Where will you be on New Year's Eve?

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Certainly, this is not a question that most people are asking now, after all, next New Year's Day seems so far away. But since it will be 2000, there are those who have made vacation plans at popular destinations years in advance. Hotels at Disney and around Times Square for example have been booked solid for some time. It probably isn't a reach to think that many of these folks are still planning on going (or think they are).

We members of this Asylum think of Y2K and its potential impact on us every day, and are already contemplating the coming rollover. So I ask, what about you - What are your New Year's Eve plans?

Two cents: Y2K hasn't changed my New Year's Eve plans, which when I think of it is somewhat surprising, in that Y2K has changed so many other plans in my life. Since having children, we just stay at home, and plan to do the same for this coming rollover too.

-- Rob Michaels (sonofdust@net.com), February 17, 1999

Answers

I too have not changed my New Year Eve's plans. That has traditionally been the one day a year that I do not venture out into public. My major concern about the coming New Year is my ex-wife planing to take my 9-year old daughter to NYC to celebrate the beginning of 2000. I have tried to convince her that this is a VERY BAD idea, but she is still a DWGI.

Still Praying,

Merlin

-- Merlin Emery (MerlinEmery@yahoo.com), February 17, 1999.


Rob, hibernating, trying not to get rolled over. Hopefully counting it down with my fellow Yourdynamites at yehear Asylum ;-)

HAPPY NEW YEAR ????

xxxxxxx xxxxxxx xxxxxxx

-- Leska (allaha@earthlink.net), February 17, 1999.


I feel compelled to do SOMETHING on such a momentous occasion, and since I want to be within walking distance of home we will probably walk a block and a half to the social-club-named-for-an-animal that my husband belongs to and welcome the new year in with gap-toothed, chain-smoking drunks, just like we did this year. hooray.

-- Pearlie Sweetcake (storestuff@home.now), February 17, 1999.

Well I work for a university in upstate New York. I will be on duty and camping out at the office. We are on stand-by and will be there for support for the programmers. It will be an eventful ride home.

-- Duane (Duane24062@aol.com), February 17, 1999.

A great question. I was wondering about the same thing a few days ago and pondered on whether or not to post.

It was just this past New Year when as a family we were discussing where we thought would be the best place for us to celebrate the new millennium. Having two children ages 11 and 13 we thought that we should do something memorable for them. We usually stay home. Anyhow we contemplated Disney World, but ruled that out. Then we considered New York, but ruled that out too. We came up with going to the UK to spend it with extended family. When we spoke with them over the 'phone over the past holidays it was apparent that they were missing us not being there. The children and I had just spent the past summer with them. So we thought that it might be a good idea to plan a trip to be with them for next christmas and New Year. (At that time we had no inkling about the Y2K bug). The funny thing was we had heard a news report about the possibility of a champagne shortage for the next New Year and that it might be a good idea to stock up on some now. I wonder how many people heard that report and are stockpiling champagne!

We have tried to take into account all the options open to us and it appears that going to the UK where my in-laws live on a farm might be the safest bet for us. We are, however, still making preparations here just in case.

They have a computer with internet access and I was thinking of keeping in touch with this forum over the holidays. I was wondering if anyone else was thinking about doing the same thing.

-- Carol (usa-uk@email.msn.com), February 17, 1999.



Bob Barbour (prof, out of NZ) is going to try to keep us on the net updated as the day unfolds from the start of the year - obviously, if point-of-date problems will occur, he will see it first.

Sir Merlin, good luck changing their minds. That's most likely a very dangeous place to be - at that time, particularly, for two women. Heck - at any time, for anybody - an NFL linebacker was recently mugged in NYC!

-- Robert A. Cook, P.E. (Kennesaw, GA) (cook.r@csaatl.com), February 17, 1999.


I'll be howling at the moon myself. Check this out for all-time stupidity: my brother-in-law, a L.A. film editor, is planning to be on a Millenium cruise with his wife on its way to Capetown on 1/1/2000. Really. His mother, who is a GI, is horrified. You see, we're just over-reacting and, anyway, his neighbors were very nice to each other during the last earthquake ......

-- BigDog (BigDog@duffer.com), February 17, 1999.

Where I am every New Year's Eve... at home, away from the madding crowd and the drunk drivers, though I did that myself in years gone by. I'll be with my wife and, I hope, my 18 year old daughter who--I pray--will have just completed her first semester in college. Is it hard to hold hands when your fingers are crossed?

-- Vic (Roadrunner@compliant.com), February 17, 1999.

Hey - if the boat is tested compliant, and can get fuel and food to make it back, and can navigate by sextant and chronometer..........

-- Robert A. Cook, P.E. (Kennesaw, GA) (cook.r@csaatl.com), February 17, 1999.

My plans have not changed. I posted this same thread about 6 months ago here and got some pretty interesting responses. I plan to stay at home, open a bottle of wine and hope for the best. We never go anywhere for New Years, it's too crazy out there. Besides, if things get nasty before 2000 everyone will be staying at home.

-- bardou (bardou@baloney.com), February 17, 1999.


Rob,

My New Year's Eve will be a little bit different than last year. This year I will probably be awake to see what's happening! Since having children, I have problems staying awake past 10:00pm. I know, I know...boooooorrrring!

-- Sharon in Texas (sking@drought-riddent.com), February 17, 1999.


Leska done stole my best line. What would you expect a bear to do in the middle of the (possibly worst this century) winter.

-- Greybear, who never was the fastest out of the gate.

- Got Spirits?

