On to the margin of new year's eve: there's this silly tradition of firing rockets, fireworks and all kinds of stuff around. Can we *please* stop doing that? Not only is it noisy, and scary as fuck for toddlers, dogs, and to some extent, even adults; but when I take down the trash at 4am, long hours after the neighbourhood stopped being idiots, I could literally cut the smoke. It wasn't fog. It was thick and heavy smoke, sitting on top of the whole area.