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Is tonight a "non-event" for anyone else?
Posted by: wurm
Date: December 31, 2005 11:46AM
I think last year I switched back and forth between a Twilight Zone marathon and a Three Stooges marathon. Flipped to network for the ball drop about 11:59 then watched another episode of T-Zone and off to bed.

Ah, such an exciting life. At least I didn't have to deal with crazies on the roadways. So are you all partying hearty?
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Re: Is tonight a "non-event" for anyone else?
Posted by: Markintosh
Date: December 31, 2005 11:49AM
We've got some fireworks lined up but thats about it.
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Re: Is tonight a "non-event" for anyone else?
Posted by: TheTominator
Date: December 31, 2005 11:49AM
Why? What's special about tonight?
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Re: Is tonight a "non-event" for anyone else?
Posted by: MacMagus
Date: December 31, 2005 11:51AM
Chinese food night.

Fried tofu. Mmmmm.
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Re: Is tonight a "non-event" for anyone else?
Posted by: MacArtist
Date: December 31, 2005 11:59AM
I will be cooking up a great supper for the family. Bacon-wrapped filets, baked potatoes, carrots and whatever else. We'll watch some movies. I will tell my 9 year old she can stay up til midnight to see the new year come in and she will fall asleep around 11:15pm. The wife and I will give each other a smooch at midnight and then crash.

Yeah, we're getting old.



I sit on a man’s back, choking him and making
him carry me, and yet assure myself and others
that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his
lot by all possible means — except by getting off
his back. - Leo Tolstoy, novelist and Philosopher
(1828-1910)

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Re: Is tonight a "non-event" for anyone else?
Posted by: rgG
Date: December 31, 2005 12:03PM
I'll be waiting up for my 14 yo daughter to get home from her babysitting job for the people up the street. I doubt my husband will still be awake at midnight. So, I'll probably just find some drivel to watch on TV or just surf here.




Roswell, GA (Atlanta suburb)
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Re: Is tonight a "non-event" for anyone else?
Posted by: graylocks
Date: December 31, 2005 12:04PM
my son and i are going to a First Watch event at our quaker meeting.

the emancipation proclamation went into effect Jan. 1, 1863 so on the night of Dec. 31,1862 many slaves in the affected states (aka the confederacy; the EP only freed slaves in the rebel states) gathered to wait for freedom.

our Meeting commemorates that event every year.
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Re: Is tonight a "non-event" for anyone else?
Posted by: Phy
Date: December 31, 2005 12:09PM
> the emancipation proclamation went into effect
> Jan. 1, 1863 so on the night of Dec. 31,1862 many
> slaves in the affected states (aka the
> confederacy; the EP only freed slaves in the rebel
> states) gathered to wait for freedom.
>
> our Meeting commemorates that event every year.


That is so very cool!
I sometimes forget just how many people that freed.
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Re: Is tonight a "non-event" for anyone else?
Posted by: Guitarman
Date: December 31, 2005 12:30PM
and on jan.1, 1863 the wage slave was invented.
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Re: Is tonight a "non-event" for anyone else?
Posted by: Stephanie
Date: December 31, 2005 12:32PM
New Year's Eve is usually close to a non-event for me. I have no desire to be out on the roads, since there are so many drunk drivers in our state. Why risk it?

Instead, I'm off to buy some champagne at Trader Joe's & we'll "celebrate" with a nice homecooked dinner & that's about it.

I'll be watching the Dick Clark New Year's Eve thingie since Duran Duran will be on. Otherwise, I probably wouldn't have cared.

Whether or not it's an event or non-event for you, have a Happy New Year!
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Re: Is tonight a "non-event" for anyone else?
Posted by: graylocks
Date: December 31, 2005 12:40PM
Guitarman Wrote:
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> and on jan.1, 1863 the wage slave was invented.

actually, the wage slave has existed since the beginning of time...
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Re: Is tonight a "non-event" for anyone else?
Posted by: AlphaDog
Date: December 31, 2005 12:44PM
Louie the dog and I will watch our new DVD, fall asleep early, and then the neighbors will wake us up at midnight with all the fireworks. Lou and I will then grumble something about "Happy New Year" and fall back to sleep.

Happy New Year everybody!! smiling smiley
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Re: Is tonight a "non-event" for anyone else?
Posted by: OWC Larry
Date: December 31, 2005 01:01PM
First New Years with our baby boy.... First New Years in a very long time we'll be staying in. Kinda nice though. smiling smiley




OWC Larry
Other World Computing
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Re: Is tonight a "non-event" for anyone else?
Posted by: rob banzai
Date: December 31, 2005 01:22PM
Some TV (not new year's crap) and then lie in bed and listen to sporadic small caliber pistol shots in my neighborhood.
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Re: Is tonight a "non-event" for anyone else?
Posted by: DavidS
Date: December 31, 2005 01:32PM
We are having 2-3 other couples (and their kids) over for drinks and snacks. We are going to have 8-9 kids under 9 running around also. Yikes. Hopefully the kids will all crash early. My wife is out food shopping right now while I'm supposed to be cleaning instead of being here posting.
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Re: Is tonight a "non-event" for anyone else?
Posted by: dmann
Date: December 31, 2005 02:01PM
It is a rare occasion for me: I am going to a NYE party with a friend and won't know anyone there except my friend! In a brief moment of insanity I agreed to go.

