Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be, across the nation and across the world. It is just past 3:30 a.m. in "The City."

The view out the WW is cloudy and the current temperature is 25°. Later today, after the sun rises @ 7:29 a.m. and before it sets @ 8:09 p.m., we will see more of those clouds in the ayem hours and then the sun will poke its head out in the afternoon as the temperature rises to a sultry high of 33°!

We had a good day yesterday, unlike my favorite baseball teams. I used the kitchen after Mary was done making her famous pizza dough for last night's dinner. I cleaned up after both of us and then sat down to do some reading.

First, I made a very spicy batch of my vegan jerky. Oddly, or not, the fur-children are fine with the new, spicier version. But, they are dogs, so...

Next, I made another batch of my famous vegan sausages, one of which Mary incorporated into her dinner pizza. She took a pic, but forgot to send it to me. At any rate, the day/evening progressed nicely, at least for us here in GH.

However, the results for my baseball teams were less than stellar.

My beloved Red Sox fell to 1 - 2 and 5th place in the AL East, following a 5 - 6 loss to the Mariners last night in Seattle. The Sox hope to get back on track against the Mariners today @ 4:10 p.m.

The Tigers bats are still asleep, as they could produce no runs against the Blue Jays. The Tigers fell into 4th place in the AL Central following their own 0 - 3 loss, in this case to the Blue Jays. Those two teams play again today @ 1:07 p.m. By the bay, the results of X-rays on Miggy's hand were negative after he was hit by a pitch.

Alas, the Cubs are still waiting for Yu Darvish to get his old form back and earn that $126 million over six years salary. He started last night's game with two strikeouts and looked good. But then, the wheels came off and he ultimately yielded seven walks as his velocity continued to drop to 90 mph! He was relieved by Jose Quintana who stopped the Rangers, for a while.

However, when I fell asleep with the Cubs were ahead, 6 - 3 on the strength of a massive, soilo  home run by Kyle Schwarber. Catcher, Willson Contreras was great at throwing our Rangers and Javier Baez was his almost MVP self too. Alas, somewhere along the way, the Cubs pitching staff yielded to the Rangers bats and the sky fell in. The Cubs fell into 3rd place in the NL Central after they lost the game, 6 - 8. Ouch. The Cubs and the Rangers play again today @ 4:05 p.m. Maybe things will be better later today and then tomorrow in Atlanta against the Braves.


Today, more music, more reading, more retirement. Ciao.