HAPPY NEW YEAR from the Far East, everyone!!
Actually, it's already past 3:00AM of January 1, 2007 here.
So, here's what I was doing the moment the date and year changed

With a friend at at classy and cozy Jazz club,
Little Manuela.
I came home around 1:30AM, then decided to make the trek to our neighborhood shrine, which is only a couple of minutes from here, to see if there were still people around, and I could make the first visit of the year (for my father, who was a Shinto faithful), and to my surprise, found that the end of the line of people was still at the bottom of the steep steps that lead up to the shrine permises. So I ended up finally coming home well past 2:30.
May you all be able to have a very good Year of the Wild Boar!!