Crappy New Year and all that jazz

It's 2005... this means that I'm going to have serious trouble writing the date for the next 2 months... at least. I was still accidentally writing 2003 sometimes as recently as November after all.

Kiddo spent the night at his mother's. I don't know what he'll have been up to till tomorrow afternoon when he comes back.

I had geared myself up for a nice, long, dull New Years online. wouldn't be the first time, after all.
But... Matt turned up online. So I said hi, and he immediately asked if I had the kid, and if I had any plans. Naturally, I was free. So he told me he'd be by in a couple hours to pick me up. we were going to his friend Adam's house for NY... and Liu (his GF) would be there too so I could finally meet her. He was disappointed that ravenchyld was unavailiable, but he figured she could meet Liu another time.

So Matt arrives, and off we go, looking for an open liquor store on NYE at 10pm, because he wants more plum wine (it is nice). Alas, only the small ones attached to bars are open, and they don't have any. He gets some white rum and sake instead, and loads up on Coke.

We arrive at Adam's and get settled. The agenda for the night? VIDEO GAMES! Hehehe. SSBM is teh crack. Damn I wish I had it... and a GameCube to play it. Mrr... no money, I'll manage. Turned out in the end that Liu couldn't come... she got scheduled to work an extra late shift (she got off at 2:30am... waitressing. In a busy, rowdy restaurant. That was short-staffed). Once she was done work, she was too tired to consider anything else.

So we played video games for the better part of 3 hours, and much fun was had. I also got back the books I had lent to Adam almost a year ago (the 5 books of the Mallorean by David Eddings) since I don't really talk to Adam, I only see him through Matt.

At 6 to midnight, I glanced at my watch and noticed the time. None of us had even noticed that it was nearly midnight.
So we turned on the Space Needle countdown, and watched.
5
4
3
2
1
And there was silence in the house.
5 seconds pass, and finally I speak up, with one of my trademark phrases.

"Umm... yay?"
To which there was a twentieth-hearted smattering of "Happy new years" and such.

Then we played games. I also learned that Rum and Coke is actually very good, assuming it's light on the rum. I had one (yup, big drinker me).
Finally, it was time for Matt to go and see Liu, so we packed up and headed on home. And now I'm posting this.

Eventually I'll get to bed... until then, I'll chat with whoever's online and plot more for The Cit.