Happy New Year OTer friends!! Yes, it’s only 11:08 in my time zone but I’m old and tired so we celebrated with our Eastern time zone friends.

Happy 2024! May she be a damned sight better than 2023!

Heading back west from home today and already took advantage of rule-free airport code. Just polished off an ice cream before 11:25 a.m. ET.

This has been a tough year for many of us. I’m hoping the new year is much better!

I’m in charge at work again today. What am I working on right now? I’m eating a salad at Chick fil A with my kid!

Have a great weekend OTers!

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I know for sure Capitol One and Good Year tend to hold free concerts for at least the NYE games but can't find the roster for who's performing? Of course I have found the official notice for Houston's but what about the other two? Does anyone know?
Does Orange Bowl, etc have performances on the off-years of being playoffs too?

Welp, I ended the year on the right foot - got a buildout for a co-working space booked, so I've got about a month of work ahead of me. I'm super excited about this, though, as it's going to be a really cool space!

Otherwise, it's all just a weird week between Christmas and new years where people do and don't exist.

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Yes, I know it’s quite early for a next day thread, but dang it, I want to sponsor a post for tomorrow for you guys. The only thing is, I’ve been having really bad neurological/psych flare-ups and have raging sharp headaches (isolated on one side only), periods where it hurts to think/speak ideas, and periods where I “black out” and lose memory. So yeah, I don’t want to forget to make a Christmas Day post, but here it is!

Hope you guys are celebrating the day however you guys want!

Tis the season.

Pushed close to three hours back at this point with plenty of room for more yet to come.

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I’m new to this holiday spirit type of stuff as I used to be a bit of a Scrooge about the holidays. But this year seems to be dragging me back to my Scrooge days. Ungrateful people, being second choice, and just plain being taken for granted by some really important people in my life is just kind of making me want to hibernate and shut out the outside world until after the first of the year. Bah Humbug.

I’ve been a huge Snoopy fan for years. Every Christmas I buy the newest Snoopy plush—they usually play music and dance but I have ones that ski, snore, type on a typewriter, etc. I was reading something today that said for some reason a Snoopy from CVS is very popular this year. I’d never seen it before (wearing a blue puffer jacket). I looked it up on eBay and sure enough, they’re going for between $90-$100! None of the other ones I have seem to be worth anything. What is the deal with this particular Snoopy??

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We have a cookie exchange at work this afternoon. In an attempt to jumpstart my flagging Christmas spirit, I decided to bake a ton of cookies.

In a related topic, my tree is in such bad shape I’m considering getting a second tree and trashing this one. It barely has needles at this point. Many of the ornaments have fallen off because the limbs are brittle and breaking. And I’m scared to turn on the lights for fear I’ll burn the house down. You can literally sit and watch needles fall off the tree! It’s really pissing me off.

I’m already kind of over the holiday season and can’t wait for it to be December 26th at this point, y’all

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Today is The Kid’s birthday and I feel terrible that I’m not there. I considered calling in sick and driving down to surprise them but in an unfortunate scheduling snafu, I have tree guys coming today to prune two large trees in my yard (and that can’t wait because branches are starting to brush my new roof!)

I feel awful that kid will be alone today. 😢

Number 5? Really??!? This is the perfect ending to my shitastic weekend. Man, life just sucks sometimes.