Beautiful weather yesterday and today for a change here in SF. Spring has returned but for how long. They say it will be cooler tomorrow and Sunday. I guess that is OK as long as it doesn't rain. We have had more than our share for 04/05 although nearly as much as LA which is way over normal, much more so than SF.

Now it really seems like spring with the new baseball season about to open. This weekend the Battle of Bay is underway as the A's play the Giants in SF and in Oakland. These are the final games of spring training.

On a somber note, however, we have the impending death of Pope John Paul II. He is not expected to last much longer and now I would expect to wake up tomorrow morning with the news that he had died. When that happens we will all wonder who the next pope will be. Well, there are three qualifications needed for the office. A candidate must be conservative, conservative, and conservative. Since he packed the College of Cardinals with conservatives, we can safely assume that the next pope will be conservative and possibly even more so. Somewhere along the line I saw a list (the "preferiti" and I am not sure of the spelling of that word) or what we tend to call in the country, a short list of possbilities. On that list were cardinals from Africa, Mexico, and Vietnam so now we will wonder if John Paul II will be followed by another non-Italian.