Not as lame as my New Year’s http://www.hauntedvampire.com/?p=2807. I was going to drink some of the Crown Royal Special Reserve I got for Christmas, but my old, degenerating joints got aching and my meds and alcohol shouldn’t be mixed unless I want a psychedelic experience. On the other hand, I am rather stoned on my prescription muscle relaxants and pain pills. Mmmm. Drugs. Ms. Carnacki is reading to the last child standing (the other two collapsed almost immediately after the ball dropped — we weren’t able to pull the “set the clock ahead and make them think 10 p.m. is midnight” trick this year)…where was I? Oh yes, happy new year, my fellow Wild and Wonderful denizen. Thank goodness 2007 is over.
Ah, got home from work, worked out, ate, and am now cracking my second Pete’s Wicked Ale. It’s not my favorite brew, but I hadn’t had it in a long time, and thought it would be nice to have something lively for New Years. Happy New Year!
4.
myiq2xu
I am officially old and lame.
We been knowing that!
Ah, got home from work, worked out, ate, and am now cracking my second Pete’s Wicked Ale.
You should try Arrogant Bastard Ale. I’m pretty sure it was named after me.
I bought a 12 pk of Fosters Lager and made it thru 4 bottles before the lights went out. I live in Big Smoggy so it’s still 2 hours and 15 minutes until 2008.
Fosters – Australian for “Whass the problem ossifer?
5.
Jake
My New Year’s: + baby drool, – booze.
But I still only placed second in the Old & Lame Sweepstakes because my sister kept falling asleep on the couch. Should have had a shot of her Nyquil.
6.
Breschau
I have an excuse – I came down with the flu today.
However, I had been invited to what I knew was going to be a pretty good party at my sister’s house, and even before I got sick, I was pretty sure I didn’t feel like going. So, I guess I’m joining the Lameness Squad this year too.
7.
Redleg
I had a dram of Laphroaig and a dram of Ledaig and that’s about it.
8.
Pb
Happy New Year, John Cole plus zero! I had a beer, woo, take that! heh. :)
9.
Surabaya Stew
Being old and lame is official when one is reading (and commenting) on Balloon Juice at 2:52 am on New Year’s Day… Happy New Year anyways!
10.
Surabaya Stew
Being old and lame is official when one is reading (and commenting) on Balloon Juice at 2:53 am on New Year’s Day… Happy New Year anyways!
Jesus Babbling Christ! Another year got away and I haven’t gotten around to making any resolutions. Its about damn time we all get with the program and made some resolutions that we can keep. Here is my list of recommendations for 2008. (I plan to make good on all of them.)
* Get drunk more regularly.
* Eat more pizza.
* Gain 17 pounds. (Natural follow on for the last two, eh?)
* Drive faster.
* Swear a lot fucking more than I do now.
* Lose more money betting on sports
See what I mean? Any pansy can spout platitudes and make empty promises about cleaning up the old lifestyle but it takes real courage and conviction to make resolutions you know you have a real shot at keeping.
Happy Fucking New Year! Now its back to the tequila and brown acid.
Given I’m in CST, I’m still beating the previous poster, but I’ve found the fun in being having twin five year olds being down by 9 that Jennifer and I can have a few hours of peace and drink beer and other such delicacies. I looked at the rum shelf at the store and they didn’t even have anything good enough to get me to jump in the pool. I admit to having very snobby rum taste, but it made me feel old.
I had to drive twenty miles through a winter storm to get back home, so alcohol was not on my menu tonight. Made it, although the roads were unplowed and the visibility sucked. Only about four inches of snow so far, should have ten by the time it stops.
2008 is coming in with a gentle bang.
14.
merlallen
I work graveyard and when I got off work at 7am, I drank 3 beers and went to sleep. I got old and lame a long time ago.
15.
Xenos
Eleven-year old daughter was sick at 9:00, then I fell asleep reading to the little ones at 10:30. Grand total: one Amstel Light.
In my parents day, everybody had enough time and energy to get drunk on New Year’s Eve. The moral fiber of the nation has seriously been degraded, and I am proof of that.
16.