-- Greybear (greybear@home.com), February 17, 1999.


Greybear, doggone solly, I'll cyber-high-five you first on this Asylum if we make the Tock with power still on. Just saw, on ABC News, 6/p, Peter Jennings, good scary Y2K report re Russia. Indefinite power out prediction by Russian interviewee. Accidental missile launches. Nuclear power plant meltdowns. Severe humanitarian consequences. Out of time & out of money, country already barely surviving. Guess what? Not sugar-coated, no pooh-poohs, not a single snicker. Sure hope somebody got a tape of this. My oh my, the tone is changing. Got TP?

xxxxxxx xxxxxxx xxxxxxx xxxxxxx x

-- Leska (allaha@earthlink.net), February 17, 1999.


Is this a loaded question? I'm with you, Vic and Bardou. It's amature night and I never go out. But this yesr, I plan to sit on my porch with my 12 guage in one hand and my generator remote control in the other, with my night-vision on (big grin). <:)=

-- Sysman (y2kboard@yahoo.com), February 17, 1999.

Your my kind of man Sysman! I like the night vision and 12 guage part!

-- bardou (bardou@baloney.com), February 17, 1999.


Depends on the three months prior to New Year Eve. Things may be bad already. If not, I'll pop a bottle of bubbly and toast the past 1000 and the next 1000 years (hopefully with the lights on).

-- Bill (y2khippo@yahoo.com), February 17, 1999.

Hopefully I'll be where I was this past Holiday, that I made it there in time. 9 hours drive through Canadian border. Hoping, and even enough to make this pagan pray, that there won't be Martial law. I know in my guts that if there is, me and my family are toasted both sides, well done.

If we made it there no problem, then I'll be celebrating with hubby and kids, as we always do; at home, making noise and drinking champagne and singing while we watch the ball drop. But this time we'll be holding our breath instead of singing, fingers/toes/eyes crossed...for the next several days.

-- Chris (catsy@pond.com), February 17, 1999.


I'm with Chris, I'll be holding my breath, praying good people don't tie too terrible of deaths (hey I'm a big realist) while hubby hangs out next to the window with the best view of the street with loaded handgun. Daughter will be soundly sleeping (I hope) and I hope to have a few extended family members with us, as well. As someone else said, this is assuming things (panic or actual computer problems or both) don't start to happen BEFORE the big day.

We do have a nice bottle of champagne that we bought for this PAST New Year's Eve but never got around to drinking (I;m not much of a drinker even on occasions such as that) and I don;t think we'll be opening it on 12/31/99 either as I want to have ALL of my faculties at the READY.

My in-laws, TOTAL DGI's are making plans to be on some remote island off the keys and want us to be there, too. I told my mother-in-law she must be smoking crack. Though I like the remote part, I don't like the no-food part!

Holding My Breath

-- Holding Breath (holdingbreath@me.com), February 18, 1999.


I plan to be in a temporary hidey-hole not near the Big Orange. I pray that DH (RGI - Reluctantly Getting it, but wild horses can't drag him away from this house) will be with me.

I cannot bear the helpless mindset of begging DH to plan the bugout together with me, and being refused. So I will go ahead and plan it myself. Gambling that he will follow. Could be rural B.C. Or Central CA. Or....? Scary not to know, yet.

-- Debbie Spence (dbspence@usa.net), February 18, 1999.


Where we have been for about 10 years, H-burg, rural Geauga County, Ohio. (Yep, there's a redundancy there.) Visiting with neat people from the area and around NEOhio who all seem to know the owners of the house we'll be visiting.

Chuck, who won't be there without the usual precautions (Bug Bag, arms, Sleeping bags, etc.)

PS Always assuming that we get that far without the crunch.

-- Chuck, night driver (rienzoo@en.com), February 18, 1999.


PPS Duane::: Which Upstate College?? North or South of Syracuse-Utica Line?? Chuck

-- Chuck, night driver (rienzoo@en.com), February 18, 1999.

I'm going to be partying in Times Square.

-- Paul Milne (fedinfo@halifax.com), February 18, 1999.

Here's how I see December 31, 1999 around midnight. Kids asleep, dogs asleep, wife praying, me working on my second beer of the night with the generator set to go (if necessary) and the guns loaded. And probably just watchin' some TV, party animal that I am.

-- Armed & Ready (I'mset@home.house), February 18, 1999.

Me, well, I will be at work, doing my best to keep the computers up on the campus and at the hospitals. Not that I want to be here, but hey... it's my job. At least (from what I have read so far) I am one of the few here on this forum that will be out working trying like hell to keep the sanity for as long as I can. Oh... did I mention that I would have my 357 with me for the ride home?

-- (cannot-say@this.time), February 18, 1999.

At my new country home, hopefully with family members (parents, sisters and brother in laws) who have been getting it slowly. Dad is a definite GI, Mom is GI/DWTAI (doesn't want to think about it). She believes she can overcome anything. Good people to have on your side.

Locked down, no guns real obvious, NOT under the influence, all food supplies in the house, not outbuildings, and will have been watching TV and the net all day. Whatever happens at midnite 12/31/1999 will not be a surprise, all. Asia and Europe will give us fine examples hours ahead of time. If they go "blink", and turn into black holes (nothing coming out), then emergency prep goes into high gear with full self protection status operating.

-- Jon Williamson (pssomerville@sprintmail.com), February 18, 1999.


Paul Milne, I knew you were a wild guy ;->

-- Chris (catsy@pond.com), February 18, 1999.

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