoot have said it? We were, "in the face of a hurricane west wind." Well not really, but it was brisk. A nice way to segue into the fact that I got in some time with the girls and my music.

The sun will rise today at 7:32 a.m. and set at 8:08 p.m. Ciao.