Ben by Daniel Shelton for December 30, 2023

Smart idea, or what the Sydney fireworks and go to bed.

I check ytube every hour on NYE as it turns midnight around the world. Sydney is a must and so is Bur Khalifa, Tokyo, Hong Kong, and NYC. If you can find Seattle, there will be a spectacular drone show before the midnight fireworks at the Space Needle.

We’re having our fireworks at 9pm, so people can go home early if they want.

The “one second” holiday. Too much fuss about a tick of the clock.

Tape? They still have tape?

Should go over to DRABBLE to toast in the new year.

I think I still have a video tape machine that works, and an analog television that will show it. There goes my weekend, trying to find the Y2K New Years recording. It might be in my bunker with my survival hoard of Mountain Dew and Ramen Noodles.

I’m usually asleep by 10 pm, but my cat wakes me up when the fireworks start in my neighborhood, cause she hates them and she is climbing all over me to comfort her…..LOL!

The wife and I can watch the Times Square Ball drop at 9pm here in the west. That’s close enough to ring in the new year before we turn in

The count down has usually been a disappointment for me. I don’t know what I expect but I don’t feel like I am missing out on anything by going to bed earlier.

HAPPY NEW YEAR ALL! Hope we all have a healthy, happy and prosperous New year!

They need a streaming app where you get to pick which Time Zone NYE event you watch.

When I lived out west, it was fun to watch the New York ball drop and then go to bed at a decent hour

I drop the ball, as I usually do, on my schedule.

I find fireworks ans Auld Lang Sine on YouTube, and send the link to friends and family, to use at their liesure.

GREAT IDEA! Got to make sure my wife sees this strip!

The older you get, the more you learn that some things — New Year’s, election results — just aren’t worth losing sleep over.

Well, there you have it……….