Happy Saturday. David and I are here for one last round before the ball drops, and we hunker down for a couple of months in the cold. The time between Christmas and New Years is always a little weird – like a week lost in time. We will work our way through this last visit of 2024, and we will also do our best to work along the lines Linda gave us:
Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “my year.” Use “my year” as the theme of your post. Use it any way you’d like. Have fun!
Stream of Consciousness Saturday – by Linda G. Hill
If we were having a beer, you’d want no clichés.
“Happy New Year, David! Are you ready to greet January with a smile on your face and joy in your heart?”
“No, Dan. But I’m ready to greet the rest of this day with a John Howell’s Bourbon Special in my hand and perhaps a slice of a meat lover’s pizza in my hand.”
“I can help with both of those. Dan, can I pour you a cold Modelo?”
“You can, Curley. Are you ready for the new year?”
“I’m not sure, Dan. This is the first time I’ve worked in a bar that doesn’t stay open until midnight on New Year’s Eve. I think I’m going to like that.”
“At least you’ll have a safer ride home.”
“I felt pretty safe last year. In fact, I was a happier to be the bartender than the poor slobs driving for Uber or worse, the designated drivers in the private parties. What about you two? Planning to get all gussied up with your wives and hit some fancy party?”
“Unless ‘gussied’ is a reference to my pajamas, no, Curley. My wife and I assume the ball will drop without our watching.”
“No glass of bourbon as the clock strikes twelve, David?”
“In a play on an old phrase, I’m sure it will be twelve o’clock somewhere when I have my glass of bourbon.”
“And you, Dan. Midnight seems late for a beer. Will you be up to greet the infant twenty-twenty-five?”
“I might have a “belt of redeye,” about the time Ione Sykes offers one to Conny Miller.”
“I don’t follow you, Dan.”
“Allow me, Curley. Dan begins and ends each year, or ends and begins, I suppose would be more accurate, with Rod Serling and the Twilight Zone Marathon.”
“Oh, oh, I get it. Conny Miller. The hired gun in The Grave. There were some classic faces in that episode, if I remember correctly.”
“Correct, Curley. Lee Marvin, Lee Van Cleef, James Best and Strother Martin.”
“I think I likes James Best better in his Twilight Zone episodes than when he portrayed Roscoe Coaltrain in the Dukes of Hazzard.”
“According to one source, Curley, James Best like those roles better, too. But David’s right. That’s how my year ends and begins.”
“I suppose it’s fitting. Twenty-twenty-four felt like a trip into the Twilight Zone, and who knows what the new year will bring.”
“Well, let’s not postulate those scenarios here. Dan, if we resolve anything for this coming year, let it be that this bar remains free of politics, social dilemmas and opinions other than our own about issues we know something about.”
“Agreed.”
Since the prompt is “my year” I thought I’d pick some photos from during the year.
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