The Slice: Their resolve is impressive

It’s easy to mock New Year’s resolutions.

But each morning as my predawn bus rolls past a health club with big windows, I find myself rooting for the men and women working out inside.

Let’s move on.

What prevents you from getting enough sleep: “Hot flashes, hot cats,” wrote Karen Botker.

Slice answers: Steven Wells, Dwight Hume, Patti Livingstone and others said one key difference between people who move to Spokane from larger cities and those who relocate here from smaller places is differing perspectives on whether the traffic is bad here.

And there were other answers. “It’s not true 100 percent of the time, but I have noticed the difference between big city and small town transplants is big city people ask, ‘What can you do for me?’ and small town people ask, ‘What can I do for you?’ ” wrote Jim Cole.

Grant Woodfield wrote, “People who moved from smaller places complain that everything is hard to find and too far apart. People who move here from bigger cities enjoy the fact that everything is easy to find, so close together.”

Favorite local trivia: “I point out to visitors the corner of Riverside and Howard, where the first time-and-temperature sign in the world went up,” wrote Bill Stimson. “It lighted up on Christmas Eve 1951. The Williams brothers invented it and sold the first one to the old Spokane and Eastern Bank.”

Pat Cadagan enjoys sharing stories about the many and varied accomplishments of the Riblet family.

Re: Anxiety about the driver’s license vision test: “I don’t worry about it at all,” said John E. Johnson.

He said he routinely encounters drivers in the Spokane area who apparently cannot see.

Today’s lutefisk memory: “My first experience with this fish was not very appetizing since the guy that was going to cook it was soaking it in his bathtub,” wrote Jeannie Maki.

Today’s Slice question: Are racists who don’t have to go to work on Martin Luther King Jr. Day confused about how they should feel about that?