# So what are you doing on the SDMB on New Year's Eve? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 1, 2017, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-you-doing-on-the-sdmb-on-new-years-eve/776014 "2017-01-01T01:02:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2017, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-you-doing-on-the-sdmb-on-new-years-eve/776014/1 "2017-01-01T01:02:58Z")
Nothing better to do? Me either. I live with mom and stepdad, currently, to help with their bills. And they…well, they just don’t really do anything for New Years. Unless you think already falling asleep in the recliners as a huge New Years Event. Or maybe you’re online right now but won’t be later, in a few more hours…so, more specifically, what are you going to be doing tonight at midnight, your time? ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2017, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-you-doing-on-the-sdmb-on-new-years-eve/776014/2 "2017-01-01T01:06:03Z")
I’m surfing the Dope among other sites while I finish binge-watching Westworld for a second time. There’s a lot of “aha!” moments that come about with a repeat viewing. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2017, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-you-doing-on-the-sdmb-on-new-years-eve/776014/3 "2017-01-01T01:14:17Z")
Working. Sitting here waiting for something to break badly enough that I have to ruin somebody’s party. That hasn’t happened yet, but the night is still young. I’ll be getting home around 11:30 and I’m still debating heading off to my local Irish pub to have a stout or two. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2017, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-you-doing-on-the-sdmb-on-new-years-eve/776014/4 "2017-01-01T01:19:44Z")
There were options, but my personal tradition for New Year’s Eve for the past few years is to stay home. I live far from town and the rural roads can be treacherous for a whole lot of reasons over the holidays. I try to stay off them. This year, I had more incentive than usual. I spent most of the day today getting ready for a sustained arctic blast of cold weather we’ll be enduring for most of the upcoming week, including snow and ice. So I stacked lots of wood near the house, finished up weatherizing pipes, made sure livestock will have water and heat, etc. There’s now a lively fire blazing away in the wood burner, my holiday decorations are twinkling (I decorated a Solstice rake this year), a nice bottle of wine is breathing on the counter, the house is filled with the scent of a chicken roasting with garlic, rosemary and lemon. I’ve got my feet up, half watching reruns of Sherlock while perusing a few favorite websites/forums. By midnight, I’ll probably be sawing logs after having smooched the Dachshund for good luck in the new year. My gripping life. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2017, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-you-doing-on-the-sdmb-on-new-years-eve/776014/5 "2017-01-01T01:28:20Z")
Reconciled bank account & backing up data to external drive; as soon as that finishes it’s off to a party (but I really don’t wanna go :(). ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2017, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-you-doing-on-the-sdmb-on-new-years-eve/776014/6 "2017-01-01T01:44:44Z")
Well, it’s only 5:43 PM here at the moment… We’re actually going to a party at a friend’s house in a couple hours; a major change from our normal routine of “watch TV, and maybe stay up all the way until midnight, if we really feel like it”. ---
**Author:** ![harmonicamoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/65b543/32.png) [@harmonicamoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmonicamoon)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2017, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-you-doing-on-the-sdmb-on-new-years-eve/776014/7 "2017-01-01T02:13:33Z")
Neighbors are having a street party. They are fun folks. So, I will be going. Hope to last until 2017 arrives. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2017, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-you-doing-on-the-sdmb-on-new-years-eve/776014/8 "2017-01-01T02:19:10Z")
Feeling like shit. Nothing better to do. ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2017, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-you-doing-on-the-sdmb-on-new-years-eve/776014/9 "2017-01-01T02:43:26Z")
sleeping (hopefully.) Tomorrow is the last day of deer season so I need to be up by 5 a.m. not that my answer would be different otherwise; NYE isn’t a thing for me. ---
**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2017, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-you-doing-on-the-sdmb-on-new-years-eve/776014/10 "2017-01-01T02:53:49Z")
I’ll be online. Maybe watching the Twilight Zone marathon on TV. My husband is already drifting off, so he wil be asleep by then. So, just the usual. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2017, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-you-doing-on-the-sdmb-on-new-years-eve/776014/11 "2017-01-01T02:56:36Z")
I’m watching my Penguins tonight – it’s the last game of the year. (And next week is a bye week) Might as well check things out here while I watch. And we just won it in OT! Fuck yeah! 😃 Happy New Year bitches!!! ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2017, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-you-doing-on-the-sdmb-on-new-years-eve/776014/12 "2017-01-01T02:59:57Z")
It’s pouring down rain outside, we don’t do parties much anyway, and I’d rather spend the evening with my lovely wife and crazy cats than with a bunch of drunk semi-strangers. Especially since I would then have to drive home in aforementioned rain with the also aforementioned drunks on the road with me. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2017, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-you-doing-on-the-sdmb-on-new-years-eve/776014/13 "2017-01-01T03:04:08Z")
Filing my taxes. (No, not really). Quiet evening at home. ---
**Author:** ![peedin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peedin/32/14095_2.png) [@peedin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peedin)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2017, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-you-doing-on-the-sdmb-on-new-years-eve/776014/14 "2017-01-01T03:11:07Z")
Watching the Stooges marathon on Sundance. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2017, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-you-doing-on-the-sdmb-on-new-years-eve/776014/15 "2017-01-01T03:16:25Z")
There is a bar across the street where I’m a regular. I’ll head there around 10 PM or so and stay until after midnight. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2017, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-you-doing-on-the-sdmb-on-new-years-eve/776014/16 "2017-01-01T03:39:37Z")
Watching football, although the game is over now that I’m posting this. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2017, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-you-doing-on-the-sdmb-on-new-years-eve/776014/17 "2017-01-01T03:45:06Z")
Went out this afternoon and burned up a shitload of .22 ammo. Shredded a bunch of tomato sauce and refried bean cans. Got a new .22 pistol not long ago and got the parts to fix one I had. They got a pretty good workout this afternoon. Once the guns were cleaned and put away I broke out the beer and fired up the internet. Ate a shitty frozen pizza, watched the Austin City Limits New Years show. Yawn. Now Antiques Road Show is playing with the sound down while I surf music videos on YT. Happy fuckin’ New Years. Meet the new year, same as the old year… ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2017, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-you-doing-on-the-sdmb-on-new-years-eve/776014/18 "2017-01-01T03:48:10Z")
> [@peedin](#): > > Watching the Stooges marathon on Sundance. And switching channels to the Starsky and Hutch marathon during the commercials. Had to shit-can the football games, too sucky. How da fuck did Ohio St. get into the playoffs? 😕 Embarrassing. Oh, and slowly getting drunk on Red Beer and Tequila. Or not so slowly. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2017, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-you-doing-on-the-sdmb-on-new-years-eve/776014/19 "2017-01-01T04:00:29Z")
Waiting for 11:45 when I’ll grab a drink, turn on the TV, watch the ball drop, say Happy New Year to my wife and, a bit later, go to bed. ---
**Author:** ![robby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robby/32/11048_2.png) [@robby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robby)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2017, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-you-doing-on-the-sdmb-on-new-years-eve/776014/20 "2017-01-01T04:01:27Z")
Just finished my last 2016 donation online. Because I was already online, I decided to take a quick look at the SDMB. Now I’m going to work with my son on the next step in building this great [LEGO Disney Castle](https://shop.lego.com/en-US/The-Disney-Castle-71040) that we got for Christmas. If we’re still awake later, we’ll watch [_Trading Places_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trading_Places) (a New Year’s tradition for us). …or maybe we’ll just go to bed after the ball drops. 😉 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-you-doing-on-the-sdmb-on-new-years-eve/776014.md?page=2)