New Years Eve Chat Party

[Kailani Kealoha]

Just go out with a floodlight and a bullhorn and start shouting INS.

[W.Lynn]

I'd be asleep, if I didn't live next to people who drink a lot and play very LOUD tejano music all night long.

[Kailani Kealoha]

Glad someone else is. It's almost 3 am here and I'm bored out of my gourd. I know, coffee!

[W.Lynn]

I'm on sweetie, got my beat-up phone working, so you missed me by less than that!

[Kailani Kealoha]

Kailani - I can't promise we'll still be up, but sometimes there's a 2nd shift who logs in later. Bear, you can be the chaperone or just point at us & laugh... whatever floats your boat!

Looks like I only missed everyone by 2 hours. Better luck next year!

[W.Lynn]

I've got a chihuahua for that. He doesn't care who's knocking on what, he has to alert EVERYBODY.

The cats ignore the noise.

[Sacajawea]

Here's a quickie guide to the televised madness... should you need to set the ambiance to something more festive than the cat tearing around the house.

http://www.usmagazine.com/entertainment/news/new-years-eve-2017-tv-specials-whos-hosting-performing-more-w458484

[Sacajawea]

Glad I'm not the only one CW. I however, am not a daily discipline follower.

Kailani - I can't promise we'll still be up, but sometimes there's a 2nd shift who logs in later. Bear, you can be the chaperone or just point at us & laugh... whatever floats your boat!

[WhiteBear620]

I may be on, I'll be working till next year I'll see how busy we are at work and log on if able, I may just be the guy in the back of the party drinking sweet tea observing the conversations.

[Kailani Kealoha]

I'll see if I'm up. I usually crash by 9 and wake up in the middle of the night and come on here. Never anyone on then, lol.

[Kailani Kealoha]

I kinda like going to sleep in one year and wake up in the next. How do you remember to write 2017 instead of 2016? Or is it no big deal?

I've found that I figure it out when my first bounced check of the year rolls in.

[Cwi555]

I kinda like going to sleep in one year and wake up in the next. How do you remember to write 2017 instead of 2016? Or is it no big deal?

Ask an easy one. Simple answer is I review the previous days log/journal first thing in the morning when I can.
Long answer is except for points of physical incapacitation or unavoidable lack of medium to record with, I've recorded a daily log since August, 23rd 1974. Times prior to that are summarized, as are the points mentioned. That started due to 'positive' reinforcement (read woodshed time) on the part of my grandfather. In his opinion, it "keeps a man honest with himself".

These days my memory isn't what it used to be, so I go back and skim over random points not having remembered them anymore lol.

[Sacajawea]

I kinda like going to sleep in one year and wake up in the next. How do you remember to write 2017 instead of 2016? Or is it no big deal?

[Boston_Joe]

The only outdoor NYE thing I've ever been top was back in the 80s in Boston. This was back before all of this terrorist stuff. We went in for the fireworks with the thousands of others. We brought our own beverages although that was against the rules. For me it was too crowded and too cold and I never went back.

I hope that nothing happens beyond the typical low level human stupidity.

[Sacajawea]

Well, that's why I thought the jammies & slippers, online type of celebration was more our speed. We can analyze the security at Times Square (heard 7000 LE personnel) and the silly "pens" that hold, I believe I read, 3000 people each. I wouldn't get in any kind of "pen" with 3 people... much less 3000... and they call that a "good time"?? I guess for some people it is... no large bags (that's half the purses in NYC and all those backpacks), no alcohol. I guess people bar-hop all the way to the pens to watch the ball drop and then wend their way somewhere to sleep it off??

I don't think I've ever BEEN to any kind of official NYE party like that. Too much relief that I made it through another year - and concern about the unpredictable in the next one. So, not sure why all the "celebration" in the first place.

Anyone know how long that's been going on? These big hooplas over New Year's?