You take a sip, you take a breath, you take a nap, you take a walk, you take a drive, you take a red eye to go, and it's gone daddy gone, gone like two oh oh seven.

Here at yr friendly Philly Skyline, it's been a petal to the metal kind of year, shakin' hands, kissin' babies, runnin' over mailboxes and just tryin' to stay on the up and up. Sure, there have been a few things that have been blown right by like a scruffy hitchhiker, but as long as we're livin' -- L-I-V-I-N -- there'll be time. Some of 2007's promises will be 2008's promises: The Skinny (ha ha! Seriously!), a new look, better organization and archiving, more neighborhoods, more profiles, more photos, more events, calendars, chili cookoffs, baseball playoffs, words to live by. It's going to be a rock & roll 2008.

But we can't just tie one on at Penn's Landing under the big exploding sky and skip outta 2007 without a final, official shout-out to the folks who've been along for the ride. So . . .

• To Nathaniel Popkin, Steve Ives, Michelle Schmitt, Nidhi Krishen and Michael Shannon: thank you for all your awesome contributions, hard work and inspiration. Without your efforts, Philly Skyline might have devolved into what I fed my cat this morning. (Aww, I love that three legged cat.)

• To Joe Minardi, Matt Johnson and Arthur Petrella, thank you for sharing your views of our local world. Here's to more photos, and to anyone interested in contributing photo essays in the new year, think of some ideas and drop a line to photos AT phillyskyline DOT com and let's talk after the hangovers.

• To Inga, CDoc, DMac, Golas & gang, Cornfield & cohorts, Sweeney, Deeney & Valania, Albert, Enrico, keep on keepin' on.

• To Zur in the Northeast, Jimbo in Tampa, DEREK IN OLNEY, Mark & Marcus in G-Ho, Paul in Northern Liberties, Ray in East Falls, Bart in Wisconsin, Barry in Titusville, Vinny in South Jersey, Tim in Roxborough, Glory in North Philly, John III in West Philly, and all the regular emailers: thank you for being moved/impassioned/incensed/inspired/affected enough to drop a line.

• To everyone who's emailed that I've failed to get back to in a timely manner if at all: my bad. I'm trying, honest I am.

• To you, my dear reader: thank you very, very much for coming by and coming back.

• To everyone in the Faces Of 2007 photo compilation: say cheese.