Well, by my wristwatch, it’s about 52 minutes into 2010. Happy New Year!

That would make this the very first journal entry in The Corsair Journal of 2010. Fireworks burst outside as I write this entry, and my head is swimming with a combination of several liquors that I have consumed during the evening’s “festivities.”

As I try to compose this journal entry (I still $#&@*! hate the word blog), it would seem pretty obvious that I’ve made pretty “merry” in the early hours of January 1, 2010. Suffice to say, I didn’t go to any parties. Rather, I stayed home and played board games with my family.

However, despite winning American History Trivial Pursuit (even with a good dose of Smirnoff and Jack coursing through my veins I’m still a trivia whiz; that just goes to show you exactly what a geek I am), I feel I’ve embarrassed myself pretty good.

I’ve always been particularly careful in front of my step-kids, especially considering that their legal father was always considered a fair man with the bottle. While I do not posses the highly-trained liver that my stepkids’ father possesses, I think I hold my booze pretty good. I’ve always been a happy drunk and with liquor in my system, and have a very easy laugh.

I can only hope that with the light of day, and the hangover I have surely earned through the early morning’s activities sequestering me to the master bath, that my wife and stepkids don’t judge me too too harshly.

I want to wish all of my loyal readers a happy 2010. May the new decade bring you much peace, happiness, and success. And may it bring me a hangover cure that wasn’t borne from Southern lore–where I come from, a Pepsi and a Moon Pie is the most tried-and-true hangover cure there is. Well, all I have to ring in the New Year is Caffeine-Free Diet Pepsi, and I don’t have any Moon Pies. I’ll have to go to Publix and grab myself a 12-pack of RC and some Little Debbie Swiss Rolls.