Have a safe and happy New Year's Eve!

The cookies are baked, the snow is shoveled, the lobster tails are thawing, and soon I will be getting ready to go to church with my mom, thereby satisfying the Catholic Church's requirement for observation of a Holy Day of Obligation (though I've missed enough of those to damn my soul to hellfire eternal, so, what the hell). After that we'll eat our lobster tails (the one time each year we enjoy such a luxury item) and I'll head down to a mostly-kids, alcohol-free party at Bernie's house. (Because he helps out everybody when they need it, and because he can use some extra semi-responsible semi-adults there, and because he asked. That's why.)

Tomorrow will be a day of rest, followed by what will most likely be another day of frantic, relentless work, followed by four scheduled days off.

Be safe, everybody. Tonight is a dangerous night. And I want to have at least as many readers in 2008 as I did in 2007!