As I was driving around my town this morning, I thought that my color-blindness was acting up or altering. Didn't everything seem more red than normal?* Had I burst a capillary in my eyeball? Did my hair dye slip into my eyes last night?Was something else wrong going on?
But then I checked the calendar and I realized that it was Saturday in Ohio. It's Buckeye time. All the scarlet is out and it must be football time.
And when it's football time . . . it's Football Counter-Programming time!
(Even though I missed counter-programming you last Saturday, when I have been informed that gridiron games did occur. My two older brother's alma maters faced off and they were . . . both surprised by the GT/FSU game.
But I'm not here to give you mentions about football. Check the title. I'm here to distract you FROM college football. (I guess the college part is implied. But if you've been an avid reader of WWYG?! FC-P coverage over the last many years (search the blog labels in the right sidebar to see more) or if you read between the lines that I'm talking about Saturdays . . . then you know that its the college game I'm up against.
ANDBUTSO--this is already too much about football.
It's also Labor Day weekend here in Ohio--and, coincidentally, throughout the entire United States. So the other momentous thing happening around now is the cultural end of summer and the retirement of the 2024 Summer Hat. #OfficialHat2024 has done its job well, sheltering my head and hiding my hair when I didn't want to spend lots of time coiffing. (Did I spell the verbing of coif correctly? Do your worst in the comments!)
I hope to find time on Sunday to film and prepare my traditional goodbye to this year's #HatofSummer and to put a close to another season of one of the internet's strangest traditions. (I say that like a. I'm an expert on the internet and b. my dinky little project has any significance at all in the vast ocean of flotsam that is the World Wide Web. But a person can always dream.)
Truth be told, I didn't wear the #HatofSummer as much in the end months of summer as I might have. This definitely was impacted by my decision to let Jay dye my hair red. (See asterisk . . .) Wanted to show off the crimson locks. And they will be in full display from now until early November. (Again . . . see the asterisk. And follow my on Facebook for more marching band related content.)
And that's it I think for this week.
Until we meet again, get your eyes checked regularly . . . and don't forget that your alma mater's cornerback might have better eyesight than you do. But he'll be sore at the end of the day and you might not be.
* And, before you say anything . . . this isn't a stealth promotion for the 2024 Westerville North Marching Warriors show "RED." . . . or is it?
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