Happy New Year!
(C) Wlodek Black
Figure (c) Spencer Winset / Diamond group
... And with the "old"
Happy new year - too.
1999-nd already recorded his arrival
finally and irrevocably. Entered whether he
flew into whether there has crept
in our homes - but
At least the numbers
on the calendar change. Here and there
black and green piles soar over Moscow's snow-covered lawns
piled shapeless armfuls still smelling of pine needles "forest
Beauty "- and
not sold, have already lost all its value and therefore not
protected by anyone ... Thousands of them in the flame will
burn the lodge fire, and God forbid, so that from this fire
even though someone was warmer. The first time I've seen it:
mountains of unsold Christmas trees and mincing past them in
the first New Year's Day the first passers-by, trying to take
away look. The numbers on the calendar changed, and this is
probably the most noticeable change. Eighth year of crazy
hopeless "reforms" showed us the three nines, which reversed
many of the world seem sinister three sixes. And only the
children enjoy the new year as always - snowmen and
firecrackers, crackers and fireworks. From the celebratory
"gunfire" vzvyvayut car alarm sirens drowned in snowdrifts
Zhiguli and foreign cars but sometimes wince sifting through
garbage cans stray dogs and homeless people. Moscow ZXNet-chiki
(we, I mean) spent the evening of Dec. 31 New Year sisopnik in
Izmailovo Park and in the evening around us traditionally
patrolled "Glavmosbutylkontrol - old ladies who collect
emptying glass. Kids have fun as a child, adult - an adult
drink. Already on their way by the old year. "The hands are
approaching midnight." Bell strikes twelve Kremlin chimes, and
in a moment, muttering incoherently overlapping TV to trembling
panes of the balcony exhibited a powerful speaker, on a
completely deserted streets, lighted by hundreds of luminous
windows, carried by the majestic national anthem - "The Union
ironclad ...". Spinning a little vinyl gramophone record.
Rumble speakers on the balcony and explosions of firecrackers
in the rapidly reviving street. On a lonely highway is
absolutely free flying "Moskvich2141-taxi, the rate of under
two hundred, as soon as at all possible. Hisses champagne.
Happy New Year, with a new happiness! Smiley face or something,
put it? The keyboard has already in his hands. At MUSIC BBS - a
traditional virtual "party". Well, it's on Saturdays it is
traditional, but this time - Christmas. But the fact is does
not change. Spectrum entered into the eighteenth year of its
existence ... No, not the existence - of life! Hastily erased
smiley and pressed "On line". Happy New Year, ZX-People!
