I played D&D with my kids.

I watched Blade Runner 2049 with one of my best friends from high school and we got great Indian carry-out. As a big fan of the original, I really liked the sequel and am well satisfied. I feel that it did the first story justice, introduced new characters & ideas, and was full of strong performances.

SPOILERS AHEAD

It's only been about ten hours since I finished the movie, so I'm sure I'll be digesting it slowly over the next few days. I'm curious to know what other SEers thought of it.

I should note that I barely remember the first movie and have no stake in this opinion, I just thought it was weird.

I watched a Wes Anderson movie. I regret it.

I ended up watching Kong skull island. I was pleasantly surprised to find it wasn't total trash.

I spent it sexing up my recent ex-gf of 11years. I'm all mixed up.

I also watched Krampus. It was great.

Played Boggle and Set (a card game) with the fam. Drank wine, rang our antique church bell at midnight.

Holiday decorations have to go ASAP, preferably the day after.

Now, see, if you'd introduced your family to murder-hoboing...

Way too cold last night for that. We barely even heard any celebratory gunfire.

murder-hoboing = D&D (because the characters wander around breaking into the underground homes of sentient beings to kill them and take all their valuables). Good clean fun.

Sorry, thought you meant hobo-murdering. Whole different thing.

Also a holiday family tradition though, so the confusion is understandable.

I experimented with MagicaVoxel to create some assets for a game I'm working on while watching both of the new Chappelle specials on Netflix, and then a bunch of episodes of Little Witch Academia. I definitely recommend the Chappelle specials, I don't agree with everything he says, but he's funny and I think he does say some important stuff making them both worth the watch. Little Witch Academia is rather cute, as starting with season 2 the ongoing "villain" is an Elon Musk type character. It's got a good, wholesome, just before bed flavor to it. I'm stranded in Jacksonville for the foreseeable future, with no social life to speak of, so this was basically just a regular night for me.

Since I'm recommending stuff, y'all should check out GeoStorm and recommend it to your friends. It is by no means special in its acting or story, but any movie that wants imagine the US with a fleet of passenger shuttles and a big ass space station probably needs to be seen and spread.

Played Dungeons and Dragons (5E) over roll20 with my buddy KyleMcBitch and some of our Colorado friends. It was exactly how I wanted to roll in the new year.

Had a big bonfire and drank in -40C all night. The fire was huge so we stayed warm but our beers would freeze if not drank quickly. You would have to crack the beer and down it in a few gulps. Whisky was going around which also helped.

We didnt have a clock and the Bluetooth stereo froze so we did our own countdown around 1230 as we had no sense of time until a friend came by after 12.

Great night with friends.

My wife won't let me take the decorations down until Epiphany.

Ha, mine as well. But our tree this year has been awesome. Looks better now then some did after the first week.

Went up to a remote, community run ski-hill on Vancouver Island with a group of friends. We created a dance-floor away from the lodge and cabins in the middle of the forest in the snow, set up a DJ booth and some decorations/lights. Somebody set a tree on fire with fireworks, but it'll pull through. It was a night that won't soon be forgotten, as soon as I remember it.

I met up with my kids and their significant others at my childhood home in the Adirondacks, where it stayed pretty consistently below 0F. Everyone was eager to show off their cooking skills and share the great beers they had discovered, we had champagne at midnight and went down to the frozen lake to set off mothafuckin' bootleg fireworks.

I think we have started a new family tradition.

Took my 9 yr old and mother to dinner and Star Wars. His gasps and post movie excitement were fantastic.

We took our daughter on a New years eve kids riverboat cruise during the day. Finished off the old year with a couple episodes of rick and morty.

Several friends came over and we drank wine, watched the Twilight Rifftrax, and did a draft with our Magic: the Gathering cube. It was delightful.

Holiday decorations go up the day after TG and come down today every year.

Had neighbors over for dinner, watched the Times Square ball drop and said "good enough" at 9PM. Used a bunch of those pull-string poppers and party hats.

