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I have no wife and no children, and live in a drinking town. As the CS.com resident drunk, I am expected to go out and get schnockered. And since I have weekends off, and NYE is on a Saturday night this year, such expectations are probably justified.
However....I don't know if that's actually going to happen. I haven't been getting as stupid as much lately, and not sure if I want to deal with all the insanity. I will definitely be out, probably get a nice dinner somewhere with some friend or friends, if someone else isn't working besides me. And after that, probably have some drinks somewhere, but....I dunno.
Not that I won't have options. In addition to our already impressive array of bars, we have not one, not two, but THREE different NYE "droppings" to ring in the New Year. The oldest and most known is the dropping of the conch shell over Sloppy Joe's Bar. Then there's the lowering of the drag queen in the giant ruby red high heel from one of the gay bars further up Duval Street. And last, but certainly not least, is the lowering of the pirate wench down the mast of a pirate ship outside a waterfront bar on the harbor. I have seen all three at various times, so don't really consider any of them a priority.
In all honesty, I'll probably drink a little too much, flirt with the wrong girl, and go home late, either by cab or bicycle. I plan on biking downtown, so I won't even have the opportunity to make a bad or stupid decision later, as might happen if I drove.
Of course, New Year's Day is a football Sunday, so I'll be drinking then, too.....meh.
You would think at 41 I would be getting too old for this shit, but people were thinking that when I was 31 as well.
Well, at least I'm good at being a drunk!
Who knows, maybe after dinner I'll go home and experiment in the kitchen, whip up some new recipes, do some online research on various food websites, be a total homebody.
Yeah....right!
Look, I love cooking, and enjoy a challenge, but TWENTY ONE COURSES??!?!?! That's utter insanity. I am hoping that you slightly misunderstood, and that he's actually just planning 21 different dishes, including appetizers, munchies, cheese trays, etc. Or a buffet. Or....something. Hell, when my niece and I did that 20 person 4 course sit down dinner, it was about as much as we could handle!
However....I don't know if that's actually going to happen. I haven't been getting as stupid as much lately, and not sure if I want to deal with all the insanity. I will definitely be out, probably get a nice dinner somewhere with some friend or friends, if someone else isn't working besides me. And after that, probably have some drinks somewhere, but....I dunno.
Not that I won't have options. In addition to our already impressive array of bars, we have not one, not two, but THREE different NYE "droppings" to ring in the New Year. The oldest and most known is the dropping of the conch shell over Sloppy Joe's Bar. Then there's the lowering of the drag queen in the giant ruby red high heel from one of the gay bars further up Duval Street. And last, but certainly not least, is the lowering of the pirate wench down the mast of a pirate ship outside a waterfront bar on the harbor. I have seen all three at various times, so don't really consider any of them a priority.
In all honesty, I'll probably drink a little too much, flirt with the wrong girl, and go home late, either by cab or bicycle. I plan on biking downtown, so I won't even have the opportunity to make a bad or stupid decision later, as might happen if I drove.
Of course, New Year's Day is a football Sunday, so I'll be drinking then, too.....meh.
You would think at 41 I would be getting too old for this shit, but people were thinking that when I was 31 as well.
Well, at least I'm good at being a drunk!
Who knows, maybe after dinner I'll go home and experiment in the kitchen, whip up some new recipes, do some online research on various food websites, be a total homebody.
Yeah....right!
Quoth AnaKhouri
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But on the bright side at least I won't be doing that in a cubicle. 
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