Your long short day of corporate drudgery is over. Get out and enjoy the city! Here are a few ideas to get you started, lovingly picked by Boston Daily.

It’s New Year’s Eve, a night where sparkles are a must and the bubbly flows like this morning’s slushy precipitation. But don’t let the mess on the streets slow your celebrations.

For those who want to celebrate the new year without drinking (whaa?), there’s the family-friendly favorite First Night. A button will grant you admission to more than 40 indoor and outdoor events.

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In the midst of our holiday shopping, we noticed Mitt Romney’s campaign was offering an array of gifts for the special conservatives in our life. The packages consisted of Ann Romney’s holiday recipes and an ornament, but we were really tempted to shell out $250 to get a personalized voicemail message from the candidate himself.

And much like the store where you bought that cashmere sweater for your sister that’s now half-price, the Romney campaign is having a post-holiday sale.

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We imagine operating wireless towers to be a rather ho-hum business. Still got a wireless connection? Great.

That is, until your chief rival impersonates you in an attempt at defamation.

So says the complaint of American Tower Corporation, the Boston carrier that’s suing a former Goldman Sachs exec, Jide Zeitlin, who now runs something in India called the Independent Mobile Infrastructure.

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Just because you spent all weekend obsessing about the Patriots doesn’t mean the world stopped moving. We round up the notable stories you missed.

Saturday
The Globe continues to print its Mitt Romney bombshells in the hopes that one of them actually explodes and ruins his candidacy. The daily reported that while Romney was governor, his officials approved a tax-exempt bond for a Planned Parenthood in Worcester — an outfit which will perform abortions and hand out morning-after pills.

In the case of the abortion clinic funding deal, the Republican candidate’s spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom said Romney would have attempted to block it — if he had known about it.

“Mitt Romney is prolife,” Fehrnstrom said. “He did not know about this loan. It was made by an agency that does not report to the governor. If it did, he would have told them not to do it.”

Meanwhile, experts say that Romney’s television spot attacking John McCain may do more harm than good. (more…)

Your condensed guide to today’s daily papers. (With yesterday’s Herald cover art.)

Pretty good year: The Globe looks back on Gov. Deval Patrick’s first year in office and calls it alright. [Globe]

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Chronicling the past week via quick links and pithy commentary (Holiday-abbreviated edition)

Not too many presidential candidates get the dreaded anti-endorsement: But our man Mitt did.

Benazir Bhutto’s tragic death brought forth remembrances of her time in Boston: No pith here.

Your Amateur First Night guide: Really there are more things to do on Monday then get hopelessly plastered and make a fool of yourself.

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The week between the Christmas and the New Year is a tough one for journalists, who generally don’t like to work anyway. That’s why papers everywhere have been light on real stories, and heavy on yearly retrospectives: When you’re full of nog, good ideas are hard to come by.

To this pile of retrospective introspection, the Globe today contributed a roundup of the best local music from the past year. And while the inclusion of Drug Rug’s self-titled debut and Hallelujah the Hills’s Collective Psychosis Begone displays a shocking degree of competency for a paper that was recently responsible for this, a few gems always fall through the cracks of these best-of lists.

That’s why we’re here to catch them. Here’s some of the best local records that didn’t make the cut in today’s roundup: (more…)

With the Patriots regular season set to conclude tomorrow evening in the lovely New Jersey swamps (aka Jimmy Hoffa’s final resting place), we thought it was time to revisit the boys’ incredible ride.

Remember way back in September when people wondered if Randy Moss would fit in, or if Rodney Harrison would be damaged by his HGH suspension? Yeah, neither do we which is why we decided to lake a look back, Boston Daily-style at the Patriots 2007 season. (more…)

It’s almost New Year’s Eve, and the pressure is on to find the perfect way to start your new year. Do you aim for a sedate dinner, or do you put on your favorite sparkly mini and dance until New Year’s Day dawns? We here at Boston Daily are here to help you decide. We’ve rounded up the city’s best events to help you ring in 2008 in style.

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My next door neighbor has been holding his parking spot with a recycling bin for over a week now. Most of the snow on our street is melted, and parking spots are ample. Yet still he persists. At first, this was because he shoveled the spot, and didn’t want some squatter to swoop in and take it. Now, he’s just being a selfish prick who wants to use what’s left of the snow as a pretense to horde the choice spot in front of his house.

Now multiply that by about 10,000 and you have Southie, which, once again, is at war with the mayor over its long-held cultural practice of holding their parking spots with parking cones, chairs and whatever other crap they have lying around their houses and yards. (more…)