Well, I’m shit-faced after being invited at the last minute to a small New Year’s party and I mean, hey, January 1, 2000, arrives and we still have electricity and water and food and everything. I mean, what’s the deal -I thought Y2K meant Armegeddon and nothing happened except the Washington monument lit up and the Times Square ball dropped and we had fireworks galore and other than that, everything’s normal. I’m kinda disappointed. I’d better get to bed.
All you said, squared.
I just spent the longest 3 hours of my life on Y2K Disaster Preparedness Watch. After long (expensive) hours of excruciating preparation, drills and contingency plans, I can’t tell you how rewarding it was to sit and fight sleep while absolutely nothing happened.
Don’t tell me that was “good news”. I am majorly pissed at the gazillions of work hours (don’t translate that into money, I implore you) went into to preparing for ziz, nada, zilch, nuthin’.
It was the equivalent of Kathy Lee Gifford doing heavy metal. (With Martha Stewart on drums and Richard Simmons on bass.)
As far as I can tell, the only folks who made out like (expletive deleted) bandits were the media who milked this poor cow until it oozed bovine plasma and consumers and taxpayers who bankrolled the whole ballyhoo.
I repeat: don’t tell me a disaster averted is success. There was no “disaster”. If “third world” societies didn’t suffer techo grief then what in the wide, wide world of overkill was this whole mess?
Cranky,
Veb
We aint outta the woods yet kids. One of the other message boards I frequent is totally screwed up…I think that as the work week begins we will start seeing and hearing of other impacts…
It had the same level of excitement as watching your car’s odometer roll over to 100,000 miles: much anticipated and cool to watch all those digits flip, but then you realize that nothing special is happening and your car has just hit a depreciation benchmark… so you just sigh and drive on.
Ho-Hum.
I too felt it to be anti-climactic (sp).
I did not even get to shoot anyone who was trying to break into my house for the little food I had stock piled. Dang, now what am I gonna do with all these bullets and rations.
Just kidding. I did absolutly no preparation and I am glad.
Jeffery
I feel cheated.
What happened to the angry villagers with lit torches wending their way up the hill to my house?
How come no planes fell out of the sky? No nuclear disasters, the ATMs work, we got water and electricity, and worst of all, no looting or pillaging.
I’m very disappointed.
I’m gonna ask for my money back.
A seminar on time travel will be held two weeks ago.
I had my flashlights on,the water there,and candles,but no Spam.I just couldn’t. 
The only thing I did was buy 2 gallons of water. Hubby came home early on Friday from work and was gloating the whole way “I told everyone it was a farce!”. They had been watching CNN at work.
On the lighter side, did anyone see the new Nike commercial they aired New Year’s Eve? Screaming riot! Shows this guy crawling out of bed early in the morn with “Auld Lang Syne” playing in the background, party paraphenalia all over the place. He gets into his running togs and goes out. As he stretches out a tank rolls by in the background. He’s running through the streets and you see ATM’s spitting money out, people looting stores, the National Guard and SWAT teams out beating rioters, the zoo animals are out running around (specifically a giraffe), traffic jams, accidents. As he runs up a hill, you see the city in the background, smoking and the sky full of helicopters. Runs by a bomb crater and by another runner, says “good morning” then the tag line “Just do it”. Priceless!
I rolled on the floor. Only saw it that once, but it was great!
Sorta depends on whose hype you were worried about, si? My firm works with retirement plans, for instance, and there was considerable anxiety about screw-ups if the system thought someone was too young to be receiving pension checks (for instance.) So, for the sake of our clients and our business, we spent a great deal of time/money being sure that the odometer change was a non-event.
This is just the calm before the storm. The problems will start this week when people return to work.
Yeah! Just check my latest addition to the “I’ve had a Y2K glitch” thread!
At work, some of our Word 97 documents say they were created in 1979, and others say they were created in 2009. We’re all in a tizzy! At least, the one lady in the office who cares what days documents were created is in a tizzy. The rest of us probably never would have known if not for her tizziness.
“I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it,” Jack Handy
As one of my neighbors wrote on the autograph wall at the party we went to, " Y2K, what were we thinking?"
Personally, it was all much ado about nothing.