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how are you going to celebrate newyear?
- Thread starter nitroboy
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So by "disco", do you mean a multi-colored lighted floor, a mirror ball, and John Travolta in a white suit?
Anyway, business as usually until maybe thirty seconds before midnight, then I'll watch the ball drop on TV, then back to business as usual.
I'll also take a sample of air. This is a tradition I started back in '93 for reasons I no longer remember, but I still do it. A liter-sized bottle, thoroughly cleaned and dried, will be filled with air, then the twist top will be coated in molten wax before being screwed on to ensure an air-tight seal, then the whole thing will be sealed in a large Zip-Lock bag that's double over on itself and covered completely in packaging tape, which in turn will be placed in another Zip-Lock bag. The date is written on both the bottle and the outer bag, then it's placed in a box in the closet with all the others. At least, all the others prepared in this way. The two earliest were done differently, they're encased in a large block of ice in the back-room freezer, along with a cookie. I really wish I kept better records back then, I have no idea what the significance of the cookie is.
It's completely insane, I realize this, but as far as traditions go I think this one's pretty well grounded. Besides, I like my more bizarre habits, this one and my sand vial collection probably being two of the strangest. (Wherever I go, I always carry two small vials into which I place sand from the first spot of ground I step on and the last spot I leave from. Sometimes this is impossible and I make due with a stone or some gravel, but I try to get sand.)
Anyway, business as usually until maybe thirty seconds before midnight, then I'll watch the ball drop on TV, then back to business as usual.
I'll also take a sample of air. This is a tradition I started back in '93 for reasons I no longer remember, but I still do it. A liter-sized bottle, thoroughly cleaned and dried, will be filled with air, then the twist top will be coated in molten wax before being screwed on to ensure an air-tight seal, then the whole thing will be sealed in a large Zip-Lock bag that's double over on itself and covered completely in packaging tape, which in turn will be placed in another Zip-Lock bag. The date is written on both the bottle and the outer bag, then it's placed in a box in the closet with all the others. At least, all the others prepared in this way. The two earliest were done differently, they're encased in a large block of ice in the back-room freezer, along with a cookie. I really wish I kept better records back then, I have no idea what the significance of the cookie is.
It's completely insane, I realize this, but as far as traditions go I think this one's pretty well grounded. Besides, I like my more bizarre habits, this one and my sand vial collection probably being two of the strangest. (Wherever I go, I always carry two small vials into which I place sand from the first spot of ground I step on and the last spot I leave from. Sometimes this is impossible and I make due with a stone or some gravel, but I try to get sand.)
Cry, cos have to go school tomorrow!
I just got back from celebrating New Years. It's really the only day where you have an excuse to down a bottle of champagne after shotting the cork across the highway.
