NEW YEAR'S EVE: 2025 Fades Into the Sunset

7:43 PM -- So the year 2025 fades with the setting sun.  It's cold and raining.  We won't go out to celebrate, just watch the festivities in New York's Time Square on television.  My God, modern popular music is so terrible now, the acts and singers are just atrocious. 

Time moves on, taking my precious Pomeranian Kodi with it.  I sometimes wish it would take me too, in my sleep, like it did Adam the Woo.  I have little enthusiasm for life anymore.  It's the same old boring routine day after day.

Happy New Year (Clip Art)

I knocked out this clip art for Happy New Year.  I don't want champagne glasses and fireworks, I'd rather focus on peaceful nature on January 1st.

Time for coffee.

 

Happy New Year Y'all

I'm ready for the New Year, 2016.

New Year's Eve is a time to take stock.  What did I accomplish in 2015?

• Well, I had cataract surgery on both eyes and my eyesight is now the best it has ever been in my lifetime,  I can now drive at night without killing myself.  And, it's nice to see the world in high definition.
• My bass playing improved substantially, and playing jazz has become comprehensible, and not the mystery it was only one year ago.  I plan to continue my mastery of bass.  That will be my biggest goal for the new year.  
• I increased my knowledge of taxation (and my disgust with our tax system grew right along with it) and my knowledge of Lacerte tax software, the most popular program for tax accountants, which makes me more marketable for seasonal tax work.
• I read some good books on the War for Southern Independence, and armed myself with great facts for refuting Yankees and other purveyors of the Northern Myth.  I have two more books on the way, and will no doubt spend New Year's Day reading one of them.

And that's about it.

We are having friends over this evening to eat goodies and drink bubbly stuff and have conversations and watch the ball drop on television, welcoming in the new year.  It should be mildly fun.

Here's hoping you have a great New Year's Eve and a happy 2016.

New Year Thoughts: Happy 2015!

Two-thousand fifteen has a nice ring to it.  Many of us feel hopeful on the first day of the year.  Maybe this year will be better than the last.  Maybe not.

The political problems seem severe:  the worst race relations in decades.  Riots, the knock-out game, widespread wildings of young blacks, the hateful anti-police movement -- all worry me.

The good news includes falling gasoline prices, a shot in the arm to the economy, and the fact that a Republican majority will preside over both the Senate and the House.  The odious Harry Reid will no longer be Senate Majority Leader.

For the past four weeks I have been applying for jobs with various tax preparation firms, and was offered a job by two different CPA firms just this week.  The pay rate offered is reasonable and will pay some bills.  My economic situation will be a big improvement over the past six years.  I accepted a job with a firm in Campbell, California and look forward to the tax season.

Here is wishing all conservatives a happy and prosperous New Year!

The Last Day of 2013 - Happy New Year, Y'All

Last night, wifey, some friends and I, celebrated New Year's Eve, Eve.  They have a big dance at the Cocoanut Grove in Santa Cruz, California on December 30, with a nice band.  We went.

The advantage of a New Year's Eve, Eve party is that you avoid the crowds and the drunks of December 31.  It's also far less crowded in the restaurants, and you can easily find a parking place.

Santa Cruz was quiet and seemingly deserted last night when we drove into town, and that was actually rather nice.  We had dinner with our friends, then walked back to the Cocoanut Grove where we danced to the Joe Sharino band, who play classical rock music.  They're very good.  The Grove was crowded with people, as the event is well attended.

So tonight, the REAL New Year's Eve, I'll be staying home and watching all the hoopla on television.  When the ball drops, I will also drop, into bed.

Happy New Year, all.

Happy New Year

This may be my last post for 2011.  I will be out of town until Tuesday and may not have internet access.

I am looking forward to 2012.  With any luck, that will be the last year of the Obama presidency.  Let's all work hard to support the Republican candidate, whoever he or she turns out to be.  None of them are perfect, but as of this moment, I prefer Newt to Mitt.

So...have a safe and Happy New Year, and may 2012 bring us all greater opportunities and happiness.