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Watch the the London Eye fireworks display...from the comfort of my sofa with a warm beverage. Then respond to a sudden flurry of New Year messages/calls, and then hit the sack
 
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I don't have any. I'll watch what ever football game is on, then go to bed before midnight.

I'm not a big New Years person, I never got the fascination with this holiday,so much so, I don't go out of my way to stay up.

Same, I couldn't really care less about NYE, in fact I generally dread it. When I lived in Japan I used to always go out in Osaka which was fun but not fun, since waiting 30 minutes to get drinks at the bar is somewhat self defeating when you wait thirty minutes for two drinks and drink them in 10 minutes and then spend the next 30 waiting for two more. Guess it isn't really any different here in the US either though. Then again, who wants to start the new year with a hangover? Not me.

The last few years my wife and I have usually gone out to dinner followed by ice skating at an old converted romantic train station here in downtown, but I work down the street from it and I am working tomorrow, which I usually don't NYE. So I am not really interested in driving 23 miles home after work just to come right back up here, nor am I really interested in hanging around downtown from 8 AM until after midnight and trying to fill time after work.

As of right now, we have no plans but I should probably come up with a dinner plan at least.
 
Having worked overseas for most of my adult life, I have developed a lot of friends from many countries. My NYE is spent answering emails, texts and telephone calls and sending them also.
 
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Having worked overseas for most of my adult life, I have developed a lot of friends from many countries. My NYE is spent answering emails, texts and telephone calls and sending them also.

Ah, yes. I can relate to this; the vast majority of the people I am in touch with are people I have worked with, abroad.

However, I don't tend to send - or receive - such emails on New year's Eve; but they do arrive - sometimes in bulk, at other times of the year.
 
I did my 14 miles run today, will do an easy 5-mile run tomorrow on NYE. Those are excellent shows and a good way to spend NYE.
I agree they are great shows. It is nice to be able to load up one's favorite shows in the Blu-ray / DVD player, and not have to worry about commercials or thumbing through the mindless drivel that is reality t.v.

As to the running, you are farther along than I am. I just started running again, after having to take a month off for IT band pain. Fingers-crossed it won't flare up again. I have a half-marathon race in May that I need to get ready for.
 
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I have a training run planned for the am, and then I will stay home watching "The King of Queens," "Seinfeld," and "NYPD Blue" episodes.

You have given me an idea. Circumstances have decreed that I stay home tomorrow night, keeping an eye on my mother, who has dementia.

However, last year? - early this year? - sometime early in the calendar year of 2015, I was given a DVD of 'Grand Hotel Budapest'. As it happened, I used to teach the history of central/eastern Europe, and love the mad mix of bitter sweet irony and melancholic tragedy of that region. I haven't watched it yet, but tomorrow night might just offer a suitable opportunity to do so.


I did my 14 miles run today, will do an easy 5-mile run tomorrow on NYE. Those are excellent shows and a good way to spend NYE.

Ah, yes. Well, there was never a time in my ice when I could have run 14 miles, but yes, in my teens, twenties and thirties, cycling 14 miles, and indeed, double and triple that, was something I used to do regularly enough.

Enjoy your run and whatever you choose to do on New Year's Eve.

However, a longtime tradition of mine on New Year's Day was to watch the New Year's Concert from Vienna with my father, who loved it.
 
What I do every other night of the year pretty much, hang out on MR.
Never really been that big on New Years.
The worst one was 2000. I was so ill, with such a bad head and flu, that I really didn't want the fireworks to go on for so long! Twice as long as normal.

Ah, yes, all the hype about 2000.

Well, in December 1999, and for much of January - including New Year's Day - (and a lot of February) 2000, I was in Croatia, observing three elections that were held within a surprisingly short space of time in that country between January 3 and the latter part of February.

I had been asked to observe the first election, - flying out on December 27 - and then, somewhat unexpectedly, two others occurred (the Presidential election both the first and second rounds) and I was asked to observe them at very short notice. I flew over and back and crammed classes into the few weeks I was home between elections.

Well, I remember a New Year's Eve Party that I attended, on 31 December 1999, in a hotel in the centre of Zagreb, with a colleague who has since become a very good friend, looking on at the New Year celebrations from the fringes, as we sat at a small circular table, close to the wall, sipping our drinks.

A Minister from the Government showed up, dressed formally, black dinner jacket and pressed trousers, beautiful black court shoes, white shirt, bow tie, and sporting a black cape, with a red, almost claret coloured, satin lining. It was almost a parody of the visible expression of political, social and economic power, for he prowled the room, visibly displaying himself and his political plumage, as he held court, shook hands, dispensed attention, favours, and focus. The pianist - who clearly had some sort of sardonic sense of humour, not to mention a keen sense of irony and a sharp awareness of the occasion - played music - with a deadpan air but with a flawlessly executed style and technique - from Cabaret, and The Godfather, among others.

At the time, I was struck by the body language of the Minister, which was supremely confident, swaggering coolly around the room with a cool, confident, insouciant arrogance. Observing him that evening, - he dismissed us with the merest of contemptuous nods - I could see that it never ever occurred to him that things might change. Three days later he and his party were hurled from office, power and patronage in what was a genuinely democratic - and free, and fair - election.
 
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Ehhh I'm having a fairly boring New Years Eve this year, I'm just gonna watch Anderson Cooper count it down on TV. And of course I'm excited to use my Apple Watch to have the most accurate New Years Eve count down I've ever had!
 
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We're not doing anything either except sitting around and watching TV.

Saw this this morning :D...
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... This year my girlfriend and I are thinking about driving up a mountain and watching the fireworks on the horizon, with a midnight picnic in the car. ...

"Midnight picnic"

Is that what the kids are calling it these days?
 
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