[Magdalen] Happy New Year 2015

[Jay Weigel]

We had thought about going to Harrisonburg First Night, but the combination
of a paucity of performing groups of interest and the weather being colder
than we preferred led to a decision to stay in. Therefore we celebrated
with a bottle of (excellent) Peaks of Otter apple-pomegranate wine and
watched the New Year in with CNN. And so to bed.

On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 11:35 AM, Jim Guthrie <jguthrie at pipeline.com> wrote:

> From: Kate Conant
>
>  I just watched the ball drop at Times Square (from my recliner on the Blue
>> Ridge).  The guns and firecrackers or whatever are going off now.
>>
>
> We stayed up as well, toasted the year with some sparkling wine and soon
> went to bed when the fireworks were done. It was interesting to turn out
> the lights and see the rocket bursts through the skylight over the kitchen.
>
> One of our traditions I missed was spending most of New Years Eve watching
> old Honeymooners reruns. We'd watch them until midnight, change the channel
> to see the ball drop, then change back until we polished off the bottle (or
> two when my mother was still alive <g>). Of course, now, I'm supposed to
> avoid alcohol with the chemo, but thankfully my doctor said to not worry
> about it on special occasions.
>
> Of course, when I was working for Newsday, the Ball Drop was central to my
> job -- which was running the Zipper headlines circling the 1 Times Square
> building -- News Headlines in 1600 bulbs. It's not likely you know anyone
> whose work has been read by more people (hundreds of thousands daily!) but
> certainly no one who has been read by nearly a half-million people
> simultaneously <g>.
>
> The classic was in 1993, when I posted a one-revolution headline that read
> "Police say more than half-million freezing asses off in TSQ" about a
> minute before midnight. The crows roared so loudly that Dick Clark looked
> around and checked his wristwatch (we had a TV monitor on the second=floor
> of 1 Times Square where I ran the sign on New Years Eves.
>
> Happy New Year to ALL!
>
> Cheers,
> Jim
>
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