Our historic summer is over. The rains of autumn resume their place at the head of the weather table and Mariners have once again shit the bed.

This time of year things start slowly; a front page on ESPN here, a uni watch preview there no matter how hard one expends great energy to avoid it the NBA season is coming and once again Seattle’s invitation to the party has been wooshed up into the cosmic a**hole. Every year it is the same routine, the familiar pain beneath the shoulder from a renewed knife twisting then back to waiting for kickoff.

Well worry not brigadiers! We here at Eeyore’s Corner have a handy list of things to keep the mind occupied while we spend a 7th consecutive season without a NBA team.

1. Drink heavily…responsibly. It’s Fall! That means it’s time for some of that beer with pumpkin in it. Maybe a delightful porter that possesses the ability to consume all light directed to it. Whatever your speed our many local breweries (and wineries if that is your game) and inebriate your way through the next round of the Seattle City Council’s vigorous chicken f*****g. I would be remiss by failing to mention that when the apple spice gets in the air things can get very bourbony in the Casa de Sofa. Never forget whiskey.

2. Hockey. Many dispossessed Sonics fans have found solace in the warm, Molson soaked arms of hockey and I will blame none for taking that path as hockey is pretty rad. Though the NHL has smarted some with the whole "back up plan" fiasco in Glendale there are still gallons of teams to follow to help fill the time in the dark and moist weeks ahead.

3. Kenting! Go to Kent. Why not? It’s there.

4. Exercise. Seriously…you don’t get THIS handsome by being on the internet all day.

5. Football (both kinds). With 3 days of NFL (I question the Thursday games but until they change it IS there to watch) and multiple days of college ball all over the board football is the current king of American sport even with recent events marring the image of the pro game. The reality is with the defending champion Seahawks, the league defining success of the Sounders and the current (and possibly illusory) competence of the University of Washington this is the one thing we are good at…embrace it!

6. Start a fight with a random stranger/form an underground combat syndicate. How else will Pioneer Square retain its’ character? And finally….

7. Argue with Kevin, because why mess with tradition?

So don’t despair Sonics fans for there are a multiple of options by which ice can be applied to the metaphorical bruised scrotum of our fanbase at the dawn of another lost season.