Whoever at Time Magazine made the decision to drop the section that summarizes the previous week's best late-night TV political humor needs to be fired. While I can't find any confirmation online, the section has been omitted from every issue of 2007, so far.  What's worse, there seems to be the addition of taboid-esque reporting filling sidebars and quarter-page sections. Now don't get me wrong, I read Perez Hilton and The Superficial as much as the next guy, but that stuff has its place. In my humble opinion, that place is not Time Magazine - especially not in lieu of content that I not only really enjoyed, but fit the magazines purpose. Argh...

Because we're both planners, Jen and I had our wedding pretty much completely planned by the second week of our engagement.  We had decided ahead of time to keep it very small.  As we sat down to plan our micro-guestlist, we quickly realized that between our families, friends and co-workers, we be lucky if we could get away with only inviting 75 people. In an ideal world, we wanted to have about 30 people there, tops.

I just saw a commercial for a matress company advertising how you can get 15% off your purchase during Martin Luther King day. Am I the only one who thinks that a sale should be had only if it relates to the holiday? It seems a little disrespectful otherwise.

I'm willing to bet MLK wasn't ever thinking "I have a dream... that one day... out of every year... you will be able to use my name to save 15% off of your mattress purchase!"

While waiting at the terminal at Laguardia for my flight back to Chicago, I noticed a bit of signage that amazed me. Apparently, Laguardia's definition of "emergency" involves an incident so bad you'd have to summon the strength to burst through solid concrete.

I spent New Year's Eve of 2005 and 2006 in the same place, so it got me thinking about everything that has happened during the 365 days between parties at Brian and Dave's loft.

Since January 1st, 2006 I have...
Traveled to Los Angeles twice, New York City three times, Austin, Costa Rica, and Copenhagen once; I went from zero to three cats; moved my home from apartment to condo, my office from big to gigantic, and traded in my impractical car for a more practical one; spoken to college students 3 times, been on TV 3 times, been published in 2 books, and been on the cover of one magazine; changed my drink from Ketel to Jack; gone from a workout addict to a non-workout addict to a healthy eating and cardio addict; seen good concerts, bad concerts, boring concerts, and spectaular concerts; watched literally hundreds of movies; read literally dozens of books; learned the joy of mixing salsa and cottage cheese together; started to understand more about wine; still no understanding about why people like black coffee; become inspired by industrial design; become uninspired by social networking; spent the holidays with a new family; strengthened my relationships with my own family; and most importantly - gotten engaged.

Happy new year!