Carpenter’s Column: 93.6 days went by too fast

“You win some, you lose some, and some get rained out.” — Earl Nightingale

Summer’s over? What happened? Am I Rip Van Winkle short-sheeted by the calendar? Seems like only last week I was trying to find a way into the previous summer’s board shorts that didn’t require Spanx for men or the skeptical efforts of a bruja seamstress. Sausage casing apparel notwithstanding, it’s not the illusion of truncated duration that shocks me; it’s the acceleration preceding the inevitable stop.