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 current temperature is 26° but it feels like 20° under cloudy skies with light winds blowing and an 85% chance for snow. Today's high is forecast to reach 32°, under cloudy skies, but with that chance for snow reducing down to 15% as the day wears on. It is only five more days until spring. The sun will rise today @ 7:54 a.m. and set later @ 6:03 p.m.

I made it to Meet Me In St. Louis yesterday afternoon. Along with my ginormous bucket of popcorn and as it turns out, my calorie-saving diet cola, I had a great time. New to me songs and songs that I knew by heart. What's not to like?

During the lead-up to the movie, a host on film delivers some salient facts regarding the movie. I learned that this movie, released in 1944 and starring Judy Garland, was made when she was 22 years of age. If you do the math, you realize that she was already 17 years of age when The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was released in 1939. Garland felt that by 1944, in order to play a teenager as the movie required, she was going backwards. She relented and many of her most popular songs came from that musical score.

It turns out that Meet Me In St. Louis was a bigger picture for Garland and made her the star that MGM had envisioned. In addition, she met one of her five husbands, Vincent Minnelli, who was the father to Garland's daughter, Liza Minnelli, when he was 19 years her senior. He was her second husband. Her life was cut short, but she left behind a huge number of fans.

I made to sure to leave room for the popcorn by having a bowl of my favorite soup, tomato, for lunch.

After lunch I relearned why I generally eschew the purchase of extended warranties for things that we buy. When we purchased our dining room table, our server, a couch and five chairs from a local retailer, we also purchased what was supposed to be a five-year warranty that covered nearly any possible damage to that furniture.

As it turns out, that old adage about reading the fine-print is true. For damage claims, when you try to make a claim regarding when the damage occurred, it must be within thirty-days or there is no coverage. Oh well, a lesson learned or relearned. I/we will forevermore be forewarned and therefore forearmed. Another old adage, the one about fool me once etc., applied here.

I came home from my movie experience to find that Mary left her "Tad " session early. So, we fed the fur-children and took ourselves out to dinner at our favorite watering hole.

I have nothing else on my mind right now. We have a chiropractor's appointment this afternoon, but that is all that needs to be done today. Everything else is just winging it. Ciao.