Same here. I have a very low tolerance for drunks, so I stay home. It's just another day at my house. Bah humbug!

Dean

 

Went out till about 10:00PM to be with some friends. We usually just stay at home to avoid the drunks.
Happy New Year everyone!

 

I enjoy hanging out with friends and my +1. It doesn't matter if we're at someone's house or at a small, local pub as long as I'm with them.

 

We went out to our favorite restaurant for an early supper (5:30 or so) formn their regular menu and were home by 7. Ended the evening watching part of the SciFi Channel's Twilight Zone Marathon.
Have a great year.

 

This was the 3rd year that my friends and I have done dinner and a movie for New Years. We always pick a movie that starts before and finishes after midnight. Even with it being a Friday night this year there weren't more than 10-15 other people in the theater.

Next year I'll be backpacking in the Grand Canyon for New Years.

I've never seen the point in celebrating just because someone decided that the year roles over at midnight on Dec 31. You might just as well have a big party and a countdown to 3:28 PM March 11.

 

This thread is a reminder of the difference between being of a mature mind and being totally young and "care-free". +1 and I did what we customarily do, had a nice quiet evening at home, toasted the New Year and went to sleep. My youngest, otoh, dragged home about 4:30 a.m. This was the first NYE that she wasn't here with us , but she was the designated driver for the BIG PARTY at a friend's house. It was probably a good experience for her -- first time she ever had to clean up barf -- a few of her friends had a few too many -- Yep, Rob, you're right -- staying home is a lot better. I do not miss the morning after the night before.

 

From another list that I'm on:

The first known celebration of the new year occurred
approximately 4,000 years ago by Babylonians. It
occurred on the first new moon after the Spring
Equinox. It was common practice for the new year to
begin on or around the Spring Equinox until 153 BCA,
when the Roman senate set January 1st as the beginning
of the new year. The senate chose to reset the
calender because it was out of synchronization with
the sun, due to being constantly revised. January
first was chosen for two reasons: One, January was
the month of Janus, the two faced god of doors and
gateways, so that one face watched the old year leave,
and the other watched the new year begin. Two,
January first was the day after elections, when the
newly elected assumed their posts.
When Julius Caesar created the Julian calendar, he
wanted to return the new year to the spring, but
because January first fell on a new moon that year, he
thought it would be bad luck to change it. However,
Europe continued to use March 25 as the first day in
the new year until 1582, when Pope Gregory XIII
adapted the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar.
Great Britain, and thus her colonies, did not adopt
the calendar until 1752. January first has been
considered the first day of the new year for the
"Western world" ever since.

 

There's something very appropriate about making resolutions you will never keep at the start of the month of the two faced god.