I won’t make it to the OS party Saturday tonight. If the doomsayers are correct it could be the last New Year’s Eve blast ever. End of Times predictions and all that. Not worried about it myself but just in case, we went to a big party last night with live music and good times for dozens of friends and celebrators. By this time in our life, unfettered revelry doesn’t happen more than once in a weekend. So we started early Thursday night.

   This 12/31 is going to be a get cozy, light a fire and stay inside night. One of us will wake the other before the clock strikes twelve, so we can go outside and see illegal fireworks going off at the park north of here and listen to neighbors clanging pots and pans. It’s been a quiet neighborhood for the most part for decades. One set of especially regular type neighbors, who have since moved away, did come over one year around 1 a.m. dripping wet from their hot tub, wearing hand towels. They had locked themselves out of their own house. They were not hand towel sized people. I felt a little nervous myself in that situation. I left the lamp off so we would still be able to speak to each other after that. Then we chatted in the dark and waited until their children drove across town to rescue them and apologize for their parent’s behavior. The new neighbors have never used the hot tub so we’re expecting it to be low-key around here. But…you never know.

   January 1^st is also the day I first came here with a comment or post, so this marks three years ending and a fourth starting. No predictions. Just wishes for the best for all.

Hang on. I think 2012 is going to be a wild ride.

Hey …Wait a minute……that is a prediction. We’ll just have to see how it goes.