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

The NWS is reporting a current temperature of 42° under clear skies. However, the current temperature according to the DTWS is 37.6° and the view out the WW is far from clear. Either the clouds are hanging low, or there is fog in GH. This is one of the problems having the NWS using data and observations from GR when we are on the shores of the "Big Lake."

The NWS is forecasting a high for today of 56° under mostly cloudy skies. I am not sure what to believe anymore. Thursday, the NWS is forecasting a 100% chance of rain, so I'll have to play it by ear. At any rate, the sun will rise into clear, foggy, or mostly cloudy skies with the sun rising @ 7:31 a.m. and setting later @ 8:07 p.m.

I did get to see both runs of the train yesterday on the RSTL. At 11:08 a.m., locomotives 2057 and 2019 passed through our fair city heading south towing 18 CHCs, one extra long, 15 DBTCs, and one GTC.

At 3:08 p.m., those same locomotives passed by heading north, towing 10 CHCs, 11 DWTCs, and one GTC. I guess that the Mid-Michigan Railroad has switched to Tuesdays and Thursdays versus the Monday, Wednesday, Friday schedule. Or, it was just an anomaly.

I walked to the hospital to get my regular checkup yesterday afternoon. All is well and so I walked home to find that Mary had been to JWs and picked up one of their vegetarian burritos for our dinner. She was feeling particularly non-ambitious yesterday. I know how she was feeling as I was feeling that way the day before. We ate and then I watched the evening news and Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy while Mary went upstairs before we watched NCIS downstairs. Once again, NCIS brought tears to her eyes. I took the fur-children out for their final visit and then I came up here to watch NCIS New Orleans.

Otherwise, not much was happening yesterday. I placed more pieces in my jigsaw puzzle and did some reading in the book for our book club meeting next week. I am liking the way the book is flowing, so it should be an easy read.

We need to go out today to get some things that we need, well mostly I need, and that's about it. Mary has to decide how much energy she has today. If she decides that the answer is not much, that's fine with me. Ciao.