Tony J
A few beers, some nibbles, and bed before dawn. Officially my most sensible and lame-ass New Year of the last 35.
Here’s hoping that 2008 is when the lights start coming back on across America.
17.
kate r
are you kidding? those things have CAFFEINE in ’em. You indulged in drugs all right.
Wow. This thread makes me feel less lame. I had a couple of beers and some pizza and fell asleep on the couch trying to stay up to watch the ball drop at midnight. I didn’t make it.
On the upside, it’s good to wake up without a hangover.
Actually, you were doing fine with the iced mocha. You became lame when you wandered away from your New Year’s festivities at 8 minutes after midnight to write in your blog.
Shared a nice bottle of rosé with dinner, and had a couple of beers afterward. Not particularly exciting, but also no hangover, and considering how much harder they are to get over these days, that’s pretty awesome.
Ah, I was watching the Law & Order medley on TNT. I was in the second or third one in a row where the damned feds were messing up the prosecution by holding back the money with the blood on it or were blocking the testimony of some witness to flip somebody, or something, and Waterston looked like he was going to have a coronary, so I went to bed. Girlfriend was already asleep. I think my head hit the pillow around ten p.m. local time. Guess what? It’s still 2008.
The most exciting thing to happen yesterday was Kirby, our old Akita, fell into the pool when he got up early in the morning.
Im happy to announce that I’ve reached an agreement with my writer, and will be displaying all new material for the new year.
It’s hard for a disposable persona such as myself to get packet time when my creator has had to cross a picket line every day.
Thanks to all who have stuck with me through this difficult time.
Happy Virtual New Year.
26.
LiberalTarian
HAPPY NEW YEAR.
Yeah, I didn’t even try to act like I cared about NYE. My son is old enough to buy beer this year, so he got us some Becks, drank 3 and in bed by 9. Yay. Up today finishing up the New Year’s sweep out–last weekend everything came out of hiding so I could pitch a bunch of it out, but so far everything is still out on all available flat surfaces. And, yesterday, I was walking by the dumpster and salvaged a late 50’s era Dressmaker sewing machine with cabinet. It works, but seems like the belt is too tight or something so that the machine stitches with effort and slow.
Anybody know a good sewing machine tinker site on the web? I looked a little yesterday, but mostly found people wanting to sell antique machines. Bah. Why sell a perfectly good machine??? The machines now are all plastic and fragile. Fancy stitches don’t make good seams.
Oh yeah, back to thread … HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
P.S. myiq2xu–if you know someone with a kiln Arrogant Bastard Ale bottles can be slumped for trays since their logo is screened on. They have some really big bottles to make bigger plates of.
Lol. HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
27.
Neal
Happy New Year all. I feel like a crazy young’un after reading all of this. We had a few friends and our neighbors that share the building with us get together here at home. A whole lot of Yuengling and Stella Artois for me this year. Fun times. I was out around 4 am.
28.
Tsulagi
Stiffest drink I had was an iced mocha.
Maybe knocked back some Hola Fruta too?
Dude, step away from the crockpot. You need an intervention by your old Army buddies or others.
Don’t party near as hard as in my pre-daddy days, but at least the wife and I went out to a party. Some drinks, some dancing, watching the old game playing, making bets on who was going to be making breakfast for whom the next morning. Good therapy. Should be covered by a medical plan.
Now that you’re a Democrat, get in the spirit. Make some stern resolutions. But unlike them, realize a resolution isn’t going to get you laid.
Happy New Year to all!
29.
Darkness
Stiffest drink I had was an iced mocha.
You must admit, Jan 1 looks much brighter after such a night. MUCH brigher.
Around here, we all sat around in geezerland saying, dang, it must already be midnight SOMEWHERE can’t we go to sleep already?
30.
Sinister eyebrow
Dropped a big wad of cash on a fancy pants dinner with much fancy (and some fizzy) wine, drank in a bar until 2 or 3 (gets a little vague at that point) and now my wife is so hung over she still can’t get out of bed. Plus, I’ve got to get Pukey Magee functional so that we can drive back to where we had dinner to retrieve the car we left there last night.
