December thirty first

New Year's Eve 2021

two thousand twenty one countdown

will transparently and seamlessly stream into

simultaneously linkedin January first

two thousand and twenty two,

whereby the Ball a geodesic sphere,

12 feet in diameter,

and weighing 11,875 pounds.

The aforementioned Ball covered

with a total of 2,688

Waterford Crystal triangles

vary in size, and range in length

from 4 ¾ inches

to 5 ¾ inches per side.

Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen
will ring in 2022 on CNN's
New Year's eve live
sampling madding crowd
regarding self promises
(such as holy matrimony) pledged.

Disinclination regarding tradition

to make resolutions stance

adopted courtesy yours truly.

Though such proclamation

may smack of high treason

no matter convenience to season

and ideal time to leaven existence,

I discern no rhyme nor reason.

Back in the day

listening to Guy Lombardo,

a Canadian-American bandleader,

violinist, and hydroplane racer

formed the Royal Canadians in 1924

with his brothers Carmen,

Lebert, Victor, and other musicians

from his hometown of
London, Ontario Canada

popularizing Auld Lang Syne

courtesy eighteenth-century

Scots poet Robert Burns.

Those very poignant moments,

when stroke of midnight

ushered in new year

(I counted, notched and tabulated

sixty two since mine birth where

decades now seemingly

flitted by at light speed)

as yours truly a doubting Thomas

disbelief regarding artificial construct,

nevertheless he ultimately, obliviously,
and haphazardly cruises along

space/time continuum at quite a clip.

Primitive paradigms witnessed,

sabotaged, nixed by the equivalent

of caveman version qua Elon Musk,
(who snubbed squalor)

punctuated equilibrium inadvertently

presaged, revolutionized, and

upended courtesy wheelwrights

millenniums before mankind

scrutinized cosmic sights

only from storied wuthering heights

swirling maelstrom analogous to dog fights

sans gods precipitating terrestrial blights,
whence thus spake Zarathustra
predicated upon Friedrich Nietzsche's

theory when cosmic consciousness alights.

E'er since Pope Gregory XIII effectively

(furnished, generated, and

instituted his holy mojo circa October 1582)
introducing Gregorian calendar
whisking Julian calendar out of vogue
with fair vanity
approximately four hundred

thirty nine years ago
chroniclers of time - mostly

religious Norwegian bachelor farmers

casually referred to brethren as bro

invocations ejaculated sometimes prematurely -

that thar comment haint no fallacy),

which echoed across

Lake Wobegon, said incantations

devout followers among populace

did likewise parrot and crow

generation after generation

whereupon enigmatic, dogmatic, charismatic

monk native to Burma

stoked one after another ego

synthesizing interpretation to explain
life on Earth and phenomena at large
geocentric theory did ebb and flow

amazingly enough maintaining accuracy

with marginal probability of error

precision parsing seconds, minutes, hours...

would only tolerate absolute zero

variation regarding prediction

of weeks, months, years...

as sophistication of civilization did grow

allowing, enabling, and providing

jolly fellow bellowing ho... ho... ho

could make his round the world wide web

timely trek linkedin with timepiece

assembled with B Corporation approval.

certification of "social and

environmental performance"

a private certification of for-profit companies,

distinct from legal designation

as Benefit corporation.

The above plug an unsolicited commentary

regarding San Francisco, California

based eco friendly and socially conscious company

and recent employer of eldest daughter,

an engineering University of Pennsylvania alumna.