If anything seems out of whack with the paper this week, just let it go. If not, never mind.

By the time you read this, the Major men will have returned from their sojourn to the home of golf, hopefully refreshed from temps in the 50s-60s and having been immersed in the history of one of our favorite sports.

It required a bit of finagling, since time off doesn’t come around here often or easily, especially for the amount of time we needed to make this trek.

Technology should be a huge help, since you can now put a paper together from just about anywhere in the world. We’re testing that theory.

Though it is unknown as I write this well in advance, I can just about guarantee you that Murphy’s Law will have reared its ugly head in at least a minor way.

It is a virtual certainty that something will have been missed, skipped or left out.

The folks left behind no doubt did yeoman’s work making sure another paper got out.

That’s what we do, some of us for multiple decades, put out papers, one after the other, like clockwork, preserving at least a small bit of the history of the place we call home.

It will be interesting to see how future generations view this period in history, when the traditional source of much information about a community became co-opted by other electronic means which may or may not stand up well to historic preservation.

Perhaps I’ll have more to say about that after seeing how the history of golf has been preserved.

Will future museums just be kiosks with repeating loops of social media posts by era?

You may recall that when the first Voyager launched, there was a lot of consideration about what type medium containing pertinent information about earth should be included. Would an alien race finding it be able to access the contents? Or will they just play Frisbee with the Golden Record?

Twenty-five years ago we took another somewhat similar sojourn to the Baseball Hall of Fame. I’m afraid the photos I took are on a medium from which I may no longer have the ability to retrieve them.

Those discs have gone the way of 8-tracks and other such outdated ways of preserving sights, sounds and other documentation.

Some local time capsules have been recently sent into the future, so to speak, to be opened in a half century.

What will the folks in the 2070s think about the items left for them to discover? Thinking back to where technology was 50 years ago (microwaves were brand new and fax machines had not yet come around), who knows what they will think, or even if they will be able to check everything out.

Those of you who will still be around then can perhaps offer helpful insights.