Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be, across the nation and across the world. It is just after 7:00 a.m. in "The City."

The current temperature is 36° under cloudy-skies with winds of 7 mph that make it feel more like 30°. Today's high is forecast to be 44°, also under cloudy-skies. It looks like we'll see 57° on Friday, but then we'll bounce around and be in the 40s or lower 50s for many more days.

The sun will rise today @ 7:27 a.m. and set later @ 8:10 p.m.

Not much happened yesterday. I do have a correction from yesterday's blog. My all too often larger than the keys on my keyboard hands, must have hit some key wrong for the death count, citing it as as 4,562. That was just flat out wrong. However, if my current source is correct, we have exceeded 3,000 deaths as of a few hours ago and the correct number is 3,173, with over 164,000 cases being reported! However, since the tests are generally only being administered to those people with actual cases in the hospital, that number is probably much higher. So, take it too with a grain of salt.

Mary often likes to refer to one of her apocalyptic movies, Contagion, wherein the character, Alan Krum, played by Jude Law, notes that you can do the calculations with regard to the spread of the disease on the back of an envelope. It appears that the movie and its technical advisor, Dr. Ian Lipkin, the Director of the Center for Infection and Immunity at Columbia University, helped get most everything correct in the script. Sadly, as of six days ago, Dr. Lipkin tested positive for the current Covid-19 virus.

We managed to slightly grind the nails on the fur-children yesterday. We have more to go, but it was/is a fight that needs to be waged in small bursts We will be getting to a light house-cleaning today. Mary started last night in the kitchen and she'll do more today, while I'll start today with some light polishing, some dusting, and some vacuuming.

I hope to spend more time not doing than doing today, if all goes according to my plans. Of course, like Marshall, our long-ago neighbor used to say, "There is always tomorrow", or something like that when he was painting the windows on his home. Hopefully there are many more tomorrows in everyone's future.

Ciao.