Since I will be hosting 20 people for our family Hanukkah party tomorrow I am sure my alcohol consumption will be fairly limited and I won't be home too late.

Hope everyone has a safe and happy New Year-
DM

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Re: Is tonight a "non-event" for anyone else?
Posted by: steve_
Date: December 31, 2005 02:17PM
What do they say, tonight is when all the amateurs are out? I'll be home with the Mac and TV on. Happy New Year everyone!



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Re: Is tonight a "non-event" for anyone else?
Posted by: MacGurl
Date: December 31, 2005 03:21PM
Ahhh, we're going out for some very excellent sushi, and will be coming home to some "Chocolate Cookie" and "Creme Brulee" cream liqueurs. Then we have a good quality bottle of champange for later in the evening, served with some tasty chocolates, along with smoked salmon, horseradish cheese, and rosemary and oregano hummus on crackers.

Yummy....

Kathy




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Re: Is tonight a "non-event" for anyone else?
Posted by: Gutenberg
Date: December 31, 2005 03:34PM
I am happily experimenting with a vegetarian chili. I have always been disappointed with my efforts before, till it occurred to me to season it like Cincinnati chili, not Texas chili. So I have a couple of parsnips, some carrots and a couple of yams in the oven roasting, and we will see how it goes.

New Year's Eve? Not going out on Amateur Night. I am happier here.
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Re: Is tonight a "non-event" for anyone else?
Posted by: Ombligo
Date: December 31, 2005 04:02PM
Man I must be the biggest non-event person here...

The wife and kid go to her sisters to party every year, they'll be gone a few days. I stay home and treat it like any other night, which means I'll go to bed around 10pm, sleep until 5am and then start over.

Been like that as long as I can remember.

New Years? whooppee


“No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.” -- François de La Rochefoucauld

"Those who cannot accept the past are condemned to revise it." -- Geo. Mathias

The German word for contraceptive is “Schwangerschaftsverhütungsmittel”. By the time you finished saying that, it’s too late
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Re: Is tonight a "non-event" for anyone else?
Posted by: blooz
Date: December 31, 2005 04:09PM
Actually, got invited to friend's house (married ex-girlfriend) with a couple other folks for dinner. I'm bringing a bottle of bubbly but these people crash early so I don't expect to be there at midnight.
I'll listern to the change at midnight, follow my mother's old tradition of going outside and saying a short prayer, then hit the hay.

I'm incharge of our big Messiah Sing tomorrow, so don't want to get too hazy.


And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
Western Massachusetts
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Re: Is tonight a "non-event" for anyone else?
Posted by: vicrock
Date: December 31, 2005 04:12PM
As left coasters, we watch the ball drop in NY on CNN at 9pm and then feel like our obligations have been met - I'm ususally LONG asleep by midnight.
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Re: Is tonight a "non-event" for anyone else?
Posted by: the_poochies
Date: December 31, 2005 04:20PM
I last celebrated on Dec. 31, 1999. Yes, Mrs. Poochie & I partied like it was 1999. Since then, we are usually asleep by 10 pm.
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Re: Is tonight a "non-event" for anyone else?
Posted by: bill b
Date: December 31, 2005 05:10PM
non-event.
I might even go into work for a coupls hours.
In bed at 8:00 is sounding good, though.
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Re: Is tonight a "non-event" for anyone else?
Posted by: Golfer
Date: December 31, 2005 05:42PM
Just another work night, nothing to get excited about.
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Posted by: magicmikey
Date: December 31, 2005 06:44PM
I'm a professional magician so the only time it's a big night is when I have a big show. I've done two kids' New Year's Eve parties at a resort in Virginia in 2002 & 2003. That was cool. I was done by 9:00 p.m. and got hang out in my beautiful hotel room for the evening.

This year, my synagogue decided to combine Hanukkah and New Year's Eve into one party. The dreidle drops at midnight! I'll be doing an hour of table-side magic and will likely be home before 11:00 p.m.

I'll watch the ball drop on Times Square and head to bed.

Yeah, I'm getting old, too.

