Happy New Year!!

[Piano*Dad]

Happy New Year from Las Vegas.

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[Piano*Dad]

Another firework this morning in front of the Trump Hotel in Vegas this morning.

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[ShiroKuro]

Happy new year!

We went to bed before 11pm and I was up around 5:30 as usual

My mother is staying with us. Yesterday we had “new year’s eve noodles.” Then this morning, we watched the Japanese new year’s song contest (which is a 4 hour show!) while alternating between putting away the Christmas tree ornaments and doing Japanese games. It’s been a lovely day so far. Dinner will be ravioli with meatballs.

And just a little bit ago, the sun came out.

It’s been a lovely day.

[Bernard]

@AdagioM I didn't know you ever lived in Queens!

I went to see the ball drop one year. We got there at 10:30 pm and got no closer than the mid-50s on 7th Avenue, no way we could see the ball and we were herded into the block like cattle and you couldn't leave because you wouldn't be allowed back in. It was 14 degrees F, we were freezing and after half an hour of realizing just how awful the experience was, went home and watched it on TV!

[ShiroKuro]

@Bernard yikes, that sounds awful! I never understood the appeal of attending a public event like that, where people are packed in like sardines, and had I ever attempted to attend, I would have done what you did — go home!

BTW Mr SK always says he can never understand the appeal of a ball drop. For one thing, according to him, it seems like a “bad luck” way to start the new year, with a large object falling down, rather than something that goes up.

[Mik]

Yeah, maybe we've taken the idea of public ritual too far here.

[AdagioM]

@Bernard Mr. AM worked for the NY Mets from 1986-1995, and has a World Series Ring to prove it!

[ShiroKuro]

@Mik said in Happy New Year!!:

public ritual

Mik, was this in response to Bernard?

[wtg]

@AdagioM said in Happy New Year!!:

I’m sipping my afternoon prosecco while I’m puttering around in the kitchen. Just made Smitten Kitchen’s olive oil brownies, haven’t tasted them yet.

Edit: the brownies are fantastic. More deeply chocolatey than the usual Smitten Kitchen Favorite Brownies (butter based). Still warm, couldn’t wait to sample!

OMG the brownies are fabulous. I only had extra virgin olive oil, so not quite the mild flavor olive oil the recipe calls for, but they are still sooooo delicious.

[AdagioM]

@wtg We only had EVOO, too. Loved the brownies anyway!