All consumer intent this week is grills, golf, and gadgets, in that order.

Also in effect on this date

The full docket. Any of these would hold up in a Monday standup.

• Everyone is researching gifts for a man who insists he wants nothing.

  Holidays · in effect Father's Day (7d before)

• Father's Day gift guides have annexed the inbox.

  Holidays · in effect Father's Day (7d before)

• School just let out and every household with children is in logistical freefall.

  Seasonality · in effect 06-01 to 06-15

• The NBA Finals turned every second screen into an arguing device.

  Sports · in effect 06-01 to 06-20

• It is graduation season, and gift budgets have been claimed by people in rented gowns.

  Seasonality · in effect 05-10 to 06-15

• Camp drop-off schedules have replaced consumer intent as the organizing principle of family life.

  Seasonality · in effect 06-01 to 06-20

• Graduation open house season is consuming every suburban weekend and its sheet cake budget.

  Seasonality · in effect 05-20 to 06-30

• The summer slump is real, documented, and conveniently unfalsifiable.

  Seasonality · in effect 06-01 to 08-15