04:48:08 Sunday January 02 2005
New Years Eve Eve: After work I returned home to find Castor already here. We hung out for a bit until Wanke made it to town. The original plan was to go out to Nick's and play pool with the whole crew. However at some point after Lehmann showed up the pre-party at my place became the party and we never made it out. We played more hands of euchre and spades than is really good for anyone.

New Years Eve: I slept late. At some point I was informed that John's grandfather had died. As a result John's New Years Party was called off, or perhaps I should say that it migrated over here. Around 19:00 I left for A-town. There I attended a party with Amber and several of her friends. It was actually a lot of fun. I originally went because I wanted to hang out with Amber. I haven't seen her much since she took to jumping to a new location every three months. So I was surprised that the folks at the party were so cool and I had a better time than I was expecting. After midnight I hung around until about 4:00 drinking cola and sobering up before making the return trip to Lafayette. When I made it back to my house I found that there was still a party in progress. Scott and Cretia had even appeared while I was away. Needless to say I didn't get to bed for some time.

New Years Day: Spent most of the day sleeping. Once I awoke I declared it "recovery day". I cleaned the house and watched Invader Zim. Terry made it back into town so he, Lehmann, Wanke and I had dinner at Denny's circa midnight.