This is the last weekend of my buddies being in town. Everyone is headed back to college and summer is pretty much over for us.

I have 4 different parties to go to for our end of summer celebration and back to school kickoff, and no idea how to get to all of them. It’s going to be a crazy weekend, for sure!

There must be a psychological disease named for what I do, but I don’t know what it is. I cannot throw away cardboard boxes.

If I buy a new appliance or new equipment that comes in a box, I open the box to take out the item and then save the box and the styrofoam, in case I have to return it or move or need to repack it. I figure that it is better to put the item back in the packaging that it came in. It is safer that way and easy to deal with.

But friends are telling me that this is extreme and I should just throw out the boxes. But the though of throwing them away makes me very uncomfortable. Why would you throw away a perfectly good box?

So much for my cook-out plans, on the back patio, for the game later today, old man winter has hit us hard, the wind is blasting and the temperature is dropping by the minute. There should only be about 6 or 7 of us here this afternoon so I should be able to satisfy their ravishing appetites with out too much trouble, there is just something about bar-b-queuing outside in the winter months, it gets the adrenaline going, it’s invigorating and the smell just makes the whole atmosphere so much the better.

By the way, I’m betting on the Eagles tonight, the Redskins don’t seem to do well on their own home turf and have had a devastating end of the season to live down, so I don’t see them as having much ass behind them for this game being held in Washington D.C.

Looking forward to the guys coming around on Sunday afternoon for a night of football and beer. I have a pretty decent sized flat screen TV that makes watching televised games so much better that my place has pretty much an open door and open TV policy. What with all the sports channels that I subscribe to and all of the now televised games that go on practically all year round, one would be hard put not to find something to watch most of the time.

I grew up in a big family so I enjoy having a house that is usually active, loud and fun filled, most of the time my buddies are of the decent type, there have been a few that have provided a challenge or two, but that is life and it all works out in the wash.