Accord­ing to the NYT the response in Miami to Castro’s announce­ment to step down yes­ter­day was “mostly muted, with scat­tered joy.”

Tomor­row, expect steady exhil­a­ra­tion till early after­noon. A sus­pi­cious calm will set in around evening and last till Friday AM. Pos­si­ble storms this weekend.

Desi Arnaz was a class­mate of Fidel Castro’s at the Cole­gio de Dolores, where the Jesuit teach­ers told their stu­dents to “ask every­body every­thing every day” and rec­om­mended “a min­i­mum of pre­cept, a max­i­mum of practice.” Patrick Symmes’s new book The Boys from Dolores catches up with Castro’s class­mates four decades after the Rev­o­lu­tion. Check out the reviews at The New York Times and The Wash­ing­ton Post and then buy the book.