Possible New Year's Resolutions

I've been trying to come up with a list of new year's resolutions I might adopt.  So far, this is all I can come up with.  Any other suggestions?

• Train my voice to sound like Alec Baldwin's;
• Finally write that letter to Miley Cyrus explaining how badly she screwed up the geography of LA in her song "Party in the USA" and demanding a public apology;
•  End sentences with "if you know what I mean" more often, in a business context;
•  Develop and distribute my own brand of exclamation points, under the malapropism/pun/trademark "For All Intensive Purposes!";
• Purchase a parrot, teach it to speak in a made-up language, then go public and claim I have discovered and interpreted parrot language; eventually, get on the Today show.

Around Switzerland

Photos will be forthcoming; I think there will be some excellent imagery from our time in Switzerland. For now, this is a brief update from the sub-alpine lakes.

Zurich was a truly amazing place to be for NYE. Hundreds of thousands of people poured into downtown and celebrated in the streets, which had been closed to traffic. The city was lit by a full moon, the fireworks and the lights of the buildings and church spires that surrounded the lakefront. I paid $7 Sfr. (approx. $7) for a grande coffee at Starbucks this morning and $68 for parking overnight. I am all for indulgence, but Switzerland is expensive in the strangest ways.

Luzern is beautiful and our room in the the Hotel des Balances here is perfect; our balcony overhangs the river and has a view of the lake.