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Hello, everybody! I hope you all had a Happy Christmas, or a Merry whatever-you-celebrate for your winter holiday--Hannukah, Kwanzaa, Eid-al-Adha, Yule, Festivus. Hope I didn't exclude anyone! Really. But now it's December 31st, the last day of the two thousand and seventh year of our common era. So we approach another new set of days. This is momentous for me, as every milestone is now a Milestone--not so much because it could be my last--that's true for all of us--but because in a way, each holiday is now a goal for me and I really have come to appreciate and want to recognize every one, at least a little. So tonight I celebrate the coming of a new year (at home, with my pup Zito, although he doesn't get to drink. He's only five, after all)! 2007 was pretty good, all things considered, and I think I personally came through it without too many lacerations or contusions. Cuts or bruises either. Hope you all did at least as well!

So, 2008, whaddaya got??? (Double-fisted chest thump) Bring it, baby!