Defying all odds, Lily and I both made it to 2019, for which I am very grateful. I actually went to bed at 9pm, because I am super cool, and Devon woke me up for the stroke of midnight. I kissed my dog, hugged my sister, posted on the blog, and feel like all my duties have been fulfilled and I can go back to bed.
Happy 2019.
Brendan in NC
Happy New Year John and fellow Juicers!!!
Adam L Silverman
Sounds like a Baghdad wedding out there with all the fireworks going off.
Greg Ferguson
Happy New Year to you (and all of yours). See u 2morrow, u Glorious Basterd. ?
different-church-lady
Dear Mr. Cole: please make your New Year’s Resolution be to get off your own damn nut.
You’re great people. I want you to believe it and start acting like it.
Cal D
It was a very good day.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
Happy New Year Cole! And a Happy New Year to all you jackals! I truly love this place and everybody here!
Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et al.)
Here’s hoping this year ends up being somewhat better than last year…
Suburban Mom
Happy New Year, Juicers!
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et al.):
It should be. January is here. Nancy SMASH is gonna turn the screws on the Russian puppet in the White House
Gelfling 545
Happy New Year to you and to all jackals, wherever you may be. God bless us, every one.
Ben Cisco
New Year, new goals. Let’s get to it!
Pogonip
Happy 2019!
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Major Major Major Major
Happy new year everyone! People at this party started making exploratory jokes about the democratic primary after midnight.
different-church-lady
@Major Major Major Major: Too soon!
FelonyGovt
Happy New Year to all! Let’s hope it’s a great 2019 for us all.
mrmoshpotato
Happy New Year to all you Eastern time zoners and across the Atlantic. Seventeen minutes remaining in Chicago. Enjoying some Duck Soup on WGN here.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
It’s 60 degrees right now outside in Ohio. Too bad it’s raining.
Ole Phat Stu
1/1/19 06:45 hier. Has Trump lied yet this year?
mrmoshpotato
@Ole Phat Stu: Patience Stu, patience. Now if you want to be impatient about impeachment, have at it.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@Major Major Major Major:
Were there Bernistas there? Also, happy new year!
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
Happy New Year from Sydney – had a nice day on Manly Beach watching all the water rescues (I think they were up to something like 20 by 1 pm). Water is rough, they were out surfing.
Now onto happy hour….
?BillinGlendaleCA
Uh, still 2018 here. Damn east coast bias.
Gammyjill
@mrmoshpotato: I’m in Chicago, too. Just a few more minutes!
Happy New Year to you all and your pets. May 2019 be better than last.
delk
2019 in Chicago! Cups of kindness for all!
Another Scott
Happy New Year, everyone. 2019 is shaping up to be a very interesting one. Here’s hoping that it “bends toward justice” as the saying goes.
But, as Adam reminds us, “hope is not a strategy”, so we have to fight for the future we want, and fight those that block that future every single day.
365 days of struggle, one day at a time…
Cheers,
Scott.
rikyrah
Actually made it!?
Happy New Year to everyone at BJ??
You have provided a great spot, Cole.?
Now..off to bed.
oatler.
Only 11 here in AZ but I’m celebrating early with a “Paul Lynde Show” marathonon Antenna TV. Don’t envy me; live through me!
mrmoshpotato
@Gammyjill: A few people are using some leftovers from the 4th on the north side. How’re things by you?
eclare
Finally made it here in Memphis! Happy New Year to everyone!
different-church-lady
@oatler.:
Isn’t that painful for you? Especially if a lot of large people do it?
Gelfling 545
It’s 56 degrees here in Buffalo and pouring rain. I’m awake because the wind is gusting to 65 mph and the house feels ready to take off for Oz.
Drunkenhausfrau
Cheers to you all!
CaseyL
Happy 2019 to those in the easterly time zones! Still got a couple hours to go here in the West.
Duane
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??: Don’t let a little rain stop you. It’s a New Year dammit!
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Shush you! NYC and the east coast of the United States are all that matters //
Schlemazel
Just noted the time here on the frozen tundra
Happy New Year to you all
mrmoshpotato
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??: Pfft you east coast elites!
frosty
To all you Left Coast and Hawaiian Jackals, 2019 is a beautiful year! Just wait ’til you get to see it!!
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@Gelfling 545:
Same here. The news said the power might go out overnight due to the high winds.
@Duane:
I’m not! Should I Dance in the Rain : p?
Beatrice
Happy New Year! My Balloon Juice calendar arrived today, perfect timing. January is almost all tuxies. Ditto approves.
Emma
Happy New Year, all! Dad and I drank our prosecco ( champagne gives me headaches), ate our grapes, and sat in our front patio, watching our neighbours shoot thousands of beautiful, glittering dollars into the sky. No guns, though. Safe neighborhood. Lovely end to a miserable year.
