Happy New Year 2024!

[CNGL-Leudimin]

Per the long standing tradition I come from the future (i.e. from the other side of the Atlantic ) to wish everyone who is still in the previous year a Happy 2024, now with one more day. This has been the first post of the year in my time zone, from Minor things that bother you:

Salvation Army spammed my wife with a text - during church this morning. Really?

If it was a sunrise service, I'd be piased also. But 10 or 11am? I mean, how are they supposed to know?

Minor things that bother me: People who don't turn off their audible notifications during church.  And yes, I have yet to be in a congregation where a phone beeps or goes off and a doctor or police officer has to run out of the room.

That's what "vibrate mode" is for.

[Scott5114]

How were the grapes this year?

[LilianaUwU]

And Happy New Year to the only time zone that matters! /j

[Hunty2022]

It is now 2024 for us folks on the East Coast!! I sure will miss 2023.

Time to see what 2024 has for the roadgeeking community.

[kkt]

Man, it's only 9 PM here, and neighbors are already making with the bang-bang.  Why can't they save it for a few minutes at midnight?

[Big John]

^^ I remember in the 1980s ABC would do the celebration in New York as they do now, but the celebration would also include Las Vegas at the same time, though it was 9:00 there.

[Hobart]

Happy new year from Milwaukee (and probably a bunch of other cities too).

[Rothman]

Man, it's only 9 PM here, and neighbors are already making with the bang-bang.  Why can't they save it for a few minutes at midnight?

We only had a couple go off here, all before midnight.

For the 4th of July, though, my town goes all out.  PA fireworks for hours.  Love it.

Happy New Year.

[roadman65]

Happy New Year to everyone.

[ET21]

Happy New Year everyone!

[Henry]

Happy New Year; may 2024 be the greatest year ever!

[bandit957]

I hope people fart.

[tmoore952]

We did take our trip to visit friends in PA to celebrate the new year -- despite my reservations of catching other people's colds -- and have just got back home.

This afternoon, got to walk around dowtown Harrisburg PA. Believe it or not, this is the first time I've actually visited Harrisburg itself. Every other trip to that area has either been to visit friends in suburbs, or to pass by on the highway grid to ABE area, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, or Wilmington in the E-W direction, or Washington DC, Williamsport, or further north (Finger Lakes, Niagara Falls, Toronto) in the N-S direction.

[kphoger]

I hope people fart.

It'll be a bad year is nobody does...

[kphoger]

We'll drink a cup of kindness yet / For the sake of Auld Lane sign.