[GH85Carrera]

It is another rainy day here. All liquid, not lumpy or frozen water. We have had the 6th or 7th wettest year on record. Way more than regular and few complaints about rain.

I guess we will miss the big New Year's eve celebration downtown once again. It is supposed to be in the 20s tonight. For some reason walking around in a crowd in really cold weather just does not appeal to my wife or myself. I think a nice warm bed about 10:30 sounds 1000% better.

They have been doing the celebration down there since about 1987. Most places have a ball drop, but Oklahoma City is special, we have a ball rise! Before the mid to late 1980s downtown OKC was a ghost town at night. We passed a sales tax earmarked for downtown improvements. It has really transformed OKC into a different place. In the early 80s they had to mow the river twice per year. Now it actually is a Olympic training site, for rowing. The have a Olympic class white water facility, The NBA Thunder team, minor league baseball team, and hundreds of businesses and restaurants that just did not exist before. Entire zones have been developed, a new streetcar system just started operating. It goes from the bombing memorial, through automobile alley entertainment area, and on down to the canal and the bricktown area.