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

Sports seem to be on my mind, so I'll start there. The boys in blue won their eighth in a row, the latest win over the Padres was a squeaker, 8 - 7. As the immortal Jack Brickhouse used to say, "A win's a win." That's a lot better than what he had to say when the Cubs were trailing in all too many games, "Any old kind of a run ties it up." At any rate, that gives the Cubs a record of 25 - 6, still good for first place in the NL Central as they head into a rare double-header today/tonight with those same Padres.

The Tigers finally stopped falling, perhaps only temporarily, as they defeated the Nats 5 - 4. That gives the Tigers a record of 15 - 17, good for third place in the AL Central.

My beloved Red Sox once again crushed the Oakland As, 13 - 6, as three players "Went yard." That gives the Sox a strong hold on 2nd place in the AL East at 20 - 13, still statistically tied with the Orioles who sport a record of 19 - 12. Wow!

The Caps dropped another to the division leading Lake Cty., OH Captains, 2 - 4. The Caps still languish in 6th place.

Trains today? Could be.

The view out the WW is clear with no precipitation. unlike yesterday. No additional precipitation is in the forecast from the NWS until Thursday. A current temperature of 51° that feels like 46° is forecast to lead to today's high of 68 cloudy degrees. Since I didn't get to the theater to see that movie yesterday, I may make it today. Popcorn and Cherry Coke™ await.

We shopped at the big-box grocery and most things store yesterday afternoon. Mary has decided that 3:00 o'clockish in the afternoon is a good time to shop, since the children are just getting out of school and their parent's are home to greet them.

Not much else on tap for today, as we have no scheduled plans, I won't play with the girls to give my thumb joint a chance to rest from yesterday's session. As Clint Eastwood said in his immortal role as Dirty Harry in Magnum Force, "A man's got to know his limitations."

Maybe not as famous as the iconic lines in the original Dirty Harry, about feeling lucky, but that was still a great set of fictional lines. Fortunately that was fiction, as I'm no fan of handguns nor gun violence,

I still have many books to read and Mary has some new recipes to try out. She did great yesterday with the balance of her vegan ham on a sandwich with giardiniera. Dinner was bean based nachos with lettuce, tomatoes, black olives and faux sour cream. When we were at the store, we didn't know that we had used all the salsa, so Mary had the last of that while I had jalapeno peppers with hot sauce.

The sun will rise today at 6:25 a.m. and set at 8:57 p.m. Ciao.