What are We Doing New Year's Eve 2024?

[Scott5114]

I don't know that we'll be doing anything at all, since the friend we normally spend New Year's with has a new girlfriend and has to work, so we won't be seeing him. So I guess my plans will probably look more like

Smoking a ton of weed.

I will most likely be going to the somewhat local casino with a work friend, although I will assume the slots will be crowded like the other time I went on NYE.

New Year's Eve is the casino equivalent to Black Friday. That's probably the place I'd want to be least on New Year's Eve.

[Hot Rod Hootenanny]

For the first time in 5 or 6 years, I'm "volunteering" to work on New Years Day (I need the extra dough), so I hope to be asleep for the party this time around.

[kphoger]

We finally decided what we're doing.  We'll just stay home and play games.  Maybe soup for dinner, definitely nachos later on.

[kphoger]

Since the Christmas thread didn't include a poll, I'm throwing one in this time

How do we see the poll results?

Hey, yeah, how do I see the poll results?

[JayhawkCO]

Might have a couple of friends over. Will likely be asleep by midnight. I am most every other night during the year, why not on December 31st?

[MATraveler128]

Probably just stay up until 12AM January 1st and go right to bed. Not much there.

[Takumi]

Staying in.

[tmoore952]

Lately, visiting friends and staying the night to avoid driving back in wee hours. But I just had to spend a couple thousand dollars to completely replace my clutch, and so I am not feeling great about driving right now. (car will be replaced [probably] during 2024)

If it was completely up to me, I take a hourlong nap sometime in the evening so I can be awake at midnight. I am usually asleep by 1. Where we go, there are a lot of college age and "just beyond that" people. They stay up until 4 or 5. Those days for me are long gone. The house where we go is big enough that they can do their thing while I sleep.

Assuming I am awake at midnight, I will have seen every NYE midnight since 1972-73, so I have that motivation to be awake at midnight. None of those were ambiguous (e.g., flying east-west on NYE and not knowing where you were) and in no cases have I ever crossed between years via dateline or time zone boundaries. At one time I thought about doing that, but now to me it would seem rather hollow, given that time zone boundaries are man-made -- but on the other hand I have still never crossed the dateline -- have been as close as Hawaii where there are flights to Guam.

[tmoore952]

Lately, visiting friends and staying the night to avoid driving back in wee hours. But I just had to spend a couple thousand dollars to completely replace my clutch, and so I am not feeling great about driving right now. (car will be replaced [probably] during 2024)

If it was completely up to me, I take a hourlong nap sometime in the evening so I can be awake at midnight. I am usually asleep by 1. Where we go, there are a lot of college age and "just beyond that" people. They stay up until 4 or 5. Those days for me are long gone. The house where we go is big enough that they can do their thing while I sleep.

Assuming I am awake at midnight, I will have seen every NYE midnight since 1972-73, so I have that motivation to be awake at midnight. None of those were ambiguous (e.g., flying east-west on NYE and not knowing where you were) and in no cases have I ever crossed between years via dateline or time zone boundaries. At one time I thought about doing that, but now to me it would seem rather hollow, given that time zone boundaries are man-made -- but on the other hand I have still never crossed the dateline -- have been as close as Hawaii where there are flights to Guam.

Quoting my own post, as I have another thought and didn't want said thought to get lost in old post.

My one big (actually huge) reservation about going out for NYE is catching someone else's illness, as I just got over one myself. Unfortunately though, I don't really get a vote here. Need to watch what I do with my hands wrt my face (and wash them frequently), scan the room, and keep my distance.

[GaryV]

I just realized, I actually have a year to decide before responding to this thread.

[SSOWorld]

I just realized, I actually have a year to decide before responding to this thread.

You're right!!

As for 12/31/2023 - likely be in bed because Blaze the cat will wake me up at 5 AM as usual.

As for the topic: "What are We Doing New Year's Eve 2024"

What's this "we" shit?

You have a mouse in your pocket or you just happy to see me? 

[GaryV]

"What are We Doing New Year's Eve 2024"

What's this "we"

Several possibilities:

• Royalty has (have?) joined the forum
• Someone is a server in a restaurant ("Have we decided on what we are having tonight?")
• A multiple personality disorder
• The OP wants to invite everyone on the forum to join in the festivities, if they can only figure out what to do

[index]

Made a completely spontaneous trip to Jacksonville (FL) for a concert/show type thing with a friend. This is my first time in Jacksonville and my first time traveling to Florida in 14 and a half years.Will see how it goes tonight.

[DandyDan]

I will most likely be going to the somewhat local casino with a work friend, although I will assume the slots will be crowded like the other time I went on NYE.

