Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be. It is just past 5:30 a.m. in "The City."

This is it, make no mistake where you are. This is it, the waiting is over. Oops, I was channeling again, this time Kenny Loggins from his hit, This Is It! In my case, this is the day of my yak surgery.

We/I got a call from the hospital last night that moved up our arrival time by 1/2 an hour, which complicated the plans we'd made for dropping Ginger at daycare. We have to be there @ 8:00 a.m. versus 8:30 a.m. That may not seem like much, but the daycare facility doesn't open until 7:30 a.m. and we have to make it to Muskegon. It will be cutting it close.

Yesterday was average. Adam called and I talked to him before he needed to go to lunch in Chicago, I finished my nonfiction book and enjoyed it. It was an interesting and enlightening read, to say the least.

Ginger and I did some trainspotting yesterday too. At 8:45 a.m., locomotive # 2019 rolled by on the RSTL towing one CHC and four DBTCs. At 2:00 p.m., that same locomotive was seen heading north, towing six CHCs, seven DBTCs, and two DWTCs. I don't anticipate another set of runs until Friday.

The current temperature is a brisk 31° when you consider that the 14mph winds are making it feel like 21°. That's quite a change from the balmy temperatures we experienced yesterday when the temperatures were in the lower 50s. Still, the temperatures are expected to rise as the days unfold and we'll once again be enjoying temperatures in the 30s on a regular basis. There is also no rain in today's forecast. 

Mary will be driving me to the hospital, I'll be staying overnight, and so she'll be returning to pick up Ginger and arrive back to greet STWD without me. The last time that happened, Sugar was quite upset because I was gone for several weeks. Sugar does not deal well with change.

The sun will rise @ 7:36 a.m. and set later @ 6:24 p.m. Ciao.