Happy New Year!

[vilakins]

We're 20 minutes into 2014 here and have not just seen the fireworks on the Sky Tower but also let off a multiple one of our own that one of Greg's clients gave him: very loud but not enough pretty aerial explosions.

Anyway, all the best to all of you in 2014!

Comments

[trixieleitz]

Happy New Year!

[vilakins]

I hope it's started well for you too!

[kalypso]

Just saw your Sky Tower on television news! Happy New Year!

[vilakins]

Seriously? It's not at all spectacular compared to Sydney's Harbour Bridge fireworks but it is the first. :-)

[kalypso]

Yes, it got in as the first display - then we had Sydney!

[vilakins]

We'll watch Sydney on tonight's news. I heard they did a triple display this year.

[kalypso]

I gather Dubai showed off again!

[corvuscornix]

And to you! :-)

[ultrapsychobrat.livejournal.com]

Thank you from twenty hours until the New Year!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I think you're in the latest timezone where I have friends.

[ultrapsychobrat.livejournal.com]

And you're in the earliest for me! Hope your celebration was fun. It's now 1:22 A.M. of the first.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I'm in the earliest full stop! (Or period in the US.) :-)

[ultrapsychobrat.livejournal.com]

Really? I guess I'd have to be on an island somewhere in the Pacific to be in the latest.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

[looks at map] Yep! Or on the west coast of Alaska.

[ideealisme.livejournal.com]

Happy new year to you and yours! It's early where I'm sitting too.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I think you're about 13 hours behind since it's daylight saving here.

Greg's annoying sister rang him up at 7am this morning under the assumption that everyone goes to bed and gets up as early as she does, even on new year. Oy.

[jhall1.livejournal.com]

Thank you. And a Happy New Yesr to you too. As I type, there's just over six hours to wait before it will be 2014.

BTW, I suspect that "have not just seen" should read "have not only just seen".

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

And you should be just about there now! Cheers!

"Just" means "only" (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/just#Adverb). I could change it a la Pete Cook and Dudley Moore but hey, regional differences! We don't say "whilst" or use "only" for "except that" or "it's just that" either. Sometimes I wonder if I should use "only" in my fic but it just doesn't come naturally.

I suspect "yesr" should be "year". :-) I'm reading George Takei's Oh Myyy! and it obeys the law that typos sneak into comments about grammar: following a chapter on bad grammar he uses "it's" as a possessive. I got an advance digital copy so I hope he found and fixed that.

[jhall1.livejournal.com]

:)

I'd misinterpreted "just" as meaning "recently".

[nautile26.livejournal.com]

Happy 2014 !
\0/
Looking good so far.
A new year, a new Doctor, a new Sherlock.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Yesss! Pity we get so few Sherlocks.

[astrogirl2.livejournal.com]

Happy New Year! Keep 2014 safe for us until it gets here. :)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

[pets little new year]

[imhilien.livejournal.com]

Happy New Year to you too. :D

[stevie-carroll.livejournal.com]

And to you!