Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be. It is just past 2:00 a.m. in "The City." It has now passed 2:30 a.m. and I decided that this blog needs some additional information.

A very short blog today. I really don't have anything new to say.

Yesterday I tried a new recipe for hammish loaf. The taste was OK, but I didn't follow the cooking instructions exactly and so I think it was a bit underdone. 

The sun will rise today @ 7:40 a.m. and set later @ 6:17 p.m. In between, it is likely that Ginger and I will do some trainspotting and I'll do some reading and crossword solving. Mary will be doing what she does.

I've just been downstairs to let Ginger out and do the remaining dinner dishes. While I was there, I placed a tablet in the dishwasher to help clean out any residue that seems to be causing the glasses to get cloudy. I am hoping for the best. I'll have to place the glasses in for a wash session later today, without any other dishes.

Worthy of note, is that the cloudiness of the glassware happened once before, several years ago abut this time of the year. I believe it has to do with the water that is entering the manse from the "Big Lake" where our city draws its water. The cloudiness is very similar to what comes from hard water and since we do not have a water softener, that is very possible.

In spite of Mary's misgivings, the directions say that you can wash dishes with this product, so I am going to try to convince her that the machine doesn't need an additional rinse cycle. We'll see if that works out.

Baseball season is nearly in full swing, pardon the pun., because the pitchers and catchers have all reported along with some of the position players. Most of the position players are not required to be in camp until Sunday. Then the season really gets started. I'll be born again.

I just finished session 29 in my pain management meditation routine. While I am certain that the meditation is helping, it is not enough to overcome the strong pains in my yak, hence the surgery next Wednesday.

To give an idea of my level of pain, it is usually this time of each month when I am contemplating/planning for the next Irish Jam session at the library. I've been going to those since their inception over five years ago and I enjoy them immensely. But as of now, I don't have the stamina to sit in the chair long enough to make the two-hour session pleasurable. That is my goal, as Adam says, to get back to the best quality of life that I can.

That looks like enough for one blog, Ciao.