…as well as a wallet. It was touched upon in the comments — more on that in a moment — but my wallet did “disappear” within minutes of landing in Newark, N.J. I don’t want to disparage the city or insult some of the fine people I do know and do not know who call Newark home, but let’s just say this wasn’t a terribly big surprise.

I’ll fast-forward through the expected headaches associated with canceling all the cards and traveling to a foreign country with no plastic currency — wife is smart enough to carry cash separately — and instead ease your burdened minds by saying it was really no big deal. Passport got me everywhere I needed to go and my folks were kind enough to wire me some cash. Wallet turned up in a trash can in Newark International and, for some odd reason, one bank card was taken while two credit cards, my license and a priceless Jose Oquendo autograph were left in place.

Plus, some things can’t be ruined, not even when birds inexplicably plunk you in the head on two different occasions. Or when you go snorkeling and the boat overheats and breaks down. Or when the natives call you Mr. Bad Luck. Or when … screw it. You get the idea.

Moving on …

The vacation blog experiment went quite well. It was, as many of you noted, a little rocky in the early going, but it tightened up toward the end and was humming when you hit the key topics of the week. I won’t add to the comments. They stand on their own. That was your work and I rather liked it, particularly the stadium improvements and the Heisman campaign. The best thing was we accomplished the goal(s). I needed the 81 comments to get caught up and that was where I first heard of the Larry Aschebrook-Calvin Magee news. I can’t understand why, but that’s not national news. It was in the comments, though, and I am kind of proud of that. Special thanks to the special guest moderator who ruled anonymously in my absence.

Big week here with the NFL draft coming up, but we’ll resume a little later with a look under the radar at the Aschebrook-Magee ordeal.