and to think 10 years ago today, we were all freaking about the Y2K fiasco....

[gometros]

...and now we are less than three years away from total destruction on 12/21/2012.

Now I'm confused. I have a December use year. does that mean I will have to use all of my 2013 points in the first three weeks of December 2012? Maybe I should borrow them and get a Grand Villa in 2012

 

[CapeMayMommy]

Thinking, "I don't get what all the danged fuss is about - we've still got another year left in the current decade/century/millennium. The next millennium doesn't start until January 1, 2001!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

I was in Times Square, New York City on NYE. I got there at about 8:30 am and watched countries all over the world flawlessly come into the year 2000.

Al Franken was interviewing me and a few others in my area. He kept saying "Go home, the beginning of the millenium isn't until next year". (who would have guess he'd become a senator)

I didn't want to hear it---I had been standing outside for hours freezing my butt off---I wanted it to be the beginning of the new millenium, gosh darn it.

By the way, after standing for over 16 hours, I was chilled, dehydrated and sick for four days afterwards---but it was sooooo worth it.

 

[Wall-E1]

Now I'm confused. I have a December use year. does that mean I will have to use all of my 2013 points in the first three weeks of December 2012? Maybe I should borrow them and get a Grand Villa in 2012

Yes, the good news is that your points will become available on December 1st giving you twenty days to you the points before your untimely death. I too will be trying for a grand villa at Bay Lake Towers.

 

[bumbershoot]

You remember?? in 1999, most of us were worried about everything stopping working as we rolled into 2000..We stocked up on batteries, and water just in case??? What were YOU doing 10 years ago??

Well, first, I'm a 2000/2001 change in millenium believer, so the 99/00 change was NOTHING to me.

But what was I doing? Dealing with a dad who'd had a heart attack, a mom who'd been diagnosed with leukemia a week after my dad's heart attack, and I couldn't go out to visit her b/c I came down with the flu from hell, and as I went to bed on NYE I truly thought I was going to die that night. When I woke up Jan 1, I was absolutely surprised, because I'd been so sick.

And then as the year went on, my mom went into remission but I didn't know for a week b/c I'd asked them to stop sending me emails at work about her updates, and I still couldn't visit b/c either she would catch a cold or I would, and then a week before my scheduled visit, she died suddenly thanks to lack of care for new symptoms by all of her doctors, and my world ended as I knew it. I'd waited from my 17th birthday to be 30, when I felt my life would start...and not 6 months after my 30th, I was motherless.

10 years ago sucked BIG time for me.

Then again, October of that year I met my now husband, a few years later married and had a kid, etc etc, so that's been nice.

 

[bumbershoot]

As far as the Mayan calendar predicting the end of the world...please. It is carved in stone! They guy probably got to 2012 and figured he and his ancestors would be long dead and his arm was getting tired so he put down the hammer and chisel.

Thanks for that!

Thinking, "I don't get what all the danged fuss is about - we've still got another year left in the current decade/century/millennium. The next millennium doesn't start until January 1, 2001!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

I knew I liked you!

Al Franken was interviewing me and a few others in my area. He kept saying "Go home, the beginning of the millenium isn't until next year". (who would have guess he'd become a senator)

Annoying man, but smart!



Also, in '99 I'd just started working at amazon, as a CS rep (hubby had been hired the month before I was, and we met there, a year after being hired), and it was so NEW. This nearly brand new company (and I know it wasn't brand new, but it FELT brand new). It was so exciting. Like there was no limit.

And hubby works for them still/again, and it's still so new-feeling, no limits, just the same. Awesome.

Thankfully their systems had been created with the 2000 thing in mind, so we didn't have to worry about much at all. I don't think the IT people did either, since they'd built it all so recently.

 

[Rora]

What a fun thread!!

I was 13 years old and I was at a family friend's party, bored out of my mind! Let's hope this year is different!

 

[MomNeedsVacay]

Not all that wee. Jan 1 is my birthday so I was turning 22 as our pending death loomed at midnight on Jan 1, 2000.

your my age, then... AHHHHH--the carefree days of my early 20's....

 

[wdwgirl03]

It's funny, my dad was just talking about this the other day. I don't remember doing anything specific but I do remember how in my 8th grade journalism class this was our big story.