I would have been better off with the iced mocha instead. Richer, too. Don’t knock being lame, it has its rewards.
31.
Delia
Hah! I’m the lamest of all. Can’t drink at all anymore due to chronic migraines that will appear promptly at the consumption of any alcoholic beverage. Spent the evening with my brother’s family in Phoenix. Played Clue for a couple of hours. Looked out his telescope in the backyard around 11:00 to see Mars & Saturn, which was very cool. Then my sister-in-;aw and I retreated to the den to watch dvds of Farscape until the magic hour while everyone else continued to play Clue.
Hope 2008 is better than 2007, but I’m not optimistic.
32.
rawshark
Stiffest drink I had was an iced mocha.
Still might get you arrested for DUI in phoenix. The state is run by M.A.D.D. during holiday season. I don’t even bother to make plans for New Years since I moved here.
33.
Cain
Happy New Year! 2007 sucked looking forward to 2008 although not to all the political crap we are going to be exposed to.
I spent mine at home with my wife we had some champagne at midnight and then sat and watched “Fracture” which turned out to be pretty decent. Went to bed, read a book, and slept. Wasn’t too bad. I find that as I get older it takes me longer to recover from drinking and I just didn’t feel like being miserable. :-)
cain
34.
rawshark
I watched Babel last night. It was definately the most boring interesting movie I’ve ever watched.
35.
Andrew
I drank enough to make up for all of you teetotalers.
36.
taoless
fuck amateur night.
i’ve tended bar for a living for most of my post-collegiate life, and i managed to get last night off, thanks to being the top guy on the totem pole and having the presence of mind to ask first.
so i got to stay home and watch movies and order in thai food, and it was awesome. the furthest out i got was pausing the simpsons movie to step outside my front door at midnight to hear everyone yelling and setting off fireworks for five minutes.
nights like new year’s (or st. patty’s or cinco de mayo) are the worst nights of all to work. everyone who’s not industry thinks that those must be the best nights of the year, because you know you’re going to be busy and therefore the money will be good. but the compact between bartender and customer is at its weakest on those nights, when the full press of humanity ramps things up to a fever pitch and the regulars and the people you like get lost in the beast’s belly. sure, there’s an endless stream of people wanting drinks, but they’re drunker than usual and they tend to tip way less, both because they’re spending more on booze and because the general atmosphere of debauchery weakens the conscience. or maybe it’s just because most people kind of suck and there’s way more of them out on new year’s than almost any other night.
at any rate, i’ve worked many a new year’s, and i almost always get mad at the end of the night when i count my money and compare it to the bullshit i had to deal with.
the notion of going out voluntarily into that mess is, to say the least, counterintuitive.
so cheers to you, john, and everyone else smart enough to stay at home last night. i’d raise a glass of whiskey, but i’ve been drunk for three weeks and it’s time to dry out.
My 53 year old wife decided last night to party like the kids do it, and ended up drunker than I’ve ever seen her in 25+ years, a victim of a toxic mix of champagne and various hard liquors. At one point I thought I sawing her eyeing a bottle of apple schnapps.
As of 6:30 PM CST, she’s still in bed, and making that famous pledge: “Never again……”
Happy New Year to all Balloon Juicers; 2008 may be a Savage and Unnatural year.
38.
Breschau
Just out of curiousity, what is the ratio of balloon-juicers who are wishing that 2008 is better then 2007? 100% 98%
Count me solidily in the majority. You don’t even want to KNOW the shit I went through this year. Let’s just hit key words: new house, lawsuits, bankruptcy, laid off, epilepsy, autism.
Then again I was talking with a co-worker who has an even darker sense of humore who said this can only be good PR for us because when ya think about it, we made Afghanistan safe enough for refugees to flee TO instead of from.