Michael
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Posted by: joycee
Date: December 31, 2005 06:50PM
Hmm, well now I'm thinking of crashing MacGurl's little party to raid her snacks. Who's with me?! grinning smiley



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(¸.·´ (¸.·´How about if you greased them up first? Are chihuahua's cooperative pack hunters? ~TheCaber
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Re: Is tonight a "non-event" for anyone else?
Posted by: rgG
Date: December 31, 2005 07:13PM
I'm in Joycee! You guys need to get out more plates and glasses.




Roswell, GA (Atlanta suburb)
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Re: Is tonight a "non-event" for anyone else?
Posted by: joycee
Date: December 31, 2005 07:32PM
Plates? Glasses? Since I was gonna crash it pirate-style, I was figuring on just grazing right off the serving trays with my fists! And I'm bringing along an extra long straw to drink right outta the bottles! arrrrr
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Re: Is tonight a "non-event" for anyone else?
Posted by: MacArtist
Date: December 31, 2005 08:00PM
It always makes me nervous when someone mentions "pirate."


I sit on a man’s back, choking him and making
him carry me, and yet assure myself and others
that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his
lot by all possible means — except by getting off
his back. - Leo Tolstoy, novelist and Philosopher
(1828-1910)

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Re: Is tonight a "non-event" for anyone else?
Posted by: rgG
Date: December 31, 2005 08:10PM
Did I hear Pirate? I don't think our well endowed friend has made an appearance here yet, has he. I'm not sure though. It's never too late. ;}




Roswell, GA (Atlanta suburb)
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Re: Is tonight a "non-event" for anyone else?
Posted by: joycee
Date: December 31, 2005 08:25PM
LOL, Rhonda. For fun, I tried google imaging "women pirates" to maybe add a pic to my earlier post, and guess who popped up on p. 2 of the search results? For some reason, that image never gets old... grinning smiley
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Re: Is tonight a "non-event" for anyone else?
Posted by: rgG
Date: December 31, 2005 08:48PM
joycee,
I'll have to remember what to search for the next time I need a copy of "The" Pirate.
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Posted by: Gutenberg
Date: December 31, 2005 09:14PM
I dunno, but that pirate looks like a guy to me.
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Posted by: joycee
Date: December 31, 2005 09:51PM
LOL, Gutie, ya think?



*´¨)
¸.·´¸.·*´¨) ¸.·*¨)
(¸.·´ (¸.·´How about if you greased them up first? Are chihuahua's cooperative pack hunters? ~TheCaber
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Re: Is tonight a "non-event" for anyone else?
Posted by: PeterB
Date: December 31, 2005 11:02PM
It's obviously a huge non-event for me, and has always been very depressing.



Freya says, 'Hello from NOLA, baby!' (Laissez bon temps rouler!)
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Re: Is tonight a "non-event" for anyone else?
Posted by: joycee
Date: December 31, 2005 11:05PM
PeterB, the "pathetic countdown" thread is up here: [forums.macresource.com] - this one is the "non-event" thread. ;)
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Re: Is tonight a "non-event" for anyone else?
Posted by: Jimmypoo
Date: January 01, 2006 01:16AM
I was injecting the kitty at the magic moment. Then I cleaned the litter box.

Funny... I've never been to a NYE party. Ever. Never really had any desire.

I do remember once celebrating - opening up the front door and pushing my record player (that's all it was) and blasting as loud as it would play, the following songs:

Hard Days Night
Judy In Disguise
Dizzy

I think it was 1968. Maybe 1969.
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Re: Is tonight a "non-event" for anyone else?
Posted by: MikeF
Date: January 01, 2006 01:40AM
Usually stay up just to keep the dogs settled. They go kind of skittish with the noise (same on July 4th, but at least it's not at midnight). And the usual So Cal police and fire dept sirens and gunfire...

We'd wake up anyways with all the barking, growling, whimpering, and whining, so why not just stay up?

Congrats on the baby, Larry. Life will never be the same -- both bad and good. Hopefully, the good will extremely outweigh the bad (but you might have to wait a while)...
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Re: Is tonight a "non-event" for anyone else?
Posted by: joycee
Date: January 01, 2006 01:53AM
Jimmypoo Wrote:
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> I was injecting the kitty at the magic moment.


Mister 'poo, this is the "family friendly" side of the forum. I will thank you to take that kind of talk to the "PG" section! eye popping smiley



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¸.·´¸.·*´¨) ¸.·*¨)
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Posted by: DaviDC.
Date: January 01, 2006 02:25AM
I've gotcher pirate right here!




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Re: Is tonight a "non-event" for anyone else?
Posted by: rgG
Date: January 01, 2006 08:39AM
And DavidC steps up to the plate for all us women of the OWC! Thanks for the post.

I just knew the Pirate had to show up here sooner or later, it might as well be on New Years! And it's not the one with the little BFD hat either. ;}




Roswell, GA (Atlanta suburb)
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