Heading to Mendo to have a night off with Tha Gurlz (yes, I actually just spelled “girls” with a ‘z’) and then coming back in time to attend a real live Ho-Down (hot doggie: we have hay bales, a barn, and a live band) for New Year’s in my grand hometown of Penngrove.

In the meantime, start thinking about New Year resolutions, and what and if you want to make them. It is a practice with which I have been long fascinated. Does anyone make them anymore? And a better question — does anyone ever stick to them?

Counting down the rest of 2007…