Happy New Year Troopers!

Happy New Years to everyone. People always ask what party people like me and the wife like to do on New Years. When we were dating we went out. The first New Years we were together we went to the Campbell Apartment in Grand Central Station. This is a bar that was the private apartment of a big time railroad executive back in the day and is huge with great art-deco furnishings and decorations. They had a twenty piece orchestra with a guy who was a pretty good Frank Sinatra impersonator. I mean he didn't try to look like Frank but he sounded just like him. Anyway it was black tie and you got orderves and champagne all night for $100 per person. It was sweet. After midnight we went to a few of the joints in Midtown that I do the taxes for and carried on into the wee hours.

But in recent years we have been working too hard. So any chance we have to stay home is heaven. We go out to eat a lot sometimes three or four times a week. We finish at the store so late that there really isn't time to cook and you don't want to deal with the cleanup. So staying home is great.

And we get to enjoy my traditional bachelor New Years Eve fare. Tater Tots and pigs in a blanket. It's a family tradition.

I hope every one has a happy and a healthy and a very prosperous New Year.