What's up for NYE 2021?

We're staying home. Got close to one with covid five days ago, so we are not getting out. We both feel fine, but don't see the point in taking chances. I did buy myself a few beers. Haven't had one since last New Year.

You haven't had a beer in a year?? Wha? Well, celebrate a good riddance to 2021, although God only knows what 2022 will bring. I hope there's something good on tv for you to watch, if you can stay up that late (debatable in this house)

Something good on TV? It is to laugh.

I've never been a fan of New Years Eve outside celebrations. I hate being around a bunch of people that don't know how much they can drink. We've been having special snacks and champaign for the last 39 or 40 years (I'm not overly fond of champaign either, but it's a tradition we enjoy mainy because I like mr. G'bag quite a bit)

We always had house parties or went to one... I'm not one for the clubs (obvs), but celebrating with friends was always fun. Good food, laughs, games... I miss it. I also don't like champagne! (are we possibly related?)

What I like best about NYE is that it signifies turning the last page in a book and the first page in a new one. That's it. I like a fresh page.

Happy New Year's, Mr. and Mrs. GB! And so glad to hear you like Mr. G'bag so much, lol.

There is nothing wrong with drinking alcohol only once a year. The only time I ever drink alcohol is New Years Eve. I just prefer to keep a clear head.

One nice thing about drinking only once a year is it doesn't cost very much to splurge on high quality craft beer.

I like the dawn of a New Year Year at midnight. We always celebrate the end of the old year and beginning of the new.......it's a promise for the future.

And that's a good thing since you're around so many guns. Good for you, oralloy. Guns and alcohol don't mix well.

I'm remembering a party that I was at as a small kid.... The adults all had lots and lots of guns, alcohol, and high-powered fireworks.

I still have a scar from that party in fact. It's faded a bit though. I didn't know that scars faded. Apparently they do though, at least sometimes.

Yeah, when I was 5, I went through a newly installed window and had a great gashing (or so I thought at the time) scar on my forehead. Worse was the great guilt and responsibility I felt for cracking through it (it was in their living room, of all places). But the scar is next to nothing. Of course, it has been several decades.

And my mother had keloid scars from a house fire, and nearly 50 years later you can still see them but they're not the ropes they used to be.

How did you happen to get scarred?

Despite all the guns and fireworks (and I did have a close call with a large firework), I was running full speed past a tent that had a rope running down to a stake in the ground, and I hit the rope with a lot of momentum.

The rope held and stopped my forward progress, but I slid along the rope with a lot of force and it rubbed through a few layers of skin on my arm.

It was night so I didn't see the rope until I hit it.

That would be scary, oralloy. And painful.

It was more surprising than anything. One moment I was running, the next moment I was tumbling.

I was more worried about the firework incident. I was holding onto a powerful firework with significant explosive power. And the fuse on it was sensitive and instantaneous. A bottle rocket went out of control and flew around me trailing all sorts of sparks. Luckily the firework didn't ignite and explode in my hands.

How old were you?

I don't remember my exact age at the time. I was somewhere around tween/middle school/junior high school age.

I could have dumped the firework in the water. But I had just paid $75 dollars for it (equivalent to $200 in today's dollars), which at that age was all the money that I had in the world, so I was reluctant to do that. I just gritted my teeth and hoped that it wouldn't go off in my hands.

I actually saw the whole thing coming. I watched the guy set off the bottle rocket with a sinking feeling that it was going to lose control and come at me. And then it did just that. It all turned out OK in the end though. The fuse didn't ignite, so all was well.

They also say that gasoline and alcohol don't mix well. They do, but the taste is just horrible.

Not even on the rocks.

We're all going out for a early dinner and then coming home and watching the boob tube for the ball to drop if I make it

That's what we're doing but I'm not sure I'm even interested in ringing in the new year, to be honest. What kind of restaurant have you chosen?