Tomorrow I’ve got to get moving on some tasks for the Princeton book upcoming…but tonight we enjoyed our usual New Year’s Eve tradition of watching the Twilight Zone marathon with friends,
eating chocolate fondue,
and playing Settlers of Catan (despite the triumph here displayed, our neighbor Justin did NOT win…his wife Mel, considering her next move, smeared us all),
If you’re the first person to identify exactly what we’re watching here, right before 2007 turns into 2008, I’ll send you an autographed copy of the History of the Ancient World.
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Just finished kitchen clean up after our New Year’s Eve party and thought I’d check your blog before bed. Were you watching Dead Man’s Shoes? We were watching Ratatoullie at our kid friendly party outside in the backyard on this humid Florida night. Your Twillight Zone marathon sounds much more festive! Happy New Year!!!
On second thought, it isn’t Dead Man’s Shoes. I think it’s Two? Try, try again. 🙂
My parents didn’t let me watch Twilight Zone (sigh) – we watched the pilot episode of Battlestar Galactica last night.
My daughter Sarah thinks it might be an episode called One More Pallbearer.
Happy new year!
Maybe The Invaders?
Love your books by the way!
I’ve no idea about the movie, but the man on the TV in the second picture looks jealous of your chocolate tower. Happy New Year to you too.
Did you get it? Time enough at last! With Burgess Meredith as Henry Bemis.
Here’s my response: looks like you are watching the Twilight Zone episode “Time Enough At Last” , Written by Rod Serling, first aired on 11/20/1959 (I think)
Time Enough at Last. The poor fellow.
OK, Matt, technically you get it first, but you and Jeremy and Teresa all posted so close together that you all get a book. 🙂
Dang, I should have checked this morning. I knew that, it’s my favorite Twilight Zone episode! (I an extremely myopic myself…)
All I know is the Twilight Zone song by The Manhattan Transfer — and thanks to this post, I’ll have it rattling in my brain all afternoon.
I like the chocolate fondue tradition. We’ll have to work on starting that. YUM.
We enjoyed Port and cold medicine — quite a combo (-:
Happy New Year, Susan.
Di
I think that this is the first time I have ever won anything!
I spent my New Year’s playing Setllers, too! 🙂 Our favorite game
Is that an expansion pack of Settlers? Which one? We just got the basic game and I have won 3 out of 4 times.
Yep–that’s Seafarers of Catan, the expansion with sea and ships in it. GREAT game.
You guys were watching Its A wonderful Life! I love that movie, my family watches it every New Years Eve.
OK way off, didn’t read all the posts!
Okay…not only do you have my favorite specialty beer (Abita Purple Haze) at your table, but you also have egg cartons on top of your fridge! We have stacks of cartons awaiting eggs as my (newly) Well-Feathered Hens pretend that it’s winter here. Those tricksters…
Happy New Year, thank you, etcetera. 😀
Debra in TX
Seafarers is good, but have you played Cities and Knights? In my opinion, it’s much better. We play that probably 90% of the time we play any of the Settlers….and when you combine Seafarers and Cities and Knights you get quite the game! 🙂
Oh, holy smokes. I should check my Google Reader more often. Poor Henry Bemis. Do you think he committed suicide, or he took to composing his own verse? Before he died of radiation poisoning, I mean.
I love that you love Catan. So do we. I’m with Suzanne– Cities and Knights is the best. We’ve also had several friends combine their basic sets to play Giant Catan. Lots of fun, but you have to have a lot of hours to dedicate to it.