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I stayed up on New Year's 1999 to see what would happen when the computer clocks struck midnight and nothing happened. Not falling for that again. And it's supposed to happen at 5:30 am my time so I'll plan to sleep in so if something does happen I'll never know what hit me.
I would have loved to have seen every ssn deleted on y2k, that would have been great.
Well, since it is the "End of the World" there shouldn't be any big Supermarket runs clearing out the shelves
I remember Y2K..you'd think a hurricane was bearing down. And the funny thing..bread, milk, fresh meat was what they were going after.
At least they thought about water though.
I was caught up in the Y2K fear working as a programmer. Busy year and good bonus money.
Among ourselves we thought that maybe ATMs, payroll software, etc. would go bonkers if the dates got screwed up.
Cash registers would still work though but couldn't convince anyone who didn't know any better.
Only software that was date dependent or did date calculations had a chance of screwing up and even then it would be for a short time. It's much easier fixing software after the glitch happens then to try to predict what would happen by reading code and try to implement fixes to bugs that haven't happened yet.
TGIFridays is supposed to be having a "party like there's no tomorrow!" event, since the 21st is on a Friday. Mayan margaritas, etc. Sounds like a hoot! I wish there was one in my area. For all the believers, the good news is there won't be a bill to pay when the party ends! lol
It's funny about all this hoopla about the end of the world ...
All ancient civilizations believed that time runs in a cycle, and they were astute observers of the night sky and accurately predicted, along with the ancient Sumerians, Greeks, etc. the precession of the Earth's orbit and how it relates to the view of the night sky. They also knew that these had a cycle and just predicted us going into the next one. The Greeks would have called this the age of Aquarius, give or take a couple decades.
So, one calendar ending is just the beginning of another. I think most reasonable and sane people believe this, too.
So what I'm going to do is work that day, then make travel plans with the wife for our coming trip and our 5th wedding anniversary. Then have some fun That's what I'm gonna do.
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At work thinking thank God it's Friday, and looking forward to the Christmas holidays ahead. That is all.
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