Happy New Year Major Geeks!

Happy New Year Laura!http://bestsmileys.com/drinking/1.gif I'm too old to stay up until midnight unless I pass out early. I've had enough of new year cheer so it's just a quiet dinner at home now and I'll probably finish off the bottle of single malt.:wine

 

My wife an i are the last surviving members of both families, we have outlived them all.
So Laurette and myself will have a quiet night in front of the television (probably watching Andre Rieu on German TV)

So a really happy and prosperous new year to you all and may 2012 be all that you wish for.

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Yup Laura, we're all getting older yet wiser. I would hate to be driving along the rural roads up here tonight though I've done it but I don't even want to be on the road even if I'm sober. Last year we had a good party where we all got pissed but they stayed for breakfast. I learnt that the English love their bacon burnt to a crisp!:-D

 

Staying home. Friends coming over and hanging out. last year we went to my buddy's mother's place but she's gonna be away so. PARTY AT MY PLACE!!

 

Yep - it's next year already for us down-under. Drinking Appleton Estate Rum and Coke and sorting out some research on the computer.
I hope everyone has a happy and prosperous New Year!!..wine:drink

 

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http://forums.majorgeeks.com/picture.php?albumid=227&pictureid=1246 Putting on my dancing shoes to welcome the New Year...

Have a safe, prosperous, healthy and wonderful New Year !! :wine:

 

As we approach(some past) this new year. I hope all is well with everyone here and their loved ones.
Remember:
"Live Long and Prosper"

 

I am making some serious changes for 2012.

If you do not hear from me, you are one of them. :-D

 

From me too to all Major Geeks:

MY NEW YEAR’S WISH FOR YOU

The sun will soon be rising on the morning of another day, the first day of the New Year. What can I wish that this day, this year may bring? Nothing that shall make the world or others poorer. Nothing at the expense of other men, but just those few things which, in their coming, do not stop with me, but touch me rather as they pass and gather strength.
A few friends who understand me, and yet remain my friends. A work to do which has real value, and without which the world would feel the poorer. The return for such work, small enough not to tax unduly anyone who pays.
I wish this New Year to bring me a mind unafraid to travel, even though the trail be not blazed. A heart that understands, and in understanding, better able to help you carry your load in life. May I understand the meaning of the tears that sometimes dim your eyes. May I never be the cause of that deep hurt which I have seen in your eyes.
May the New Year bring a sight of the eternal hills and the unresting sea, and of something beautiful the hand of man has made. Bring me also – and this is important – a sense of humour and the power to laugh. A little leisure with nothing to do but spin my dreams when evening descends and encloaks us in a robe of deep velvet.
I wish those who are away a speedy and safe return, and for those who return not, the reward they sought in the house of our Father. I ask also for a few moments of quiet meditation in the knowledge of the presence of God.
May I never be the cause of one tear to fall, one heart to ache, one friend to lose. And I ask for the patience to wait for the coming of these things with the wisdom to know them when they come.
And that is my New Year’s wish for you.

Minnie Louise Haskins 1875-1957

At the Gate of the Year

I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year: 'Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown.'
And he replied: 'Go into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God. That shall be to you better than light and safer than a known way!'
So I went forth and finding the Hand of God trod gladly into the night. He led me towards the hills and the breaking of day in the lone east. So heart be still! What need our human life to know If God hath comprehension? In all the dizzy strife of things both high and low, God hideth his intention."

by Minnie Louise Harkins 1875-1957

 

Happy New Year everyone!

 

I'll be staying home tonight - but it won't be a total bust.

I live in one of the very few unincorporated areas of the Houston metro where shooting off fireworks is legal (and, by "fireworks", I'm referring to anything smaller than a nuclear bomb :-D ). Since there was a statewide ban in Texas over July 4th due to the drought, ABC 13 reported most fireworks stands are doing twice the business they normally do for New Years Eve.

From 11 PM until about 2 AM, my subdivision will have a better fireworks show than many of the professional ones put on in small towns - all paid for by the neighbors. :cool

Happy New Year Everyone! :dancer

 

Happy New Year to all the MG geeks! :celebrate

If I can tear The Guy away from Skyrim, we'll be celebrating the new year with a Lie To Me marathon, enjoying the 12-year old Glenlivet my father-in-law gave me for Christmas. The man has taste.

Happy Clean Slate, everyone. We really shouldn't need a magical calendar date to make a new start, be it weight loss, smoking, or whatever, but all the same... New year, new chances, new starts. Here's to us all. :wine

 

Happy New Year Guys!! (about 13 minutes late though).

 

Wishing everyone on MG's, a most happy and healthy 2012.
Many thanks to Tim and Jim for maintaining this fabulous site.
Special thanks to David, Laura and the malware fighters- chaslang, TimW, Kestrel13, dr.moriarty and thisisu.
A big hand for you guys. :clap:clap:clap
Cheers..

 

I let the new year in every year, my good lady opens the door to my knocking, stands back while I throw a collection of coins, some salt, some bread and pieces of coal before stepping into the house, she greets me with a kiss and a drink.
be interesting to know how Geeks let in the New Year.

Hope its a good one for you all in Geekland :wave

 

Happy New Year Everyone!

Only 3 years to go before Back To The Future 2!

I've been waiting 27 years for this so far and it's getting so close! :-D

 

Happy New Year! I had the joy of working an extra 5 hours yesterday, so the sparkling wine is still in the fridge. :***

Will have my New Years celebration this evening. Heck might even call in sick Monday!

 

Jeez Fred, you really deserve a day off after the December rush, it's not as if there's going to be a line up outside at opening time tomorrow except for the 'regulars'.

 

Happy New Year all. We thought we'd be home long before midnight.
Went to this restaurant for dinner, just three couples, at 7:00, then one couple went out to the casino, and the rest of us went back to our friends house at about 10:00. There they cracked the champagne, and before midnight it was all gone. A beer toast is was. After midnight my wife and I left and went to another friends house very close to where we live. There was a total of eight of us there, but we sounded like fifty. We got home at 4:00AM. NIne hours and only four beer, and I feel great today. I'm getting old.

You are a dedicated man Ned