Well, the first official business day of the new year has come and gone with no major glitches. Now that it's over, I've been thinking about some of the predictions that were made for this time:

• Every computer chip - embedded or not - in existence will go practically into meltdown from not being able to process the date change.
• Well...this obviously didn't happen. Most of the embedded chips in existence aren't even date-based. They're concerned solely with degrees; miles or the like.
• There would be empty shelves because shipping schedules would be screwed up from the non-functioning computers.
• Well...there was a run on stores but more as a last minute thing - and shipping is still going.
• My favorite one: All man made materials would disappear as the word made the transition into a new level of existence; leaving the world in a pristine, pure state.
• I almost wished for this one to occur. Oh well, I suppose that some wishful thinking couldn't hurt every now and then..

I know that it's not a big thing but it still feels strange to think of the year 2000. (just now on the news: they said flurries!!! flurries!!) I still remember how it felt when it changed from 1979 to 1980 - being only 10 years old, it struck a bit of fear into me. It was unknown because for the whole of my life at that time, it had been 197 - something. I remember hearing once that the next total solar eclipse that could be seen over the US would happen in 2048. It was (and still is) very nearly impossible to think of myself as 78 years old.

I guess that was what some people felt with this 2000 thing (I refuse to do that 3 letter shortcut again). It is a totally arbitrary thing but it can still strike fear simply because it brings us out of our little comfortable niches. We can no longer simply go along out of habit and write - we have to actually pay attention to what we're doing.

Now what does that say about me? lol


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