Programming note & New Year's resolutions

Okay, so I will not be joining you again until Monday. But, then we'll finally be done with all these statutory holidays and vacations and I'll be with you all through the dreary, horrible, depressing months of January, February and March with no time off. It'll be cold and miserable and I won't be making you soup. In the meantime, in case you haven't gotten around to making any New Year's resolutions, here are some of mine you can borrow:

Stop drinking so much water
Volunteer more at the Time Travel Centre
Learn how to paint by numbers using only my mind
Stop yelling at the mailman
Keep a detailed journal of all the shoes I steal
Stop harrassing random people for old tin foil
Do something with my life that doesn't involve salamanders
Watch more television shows about cooking without food
Make more money by asking people to give me their money
Stop biting my hand
Read at least one book about involuntary carpentry every week

And here's a classic: