Morning all--or good afternoon, to my UK friends. Nearly 9am here.

Lovely cloudless morning. After a chilly start this morning--presently it's 50 F (10 C), it's supposed to get to 70 F (21) by late this afternoon. However, this makes difficult dressing weather, as one dresses warm in the morning, and regrets that by mid-afternoon. Ah well, can't win for losing, as they say. Our coldest night will be tomorrow, when the weather is expected to drop to 29 F (-2), and they've already issued a frost warning, to farmers and gardeners.

I've the thermostat set to 62 F, and it has yet to click on, thankfully. I used to set it to 60, but Flame has a naturally thin coat--in fact, she has virtually no hair on her belly under her back legs--, and she gets pathetically miserable when she's cold. In fact, even though my bedroom stayed at 70 all night--still retaining some heat from the 88 degrees it was on Sunday, I suspect, Flame was curled up in my blankets, part of the night. Poor wee thing. She has skin issues, and once a year starts losing her fur..not fleas, the vet once told me she was stumped as to what Flame's problem was...at first she thought Flame was allergic to fleas, but then found no fleas--so the vet just shrugged and said, "I dunno," and I handed her receptionist my $30 for basically nothing whatsoever.

Typical. Sort of like my health care providers. Hand 'em the $20 to see them, only to be told, "huh, I dunno', maybe it's..."

Well, I had my toaster waffles, now I've got to finish changing into my office duds. Had to leave early last night, 'cos my eye was making it hard for me to work, so guess who has to work later today, to make it up? Yuck. People were horrid last night---little old ladies screaming and even swering at me, and boorish American "men," bravely slamming the phone on a lady's ear. Have a grand day, all...my day's gonna' suck, but, when hasn't it?