Happy New Year to one and all.
I have not been around much of late due to my having been lying on Deaths Door expecting an agonising demise from the worse dose of Flu ever known to a human being.
Mrs. D. muttered something about try having a baby but she has never been a man with the flu 
Slan,
D. 
Best wishes to everyone for a happy and prosperous new year!
djm
Does that mean 2008 flu bye fer ye? Or is that too avian?
Oh good griefā¦men really are such babies when theyāre sick 
Glad youāre feeling better, dub. And Happy New Year to you as well 
The best to all. And dub, youāll certainly recover. Thatās your gift for 09.
Rhetorically speakinā, I am very glad to see the end of 08 and truly look forward, hoping for some better behavior by many.
Cheers. 
Hey! passing stones is as painful as birthing. And since humans are sexually dimorphic with males having greater mass, we suffer greater pain. 
Happy year of the Snake! Hissssssss. Oops! got that wrong, Iām such an OX.
Well nowā¦ who suffers most is debatableā¦
Mr. D Iām glad to know you are still among thā livinā, wondered where youād been- (I suppose this set back will put a bit of a damper on your new year festivities. )
and do have a Happy New Year All a Yāall!!!
Yo Betsy..
I havenāt seen in the New Year sober in over thirty years now and Iām too old to change now.
A few of us are heading out later to a place where the disc jockey is only about five foot nothing so I will be laying a brotherly hand on his shoulder and suggesting that he play a lot of ABBA because meself and the rest of the reprobates over there at the Bar are big fans.
MAMA MIAā¦Here I go again..
Slan,
D.
And what kind of bar was it you go to, again?? 
Celebrating tonite by way of a gig at an art studio wingding. Hey, itās pay, but why theyād want trad for it is beyond me. Of course weāll be playing Auld Lang Syne, and in Rabbieās original Scots, as is only right and proper. Far be it from us to make it easy on people. But weāll be providing handouts for translationās sake.
Iāll raise the glass or so when I get home.
Well Nano old buddy the crack is this.
My own local is owned by a brewery that has a policy of selling very good pure beer very cheaply - about a pound less than anywhere else - but to finance this they have no music licences. No jukebox, no TV, no radio, no bands, no Karaoke, no nuttinā at all.
The other places around here are full of manic depressives moaning about recession, repression, depression and anything else that upsets them.
So on a night like this the only ticket in town for those who like it loud, wild and crazy is the local Gay Bar. Mighty crack, plenty of Disco music and some weird and wonderful sights to see.
Bring it on
Slan,
D.
Its good to hear youāre all on the mend well enough to go out partying tonight.
Last week I begged to be excused from accompanying my daughter and her family to visit my son and his family this week.
Iām not ill but Iāve been wearing thermal underwear since October. Our November heating bill was $500. which was what our February heating bill was this year. Iāve already seen way too much snow this season and that was mostly even before this season officially began.
Yeah,
whine, whine, whine.
In an attempt to adjust the Feng shui of the day more favorable I looked into attending āFirst Nightā celebrations in Evanston (a suburb just north of Chicago). Theyāve been doing it for 15 years with attendance in the multiple thousands. Besides all the bars and restaurants, even all the churches in town would open up for the night with concerts, puppet shows and dances.
Its been canceled for lack of public funding.
I should have seen it coming. Trad Fest, a big Old Time event Iāve really enjoyed in the past at Old Town School of folk Music here in Chicago was canceled (would have been at the end of January) for lack of funding.
Republican administrations havenāt been good for musicians have they.
Just as well Iām not going out tonight. Its hard enough not to loose the car in a pot hole during the daylight and the city streets are full of them already.
Weāll probably just stay home and finish off some of the last of my husbandās home brew while starting off a batch of one of the second to next.
Hey, chalk one up for tolerance. Theirs, that is.
No worries there..
The regulars there know a lot of the regulars from my local.
Itās a small town.
Slan,
D.
There was a man named Mr. Lang,
He had a neon sign,
And Mr. Lang was very old,
So they called itā¦
Old Langās Sign
happy new year to you all. may 2009 bring us all the best.
Definitely a Happy New Year to all.
āHereās tae us, whaās like us - damn few anā thieir aā deidā
David
Nice one big fellaā¦
very nice..
Slan.
D.
Happy New Year from chilly but beautiful Devon!
Ro and Lesley
Happy New Year! May all you WhOAās be fulfilled!