Last GMT of 2016 edition

Morning. Happy New Years Eve to ya.

This day in history:

1759 – Arthur Guinness signs a 9,000 year lease at £45 per annum and starts brewing Guinness.

1796 – The incorporation of Baltimore as a city.

1857 – Queen Victoria chooses Ottawa, then a small logging town, as the capital of Canada.

1862 – American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln signs an act that admits West Virginia to the Union, thus dividing Virginia in two.

1878 – Karl Benz, working in Mannheim, Germany, filed for a patent on his first reliable two-stroke gas engine, and he was granted the patent in 1879

1955 – General Motors becomes the first U.S. corporation to make over US$1 billion in a year

2004 – The official opening of Taipei 101, the tallest skyscraper at that time in the world, standing at a height of 509 metres (1,670 ft)

Slackard. 8 min. late on the last day of the year.

Solid all year. Tanks!! Because that is what the Army uses

Blue gm too

to a grand 2017

I'm on days now, that's my excuse

Armymann, Dave, Potch, et al

2016 can't end quick enough for me. I might stay up just to see it die.

Sparty