To all of my female readers: Happy Valentine’s Day. To all of my male readers: gird your wallets. OK seriously, just wanted to wish the many women who frequent here a Happy Valentine’s Day; may you be spoiled as much as my girlfriend Carin will be tonight.

And to the men here, if you have a significant other hopefully you have something planned if you care about maintaining your relationship, otherwise try to find someone to celebrate with tonight, even if it just a friend of the opposite sex, nobody wants to spend today totally alone.

I know many people dismiss today as a “Hallmark Holiday,” (myself included at times) and there is some truth to that, but its good to have a day where we can stop and appreciate our better halves. There’s a saying that goes something like: “behind every great man there’s a woman kicking his butt,” and believe it or not I think more often than not this can generally be accepted as true.

So men, here’s to showing our appreciation for the women who keep us in line…