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  • noun next year; the year following the current year, especially the early part of it.

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  • noun the calendar year just begun

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  • Wait a second! :-) I'm about to start celebrating my first Wordie-enriched New Year. Happy Twenty-O-Nine to all.

    January 1, 2009

  • Exactly, me too. What're we gonna do?

    January 1, 2009

  • Precrastineat, drink and be merry!

    January 1, 2009

  • Then tomorrow we'll have precrastinated, drunk and been merry!

    January 1, 2009

  • Or should that be precrastineaten?

    January 1, 2009

  • Here it's damn cold and kind of loud outside at the moment (or "at this juncture of maturization"). To start the new year with a positive signal concerning the employment situation I like to call them hirecrackers, though I've only employed two of them this time. Oh, and 2009 has the digit sum 11 and so has my nickname. (Well, if you add the values of the letters according to the alphabet and then calculate the digit sum.)

    Happy New Year then!

    January 1, 2009

  • I've got about 5 hours, 10 minutes and 1 extra second! Happy New Year! *precelebrates*

    January 1, 2009

  • Merry New Year everybody.

    January 1, 2009

  • Miss ye not the New Year's Day concert from Vienna this morning.

    January 1, 2009

  • This afternoon, you mean. :)

    January 1, 2009

  • What wasteful creatures we are to have disposable years. (annus renovus?)

    January 2, 2009

  • New Year. New Year.

    So good they blamed it twice.

    January 2, 2009