NYE & NYD Plans

Rian Jackson · Post by **Rian Jackson** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 11:35 am

I must be in an organisational mood.

Whatcha all doin'?

I'm at Guin's show NYE, then thinking about the toga party, if i can find it.
Chillin out with kick ass folks the next day, mellow style.

and tonight is the NYEE bingo bash!

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 11:38 am

No plans as yet. As noted elsewhere, the MrFishist may be in the city of Angles. I could drive down with him, but don't really do well at raves. So I could hang out at home and clean up.

Not much of a party fishy.

stuart · Post by **stuart** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 11:42 am

looking like about 50-75 at my house.
Back house disco and bar
front house bar, eatery and chill out
backyard outdoor lounge with fire pit.

testing the outer limits of my hangover cure

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 11:49 am

So, I suppose you're not expecting rain.

stuart · Post by **stuart** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 11:51 am

I am expecting it.

It is forecast for the day and ending in the evening. Timing will be critical. Although, god knows I have acres of tarps. I am sure we could rig something up if we were really motivated. The yard is wet though and the floors are gonna be absolutely destroyed come Saturday.

Simply Joel · Post by **Simply Joel** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 11:54 am

The missus and i are going to Miko's for Japanese cuisine, then to Mike & Molly's for a private party, and home before midnight due to DUI enforcement.

stuart · Post by **stuart** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 11:56 am

DUI enforcement

pesky cops

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 12:02 pm

stuart wrote:I am expecting it.

It is forecast for the day and ending in the evening. Timing will be critical. Although, god knows I have acres of tarps. I am sure we could rig something up if we were really motivated. The yard is wet though and the floors are gonna be absolutely destroyed come Saturday.

We seem to be settling into a "mini" el nino pattern of rain near constantly. I was just check the 400 mi difference.

gigglesnort · Post by **gigglesnort** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 12:03 pm

theCryptofishist wrote:No plans as yet. As noted elsewhere, the MrFishist may be in the city of Angles. I could drive down with him, but don't really do well at raves. So I could hang out at home and clean up.

Not much of a party fishy.

Spoken like a true crab.

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 12:05 pm

I just want my kiln so I can do art. Art I'm good at.

*sobs quietly in corner*

Off to the bar. . .

stuart · Post by **stuart** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 12:58 pm

"mini"

has seemed pretty maxi to me so far this year.

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 2:57 pm

stuart wrote:
"mini"
has seemed pretty maxi to me so far this year.

No not really. Of course I have memories of 1982--the year those kids were killed in the landslide. We didn't have the term yet, but that was amazing. And that year in the 90s when the central valley flooded big time around the "twin cities" (Yuba, Marysville). The past few days have been impressive and the stats I've seen say that we are 120 to 135% of normal rainfall, but we haven't had the endless downpours that really say The Christ Child is here and he's WET to me.

helitack · Post by **helitack** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 3:04 pm

Hmmm, New Years Eve, work then may show up somewhere. New Years day, work, sleep.

stuart · Post by **stuart** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 3:36 pm

I was in L.A. during the last one and this one seems pretty competitive. We had a storm come through earlier that dumped our annual average over the course of a week.

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 3:38 pm

WE do run a bit wetter up here.

HM.

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 3:41 pm

bloomberg wrote: Storms Bring Record Rainfall to Southern California (Update1)

Dec. 29 (Bloomberg) -- Storms are dumping more rain than usual on the San Francisco and Los Angeles areas and prompting flood warnings in Southern California. Snow in the Sierra Nevada this weekend may disrupt holiday travel, forecasters said.

Downtown Los Angeles had 5.55 inches of rain yesterday, its third-wettest day on record since 1877. The area is forecast to receive another inch or more this weekend. The San Francisco Bay Area may receive as much as 4 inches of rain, forecasters said.

The storms are part of a weather system from the Gulf of Alaska that settled along the Pacific Coast, Bob Benjamin, a senior forecaster at the National Weather Service in Monterey, California, said today in a telephone interview. Snow in the mountains is heavier than normal for this time of year and may climb to four to five feet by Friday evening, forecasters said.

``We're expecting good snow levels, so people traversing the Sierras for the New Year should expect winter-weather driving conditions,'' Benjamin said.

Snow and gusting winds in mountain tourist destinations such as Lake Tahoe and its nearby ski resorts may cause white-out conditions during the weekend.

Travelers should take snow chains, whether they have ``four- wheel drive or tank treads,'' said Don Noxon, a weather forecaster in the National Weather Service's Sacramento office. ``It's going to be a messy weekend weather-wise.''

Traffic Accidents Rise

Storms flooded freeways and desert roads throughout the state this week. Heavy rains are expected to last through the weekend and into next week. A flood advisory is in effect in Ventura and Los Angeles counties.

``The rain we are getting today could make problems a little worse,'' said Stuart Seto, a weather specialist at the National Weather Service in Los Angeles.

The weather contributed to more 1,200 vehicle crashes on slippery freeways in Southern California since midnight Tuesday, said Officer Francisco Villalobos of the California Highway Patrol Transportation Management Center in Los Angeles. That's up from about 840 accidents in the same period a week earlier, he said.

``People are driving too fast for the weather conditions,'' he said.

