Happy New Year I hope.

No headache, upset stomach, absolutely no evidence of a hangover.  Are you wondering why?  Well, I’m going to tell you anyway.  Marge and I had a senior citizen New Year’s Eve celebration:   Filet and Lobster tail dinners with a couple of glasses of Malbec at 4:00 with friends, a visit to an under the weather friend at 6:00, home for some TV watching at 8:00, and cozy in bed at 9:30.  You say it doesn’t sound exciting. Well it beats the hell out of standing in Times Square in zero temperature.  Besides, how exciting can you get after watching the ball drop over eighty times, well, maybe a little less?

Ok, now what do I do, a little too early to try to sleep. After tossing around a bit I began to think about starting the year off with a great Blog.  Fat chance of that you say, guy hasn’t had a great one for years and writing about 2017 wasn’t going to do it.  Sorry to report, but 2017 was a lousy year.  Friends and family suffered through a great deal of illness, operations, and lengthy recoveries. It would not be difficult to fill many paragraphs bitching about the crap we’ve been subjected to all year.  Reliving the 2016 election over and over, having Russia in the news every day, but I’m going to stop now before the Blog becomes political, we get enough of that from other sources.  You certainly don’t need my opinion.  After thinking about all that stuff, it was easy to say goodbye to 2017 especially after being able to close the year out with some good company and good food.

I hope this coming year 2018 is a great one of for all of us, so long as it provides me with enough to bitch about.  In fact I’ve already got a bitch…..it’s so damn cold down here in the office, I can’t even think straight.  I’m going upstairs.