The winter is getting colder, but my apartment is getting warmer. If you looked carefully at my photo, you’ll notice my digital thermometer reading a whopping 82 degrees in my room! One of the worst things about living on the top floor of an apartment building is getting all the heat from the units below, even with the thermostat set to the bottom. That, of course, did not stop us from having our very own hot pot holiday dinner this past weekend. With the broth boiling and each armed with our individual sauce mix, my friends and I took down roughly 5 pounds of meat between the seven of us. Meanwhile, my buying spree continues with the arrival of my new laptop. This sexy piece of hardware is a Toshiba Portege R100, probably the slimmest and lightest 12″ notebook on the market now, sporting an Ultra Low Voltage (ULV) Centrino processor that is both cooler (in every sense of the word) and less power-hungry. With my holiday shopping still pending though, I have a bad feeling that my next credit card bill will be arriving in a slightly fatter envelope.