Get ready for Groundhog Day on Wednesday, in Gobbler’s Knob and on multiple cable and streaming channels (everyone wave to Bill Murray).

Welcome to 2022, especially for those still stranded in airports (or worse, stuck with in-laws) thanks to the triple-shot of overbooked flights, crew outages caused by COVID, and weather across the upper Midwest and Northeast. At least we're getting the worst of 2022 out of the way first, right?

Time's Person of the Year, Elon Musk, received a range of reactions seldom seen by previous winners.

The India Times looked at predictions for 2022 from Nostradamus, who published a book

Excuse this interruption to Cyber Monday shopping, but now’s the time to plan out the rest of the year. Not the work, the important stuff: vacation time. There are three full weeks before the week of Christmas, so pick your days off quickly.

Welcome to the week of Thanksgiving, at least in the United States. More than a dozen other countries celebrate some type of holiday with this name or something similar.

OK, here’s your official warning to do your holiday and end of the year business shopping (for the tax deduction) sooner, much sooner, than later.

November is shorthand for wet, cold, and messy weather for most of the country, and this year’s version starts this week. Rain sweeps from the Midwest to the Northeast, pushed by a cold front dropping 3-5 inches of white stuff across the upper Great Plains.

Underdog fans should be thrilled with the NBA Finals starting this week: the Phoenix Suns have never won a title, and the Milwaukee Bucks last held up the trophy in 1971.