Carnacki
Not as lame as my New Year’s http://www.hauntedvampire.com/?p=2807. I was going to drink some of the Crown Royal Special Reserve I got for Christmas, but my old, degenerating joints got aching and my meds and alcohol shouldn’t be mixed unless I want a psychedelic experience. On the other hand, I am rather stoned on my prescription muscle relaxants and pain pills. Mmmm. Drugs. Ms. Carnacki is reading to the last child standing (the other two collapsed almost immediately after the ball dropped — we weren’t able to pull the “set the clock ahead and make them think 10 p.m. is midnight” trick this year)…where was I? Oh yes, happy new year, my fellow Wild and Wonderful denizen. Thank goodness 2007 is over.
Pete Guither
Decaf?
KC
Ah, got home from work, worked out, ate, and am now cracking my second Pete’s Wicked Ale. It’s not my favorite brew, but I hadn’t had it in a long time, and thought it would be nice to have something lively for New Years. Happy New Year!
myiq2xu
We been knowing that!
You should try Arrogant Bastard Ale. I’m pretty sure it was named after me.
I bought a 12 pk of Fosters Lager and made it thru 4 bottles before the lights went out. I live in Big Smoggy so it’s still 2 hours and 15 minutes until 2008.
Fosters – Australian for “Whass the problem ossifer?
Jake
My New Year’s: + baby drool, – booze.
But I still only placed second in the Old & Lame Sweepstakes because my sister kept falling asleep on the couch. Should have had a shot of her Nyquil.
Breschau
I have an excuse – I came down with the flu today.
However, I had been invited to what I knew was going to be a pretty good party at my sister’s house, and even before I got sick, I was pretty sure I didn’t feel like going. So, I guess I’m joining the Lameness Squad this year too.
Redleg
I had a dram of Laphroaig and a dram of Ledaig and that’s about it.
Pb
Happy New Year, John Cole plus zero! I had a beer, woo, take that! heh. :)
Surabaya Stew
Being old and lame is official when one is reading (and commenting) on Balloon Juice at 2:52 am on New Year’s Day… Happy New Year anyways!
Surabaya Stew
Being old and lame is official when one is reading (and commenting) on Balloon Juice at 2:53 am on New Year’s Day… Happy New Year anyways!
The Grandest Panjandrum
Jesus Babbling Christ! Another year got away and I haven’t gotten around to making any resolutions. Its about damn time we all get with the program and made some resolutions that we can keep. Here is my list of recommendations for 2008. (I plan to make good on all of them.)
* Get drunk more regularly.
* Eat more pizza.
* Gain 17 pounds. (Natural follow on for the last two, eh?)
* Drive faster.
* Swear a lot fucking more than I do now.
* Lose more money betting on sports
See what I mean? Any pansy can spout platitudes and make empty promises about cleaning up the old lifestyle but it takes real courage and conviction to make resolutions you know you have a real shot at keeping.
Happy Fucking New Year! Now its back to the tequila and brown acid.
ArchPundit
Given I’m in CST, I’m still beating the previous poster, but I’ve found the fun in being having twin five year olds being down by 9 that Jennifer and I can have a few hours of peace and drink beer and other such delicacies. I looked at the rum shelf at the store and they didn’t even have anything good enough to get me to jump in the pool. I admit to having very snobby rum taste, but it made me feel old.
And Bill Hemmer is the biggest tool ever.
dr. luba
You had ice in your coffee? Lucky you….
I had to drive twenty miles through a winter storm to get back home, so alcohol was not on my menu tonight. Made it, although the roads were unplowed and the visibility sucked. Only about four inches of snow so far, should have ten by the time it stops.
2008 is coming in with a gentle bang.
merlallen
I work graveyard and when I got off work at 7am, I drank 3 beers and went to sleep. I got old and lame a long time ago.
Xenos
Eleven-year old daughter was sick at 9:00, then I fell asleep reading to the little ones at 10:30. Grand total: one Amstel Light.
In my parents day, everybody had enough time and energy to get drunk on New Year’s Eve. The moral fiber of the nation has seriously been degraded, and I am proof of that.
Tony J
A few beers, some nibbles, and bed before dawn. Officially my most sensible and lame-ass New Year of the last 35.
Here’s hoping that 2008 is when the lights start coming back on across America.
kate r
are you kidding? those things have CAFFEINE in ’em. You indulged in drugs all right.
