Happy New Year and another new day. Karen and I didn't do anything very different last night to ring in the new year, not much different from any of the past umpteen year changes. Our neighbors in the back woods did celebrate with some fireworks at about 1:15am, but other than that it was a night like any other night.
The years come and go, and I can only remember two New Year's which stand out as different. One was an attempt by Karen and I to actually watch the "ball drop" in Colorado, but we were "gone" by 10pm when the margaritas got the better of us, and it was off to sleep before the ball had even dropped in Times Square, New York. Needless to say, we haven't done much drinking, other than water, since. The other occasion was Y2K (2000), when I worked for Hewlett Packard (HP), and we were waiting for something to happen to our Clean Room Equipment when the year changed from 1999 to 2000. All the computer wizards, geeks and engineers were't sure if the computers would advance into 2000 or drop us back to 1901. When nothing happened, there was a sigh of relief and a general feeling that a lot of people had been duped into buying generators, bottled water, extra food and other survivalist-type goodies to survive the predicted doom and gloom.
But, by and large, December 31, 2017- January 1, 2018 was just another day, with nothing really monumental to write about, even though I am writing about it. I'm sure some new laws went into effect, some old laws came off the books and a lot of people will have difficulty writing 2018 instead of 2017 for a few weeks or months. Another day. One day older and one day closer to the end of this life and the start of the one we have been promised and in which we have our hope. Thank You, Lord.
For now.......Happy New Year, y'all, from Deep East Texas.
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