Auld Lang Syne

 

Today is the last day of 2024, and

  • First Nights
  • Hogmanay
  • Leap Second Time Adjustment Day
  • Make Up Your Mind Day
  • National Champagne Day
  • New Year's Eve
  • New Year's Eve Banished Words List
  • Ney Year's Dishonor List 
  • No Interruptions Day
  • One Voice Day
  • Universal Hour of Peace Day
  • Unlucky Day
  • World Healing Day
  • World Peace Meditation Day
  • the 6th and penultimate day of Kwanzaa - celebrating Kuumba / Creativity
  • the 7th night of Chanukah - Kislev 30
  • the 7th day of the Twelve Days of Christmas - traditionally a day for playing games and sports, or seven swans a-swimming if you prefer

Quote of the day:
"An optimist stays up to see the New Year in. A pessimist waits to make sure the old one leaves."
 ~ Bill Vaughan - American columnist and author 


Three pieces of news for today:

For the first time in 15 years, PBS is working a full day on New Year's Eve instead of closing at 2PM.  We base our closing on Lafayette FCU's hours as they provide our HR, and they are working a full day, so we are too.  

My cleaning lady decided that she was working today and showed up unexpectedly, bearing chai and breakfast from Starbucks.  I thought she would come next week, and greeted her with delight.  How nice that my place will be clean for the new year!

And I just found out that I have a permanent garage spot!  Someone else will be subletting the existing spot I have been using and I moved to my new spot.  

Usually I spend my New Year's Eve in front of my computer and in world, dancing and celebrating the new year as it comes in over the different time zones, and singing Auld Lang Syne many times.  This year the management company where I moved is hosting a party in the community room downstairs, and I plan to be there when it starts at 9 PM with a platter of cookies to share and my ice wine to drink, so we'll see how that goes.  After all, I can always come back upstairs and log in if I feel too much like a fifth wheel, neh?

However you chose to bring 2024 to a close, I wish you well, and continue to hope that 2025 will be kind to us all.


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