New Year’s Eve plans?

Must be nice to live/work in a city that's enjoying a mild above 0F evening. Signed, the Midwest.

 

They should have written into that law that it actually goes into effect not at midnight, but at 4:20 a.m.

 

Darkest Hour is a very good movie.

Except ... the MOTHERFUCKING ASSHOLE who came to the movie with a persistent cough and coughed for the WHOLE DAMN THING turning it into the Darkest TWO Hours.

Midway, I actually got an usher's attention, and asked if he could come back with cough drops. He tried, but couldn't find any.

A couple next to the ASSHOLE got up and left after the first ten minutes. On the way out, the man yelled at them: "Inconsiderate! Next time stay at home!"

When the lights came up, I was going to yell at the guy too, but saw that the cougher was a guy's wife.

Instead, I loudly said to our party of five "Let's go home and disinfect ourselves."

Die motherfucking asshole.

If I get sick from that putrid old hag, I'm going to start off 2018 being really pissed off. Like, more pissed off than I am now.

 

I denounce New Year's Eve.

 

Stolen but appropriate:

So thankful we’re allowed to say Happy New Year again

 

Late tonight I am going to cruise my neighborhood with my "Best of Bad Bagpiping" CD blaring at full blast for a couple hours.

 

I sometimes feel like I'm the last man on Earth who likes New Year's. It's a chance to do a psychic hard reset.

I wish all of you a tremendous 2018.

 

The skirl of the pipes, lad!

 

After the Times Square ball drop, we switched over to a local station broadcasting the Baltimore fireworks.

Among us, my gf got the first good laugh in 2018 by saying:

"I wonder when the first 2018 homicide will occur?"

 

Fair warning: serious downer of a story awaits:

Spent the night with some close friends, one who was initially fired up after having spent the previous couple of days with, in addition to other family, her brother, in need of some life straightening, and his newish girlfriend. She’d felt she went way out of her way to be welcoming to the girlfriend and spent a bunch of money to ensure a good time.

The day after they left and on another leg of a road trip, girlfriend slept with brother’s best friend. That’s bad enough for all the obvious reasons but apparently had some real derailment potential for the brother bigger picture because she’s not the first cheater he’s dated, already has a ton of trust issues, really needs to be focused on getting a job, getting his shit together, etc. So our friend was pretty worried about brother, of course.

Brother’s best friend, dealing with depression of his own and a recent breakup, felt horrible. Brother and best friend had to ride back home together, apparently. We heard early last night best friend had threatened to kill himself. Our friend, knowing everyone involved, worried whether she should get involved or not, but brother insisted it would be fine. She figured she’d call and talk to brother and friend today. We all agreed. Well... it wasn’t fine. Best friend killed himself.