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31 December 2005

Is it over? Put the year behind you yet?→[More:]
Ready to move on?
Feel free to:
count it down
state what state you're in
are you drinking?
whatcha thinking?
pony up your pony
and respond as sobriety and recovery allow.

post by: ethylene at: 23:40 | 40 comments

too spacy? was that the work of a drunken geezer or a glowing amber?

roll call!
who's in the house?
*raises hand and glass*

posted by ethylene 31 December | 23:53

Cheers Eth!

posted by richat 31 December | 23:55

is it a new year where you are?
it's 23:58 here
*clink*

posted by ethylene 31 December | 23:58

Looks like we are in the same time zone...there it is! HAPPY NEW YEAR MECHA!

posted by richat 01 January | 00:00

oh good god, our ball descended.
it's a man now

posted by ethylene 01 January | 00:00

Hey, I think I got the first post of the new year! Woohoo!

posted by richat 01 January | 00:01

happy 2006!!!!!

posted by amberglow 01 January | 00:01

*toasts all of you, spreads butter, takes a bite*

posted by amberglow 01 January | 00:01

2006? Crazy. After last year, let's hope for a 365-day period with more happy news and fellowship.

Happy new year, Mechites.

posted by selfnoise 01 January | 00:05

I've hours yet to go, you lurvly nunshitting taintaphones.

I plan on taking a special moment for the extra second that has been inserted in the UTC timecode this year.

I'm rapidly becoming sloshed. My GF is playing Animal Crossing for the first time and not drinking.

I can't remember how old I was when I first realized that I wasn't watching the Times Square NYE party "live", but I remember the whole arbitrary concept of time fucking mightily with my head. I thought about that again, tonight, probably inspired by the whole extra second thing.

Dick Clark has always scared me.

posted by loquacious 01 January | 00:08

wait til you see him (zoomed all the way out)--on my tiny tv it seemed like the camera was 25 feet away.

posted by amberglow 01 January | 00:09

We are three hours away. Just finished a lovely dinner. Am washing dishes and watching Calgary and Edmonton slug it out. Fiance has just come downstairs from, yes, changing into something more comfortable. Life is good. more champagne ( well, sparkling wine, but who's keeping track) to come at midnight. Life is good.

posted by bmarkey 01 January | 00:09

you're three hours and one second away : >

posted by amberglow 01 January | 00:18

hey, did they light up the eiffel tower this year? i don't see any pics of it.

posted by amberglow 01 January | 00:19

ooh i hear things exploding outside
and i know it's not aimed at deer for once.
i think

posted by ethylene 01 January | 00:20

i hope people are around for all the other countdowns

i have to do some hobnobbery but i may be back.

i knew waking up with good hair was a good sign.

sally forth and merry on
i'll be back.

posted by ethylene 01 January | 00:26

Reporting from right over the San Andreas Fault...

It's quiet.

Somebody down the road started setting off fireworks at 8:00 PST, and quit at 8:30 PST.

Yep, quiet.

posted by wendell 01 January | 00:29

They did light up the Eiffel Tower.

All quiet here, 'cept for the six dead on NM roads already and three murders. I really have to stop watching the news.

posted by go dog go 01 January | 00:35

A few drunken students walking by outside. I'm going to walk out and take a look at them in fifteen minutes.

Happy 2006, metachat. You're my favorite website of the year.

posted by interrobang 01 January | 00:36

Oh, and watching old Felix the Cat cartoons after a marathon of the third season of "Home Movies", drinking vodka and squirt.

posted by interrobang 01 January | 00:37

Happy 2006. Not drinking. About to read some more Anna Karenina. (Man does that book go on.)

posted by dame 01 January | 00:48

thanks mil--one day i'll be there for nye.

Ready for Anything --new year's political cartoon

posted by amberglow 01 January | 00:58

HAP ... one second more ... PY NEW EMM EMM VEE EYE!