Libby Spencer
Wow. This thread makes me feel less lame. I had a couple of beers and some pizza and fell asleep on the couch trying to stay up to watch the ball drop at midnight. I didn’t make it.
On the upside, it’s good to wake up without a hangover.
Happy New Years everybody.
Jil In Pattaya
Actually, you were doing fine with the iced mocha. You became lame when you wandered away from your New Year’s festivities at 8 minutes after midnight to write in your blog.
Better luck next year!
Incertus (Brian)
Shared a nice bottle of rosé with dinner, and had a couple of beers afterward. Not particularly exciting, but also no hangover, and considering how much harder they are to get over these days, that’s pretty awesome.
Bob In Pacifica
Ah, I was watching the Law & Order medley on TNT. I was in the second or third one in a row where the damned feds were messing up the prosecution by holding back the money with the blood on it or were blocking the testimony of some witness to flip somebody, or something, and Waterston looked like he was going to have a coronary, so I went to bed. Girlfriend was already asleep. I think my head hit the pillow around ten p.m. local time. Guess what? It’s still 2008.
The most exciting thing to happen yesterday was Kirby, our old Akita, fell into the pool when he got up early in the morning.
zzyzx
NYE only works for me when Phish are playing. I did stay awake until midnight…
…eastern time…
myiq2xu
I hate when I doze off during one episode and wake up during another. It gets me confoosed, ‘specially if I bin drinkin’
libarbarian
Nice. Saw them on NYE, Madison Square, ’98. Free tickets too :).
ThymeZone
Im happy to announce that I’ve reached an agreement with my writer, and will be displaying all new material for the new year.
It’s hard for a disposable persona such as myself to get packet time when my creator has had to cross a picket line every day.
Thanks to all who have stuck with me through this difficult time.
Happy Virtual New Year.
LiberalTarian
HAPPY NEW YEAR.
Yeah, I didn’t even try to act like I cared about NYE. My son is old enough to buy beer this year, so he got us some Becks, drank 3 and in bed by 9. Yay. Up today finishing up the New Year’s sweep out–last weekend everything came out of hiding so I could pitch a bunch of it out, but so far everything is still out on all available flat surfaces. And, yesterday, I was walking by the dumpster and salvaged a late 50’s era Dressmaker sewing machine with cabinet. It works, but seems like the belt is too tight or something so that the machine stitches with effort and slow.
Anybody know a good sewing machine tinker site on the web? I looked a little yesterday, but mostly found people wanting to sell antique machines. Bah. Why sell a perfectly good machine??? The machines now are all plastic and fragile. Fancy stitches don’t make good seams.
Oh yeah, back to thread … HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
P.S. myiq2xu–if you know someone with a kiln Arrogant Bastard Ale bottles can be slumped for trays since their logo is screened on. They have some really big bottles to make bigger plates of.
Lol. HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
Neal
Happy New Year all. I feel like a crazy young’un after reading all of this. We had a few friends and our neighbors that share the building with us get together here at home. A whole lot of Yuengling and Stella Artois for me this year. Fun times. I was out around 4 am.
Tsulagi
Maybe knocked back some Hola Fruta too?
Dude, step away from the crockpot. You need an intervention by your old Army buddies or others.
Don’t party near as hard as in my pre-daddy days, but at least the wife and I went out to a party. Some drinks, some dancing, watching the old game playing, making bets on who was going to be making breakfast for whom the next morning. Good therapy. Should be covered by a medical plan.
Now that you’re a Democrat, get in the spirit. Make some stern resolutions. But unlike them, realize a resolution isn’t going to get you laid.
Happy New Year to all!
Darkness
You must admit, Jan 1 looks much brighter after such a night. MUCH brigher.
Around here, we all sat around in geezerland saying, dang, it must already be midnight SOMEWHERE can’t we go to sleep already?
Sinister eyebrow
Dropped a big wad of cash on a fancy pants dinner with much fancy (and some fizzy) wine, drank in a bar until 2 or 3 (gets a little vague at that point) and now my wife is so hung over she still can’t get out of bed. Plus, I’ve got to get Pukey Magee functional so that we can drive back to where we had dinner to retrieve the car we left there last night.
