We made it through Valentine’s Day so the next excitement to look forward to is Spring Break in three to five weeks, depending. Whether you fondly remember your college breaks, or you dread your children being out of school for a week, at least it’s something different.

Here we are in the long stretch of winter with at least a month until Spring Break. Even when you’re out of school, the idea of Spring Break helps you through the dark nights and cold weather. Speaking of dark nights, this is your last warning for Valentine’s Day at the end of this week.

While guys can’t waste any more time talking about point spreads and commercials for the upcoming Super Bowl (congrats, Kansas City), they can now waste time talking about the game and the commercials. Look at those talks not as a waste of time but as a bonding experience.

Last week the Northeast got all the weather and this week it’s the Northwest’s turn. Prepare for heavy rains and flooding in lower elevations and ice and snow higher up, all pushed around by high winds. But don’t worry, Northwest people, the weather in Miami for the Super Bowl will be just fine.

System integrators who understand how to design and build leading-edge AI-IoT frameworks will unlock value and gain a competitive advantage. 

The CES 2020 show flooded our attention spans last week with interesting new products and updates to a slew of existing smart home systems. And some silly stuff, as usual, like the Charmin RollBot toilet paper delivery drone.

The concept of tagging everything may seem frivolous, but there’s a remarkable array of possibilities that could unfold in a more connected world.

Here’s a good reason to put off your holiday shopping until next week: the Midwest and Northeast are under severe weather alerts for snow and ice most of this week. That means nearly half of all Americans are impacted. Next week has to be better, right?

Need something to help get you in the holiday spirit? How about some snow? Tuesday evening could see the latest cold front swooping down the Arctic leave a white mess behind from Maine down as far south and west as Texas.

Welcome back, physically and maybe mentally, from the Thanksgiving break. If you’re reading this in a snowed-in airport, good luck to you. Since the holiday was so late in November, we have only three and a half weeks before Christmas.