Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be, across the nation and across the world. It is just past 5:00 a.m. in "The City", where the current temperature displayed on my DTWS is the same as that in the report from the NWS, 48°, under mostly-cloudy/windy skies. The "Real Feel" is 41° with that strong wind blowing out of the southwest @ 21 mph! That 48° will be our overnight/early-morning low temperature as we rise only a single degree to 49° for our daytime high-temperature today. The overnight low-temperature forecast by the NWS calls for the low-temperature tonight to drop to a very late fall-like 38°.

The sun will rise this morning @ 7:33 a.m. and set tonight @ 5:23 p.m.. In between the NWS forecast calls for showers this morning to change to steady rain later this afternoon and into the evening. 

The NWS has rescinded that Gale Warning, but they have reinstated that Small Craft Advisory from St. Joseph to Manistee until 7:00 p.m. Sunday night. Wind-speeds of 20 to 30 knots and wave-heights from six to nine feet can be expected. Yes? Surf's Up!

Speaking of those high waves, they peaked last night when that Gale Warning was still in effect just before sunset, although I was too comfortable reading in my La-Z-Boy around that time to risk life, limb and camera, so no pix. I can say that on Facebook, some of the more intrepid photographers in one of my photo groups got some great shots of the waves crashing over the south pier and the outer lighthouse. 

Last Wednesday, the 5 - 1 in the MAC 10 West Huskies of NIU defeated the 3 - 3 in the MAC 10 West Cardinals of Ball State, 30 - 29. Their next game will be Wednesday, November 17, @ 7:00 p.m. versus the 2 - 4 Buffalo Bills of the University of Buffalo, NY, in a match-up between a MAC 10 West and a MAC 10 East team. 

The 8 - 1 Spartans of MSU have their next game tomorrow @ 4:00 p.m. when they play host to the 5 - 4 Terrapins of Maryland. 

The also 8 - 1 Wolverines of Michigan travel to Pennsylvania for a game tomorrow @ 12:00 p.m. versus the 6 - 3 Nittany Lions of Pen State University.

Recently, I received a notification from the large mobile-phone provider of my cellular service that my current cell-phone would stop working very soon due to it not being a 5G compatible phone. They sent me a "Free" replacement, which is great. Unfortunately, that "New" phone is not compatible with my current SIM card. So, I have to go to the nearby AT&T store for a new one. That would be fine, if that store wasn't hemmed in by the bridge reconstruction that is going on in front of that store's location. So, when we are out later today for a stop at that big-box nearly everything store, I'll have to prevail upon Mary to detour to the AT&T store first. Sigh.

No mail yesterday, so no newspaper and thus no crossword puzzle. although I did get more reading done after my podiatrist appointment. 

Mary made some great tacos for dinner last night. They were very similar those made by that large West-Coast chain, Jack in the... I liked them a lot.

Today. mostly time spent indoors reading, working a puzzle, making vegan Italian burgers and meatballs, and whatever comes our way, be that cross-stitching or playing music before we brave the elements and make those aforementioned stops. Ciao.