We brought in the new year with the Blakes over at their almost 20 story high rise. The fireworks were amazing all over the city. In fact, at 1:22am they are still going strong outside our flat. It struck me as what a war zone must sound like. I thought of "shock and awe" in Iraq, although it obviously wasn't quite that powerful. Never seen anything like it.
Then I experimented with time travel and was successfully able to call into the past. I called my parents in last year. I'm thinking of patenting the time machine.
Happy New Year, America, from the future year 2012!
I lived for 4 years on a hilltop south of Stuttgart - could see the surrounding suburbs in all directions. New Years celebration looked like the 4th of July on steroids. Fascinating how the Germans can go happy crazy a few select times a year, without any serious harm done as far as I ever heard, and then easily shift right back to being...well, German. ;-)
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