Once again, it's that time of the season where I assault you with my annual top 10 list of things to do during the bye week. For those who are unfamiliar with this annual event, this is something I started writing many years ago during the New England Patriots bye week, and it has provided some great laughs.

Some of the things you'll read are personal to me, some are not. Some on the list are new; while some of them move up, move down, or completely off the list.

So without further ado, sit back, pull up a chair, and warm up your funny bone...

10. Vote, Vote and Vote: Here in my city we have a very important and historic election that could give us our first female as Mayor, and/or our first African American as Councilor at Large. We also have plenty of issues up for grabs, but change can't happen unless people come out to vote.

9. Seek out and Find Religion: Head to church, confess all of those sins and impure thoughts you've committed while attending and/or watching football games over the past seven weeks (bye weeks count).

PS: Don't forget to confess the things you did after looking over Marge Simpson's Playboy pictorial... You know who you are.

8. Face Your Fears: Still spooked after seeing "Paranormal Activity?" You can use this time to sit alone in an empty house, and train yourself that every little noise you hear is not a demon that wants to possess you.

7. Hourly Credit Repair: Between the four DVRs in my house, I have run up over 100-plus hours of hard drive space like bad credit. I've finished up this season of "Entourage," and now watching "Naruto."

6. Change of Scenery: Betting on the Red Sox last month has put you so deep in the red with the local bookies, you decide to turn rat and enlist the entire family into the Federal Witness Protection Program.

5. Recover from Chocolate Hangover: Halloween was last Saturday night, and you spent the morning coming down off a sugar high from all of the candy you ate after conning the kids that those Reese's Peanut Butter Cups and Baby Ruths looked suspicious.

4. Git 'R Done: Run out, grab a Nextel phone, some chewin' tobacca', a Coors beer, and practice your best south of the border southern drawl so you can spend the weekend as a NASCAR fan watching drivers tear up Talladega . Remember... It's "Chase for the Cup" time, so try not to disrespect anyone by rooting for someone who is out of the standings. If you're from Boston make sure to root for drivers Greg Biffle and Carl Edwards who are driving for the Roush Fenway team, and jump up in the standings.

 3. Tailgate at Home: Go to your kid(s) pee wee playoff game in grease paint, armed with air horns and noisemakers. Break out the grill, cook hamburgers and hot dogs while getting a massive sugar high drinking gallons of Teenie Weenie juices, and talking about the upcoming video games release of "Modern Warfare 2," and how you racked up double XPs during this weekend's Gears of War 2.

2. Cash in Your Frequent Flyer Mileage: Turn in your rewards and spend time with your illegitimate children from east to west. (Note: This one may pertain to some pro football players.)

1. Watch Football: The Pats may not be on TV, but this weekend gives us the New York Giants taking on the Eagles in Philly, The Miami Dolphins in NY against the Jets, and the most awaited match-up of the year as Brett Favre and the Minnesota Vikings head out to Lambeau Field to face the Green Bay Packers, and an Aaron Rogers who will be licking his chops to prove he is the better QB.