It's official: I want the winter to end.

I love winter and cool air and snow, but when March hits, I want the spring to commence. It's been in the 40s here the past few days. Practically "no-jacket" weather. If this warm spell were to happen in early January, it would seem unseamly and out of place. But here we are, the first day of March, so it's very tempting and feels like a tease.

Of course, when August 1 rolls around, I'll be yelling, "Holy #$%!, would someone stop this humidity and bring on the fall!"

Watched The Pillsbury Bake-Off today. CBS runs it every year. The winning recipe this year was some sort of brownie/cheesecake pie which looked terrific. Certainly better than some salad that was a finalist. This show was run in the slot that The Price Is Right usually occupies, so they only had time for a half hour Bob Barker show. So what did they do? They ran a "classic" The Price Is Right, from 1972! An extremely interesting piece of TV history. I learned several things:

- the set decorator had one thing on his mind: ORANGE, ORANGE, ORANGE! But, then again, everything in the 70s had at least a little orange in it, and a little of that light green color that seemed to be so popular in the Me decade.

- the camera work and production values in 1972 were similar to those found on local cable, with the jumpiness and professionalism of the Zapruder film. At least Zapruder always kept in subject in the frame.

- the sound quality was like a parent's home video of their kid's first play: talking in the background from stage hands and audience members, odd clanking noises, people mumbling and moving prizes. Very odd. This was CBS?

- Barker hadn't started his "have your pet neutered" thing.

OK, that's it for this week. I know, a short one. But while the burned lip has healed, I now have a toothache. And it's always worse at night. Why is that?

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