I would have been better off with the iced mocha instead. Richer, too. Don’t knock being lame, it has its rewards.
Delia
Hah! I’m the lamest of all. Can’t drink at all anymore due to chronic migraines that will appear promptly at the consumption of any alcoholic beverage. Spent the evening with my brother’s family in Phoenix. Played Clue for a couple of hours. Looked out his telescope in the backyard around 11:00 to see Mars & Saturn, which was very cool. Then my sister-in-;aw and I retreated to the den to watch dvds of Farscape until the magic hour while everyone else continued to play Clue.
Hope 2008 is better than 2007, but I’m not optimistic.
rawshark
Still might get you arrested for DUI in phoenix. The state is run by M.A.D.D. during holiday season. I don’t even bother to make plans for New Years since I moved here.
Cain
Happy New Year! 2007 sucked looking forward to 2008 although not to all the political crap we are going to be exposed to.
I spent mine at home with my wife we had some champagne at midnight and then sat and watched “Fracture” which turned out to be pretty decent. Went to bed, read a book, and slept. Wasn’t too bad. I find that as I get older it takes me longer to recover from drinking and I just didn’t feel like being miserable. :-)
cain
rawshark
I watched Babel last night. It was definately the most boring interesting movie I’ve ever watched.
Andrew
I drank enough to make up for all of you teetotalers.
taoless
fuck amateur night.
i’ve tended bar for a living for most of my post-collegiate life, and i managed to get last night off, thanks to being the top guy on the totem pole and having the presence of mind to ask first.
so i got to stay home and watch movies and order in thai food, and it was awesome. the furthest out i got was pausing the simpsons movie to step outside my front door at midnight to hear everyone yelling and setting off fireworks for five minutes.
nights like new year’s (or st. patty’s or cinco de mayo) are the worst nights of all to work. everyone who’s not industry thinks that those must be the best nights of the year, because you know you’re going to be busy and therefore the money will be good. but the compact between bartender and customer is at its weakest on those nights, when the full press of humanity ramps things up to a fever pitch and the regulars and the people you like get lost in the beast’s belly. sure, there’s an endless stream of people wanting drinks, but they’re drunker than usual and they tend to tip way less, both because they’re spending more on booze and because the general atmosphere of debauchery weakens the conscience. or maybe it’s just because most people kind of suck and there’s way more of them out on new year’s than almost any other night.
at any rate, i’ve worked many a new year’s, and i almost always get mad at the end of the night when i count my money and compare it to the bullshit i had to deal with.
the notion of going out voluntarily into that mess is, to say the least, counterintuitive.
so cheers to you, john, and everyone else smart enough to stay at home last night. i’d raise a glass of whiskey, but i’ve been drunk for three weeks and it’s time to dry out.
montysano
My 53 year old wife decided last night to party like the kids do it, and ended up drunker than I’ve ever seen her in 25+ years, a victim of a toxic mix of champagne and various hard liquors. At one point I thought I sawing her eyeing a bottle of apple schnapps.
As of 6:30 PM CST, she’s still in bed, and making that famous pledge: “Never again……”
Happy New Year to all Balloon Juicers; 2008 may be a Savage and Unnatural year.
Breschau
Just out of curiousity, what is the ratio of balloon-juicers who are wishing that 2008 is better then 2007? 100% 98%
Count me solidily in the majority. You don’t even want to KNOW the shit I went through this year. Let’s just hit key words: new house, lawsuits, bankruptcy, laid off, epilepsy, autism.
Next.
Dreggas
Kucinich Supporters are being asked by Kucinich to support Obama in Iowa but Obama is republican lite, I forgot….
Dreggas
am I the only one to find this amusing?
Then again I was talking with a co-worker who has an even darker sense of humore who said this can only be good PR for us because when ya think about it, we made Afghanistan safe enough for refugees to flee TO instead of from.
Jimmm
Stepped into the WABAC machine, set for 1987: Had a hit of ecstasy, a surprise provided by a life-long friend.
On the plus side, I touched nary a drop of alcohol.