Does anyone else focus on summer comic buying?

I'm well into another very successful summer buying season (more on this in bit) and was wondering if others in the hobby still have a focus on summer buying like I do. Of course, growing up in Chicago the main focus of my collecting year was the Chicago Comicon. My brother and I went for years, starting in the late 1980's. We still have books from Rob Liefeld's 24 hour signing marathon if anyone remembers that. Of course, we would be up the entire night before the show started, and it was like Christmas in July. This was way before the internet allowed comics to be bought and sold 24/7/365, so unless they had something at your local comics shop you were out of luck until the con rolled around again.

Now, even though the comics market has changed a lot, I'm still geared around the summer buying season. I suppose that part of this is due to extra funds from teaching summer school (which my ever supportive wife allows me to use on my collection), but even in years where extra money hasn't been there I still get geared up for making at least one major summer purchase. This year, so far, it has been some nice Tales of Suspense (#41, 48, & 54) and filling in a couple of black cover nemesis books in Amazing Spidey (#60 & 104, both in CGC 9.2), last year it was my grail of grails, Amazing Fantasy #15 (which I spent half the summer selling stuff to pay for). In 2008 I picked up Tales of Suspense #39, 40, 50, and a serious upgrade for my Amazing Spidey #122.

My question for the journal readers out there is whether or not you follow any sort of calendar when it comes to your collecting. Do you have a "season" or do you tend to buy whenever you have the funds or a particular book comes along? Going to conventions in the summer for so long has apparently hardwired me for summer buying, but is everyone like this or is it just me?