Miata Mailing List: January 2000, Message #11
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| From: | Phredd <phredd@exis.net> |
| Subject: | HAPPY2K! |
| Date: | Sat, 1 Jan 2000 02:47:07 -0500 |
Miataphyles:
Well, it's New Year's Eve. I thought I'd check in to see what's
going on and say "Howdy."
'Been off the list for about 6 months owing to the extremely
disagreeable circumstance of going back to work. For wages. Daily
commute. Dilbert cube. The whole enchilada. For anyone interested, live
TV sux, IMHO.
Not much else happened during the last half of the last annum of
the last decade of the last century this last millennium. [Yeah, I know
that's all been debated ad nauseum but I'll have to confess that I don't
give a damn one way or the other.] The few landmarks during the period,
however, include: My bride's recent purchase of a new couch, Mr.Redd's
turning 50, and some snotnose's keying of his larboard flank.
So, as you can tell from this message's time stamp, I'm just
sitting around waiting out the last few moments before Y2K [Don'tcha hope
you'll never hear that acronym again?] kicks over.
I expect many of you prudent peecee drivers have shut down your
machines, wrapped them in aluminum foil, put
'em in doubled-up Handibags, and buried them in your back yards to keep
them safe until after the riots subside but I, being a visionary [Apple
may not have done everything right but, at least, they knew the century
was going to end], purchased a Macintosh early on and don't have to worry
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