Woo HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Pretty fireworks from my neighbors.

Good Chilean red wine, a gift from someone up in the hill country.

My kitty is freaking out.

All my cali friends on a conference call.

Music blasting loud.

Life is good.

posted by WolfDaddy 01 January | 01:04

Facing the New Year

posted by y2karl 01 January | 01:25

Happy Premature Ejaculate New Year seeing as how next year's still about a hundred minutes way away right now! Was drinkin mimosas (wifey's preggers and could only have a wee tot but who's gonna let a whole nice bottle of bubbly champagne go to waste? not me, bugger that and I like football with a hangover) but ran out of orange juice.

Hey no, wait, there's more downstairs in the fridge. Hahaha. See you suckers later!

posted by fenriq 01 January | 01:41

Damn, down to 80 already. Mist drank fuster!

posted by fenriq 01 January | 01:42

My new year is nearly nine hours old already!

Here's my first dawn of 2006 - taken about an hour ago:

≡ Click to see image ≡

Looks promising!

posted by taz 01 January | 01:53

The neighbors are still shooting their pistoles in the air, ese, but it looks like a better year already.

Taz, that's a great photo.

posted by go dog go 01 January | 02:11

Astonishingly, no gunshots here. Lots and lots of sirens, though. Listened to the online scanner feeds for a bit - mostly car wrecks and seemingly firework or drunkeness related fires.

Actually, scratch that. I just heard a gunshot way off yonder. And there's another. Sounds like a rifle. Decidedly not a firework. Still, nothing like NYE in LA. Or the time in Garden Grove in Orange County when I was "living" in an industrial park and some pickup truck driving Soldiers of Fortune freak parked on my street, set up an M-60 machine gun on a tripod and a belt of tracers and lit up the sky.

Yeah, that stupid motherfucker got arrested. I know because I called the cops and watched them take his ass out like cheap American Chinese food.

And now I'm plenty drunk, though. Time for some pizza.

posted by loquacious 01 January | 02:32

Oh, wow, the guns. Gee. This was is the very first new year's eve since I left the U.S., that I didn't remember this, and think how glad I am that we don't have to worry about it here. Funny.

posted by taz 01 January | 02:39

This year? 2005? They can keep it. Eleven minutes to go here in Portland with a glass of champagne in a solemn, silent house. Here's to tomorrow!

posted by rebirtha 01 January | 02:50

"guns. Gee. This was is the very first new year's eve since I left the U.S., that I didn't remember this, and think how glad I am"

AHA!

posted by arse_hat 01 January | 02:53

Watching the South Park Bennifer episode drunk seems like a perfect way to finish 2005.

posted by fenriq 01 January | 02:53

*clinks coffee cup with rebirtha's champagne glass*

Five minutes 'til you join me in the new (better?!) year.

posted by taz 01 January | 02:55

The real question is: Where is Rita Cosby and the latest news on Natalee Holloway?

posted by fenriq 01 January | 02:56

hahaha, arse_hat! How did you find out about that?

HAPPY NEW YEAR, portland, seattle, LA, san francisco!!!!

(I wonder what stranger frisbee is kissing right now?)

posted by taz 01 January | 03:00

Happy 2006, everyone. Let's hope for a good one this go-round.

posted by rebirtha 01 January | 03:06

Still two hours and 38 minutes before 2006 in Pago Pago, just one hour and 38 minutes 'til Jan. 2, 2006 in the Christmas Islands.

posted by taz 01 January | 03:22

gorgeous, taz
looks like a brave new world without the bleaker connotations

posted by ethylene 01 January | 12:35

Great pic, y2karl!

taz, my New Year's kiss goes unclaimed! I'm embarrassed to admit that gropefest invitations from not one, but two different couples flustered me so badly, I ran off and restocked wine instead.

I know the whole poly thing gets a lot of play here, but I suspect that I'm basically a prude at heart. So.

posted by Frisbee Girl 01 January | 12:57

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