Today will be packed tight with ironing out the smallest of details. We're ready, though!

We finished the preview page that goes in Sunday's edition yesterday afternoon, and we saw the billboards that are going up. We'll snap a picture today and get it up here, since stuff like that's ridiculously exciting to us newspaper geeks. We even helped order the cake for Sunday's big launch party! (On the to-do list: Buy champagne for that night. Check.)

The pages for Monday's edition are in production, and we will be editing the features cover and interior this afternoon. Then Geoff Pinnock will be starting on building a centerpiece for the Jan. 30 front page, just so we are ahead of the game on that front.

Mostly, though, everyone here has a buzz of excitement about the work ahead. The editors have done an amazing job of keeping the staff informed, and the planning for this launch is among the best we have ever seen.