So Soon?

Where is the Summer going? Good question. Now I'll let you debate amongst yourselves while I try to figure it out myself. Things always are more hurried and hectic when "Daughter" is on school vacation. That's all going to change in a week and a half when she goes back.

Yeah, a week and a half! August 19th! More exclamation points!! What have we become as a society when we make our kids go back to school two weeks before Labor Day? A totalitarian regime that favors the schedules of parents, teachers and the weather over that of our most valuable resource? Oh man, I didn't think I'd get through that sentence without keeling over. Good riddance kids. Back to the grindstone. I was going to side with the kids on this one until I remembered all the days of "Daughter" whining "I'm bored", "there's nobody to play with" and "you're a jerk, dad." You can put me squarely in the early return camp.

I know it's still hot in August, but, unlike the schools I went to , "Daughter's is air conditioned. I spent my school years sweating through my white uniform shits and feeling my sweet rear meat stick to the straining seams of my navy blue polyester pants. Some of my academic short falls may have been the direct result of heat stroke. We would beg the sadistic teachers to open the windows, but since the architect of my schools had undoubtedly worked for the prison system the windows afforded us only an inch and three quarters of air flow. I suppose that was to keep our spelling tests from becoming air born in a stiff breeze. The trade off for early return is a longer Christmas (or "Holiday" in our PC times) break, a few extra days off and a school year that ends in early May. That's a pretty fair trade if you ask me.

While we are enjoying some beautiful days this late Summer, let me mar said beauty with commercial pluggery. This is an actual "Five Scoops of Brian" weekend on WGN. Tonight I'll be doing the Friday edition of WGN Overnight (which I hope to have made permanent. Cards and letters to management help. Hint, hint). The big Saturday night/Sunday show will be tons of fun with the Arcade, a visit from the Insatiable insomniacs and a very special visit from Singer/songwriter Michael McDermott. Then Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday morning I'll be in for Steve and Johnnie. (Why no Thursday and Friday? Ask "the man.") Check your local listings for times or just remember that all the fun happens between 2-5 am except on Saturday when I start at 1am. Got it? Great! I hope you can join me. Have a great weekend. Later....Brian