With spring taking its sweet time getting here, it seems almost too early to start thinking about children’s summer camp programs. But many camps’ registrations are already well under way.

A million of anything is a lot, but accumulating a million Fitlinxx points over a period of years in the Sun City Fitness Center, is, in the words of today’s youngsters ... AWESOME. Fitlinxx is the trade name for a system that assigns points of achievement for various completed exercises.

Aside from the anticipated launch of Sun City’s newest electronic toy, the highly touted Community Web Portal, there is the matter of what it is going to cost and who is going to pay for it.

It’s Sunday night, about 10. And since I have a few hours before I have to go out and start fighting crime, I’m on the Internet, where I’m reading about tomorrow, when Kerry Wood and Mark Prior are both scheduled to pitch in a real live, honest-to-gosh game of baseball.

Time once again to renew my annual loud, obnoxious and ultimately futile call to reduce Wrigley Field to tiny, tiny pieces as soon as is humanly possible under the current rules and guidelines enforced by the various neighborhood associations and alderman (i.e., 34 years).