Yutsano
Well the upstairs elephants are having a party, so I might as well stay up for the event. Happy Nw Year fellow jackals! May 12019 be better than 2018b was.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@Yutsano:
Reference or typo? ‘Cause May 12019 is kinda super far away. 2018b sounds like a section of a tax form.
Yarrow
Happy New Year, everyone! People are setting off fireworks so close to me that some part of one of them hit my neighbor’s house with a thud. Those neighbors came out to see what that was all about. A little further away it sounds like a city’s fireworks show. Went on for about twenty minutes. There is no fireworks show in that direction so no one can figure out what in the world is going on. A lot of the neighbors came out to see what was going on because it was so damn loud.
Fair Economist
Gonna miss the left coast ball drop to go to the Rose Parade tomorrow morning. Night all, wish me luck (with parking and transit).
Mary G
Still only 10:30 here, but then I have high hopes for the New Year. Saw someone on Twitter saying 22 Republicans in Congress will be indicted this year; I don’t believe it, but wouldn’t that be lovely?t
Thanks to all you jackals and John for making this such a great hangout.
Suzanne
We still have half an hour until midnight, but HAPPY NEW YEAR to all of the jackals! I am at home in my PJs with my dog, cuddling her when my neighbors set off fireworks. And I used my new Drillbrush to scrub my kitchen sink. Absolutely the best New Year.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@Yarrow:
Alien invasion obs, just like the light show a few days ago in NYC. That transformer was just a government cover up. THEY don’t want you to know the truth. You should probably begin kissing your butt goodbye
Yarrow
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??: Nah, just regular old fireworks, but damn they went on a long time. And were LOUD. Since it’s illegal I kind of figured the cops would shut them down. Didn’t happen.
I will say that in the middle of the fog and smoke a panel van with dark windows and no signage on the side drove by. That was kind of creepy.
Yarrow
@Suzanne:
That’s a serious sign you’re an adult.
Suzanne
@Yarrow: DOOD that Drillbrush is THE SHIT.
I’m too old to party on NYE. And I don’t really like people that much.
Yarrow
@Suzanne: I’m too old to party on NYE too, but I did make a nice dinner and had a small glass of champagne. i almost never drink so it didn’t take much to make me a bit loopy.
I watched some of Andy Cohen and Anderson Cooper. They completely crack me up. I can’t figure out why but they do. I guess they tour around the country doing shows together.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@Yarrow:
I doubt anybody could launch fireworks safely with the howling and gusting winds where I live. It never ceases to amaze me how loud those displays can be even from a few miles away. Nearly every locality near me has a fireworks show for Independence Day on different nights. It gets super loud and scares my poor cat, Bilbo.
Suzanne
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??: We are having some nutty rain. Parts of the Phoenix valley are advised to put chains on the tires. HELL NO.
RedDirtGirl
Happy New Year to the jackaltariat! Spent the last three days at a music and dance camp in upstate NY. At midnight they lowered a big excercise ball from the ceiling draped in fairy lights! 2019 is off to a good start!
hedgehog mobile
Happy New Year, dear Jackals! Glad to be among you.
Gammyjill
@mrmoshpotato: Quiet in Highland Park. Even on the 4th, it’s quiet.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@Suzanne:
Wintry mix? Ugh. That’s the worst. In November or December, freezing rain fell one day and then we got several inches of snow on top of that. The result: lots of fallen branches, shattered trees, and power outages. Thankfully, I wasn’t one of the 2000 affected households.
Gammyjill
@Beatrice: Usually I send in my cats’ picture. Robin Obama is a huge, gorgeous male tuxie. Forgot to send the pictures of him and small sister, Alice Obama, a full tabby. Oh well…
Redshift
Happy New Year, all! Just got home from our friends’ party, which was quite pleasant. Since it was a proper geeky gathering, as soon as the ball drop was done we switched over to NASA TV to watch the New Horizons – Ultima Thule coverage. (Which was more of a “be a part of it” event than actual news; as far as we know the probe flew by then, but the signal confirming it won’t reach us for six hours.)
scott alloway
Happy New Year, juicers,
Suzanne
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??: Yeah, on the very rare occasions that the high parts of the Phoenix area get snow, it doesn’t stick, and instead they just have weird icy patches and sludgy mud. This is the first time that I’ve seen ADOT recommend tire chains down here, though. I don’t own any…..I just rent a four-wheel drive if I need to do snow driving.
Mrs. D. Ranged in AZ
Happy New Year!!!! It’s cold and rainy here–for once. And I’m loving it. Best wishes to you all.
spudgun
Still 2018 here on the left coast for another 25 minutes…longest 25 min of my life!
