As a kid I never had the most exciting “What I Did This Summer” back-to-school busywork essays. I always had good summers, just nothing hugely exciting to report. Where classmates went with their parents yachting in France, I went on the ferry to Centre Island. Where classmates had the birth of a younger brother or sister to report, I had a new fish. And it wasn’t even my fish, it was my dad’s fish.

You get the idea.

Summer 2008, by contrast, was one for the photo albums.

Four weddings, a week and a half at the cottage, The Ex, the Centre Island social, a free trip to Hawaii for a weekend, a volleyball team that was great fun and went nowhere, a softball team that was great fun and had a perfect season, celebrating and winning awards at our annual work ball (hence the free trip to Hawaii), turned 31 quietly, welcomed friends back from traveling and sent others on their way, house parties, barbecues, family and friends - it was a really, really good summer.

But busy. I honestly think there were only about 5 days this summer that I came home after work and did nothing. I am looking forward to a fall with zero plans. I am looking forward to nights like last night where we can be open to last minute ideas and have a couple of friends over for some drinks and MarioKart without any prior planning.

And today will largely be spent sitting on the couch, studying for a work exam and watching week one kick off in the NFL.

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A couple of notes on the perfect season:

For a few minutes our team was infamous, right up there with the 1972 Miami Dolphins, on Wikipedia.

Gotta love Wikipedia.

And, for posterity, and just because it’s a damn fine logo, one of our Toronto Booze Jays shirts:

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