Going to be in the Columbia area for New Year’s Eve and still not sure what you’re doing to ring in 2006? Pick up the latest issue of the Free Times, which provides a listing of all the local New Year’s Eve parties along with a detailed guide to Columbia’s club scene. The handy guide is also available on their website. Will you see some of us Colaspotters out on the town come Saturday night? While I can’t speak for my colleagues, I can confidently say that I will not be going out. I’ll be kicking back with my stamp collection, some sparkling grape juice, and Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve, a year-end tradition that you know will be slamming because they leave the “g” off “rocking.” It might just rival 2002, the year I welcomed in the New Year with my deformed, virtual animal pals in Animal Crossing.