IF we have power will we still have the internet? Will ISPs be working? Someone told me that AOL wii be toast. I have been on AOL since it had 3 million subscribers and its really getting close to toast now. It gets so hard to get on after 4pm. They apparently do their servicing early morning hours. Getting up at 4am means you can't get on, can't get mail if you do get on, and connections are soooooooo slow. And I know that its not overloaded at AOL at 4am Eastern time. Right now, being out in the boonies, its the only ISP I can get. Anyway...will we who have power be able to access our forum? If so we could then work on 'real' problems, rather than hypothetical problems. Exchanging seeds comes to mind. Maybe even medical help from the medical professionals among us. Specific questions re building bush boxes or solar ovens, recipes. There are all kinds of things. Would be nice to grab onto something REAL and work on it and fix it, rather than trying to grasp all of these damn cob webs. I am getting to the point where I feel like, 'bring it on' so I really know what I am dealing with. Limbo/unknown is a killer.

Taz...who needs to head for the Dollar store and get more anti acid!!

-- Taz (Tassie@aol.com), July 29, 1999

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lol Taz : )

I've been wanting to change ISPs anyway so this shows there really is a positive side to Y2k disruptions!

Mike

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-- Michael Taylor (mt4design@aol.com), July 29, 1999.

Taz a lot of these technologies are fairly new so I would guess they are compliant. BUt the power being on is so iffy in my mind I can't imagine it. As for exchaning seeds--you mean the PO will work???

-- Mara Wayne (MaraWAyne@aol.com), July 29, 1999.

Gardenweb has a great seed exchange right now! http://www.gardenweb.com/forums/exseed

-- mommacares (harringtondesignX@earthlink.net), July 29, 1999.

Taz, I think you hit a common nerve irritated within many of us: "'bring it on' so I really know what I am dealing with. Limbo/unknown is a killer." I've got to a point that y2k discussions of who, what, & why are rather moot, I'm unable to sustain the outrage, denail, fear, complacency, self-righteousness, curage, and many unnamable emotions all associated with y2k. Been there, done that, acted upon a rational course of action & now I'm getting on with my life, in light of even what I feel I might know re y2k and its possible/probable various scenarios. Worrying the bone is not life sustaining as a long term fare. Five year plans work for me, always have worked to for me in terms of providing an overall direction while still maintaining quite a bit of flexibility in options, actions, and reactions.

Y2k, the rapidly approaching World Financial Depression, eco- disasters, you name it - how many of you can actually maintain a sustainable life when constantly giving attention to that which can be apprehended as capable of life threatening situations but can be only casually measured.

Perhaps this is what late term acceptance, in its broader aspects, feels like.

Time to start a new business and give life back to life, knowing I've done the best of my capability in anticipating the rock & roll. Bring on the spectacle.

Ed Yourdan said to start dealing with the post-y2k stuff, I think that is good advice.

-- Mitchell Barnes (spanda@inreach.com), July 29, 1999.