What Are You Doing On New Year's Eve?

They're awfully small compared to our old fashioned steel milk cans. The latter already looks a bit like a cannon, it's pretty much made for carbide shooting. We occasionally did try other stuff to shoot with as well, all kinds of closed containers/boxes with one loose side but it really makes sense to go for the steel milk chums. I recall a very big object that had the carbide in it building up pressure for more than an hour and when we finally hold the flame towards it it gave no bigger boom than a wet fart and there came unbelievable amounts of black smoke out of it. It was so much smoke it was nice and impressive just for a change, but yeah it was not what we were going for at all.

 

Hello,

rotfl, that needed more oxygen . That reminded me of the experiments with water electrolysis. That machinery exploded countless times under my hands. Somehow I managed to survive with both eyes and all 12 fingers .

Regards
Gyro

 

Wasn't planning on doing anything, then today a friend invited me to her house party.. not sure if i'll go though.

 

My wife and I will be watching a movie and a few drinks at home. Probably going to bed before midnight.

 

Partying My Fucking Ass Off What The Fuck is Wrong with You Fucking Pussies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ep-xgd_eETE&feature=youtu.be

 

As if you'd want to party and bring in another year of taxes and work and stress and all that fun stuff. Like seriously, as if you'd celebrate that shit. Fuck. That. A whole other year of it. You're off your heads.

 

i will be doing nothing..same as every new years

maybe ill watch a movie if i find a good one but thats about it

 

Nah, Im getting shitfaced this year, been a while since I got shitfaced

 

Hey, just like a real monkey.

 

excitement and ostentation don't gratify what creating and exploring do.
so party for me, just isn't very interesting.
i love affection, but i wouldn't want to go someplace and drag down someone else's fun.
i have my own fun in my own ways.
mostly making things on the computer and making little physical things.
making strange houses and little trains, surrounded by nature,
i don't have the resourses to do that full size in real life,
so i do the next best thing that i can.
i want people to be able to be happy,
but i don't often find them that interesting to be around.
so i probably just won't be paying that much attention to that its that particular day when it goes by.
mostly its just one of those days when there aren't enough buses running to be worth trying to go anywhere.
that's what the holidays most people celebrate are to me.
its good that people working or in school get these days off.
now there are four days a year, every year, that are natural days for some kind of thing to go on.
natural because they're not about some historical person or event,
but an inhierent part of the way our little corner of the universe, our solar system, our planet and its sun, does what it does.
these are the solstices and equanoxes.
i don't see them as being the first days of their seasons, but rather as the henge in the middle of them.
for the year, first and last days could be just as easily one day as another.
autumnal and vernal equanoxis are just as good first days as any.
other cultures other times have used each.
i won't say winter solstice is completely bad of a choice, or our arbitrary day a week, one quarter of our moon's, visual cycle, later.
spring would be logical in a sense; begginning of the growth season.
but fall, would get winter out of the way first, so we could spend the whole rest of the year, looking mostly forward.

well that's the tl;dr version.
the short one is
pretty much the same thing i'd be doing any other time that was my own to do with, and why not.

i refuse to say doing nothing, simply because that's not physically possible.
but nothing specifically related to conventions of celebration,
yes, quite probably.

 

When I read or hear about someone doing nothing I don't actually contemplate the physics and mechanics of doing nothing, I think my mind had evolved past that point where I can interpret that into a simpler answer.

 

:d

 

i'd be happier if people said what they literally mean, instead of ambiuous inuendos that are short hand for not really thinking about what they're saying at all.

 

But I don't think they go into the whole depth of it either when they do say they're doing nothing. I guess it is a rather bland, obvious and lazy answer even if they are sitting at home and watching tv or playing games, but on the big scheme of things those activities aren't really high level so to them they're doing nothing. I think.

 

I can't decide if I want to go out or stay in. If I do go out it will only be to a bar owned by a friend of mine and mainly patronized by people I already know. I can't take the partying in a crowded club with strangers thing.

I think the force of Netflix and chill may be stronger than going out though

 

high level/low level? so people are embarassed to be honest is what it comes down to.
and why should they be? because someone told them they should.
if they mean sitting on their ass watching television, or getting boozed or high, why can't they just say what they mean?
i'm going to be not going physically anywhere.
when i can't do so annonymously on public transportation i usually don't.
so i will be sitting on my ass at home.
not imparing my judgement with television or substances,
but infront of the computer, or making little things,
same things i'd enjoy any other time,
or meditating or asleep.
how is sitting on my ass in front of a tv any harder to say then "nothing"?
perhaps they mean not planning any particular thing. nothing wrong with saying that either.

 

I'm gonna do nothing... Just to piss off Themnax

 

I could go to my son's in-laws' but I kind of have a feeling that I won't.

 

Had fun tonight.
Playing the day by ear and how I feel when I wake up.
Whatever I do will be fun.
Happy new year!

 

I am having a couple of quiet beers now as I want to be asleep tonight.