Happy Labor Day, everybody, and so long, summer (maybe not technically the end, but for all intents and purposes, this is it and things go downhill pretty quickly from here). Although autumn is may favorite season (though it’s typically way too short around here), I’m sad to see summer come to an end. Mostly because I hate it when it starts getting dark at like 4:30, and the sun doesn’t come up until like 7:30. Doesn’t allow for seeing much daylight – especially when you work in a windowless cave (I know I say that a lot and am repeating myself, but I’m old and that’s what we do). Mother Nature decided to celebrate by giving us a rather impressive light show overnight, which would have been cool if not for the terrified dog panting wetly all over me. Good thing I didn’t have to work today.

Fortunately, it’s football season now. Unfortunately, it started the way it seems to always start for me these days – with an SU loss. Despite displaying virtually no offense (with plenty of blame to go around – piss poor play calling, confused and at times clueless coaching, miscommunication between the QB and the receiving corps, and a mostly ineffective running game), they only lost by six points, and actually got the ball back (courtesy of their defense, which looked fairly OK for the most part) on their own 44 with 2:04 to go. Sadly, they wasted the opportunity with a quite pitiful series that ended with an INT to seal the deal. Hopefully things will improve, but probably not in time to win the next game – at #22 Northwestern. Could be a long season.

I got the grass cut yesterday, which was good ‘cuz it was getting pretty long. I’ve been holding off on cutting it, ‘cuz I needed to fill up my diesel cans, and that aint cheap. It’s about all I’ve accomplished, though I may put the loader on the tractor and go out in to the woods and get some dirt to fill in the trenches that the dogs have dug in the lawn. Little bastids.

Oh well, one more hot and humid day here, and then things are supposed to cool off for the rest of the week. Guess it’s time to buy winterizing chemicals for the pool.

Have a good rest of the weekend.