New Year's Eve is the casino equivalent to Black Friday. That's probably the place I'd want to be least on New Year's Eve.
[/quote]

I don't doubt you on that, but sports betting is legal here in Iowa and the Vikings play the Packers in the Sunday night game. I'll bet the Vikings, my work friend will bet the Packers, and who knows who else from work will turn up.

[WillWeaverRVA]

Staying home and making sure the dogs don't lose their minds when people irresponsibly set off fireworks.

[ET21]

It seems like a lot of us chose the staying in route. Most of our family/friends also did the same thing. One of those NYEs where it seemed everyone was just like "whatever" lol

[bandit957]

I went to the Fountain Square thing, and it was as tame as ever.

[Ted$8roadFan]

Stayed home and was in bed before the ball dropped; I'm getting old. I used to enjoy First Night in Boston when I was younger, but it gets to be the same after a while.

[1995hoo]

Bandit957 would probably approve of what took place here: After we watched the ball drop on TV at midnight (accompanied by a FaceTime call from our relatives near Miami), I headed upstairs and took my first dump of the new year at 12:08 AM.

New Year's Eve is somewhat melancholy in our house anyway because my wife's younger sister, who died of cancer in 2020, was born on December 31.

[kurumi]

Main thing was game night for about 4 hours leading up to midnight.
* Left, Center, Right (dice game) has no strategy at all, but might have been the most noisy/exciting because there was a pot of money to win.
* Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza is a decent card game that also makes a drinking game.
* We played two varieties of Uno at different parties.
* Pictionary just has too many "all play" squares, and suffers from the "jackal" problem (youtube.com/watch?v=VbOPpgrTXh8)

And 2 new traditions were added for midnight (existing: must wear red, have money and grapes in hand for good health and wealth):
* eat 12 grapes in 1 minute for good luck each month of the year (from Spain and Portugal)
* eat them underneath a table for good romantic luck (from tiktok)

[Henry]

Since the Christmas thread didn't include a poll, I'm throwing one in this time

How do we see the poll results?

Hey, yeah, how do I see the poll results?

Turns out, I set the poll to private so that the results would be kept secret for a week. And not surprisingly, the majority chose to stay home.

I just realized, I actually have a year to decide before responding to this thread.

You're right!!

As for 12/31/2023 - likely be in bed because Blaze the cat will wake me up at 5 AM as usual.

As for the topic: "What are We Doing New Year's Eve 2024"

What's this "we" shit?

You have a mouse in your pocket or you just happy to see me? 

Perhaps I should've asked about 2023 in the title, based on what you interpreted. Maybe when this year is done, I should ask something to the effect of "Where will you be when 2025 arrives?" unless someone has an even better suggestion.

[kphoger]

* Left, Center, Right (dice game) has no strategy at all, but might have been the most noisy/exciting because there was a pot of money to win.

Got it.  Love it.  Seem to have lost it.

* Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza is a decent card game that also makes a drinking game.

Just got it this year (Christmas present).  Haven't played it yet.

* We played two varieties of Uno at different parties.

There is only one Uno.  The rules that came in the box.  (Yes, I know there's a loophole or two in the rules.)  All other varieties are evil.

* Pictionary just has too many "all play" squares

We just use a whiteboard easel, and let a website generate words to draw.  No board game required.

[Scott5114]

We just use a whiteboard easel, and let a website generate words to draw.  No board game required.

I would think it would be pretty hard to make out what you were drawing on the whiteboard easel. Might be easier to just draw on the whiteboard next year.

Having a good random word/phrase generator in your pocket can come in handy for a number of different games. (My favorite is watchout4snakes.) I've managed to come up with entire D&D games off the cuff with that—sometimes a few bizarre rolls are all it takes to get the creative juices flowing.

[kphoger]

We just use a whiteboard easel, and let a website generate words to draw.  No board game required.

I would think it would be pretty hard to make out what you were drawing on the whiteboard easel. Might be easier to just draw on the whiteboard next year.

shut up

Seriously, though, I wasn't quite sure what to call a whiteboard that has a built-in easel.  What would you call it?  I see one by Pegasus whose product description includes the term "Dry Erase Whiteboard Easel".

[Scott5114]

I would probably just call it a whiteboard, since most of the time whether it was on an easel or mounted to a wall would be immaterial to what I was using it for. For what it's worth, I've never used a whiteboard like that before. When I was a kid, I had a whiteboard on a tripod easel, but it just rested on a couple of hooks, and could be removed if I ever theoretically wanted to put something else on the easel.