News; birthdays/events; what are pop culture predictions for this year?; word of the day.

News; game: new year's resolutions trivia; a new restaurant is going with a famous board game motif; do ease back into your new year work scedule or just in and get going?

News; game: battle of the sexes part 1; game: battle of the sexes part 2; how long does it take you to write the current year on forms/checks?

News; great 'Ted Talks' to watch; winter is most people's least favorite season...how do you make it 'tolerable'?; goodbye/fun facts....national buffet day...The buffet table itself derives from the Brannvinsbord, a type of Swedish beverage table from the 16th Century. This was a buffet system where women and men ate in different rooms but still had an array of food to choose from. In the 18th century, the modern buffet began appearing as a smorgasbord. The smorgasbord was initially a table where pre-dinner drinks and nibbles were served to a group of guests separately from the main dinner, but over time people started to use it to serve the main meal too. The word 'buffet'' actually originates from a type of French sideboard used to serve food and the word was much easier to pronounce in the English-speaking world and was considerably easier to remember. In the 1940s the American buffet began in Las Vegas...and by the 1980's buffets were commonplace...not so much anymore.