Happy New Year!
Cory and I rang in the New Year at the Uptown Columbus overpriced pub crawl. We spent most of the night at Scruffy Murphy's, an Irish Pub-type hangout (the website is actually for their Orlando location... but you get the picture). It was a little depressing, in that we've lived in this city for over two years, and we don't have any friends to spend New Year's Eve with. But the band was good... sort of a ska/funk type cover band.
The last few New Year's Eves around here have been pretty tame. Two years ago, Cory moved to town on December 30th, and I had to cover the Peach Bowl (Auburn vs. UNC). The game ended around 10:45 pm, I had to do an 11:25 live shot, and we rang in 2002 sitting in a traffic jam in Downtown Atlanta.
Last year, Jan and Steve were visiting. We drove back from Panama City that afternoon, and we were kind of pooped out. Jan was sick, so we went to the Cannon Brewpub for dinner, then came home, watched the tube, and split a bottle of Champagne.
New Year's is actually one of my favorite holidays. It's right up there with Halloween. I've had some pretty crazy New Year's Eves... Spent most of my Kirksville New Year's at a bar called TP's office, best known for it's owner, Paul Fowler, and his wacky habit of dressing like Elvis and putting on a show. My last couple of years in the 'Ville, everyone from work got together at our friend Josh's house, rented a karaoke machine, and had a blast. New Year's Day, nobody had a voice (good thing ABC airs a ton of bowl games, so we didn't have to do newscasts... we would have been screwed!).
Cory and I rang in the New Year at the Uptown Columbus overpriced pub crawl. We spent most of the night at Scruffy Murphy's, an Irish Pub-type hangout (the website is actually for their Orlando location... but you get the picture). It was a little depressing, in that we've lived in this city for over two years, and we don't have any friends to spend New Year's Eve with. But the band was good... sort of a ska/funk type cover band.
The last few New Year's Eves around here have been pretty tame. Two years ago, Cory moved to town on December 30th, and I had to cover the Peach Bowl (Auburn vs. UNC). The game ended around 10:45 pm, I had to do an 11:25 live shot, and we rang in 2002 sitting in a traffic jam in Downtown Atlanta.
Last year, Jan and Steve were visiting. We drove back from Panama City that afternoon, and we were kind of pooped out. Jan was sick, so we went to the Cannon Brewpub for dinner, then came home, watched the tube, and split a bottle of Champagne.
New Year's is actually one of my favorite holidays. It's right up there with Halloween. I've had some pretty crazy New Year's Eves... Spent most of my Kirksville New Year's at a bar called TP's office, best known for it's owner, Paul Fowler, and his wacky habit of dressing like Elvis and putting on a show. My last couple of years in the 'Ville, everyone from work got together at our friend Josh's house, rented a karaoke machine, and had a blast. New Year's Day, nobody had a voice (good thing ABC airs a ton of bowl games, so we didn't have to do newscasts... we would have been screwed!).
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