It’s New Year’s Eve and, so far, most of our con­ver­sa­tion has been about snowflakes. It’s a long story.

We’re about to watch 9. We had a cou­ple plans for tonight — one was to watch episodes from our favorite TV shows that take place dur­ing New Year’s Eve. That is a fine idea until you endeavor to fig­ure out which episodes those might be. IMDB plot searches proved fruitless.

The next plan was to watch a movie that takes place, at least in part, dur­ing New Year’s Eve. This, too, was largely fruit­less for the same rea­sons. Also, I couldn’t recall a sin­gle movie we own tak­ing place (in whole or part) dur­ing New Year’s Eve.

Our final plan was to rent some­thing from iTunes. We enacted this same plan over Christ­mas at the Gregg house­hold. There we pur­chased “Four Christ­mases”, which took about sixty min­utes to down­load (and pro­duced about three min­utes of laugh­ter). Tonight we’ve pur­chased “9”, which took about twelve min­utes to down­load. Thank you, Mid­coNet high-speed broad­band internet.

So far I’m enjoy­ing “9”. Check it out. As Holli put it, it’s kinda fit­ting that we’re watch­ing “9” on the last day of 2009. That’s totally what we meant to do, yo.

Dumb post.

UPDATE: After dis­cov­er­ing that Hulu’s ball drop was truly a livestream (and not being re-broadcast for Cen­tral Time), we rung in the new year with a fire­works dis­play in the city of Fun­chal in Madeira, Por­tu­gal. Thank you, Ustream. The action starts about 3:00 into it.