There were too many Ranger fans at Saint Louis Lambert airport this morning. I should have taken a picture of one group of them. They were standing around, underneath a large welcoming banner that said , “Go Cards!” A luncheon layover at O’Hare was briefly prolonged by a mechanical. When we landed in Dayton, it was cold and gray. Check-in at the hotel, dinner at the Olive Garden and then back to the hotel for Cardinals baseball and blogging.

Anne has tomorrow off from school, but will hardly be idle. Tomorrow is new furnace day. The contractor is scheduled to show up in the morning and there should be heat in the house by the time I get home tomorrow night. Tomorrow I will earn two days’ pay with just thirty minutes of real work. It hardly seems worthwhile, but that is the way of business.