December 31 is Japanese New Year, otherwise known as Oomisoka. My Japanese wife prepared a nourishing bowl of soba noodles for me. It isn’t your typical soba as it has a special name (toshikoshi soba) and symbolises how people cut off all the negativity that has occurred within 2023 by cutting these noodles with their chopsticks. As I tucked into the noodles, I took a deep breath to appreciate my time on Stacker News. May it yield even more sats for me next year heh