• It’s 20 minutes til 2011 and I’m watching NKOTB & Backstreet Boys perform. If they weren’t all old now I’d say my TV went back in time. #
• Happy 2011!!! #newyear #
• This is the 33rd New Year’s Eve I’ve spent with my grandfather. Great way to start each year. #
• New Year’s Day is always kind of sad because it means my Christmas vacation is over. Thank god for an extra day this year. #
• Ugh, 53 degrees yesterday, 48 & rainy today… Where did winter go?! It’s like it took the weekend off. #

• It stinks that all 2 feet of the snow is gone already but probably will make BBQing easier tomorrow. #
• RT @NASA: “For the first time since 1990, there’s going to be a Blue Moon on New Year’s Eve http://bit.ly/7xg9o3" #
• RT @cnnbrk: “Knighthood for Patrick Stewart? Queen says make it so. http://bit.ly/5Y9RME" – Way to go Captain Picard! #
• Spending my 32nd consecutive New Year’s Eve with my grandfather. When you find a good tradition, you stick with it. #
• Happy New Year, tweeps! Hope 2010 is the start of a good decade! #
• RT @NASA: “Happy New Year! Congratulations on making it another 584 million miles around the sun!” #
• RT @embly917: “It feels like a Saturday. But I’m happy it’s only Friday and I still have a weekend of no work. ” – my thoughts exactly! #
• Mummers parade on TV and eating a ton of New Year’s Eve leftovers. 2010 doesn’t suck yet. #

• So many tweets to catch up on after my cell ate its own tail while I was on a 3 week business trip! Windows is Windows, even on a phone. #
• Saw the sun set twice on the same night while driving through NY. That’s gotta screw with the space time continuum or something. #
• @tgoodfellow Congrats. Just remember what Bill Cosby says… “Eat Jell-O Pudding Pops” No wait, wrong quote I mean this http://bit.ly/2yflsV in reply to tgoodfellow #
• RT @kingsthings: “It’s getting close to showtime! Time to put on the suspenders!” -Only Larry King could say that & it sound totally normal. #
• Changing the status level of a system to “yellow” doesn’t make it acceptable that it’s broken!!! #
• Reading Rainbow cancelled?! You don’t have to take @levarburton ‘s word for it, but but now the next gen of kids can’t! http://bit.ly/YrjMk #
• @levarburton You should talk to @leolaporte about doing something similar to Reading Rainbow on the #TWiT network http://bit.ly/YrjMk #

Happy New Year! Here’s to a happy, healthy and prosperous year! I’ll be spending today recovering from all the cooking and eating I did yesterday and watching the mummers parade. Hopefully, the parade will go on again next year despite the city’s budget problems.

For the past thirty years, I’ve spent my New Year’s Eves with my grandfather watching the ball drop in Times Square. This year, however, I was able to send a message to those brave souls that will spend the evening watching the ball drop in person.

You can too. Read about it at CNN.com then go do it right here.

Here’s the first blog post of 2006! It’s an automated post, but still, it’s one minute after midnight when you’re getting to see this, so HAPPY NEW YEAR 2006!