Believe it or not, I managed to stay awake until midnight last night to watch the ball drop in Times Square.
Okay, to be honest, I was morbidly curious to watch if there would be any sort of attack on the revelers in New York City. Thankfully, there was not.
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| Which is really good, because New York City is going to have enough problems as it is. |
I also stared out of my front door at midnight on December 31st, 1999, to see if Y2K would destroy civilization.
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| Mind you, this is for entertainment purposes only, as it's not a picture of me. But, it's pretty damn close. |
Also, thankfully, it did not.
The evening went by pretty uneventfully. I was asleep before Chicago brought in the new year, amid much celebratory gunfire.
As opposed to "regular" gunfire. Or "Saturday night."
But, I must admit to harboring a pet peeve, though, albeit small and inconsequential in an old man's "get off my lawn!" kind of way.
Ryan Seacrist spoke of welcoming the year "Two Thousand Twenty-Six."
Please, for the love of God, can't we just call it "Twenty Twenty-Six"????
I could see using "Two Thousand" from, uh, 2000 to 2010, but we're well past when we should use "Twenty."
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| "NOW GET OFF MY LAWN!!!" |
I made it until Denver 2026, because we have Emergency! on cd.
ReplyDeleteAnd now, here I sit at the computer looking at the long year ahead of me.
DeleteAs someone on the west coast, I managed to remain awake through New York, Chicago, [someone quick, give me a Mountain Time city], and of course LA. While yowling in pain. (I fell earlier in the day. But my mud-covered self managed to pick myself up... It's a story.)
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DeleteI hope to read the story.
By midnight I was in bed asleep
ReplyDeleteMy wife spoke with an Aussie friend late morning New Years Eve. It was already January 1st there. Science, amirite? Or talking to the future. Happy New Year, regardless.
DeleteI’m late here..it’s Birgit…Happy New Year! Wait…not to the people of Iran, Greenland or Canada…wait, I’m Canadian, ughhhh. Venezuela got rid of. Tyrant but for all the wrong reasons ( oil anyone? Cigars, cigarettes, oil?) I’m getting over pneumonia and have made a turn..for the better, but still a little icky. Oh well..Viva La Canadienne! Or is that Le? I suck at French.
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