New Year's Eve 2022

Yours truly riddled with social anxiety,
hence (billy me) he will idle away
December 31^st, 2022

sequestered (with the missus)

hunkered down in his mancave

while madding crowd

entertains reckons partition of time

into seconds, minutes, days,

weeks, months, years...

as artificial man/woman made construct

as convenient modus operandi
invented to measure motion

of the sun, water, and sand
additionally to keep track

of quotidian activities.

December thirty first

two thousand twenty two countdown

will unsuspectingly, transparently

and seamlessly stream into

simultaneously linkedin January first

two thousand and twenty three,

whereby the Ball

comprising 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

bolted to 576 LED models

attached to its aluminum frame.

 

Among the triangles,
192 new crystals dedicated
to this year’s Gift of Love theme.

NBC will kick off the new year
with A Toast to 2022!
starting at 8pm EST,
hosted by TODAY co-hosts Hoda Kotb
and Jenna Bush-Hager.
The special will feature appearances
by fellow New Year's host Miley Cyrus,
along with Dolly Parton,
George Lopez, Martha Stewart,
Kenan Thompson and more.

 

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 employer of eldest daughter,

a biomedical engineering
University of Pennsylvania alumna.