Well it appears our traditional ‘Arizona winter’ weather of the past few days is taking a two-day break, as it’s back to the weather we were having up to a week ago. Today it’s bon-a-fide chilly for these parts, with temps in the low 50s and cloudy and damp conditions. Tonight it’s supposed to drop back into the ’30s with more of the same tomorrow. Looking out my home office window at the wind blowing the leaves off our lime tree, it reminds me of a classic New England October day.

Glad I’m not one of the so-called ‘fortunates’ who paid mucho dinero to play golf and hob-nob with the pros in the pro-am practice rounds prior to the start of the PGA’s FBR Open, just up the road apiece in Scottsdale. They probably didn’t mind it, but they were out there freezing their a$$e$ off today, and will likely do so again tomorrow.

From the sounds of it, however, the weather isn’t stopping the tour pros from enjoying themselves around the area. Leaving a Mill Avenue establishment tonight, I was stopped by some guy who, barely catching his breath, requested urgent info about where he could get a Diet Coke for John Daly, who was apparently holed up in the Hooters restaurant a couple of doors down.

I sent him to the Quiznos across the street.

But then I got to thinking: surely John Daly could order himself a Diet Coke at Hooters, dontcha think? It is a restaurant, after all. Methinks his request sounded like the equivalent of someone wanting to be left alone and sending some pest out to find him some “elbow grease” (if you know what I mean).