Gone to Carolina

I’m getting ready to depart for North Carolina tonight. I’ll be gone for two weeks, but the way this blog has been going of late, I doubt anyone will notice.

I’m really looking forward to getting down there. My family goes every summer, but this is the first time in the past four years that I have been able to join them.

(Likewise, this past weekend was the first time in four years that I’ve made it to Utica for our family reunion. Of all the years to make it, it was great to be there this year as my brother won our family golf tournament, getting to inscribe his name below those of the winners from the past thirty or so years).

One tradition I’m keenly looking forward to is the purchasing of our annual football preview magazine. We’ve been buying one our first day down in N.C. for as long as I can remember. There are always plenty to choose from, particularly now that fantasy football is such a huge industry. Our method for choosing which one we will buy is relatively simple – we grab whichever one predicts the highest finish for the only team that matters:

Go Giants!