Decorations, typically the week after Christmas for sure, we were like 26th for tree and interior (Boxing Day in Canada is usually a sale, so previously we would have done 27th), 27th for exterior lights.

Now the other question is when do they go *up*? I'm adamant we hold off until after Nov11th, out of respect for Remembrance Day / Armistace Day, but we had neighbors who celebrate Diwali who had their lights up earlier, and next year it will be more of a struggle to not "also" hand Diwali lights that just hang around through Christmas.

Usually the day after (USA) Thanksgiving for us for putting up decorations. The inside decorations are down new years eve or day and outside lights are down the first warmish day the last week of December.

Or if you want to be a crazy person you can follow the Church calender and take you stuff down after Christmas tide. I thinking that is 1/6/18 this year. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liturgical_year

I'll pass. For me 12 years of catholic school and church multiple times a week was enough. Actually, i was done with it by high school personally/mentally, but still had to follow due to school. I'm a c+e (christmas and easter) at this point, only attending to assuage my wife and her family. My wife goes to mass a couple times a month. I asked her if she would still go if her mom/dad weren't around and she said she wouldn't.

I wonder how many other people that attend are like that?

I would bet almost everyone under 40. I know a few familys that go because they want their kids to go to church but they wouldn't bother if they didn't feel like it was better for their kids. Weird. I know plenty of people who believe in god but not the church. And I can't blame them.

I ran into a highschool friend I always see at a cafe and taught him the basic ropes of migwelding. Trying to get back into some of my hobbies.

I watched Guardians of the Galaxy 2 and a couple episodes of the new season of Black Mirror (it's good) with my dog. Also did some hackintosh research/computer shopping. First NYE in 4 or 5 years without my ex-girlfriend, so I wasn't feeling festive, but it was nice enough.

I played D&D with Headlessfriar's kids.

Went with my family to a party at a friends flat, ate, drank, talked and saw in the New Year on the roof watching fireworks all over the city.

Happy New Year to all.

I played SWTOR the majority of the day and into the night. I regretted it when I went to bed around 3, 'cause my brain was locked into it and wouldn't let it go as I tried to sleep.

Wandering around all night at a music festival I've been working at, in my very comfiest pyjamas, on some particularly great LSD. Somehow ended up looking after one of my wife's anxious friends instead of sleeping with a very lovely English lass. Hung out with a hilariously aggressive rainbow unicorn to watch the sunrise.

Never put up any Christmas decorations myself because I couldn't be arsed, but my Dad had his tree still up from the year before because he liked it so much, a hanging sculpture of driftwood and rope that he made with my brother's ex that we chuck the presents under.

Got toothache around the time the dentists shut for Christmas. Gave girlfriend's granddaughters DVDs of cheesy 1980s sci-fi, in an attempt to relive my forgotten youth through theirs. Tried to learn Unreal Engine, but decided I hated writing programs by connecting graphic nodes together. Now girlfriend has the flu, and I'm back to work tomorrow.

Could have been better.

Ate half a tube of Sensodyne toothpaste over a week. It stripped the protective layers of cells from the side of my mouth, which hurt almost as much as the tooth.

Spent the day playing the new Zelda game, then went over to a friend's for drinks and snacks until the early morning. We played board games, got tipsy, and drank peppermint tea. All in all, a pretty satisfying night.

Ate chinese had beer watching MST3K.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYvAYwpUDv8

this is a direct transcript of my night.

Flew back from a long month and a half work trip to Bangalore. Got in to LAX at 2AM after 22+ travel hours, and got to the homestead right around 330 or so.

Nice to be back to the (not-so) crazy western world of things. It's always very strange with the whole dateline thing, and have never gotten used to it no matter how many times I do it.

Dumped the kids, ate with with wife and some friends at a not so busy joint, saw the new Star Wars movie, then watched a netflix movie at home with the wife.