I already said this in the previous post’s comments, but I’ll just repeat, since it makes more sense here: Happy New Year, everyone (both folks and critters!)! ??
Yutsano
10 minutes out.
Settling into bed.
Pretty quiet right now.
Pretty sure that will change.
Have a great 2019 folks!
CaseyL
All right! Midnight on the West Coast; it is officially 2019 here.
Happy New Year, fellow jackals!
Amir Khalid
There’s a curious Silvester (New Year’s Eve) tradition in Germany: the airing of this 1962 English-language comedy sketch, whose punchline has become part of the German language. Interestingly, Auntie Beeb tells us, this sketch was first broadcast in Britain just last night.
scav
yup! Calendar odometer just rolled over.
Huzzah all!
James E Powell
Happy New Year! Finished Bird Box just before midnight and now it’s time to drink a glass of wine and go to bed.
Looking forward to a day of college football.
?BillinGlendaleCA
Happy New Year to the jackals where the hour has past 12am and to those where it soon will.
opiejeanne
@Adam L Silverman: But do you have canons? We have canons.. My semi-rural neighbors are nuts and have more money than brains. Our kitties are terrified.
Mike J
@James E Powell: I was debating watching Bird Box or Black Panther. Went with Black Panther. Was I supposed to know who that Bucky guy at the end was?
Debbie(Aussie)
I’ll just repeat myself from previous thread, Happy New Year, to all jackals everywhere. Guessing our Hawaiian friends are the only ones left in 2018. Thank you all for being such wonderful people. You are my friends, I care about you all. Hoping this year will be better politically, (we have an election) and that trump is no longer in power by this time next year.
Seanly
Happy New Year!
trollhattan
Mazel tov and off to bed. Happy and prosperous new year everybody!
Mnemosyne
@oatler.:
Oh, my husband would have watched the HELL out of that if we had Antenna TV. We ended up watching all of the That’s Entertainment movies instead, and about half of That’s Dancing!, which is non-MGM musicals, many of which are actually better than MGM’s. Then we had to give up and go to bed.
Happy 2019, jackals!
Amir Khalid
@opiejeanne:
I’m a human. If my neighbours had access to cannons but not common sense, I’d be terrified too.
Emma
@Mike J: Oh yes. Definitely. But you will need to go back and watch the Captain America movies.
Auntie
May you have a happy and healthy 2019, John! And the same to all Juicers!
Comrade Colette Collaboratrice
Happy new year to jackals and their animal companions. There was less of a cannonade than usual here this evening – maybe the high winds and chill kept people inside. We interrupted our charades, champagne, and chocolate to observe a tradition the teenagers in our group insisted on: watching the scene from The Office where Kevin drops the chili, timed perfectly so that the beans hit the floor exactly at the stroke of midnight. I did not understand this peculiar custom, and they subsequently all refused to get off my lawn.
artem1s
@Fair Economist: I always wanted to see the Rose Parade. Hope you get a good viewing spot! Wave to TBDBITL (the Best Damn Band In The Land). Ohio State puts on a good show!
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Comrade Colette Collaboratrice:
I noticed this here as well.
Robert Sneddon
@Yarrow: My New Years Party fireworks were up close — I was working in Princes Street Gardens in Edinburgh, under the castle which was the launchpad for about 8 minutes of serious shockwaves and pretty colours when 00:00 hit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlVQ_L7fOLk
randy khan
Happy New Year to jackals near and far!
Steeplejack
@Amir Khalid:
Thanks for that. Very interesting.
Miss Bianca
Hullo, 2019! Hullo, Juicers!
Well, it’s a balmy -8 degrees up here at the Mountain Hacienda, we’ll probably crank the upstairs wood stove early today.
I remember my (semi) professional musician days, where New Years Eve was always a Big Night Out. Last night, went to bed at about 9:45, woke up just long enough just after midnight to mumble “Happy New Year” to the universe, and passed out again till dawn.
But I have coffee and mince tarts for breakfast, so the New Year is off to a grand (if quiet) start!
J R in WV
@Suzanne:
“I just rent a four-wheel drive if I need to do snow driving.”
Safety tip: 4×4 helps a little on snow, but is useless on ice unless you have high quality snow tires or chains. Studded snow tires work well on ice, but don’t wear well. We’ve had good luck with good snow tires, Bilzzak or a Finnish brand, I forget their name, it’s long and, well, Finnishly complex, but good snow tires.
Happy New Year, may we all have a better 2019 than we had 2018!!!
Medicine Man
Stay safe, Mr. Cole.
Here’s to 2019 being better than its predecessor.