The little round piece of rock in space we call Earth trundles full-circle around the Sun once again with those from UTC+14 (Republic of Kiribati & the Line Islands) to UTC+5 (Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, and so on) having already welcomed in the year 2006! Don’t forget that a Leap Second is to be inserted at the end of 2005, so the countdown for tonight will actually go like this:
- 23:59:57, 31st December 2005
- 23:59:58, 31st December 2005
- 23:59:59, 31st December 2005
- 23:59:60, 31st December 2005
- 00:00:00, 1st January 2006
Enjoy your leap second for an extra long snog with the nearest member of the opposite sex, pet animal, fluffy plush toy, the laptop or the back of your weaker hand and onwards to 2006! :D
PS: For those at home surfing the Internet and in dire need of gasms, the Photogasm™ in Reykjavík and Icelandic Photogasm™ from my World Domination 2005 gallery, should keep you occupied and give that warm, fuzzy feeling somewhere around your knickers. ;)
You seem to exactly know what you are talking about ;-)
Comment by SuSu — 08:54:55 UTC on the 2nd of January, 2006
Of course I seem to exactly know what I’m talking about! I wouldn’t be me otherwise… ;)
Comment by Jonathan Stanley — 11:32:54 UTC on the 2nd of January, 2006
no need to get metaphysical about this simple joke ;-)
Comment by SuSu — 11:52:50 UTC on the 2nd of January, 2006
What simple joke? ;)
Comment by Jonathan Stanley — 11:58:55 UTC on the 2nd of January, 2006
To not miss the exact moment of transition, I kissed my girlfriend at least 30 seconds. You simply cannot be too sure.
Comment by Dominik Dröscher — 14:49:16 UTC on the 2nd of January, 2006
Only giving the girlfriend 30 seconds of lurvin’? Tsk tsk! :P
Comment by Jonathan Stanley — 17:44:31 UTC on the 2nd of January, 2006
Unfortunately there were other party guests we had to wish a happy New Year. Or the kiss would have ended somewhere else. ;)
Comment by Dominik Dröscher — 22:40:26 UTC on the 2nd of January, 2006
You guys really have a one-track mind ;-)
Comment by SuSu — 09:02:14 UTC on the 3rd of January, 2006
Completely unlike you girls of course! ;)
Comment by Jonathan Stanley — 16:14:37 UTC on the 3rd of January, 2006
probably a guy blogging ;-)
Comment by SuSu — 16:40:53 UTC on the 3rd of January, 2006
If it is a guy… he does a darn good impression of being a woman! ;)
Comment by Jonathan Stanley — 16:47:56 UTC on the 3rd of January, 2006
You mean I wasted that leap second and I didn’t even realize it until now? :-P
Comment by MHobbit — 01:32:26 UTC on the 11th of January, 2006
Yes… your whole life is now wasted. :P
Comment by Jonathan Stanley — 01:41:44 UTC on the 11th of January, 2006