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

Yesterday was my little brother's 65th birthday. That's noteworthy as we once were kids looking to the future and now we are retired. Time flies.

Speaking of retired, the Detroit Lions should have retired after their loss to the Chicago Bears on Thanksgiving day. Alas, the Bears should have retired too, after they defeated the Lions. The 4 - 8 Lions were crushed by the 11 - 1 Rams, 16 - 30. The score doesn't begin to tell the whole story. The Rams outplayed the Lions on both sides of the ball.

As for the now 8 - 4 Bears, they made it into overtime with an onside kick and a desperation pass that tied the score @ 27 all, only to fall to the now 4 - 8 NY Giants, 27 - 30. The Bears needed yardage to get into field goal range. When they needed 12 yards, they threw for 3 and expected to get the other 9 on the ground. That turned out as it usually does for the Bears. I believe that they brought back the playbook from the George Halas days. By the by, the Packers, who are dreadful this year, fired their head coach. That will get them to the Super Bowl!

Collectively, Mary and I finished the crossword puzzle. We got a lot of those indoor chores done yesterday.

We have a current temperature of 36° that feels like 28°. In addition, another of the seemingly regular Small Craft Advisorys has been issued by the NWS for the "Big Lake." Inexperienced mariners, especially those in small boats, are advised to stay off the water. 35 knot winds are expected later this morning and wave heights of 6' to 10' are possible.

Later today, the high temperature will be about 10° colder than it was on Sunday, as the high reaches 35° under cloudy-skies. No significant precipitation is in the offing as of this writing. The sun will rise @ 7:58 a.m. and set later @ 5:10 p.m.

We had late brunch of leftover stir-fry. As anticipated, we didn't walk the fur-children yesterday due to the rainy conditions. Dinner was the remainder of the vegan Italian meatballs I'd made for Mary the other day accompanied by the Coleslaw I'd made earlier. I made my way upstairs and fell asleep before tuning in to one of my favorite activities of the season, a Hallmark Channel movie. Just as Mary once again predicted, the conflict was resolved and the characters lived/loved happily ever after. Mary stayed downstairs to watch  Silent Running, a break from her usual diet of apocalyptic fare.

Before I started blogging, I think I finished my coloring of that drawing I've been working on. I like how it looks, but I may want to add more details. We shall see.

Today, all we have on the agenda is my haircut and reading. If it stays dry this morning, we'll get a walk in with the fur-children too. As previously noted, they are not big fans of rainy weather. STWD was willing to go out before dinner, but it took some coaxing from her and some carrying by me to get Ginger out. She proceeded to get wrapped around one of the rose bushes making it even a worse experience. Ciao.