So After All That Whining...

...about how underwhelming I find New Years Eve, I went and had a great time.

I caved in to the kids' desire to go to, as Lileks calls it, "Chuck E. Farging Cheese". The kids played video games. I sat and admired the people who could work amid that din without going postal. I haven't been in a CEFC in probably close to ten years - if anything, the experience has gotten cheesier (and the pizza less so).

Then it was off to Landmark Center, where the city had set up an ice rink. The kids skated for about an hour and a half, and struck up a huge game of all-in tag while I talked with some of the other parents and swilled cocoa between the rink and the warming tent.

It was a wonderful time, all in all.

So just forget everything I said about New Years. Til next year, anyway.