Magical New Years or Apocalyptic Thunder?

Fact: In China during the week of Chinese New Year firework purchasing and use is legal.

I'm sitting in my sisters apartment and am having serious trouble watching season 1 of Californication because outside my window it sounds as if the city is under heavy attack. The whistling and banging of fireworks began almost 2 hours ago when the sun went down and has literally not stopped. Last night the explosions went on till about 2am. While I am definitely a person who enjoys displays of fireworks and a good old New Years celebration, the non-stop eeeeee-POW of fireworks has brought me to the brink of my sanity. Forget going to sleep early or enjoying a nice movie with a glass of wine, all hands below deck, prepare the bomb shelter, hold on to your hats it's going to be a long night.

While I'd normally be out and about, having dinner with family or friends, maybe at a bar, I'm currently socially handicapped as I (1) have no battery on my phone and no charger to speak of and (2) just moved to Beijing (again) and have maybe 2 or 3 friends in this city? So here I am, at home, drinking a cup of ginger tea, watching movies and tvshows on my computer and hoping, for the love of all that is good in this world, that the banging will stop.