Severe rain storms in California during October pushed up normal rainfall levels for the year. Rainfall in Los Angeles since July 1 has totaled 9.7 inches, up from 2.63 inches during the same period in 2003, according to National Weather Service statistics. Rainfall in San Francisco reached 10.9 inches since July 1, up from 7.82 inches in the year-earlier period.

``We're into a very wet pattern and there won't be any dry days coming,'' Benjamin said. ``The storms are tracking through all of California. Northern California gets the initial onslaught and it spreads south and east.''

Third wettest day on record is pretty impressive.

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 3:46 pm

Flash flood warnings in San Bernadino and San Diego counties is thought provoking too.

Sandwichman · Post by **Sandwichman** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 5:17 pm

Back to the plans for tomorrow evening...

I am going to be heading over to a great little house party where I will dance, surely drink too much, then try to spin records after drinking way too much. It should be a rip roaring evening but I have been wrong before and many times so at that.

Jason

Sensei · Post by **Sensei** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 5:31 pm

I will be working tomorrow evening. Yuck.

If I wasn't going to be working, I'd be sorely tempted to head down to PuddleTown and try to catch this great little house party the SandMan knows about...

Sandwichman · Post by **Sandwichman** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 6:59 pm

Sensei wrote:I will be working tomorrow evening. Yuck.

If I wasn't going to be working, I'd be sorely tempted to head down to PuddleTown and try to catch this great little house party the SandMan knows about...

If there were some miraculous way you could make it down let me know. It would be awesome to bring in the New Year with ya.

Jason

Ranger Genius · Post by **Ranger Genius** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 7:33 pm

Maybe this post should be in the fuck thread. We're 2100 miles from anyone we know or care about (minimum), and have no plans. Don't know this fucking town or anything to do in it. I guess it'll just be me, the mrs, the cats and that bottle of white star (not to be shared with the cats. That's why we bought the spumante). Blah. At least we won't have to watch Dick Clark's head count down the new year (or, rather, that also-ran guy who's doing it instead). Don't have TV. Nothing like getting drunk, practicing card tricks, and watching Space Ghost Coast to Coast on DVD to make you really enjoy the holidays, eh?

gigglesnort · Post by **gigglesnort** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 7:41 pm

gigglesnort wrote:.....gonna go down south a bit to the beau's family farm land there, mostly wilderness now, and truly spend the night out! The weather is fine, nearly 70 degrees and restless breezy, big brooding sky. ...

sparkletarte · Post by **sparkletarte** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 8:04 pm

Trying to decide between several parties or just being mellow and staying at home. Party options: 1. hot tub, cross country skiing, gt racing, smallish house party; 2. boat access house party making for a long event, gt racing, dj, fireworks; 3. downtown dj dance party.

Probably #1 if I do go out, but it's puking out now so I'm going to want to spend the day snowboarding so I'll be very tired. The next day? More snowboarding, maybe working, packing.

sparkletarte · Post by **sparkletarte** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 8:04 pm

stuart, your party sounds great, I didn't expect anything less, I wish I could be there (but then I'd be missing out on all this snow).

PurpleKoosh · Post by **PurpleKoosh** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 11:08 pm

It looks like I'm not doing anything, damnit. My husband has the day off from work, so I was leaving the plans open to see what he wanted to do - and "what he wanted to do" appears to be sit at home and watch "Countdown." (Never mind that that's what he does the other 364 days of the year.)

Anyone care to watch me sulk?

tonytohono · Post by **tonytohono** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 11:45 pm

theCryptofishist wrote:Flash flood warnings in San Bernadino and San Diego counties is thought provoking too.

I can attest for the weather being absolutely crazy down south on the 29th and now that I am back home up north, well it seems like it is as crazy if not more crazy here as well.

I may be soaked with it, but I'm not about to allow it to dampen my spirits. Tomorrow is New Years and I say rain or shine it makes no difference to me. =)

Lydia Love · Post by **Lydia Love** » Fri Dec 31, 2004 1:36 am

I might have a chance to go play in the snow and then sit in a hot tub and drink margaritas with an attractive man.

I'm gonna have apologies to make to all the people I said I'd see tomorrow if this offer pans out, I'm afraid. Hot water and margaritas with this particular attractive man are sounding very very good right now...

samtzu · Post by **samtzu** » Fri Dec 31, 2004 4:30 am

No plans... other than a good book, good scotch, good cigar... Then good night!

Post by **AntiM** » Fri Dec 31, 2004 6:55 am

RG wrotre:

Maybe this post should be in the fuck thread. We're 2100 miles from anyone we know or care about (minimum), and have no plans. Don't know this fucking town or anything to do in it. I guess it'll just be me, the mrs, the cats and that bottle of white star (not to be shared with the cats. That's why we bought the spumante). Blah.

Gee, I'm contagious. Except my Mr. is OTR and my cats have requested I open the tawny port.

That fucking town has opportunities. I recommend throwing rocks into the Great Dismal on NYD. Or the ocean. That's some fun, youbetcha.

gigglesnort · Post by **gigglesnort** » Fri Dec 31, 2004 6:58 am

I am currently revising my plans for today......near constant, full time, morning to night responsibility of the three little monsters for TWO weeks now........if anyone reads about the tragic events surrounding a crazed mother in arkansas......maybe I'll just take it out on that motherfucking singing barbie doll......hte one my 3-year-old pushes the button on over, and over, and over.......