Zack’s fairytale knee surgery

I’m writing this column way ahead of time. There are several columns in line ahead of it “in the can” — as my previous editor Brett Voss would say. Old newspaper terminology. Ashley Barner calls the can “the file.” I try to fill up “the can” a bit with extra columns and comic strips before I travel — a sadly fond/dim memory these days — or before I freefall into Caregiver Mode, which is about to…