Boy, is this going to be a boring column. I have all this bloody fishing, weather and wildlife stuff taking up the space where perfectly good minutiae could reign supreme. Oh well, maybe next week I can write about really pertinent issues like the way stores are actually Bogarting Pepsi “Throwback,” barely putting any out on the shelves so we’ll be forced to buy those high-profit, fructose-saturated sodas that eat clean through your liver and go looking for your third eyelid.

BOOMING CATCH-UP: It was as if Nature checked that big ledger in the sky and said, “Holy, crap, how did I miss this?”