Good mornig or good evening, wherever you may be. It is just past 12:00 a.m. in "The City."

This should be mini-blog if all goes well.

The only baseball news is that the N. L. All-Stars 2, the A. L. All-stars, 4. The Caps had the day off Tuesday, before traveling to Geneva, IL to face the Kane County Cougars tonight.

Yesterday was a stormy day, if you weren't in "The City." Here, nothing happened. All of the storm activity being reported and warned about by the NWS occurred east and south of GH. The next possibility for T-storms is this evening at 40%. That's my way of saying that I'll be watering the gardens of the PE later this morning.

We have a current temperature of 73° that feels like 73° with 85% relative humidity. Today's high is forecast to be 85° with a slightly lower relative humidity of 71%. In short, it is warm out there.

I finished reading my latest novel, and much like the previous one, the author was writing a screenplay. That would be fine, but it was much like a movie that Mary and I watched on TV a long time ago. In that movie, the detective pulled the incriminating diary out of a kitchen light fixture in the apartment of a single woman. There were two problems with that. First, there was no reason given as to why the detective would look in that fixture. Second, why would a single woman feel compelled to hide her diary in a place where no one would find it, since no one would be looking for it.

In the case of my latest novel, there were some clues, but the story wrapped up much too quickly, as though the author was tired of writing the book. His fans demand a new book every year or so, but it felt like the author was satisfying a contract, not writing for the reader's pleasure. Just saying.

At least I have now read the requisite nine books for the Beachcomber's Book Bingo 2016. I've qualified for the nifty book bag that is being offered as the prize for the reading. I'll be picking up that bag later today.

Mary spent the day indexing and also multi-tasking while on her regular chat. She is making progress on the index, but she is finding that this index is more dense than expected, in other words, it has more entries than expected. That means that there are more pages of index than the publisher had planned to print.

I did get some time in with one of the girls as I worked on some music transcription, There is story in that activity, as I hit the delete button for the wrong song when I was finished, so I had to start again. Sigh.

Right now, Mary is happily cooking a new beest in the kitchen and also once again multi-tasking, as she knits and watches the latest news on TV.

I am up to page 316 of 354 with my highlighting duties. That's 89% complete. I should finish today while Mary is in Holland knitting socks. That of course comes after the morning safari with STWD and the watering. Otherwise, I have another pleasure book to start and finish by week's end. Sugar has some power napping to do.

The sun will rise @ 6:17 a.m. and set @ 9:23 p.m. Ciao.