What's everyone up to right now?

[arewethereyet]

I would imagine fireworks will start here tomorrow night (if not tonight) and will last through the weekend.  My hearing is not great so I won't bother me, but Quinn will be a quivering mess.  Time to dig out the doggy Trazadone.

That's what I meant. It's more I very little if anything to celebrate for the new year, quite the opposite

Back in the day when I was a bartender, New Year's Eve was a good money maker.  But I have seen just how stupid people get on NYE and I am usually long asleep...the new year still shows up as scheduled.

[brewer]

That's what I meant. It's more I very little if anything to celebrate for the new year, quite the opposite

Back in the day when I was a bartender, New Year's Eve was a good money maker.  But I have seen just how stupid people get on NYE and I am usually long asleep...the new year still shows up as scheduled.

I'm sure the party house at the end of the block will be rockin and rollin, but I sleep with headphones and the dog is now deaf.

I'll get an earful from my wife the next morning, she does not suffer in silence.

[Fireball]

Our city announced years ago for zero tolerance for fireworks and firearms at any time. Fireworks because we live in an irrigated desert, and acres square miles go up in flame with terrible regularity, and firearms because, duh. That has tamped down quite a bit of the noise.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Trying to come up with New Year’s resolutions. All I’ve got so far is 8K.

Boru

[arewethereyet]

Our city announced years ago for zero tolerance for fireworks and firearms at any time. Fireworks because we live in an irrigated desert, and acres square miles go up in flame with terrible regularity, and firearms because, duh. That has tamped down quite a bit of the noise.

We aren't supposed to set off fireworks in town either.  We are told to call or text the non-emergency number at the PD.  Here's how that works, at least when we used to call.  Call and report fireworks and tell them where they are coming from.  PD shows up as the people are reloading or whatever.  PD gets a call to somewhere else in town and off they go again only to not catch anyone in the act.  So then the people they just left start up again.  Wash, rinse, repeat...all over town...for hours.  All that is accomplished is the PD burning up a bunch of gas.

It gets a little tense on 4th of July when we haven't had rain in a while and the sparks are raining down all over the neighborhood.  After all the festivities we have to walk the back yard to gather debris so that one or more of the dogs don't eat the remnants.

[Fireball]

Not sure how the police get deployed to these calls, but after a couple of major fires, they've gotten pretty aggressive with that enforcement. My little burg is in a valley about 12 by 7 miles, and is a bedroom community for many police and fire fighters who work in LA. They don't appreciate pandemonium, either.

[Angrboda]

Watching football.

[arewethereyet]

Closing up another year-end at work. Will be doing that after the holiday as well.

Trying to get things set with new laptop so I can start the new year with a functioning laptop that isn't threatening to fall apart bit by bit, like I am.

[arewethereyet]

Not sure how the police get deployed to these calls, but after a couple of major fires, they've gotten pretty aggressive with that enforcement. My little burg is in a valley about 12 by 7 miles, and is a bedroom community for many police and fire fighters who work in LA. They don't appreciate pandemonium, either.

I made a trip to the office today.  It's about a 10 mile drive with half of it being in the country.  Just outside my subdivision (within spitting distance of the town limits) is a newish fireworks stand.  I counted three more in roughly a five mile stretch of road.  Those that want to make the cops zigzag around town from now through the weekend have many places to shop for the big boomies.

[Rev. Rye]

Trying to come up with New Year’s resolutions. All I’ve got so far is 8K.

Boru

The last two I ever considered were:

A) Watch at least one of the worst movies ever made every week.
B) pee only in Mason jars for a year a la Howard Hughes, then arrange the jars in a pyramid and send them to the White House at year’s end (decidedly not a la Howard Hughes).

Naturally, A lasted constantly for 4 1/2 years, and B never made it to the first jar.

New Year’s resolutions are bullshit.