Good morning and welcome to Summit Up, the world's only daily column that is wondering what to make of all those little inspirational sayings people put at the end of their e-mails. You'll see stuff like “When the caterpillar turns into a butterfly, all things are possible” or some crap like that, and you're like, “What am I supposed to do with this information?”

We suppose that's true about inspirational sayings and quotes no matter where they appear. You read it, and then you sorta shrug and continue on with whatever non-inspirational thing you were up to. For example, you're stuffing your face full of General Tso chicken and then thoughtlessly rip into the fortune cookie, where you read this: “Depart not from the path to which you have been assigned.” You think on that for a tick, toss the fortune in a puddle of duck sauce and waddle home, more or less unchanged.

Or maybe we're wrong. Maybe some people really take those fortunes and e-mail aphorisms to heart and make life-changing decisions. Only the conscious man knows the difference between a bullfrog and a slightly plump toad. Right? Yeah.

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As newspaper folks, one of our favorite things is when people call up and leave us an anonymous voicemail to gritch about some real or imagined grammar lapse we've committed. We had one Wednesday where a woman took us to task for using the phrase “...out of Minturn” in a photo caption instead of “... of Minturn.”

Thanks for that, O anonymous caller! We figure if you're zeroing in on little stuff like that, the rest of what we're doing must be pretty awesome!

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So the other day we were talking about how, instead of Groundhog Day, we should have Marmot Day (because we have marmots around here, not groundhogs). Then we found out that Alaska now has a Marmot Day (made into law in a bill signed by Sarah Palin, no less), and now we're a little bitter that our idea was sorta pre-scooped by Seward's Icebox. Alaska's Marmot Day marmots, however, have been assigned no special forecasting duties, so it's hard to say what all this means. All we know is that, if it came down to it, Colorado marmots would kick booty on Alaska marmots in almost any category you can think of: weather forecasting, spelling bees, jujitsu, hibernating excellence, etc.

Our state's marmots just need a chance to show their qualities. So we call on the likes of Sen. Mark Udall and Rep. Jared Polis to sponsor a super-silly bill to make Feb. 2 Marmot Excellence Day in Colorado! It's the least we can do for our super-sized somnolent rodents.

We out.