The PTA at our daughter's school is holding its annual fund raiser selling Entertainment Passbooks for twenty buckaroos. Deadline is September 16.

The thing is loaded with coupons, but they won't help you much if you live in Akron or Portland. Still, if you're one of my local readers and you want one, shoot an email to me at sglahn at gmail dot com.

In other news I'm wondering what you plan to do with your evenings now that the Olympics and the political conventions are behind us. Of course, the hurricanes might occupy us for a while. Or all the Netflix movies that have stacked up since we sat glued to CNN or Fox or ABC. What's on your calendar now? High school football? Do tell.