I really am getting old. The prospect of staying up until 12 really didn't appeal to me last year. I don't htink it did the year before that either. My wife, on the other hand... she was kinda keen to see what was happening about town at midnight.
Thankfully, after driving through Bunbury in the afternoon her curiosity was sated and she no longer felt the need to do it. I don't know what it was, perhaps habit or the gravity of the occasion, but we still felt the need to see in the New Year at midnight. I was working until 9pm so that took care of that portion of the evening. At that time messages and greetings started to stutter through from the eastern states, even though we still had 3 hours to kill...
So we did what we always do. We played Boggle. And as usual, Robyn dominated. Thankfully, I still got a few wins in to keep me interested. Most exciting of all though was this little beauty right here:
By FAR the best Boggle "board" either of us had ever seen. I don't know how many games of Boggle you've played where you've scored 37 on a four-and-up and still lost, but that happened to me. We both had super long lists of words and hardly any of them crossed over! Unfortunately we found what we think must be the longest word on there (8 letters) after the 2 minute gong.
For all the word-nerds, enjoy.
Much love,
J.
