What will you do for fun these next 6 weeks?

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My husband and I are old engineers, convinced Y2K will be a 7+, and prepared as far as we can be. That said, we have done some fun things this past year too. Small things perhaps but fun for us. Potato chips every week. Tins of mixed nuts and really good icecream. Playing all our favorites songs so loud the windows rattle. Going out to dinner more. This week I think I'll go to the florist. I tend to be a "saver" and for what? I think I'll wear all my best clothes these next 6 weeks and the jewelry I have tucked away. What will you do? Pam.

-- pamela (jpjgood@penn.com), November 15, 1999

Answers

I plan on visiting with friends and relatives that are at a distance, or that I haven't seen for a while and miss.

-- Rob Michaels (sonofdust@com.net), November 15, 1999.

Part of our Y2K strategy has been "eat, drink, and be merry..." We went on a cruise and also to Egypt. I'm pretty much eating whatever I want, since I may go on a forced diet in a few weeks.

-- Pearlie Sweetcake (storestuff@home.now), November 15, 1999.

Nothing.

I've decided to hunker down especially since the terrorist alert that just came out for domestic and international Americans.

No way I'm going out there, if I don't have to, into the potential face of suitcase nuclear bombs and the like.

To the bunker I go with my cans of spam and dehydrated eggs! (Course I don't really have a bunker but I sure wish to heck I did.) I do have the spam and eggs.

What I am saying is that I don't think we have "six weeks" left until a dramatic moment, and I think one needs to be very alert and careful and ready to be taken off guard by surprise.

-- Paula (chowbabe@pacbell.net), November 15, 1999.


Lots of target shooting. Serious fun.

-- Flint (flintc@mindspring.com), November 15, 1999.

LOL Flint

-- the Virginian (1@1.com), November 15, 1999.


I'm doing the same thing I did for the last 6 weeks: Continue to prepare. To do any less is foolish and possibly fatal. What you do in the next 6 weeks could save your families life, or could end it. The choice is up to you.

-- (its@coming.soon), November 15, 1999.

Hey there, don't be laughing at Flint. It *is* fun. (And, with hunting season opening in a week, *useful* too!)

What we are doing is things that allow us to 'savor' civilization in the realization that it may not be around all that much longer (and GOD I hope I'm wrong on that), and that one day soon, NOW may well be the 'good ole days'.

-- just another (another@engineer.com), November 15, 1999.


This question reminds me of some thoughts I had this past summer about the end of year. I know that I will be prepping more and doing fun things with my family, more ice cream for the girls, weekend day trips, things like that, and I think many others will, too. In fact, this may be the biggest Christmas, shopping and spending-wise, ever. DGIs will be racking up more purchases on credit cards because the economy is going great guns, and GIs will be spending on preps and enjoying things they might not think they'll have next year. Then the risk-taker GIs will really pull out the stops and party hardy, figuring that they won't have to pay the Visa piper next year. Unless something catastrophic happens, say a terrorist strike on Thanksgiving Wednesday during the busiest travel day of the year, the spending will keep on keeping on.

-- Kurt Ayau (Ayau@iwinet.com), November 15, 1999.

Paula, get a shovel, you've got six weeks to dig a bunker.

Flint: careful, your doomer side is leaking out. *grin* (I'm gonna be doing a lot of the same).

-- cavscout (gottafinishthePVsystem,chickencoop@ndputupthesecuritylights.etcetcetc), November 15, 1999.


Flint, how can you be sure if you hit the target? How can you prove the bullet that might have left it's mark was yours?

If you can prove that your bullet, actually did hit the target, how can you prove that that is what you wanted to do?

How do you know you are really target shooting?

Might you not be engaged in some subconcious battle with your "double"?

-- Gregg (g.abbott@starting-point.com), November 15, 1999.



For me, the most fun I can have is putting some food and gear into a backpack and hiking around in the wilderness of the Cascade mountains. God, I love it!

I did get to do it, yet again, this past summer and autumn. As many days as I could wangle off of work. I still hope there's enough gas to get me there next summer. For those who don't know, I can vouch for it: there are mosquitos in heaven. I know because I spend time there, slapping. Wouldn't miss it for the world.

-- Brian McLaughlin (brianm@ims.com), November 16, 1999.


Same as I have been doing....balancing prepping with savoring the little moments in life. It sounds incredibly corny, but this year the sunsets and sunrises have seemed prettier. I find myself simply staring at my daugher a lot (to which she responds "WHAT are you looking at Mama?" and gets generally annoyed...), holding my husband's hand more...

ya know, speaking of, he is upstairs asleep and I am on this damn computer

Out here.

-- preparing (preparing@home.com), November 16, 1999.


We'll be enjoying small delights, favorite foods, rental movies and visiting friends and loved ones by phone and in person locally.

We have the WTO coming the end of this month (Seattle is only an hour away from us), and don't want to be out and about much. You never know, what with the threats and controversy surrounding this meeting, We don't want to be anywhere near this event.

-- Sammie (sammiex0@hotmail.com), November 16, 1999.


Smoochin'-up my husband big time. (Love that boy.)

And playing what-are-you-wearing in instant-messages with Andy Ray on the side. (Always been curious 'bout that.)

-- (resigned@this.point), November 16, 1999.


Preparing, I know what you mean!

I took a hot shower.... and knew what it meant.

-- Hatti (klavine@tco.com), November 16, 1999.



Top off the water, fondue cheese and velveta stores. Test the generator. Top off the gasoline stores. Fly out to see son and "girlfriend" of last 7 years graduate from college. Try some new restraunts. Finish setting up strategic alliances for Y2K recovery. Fly a lot. Sleep at Westins.

-- ng (cantprovideemail@none.com), November 16, 1999.

I'll be spending on luxuries like there's no tomorrow. ;)

-- Colin MacDonald (roborogerborg@yahoo.com), November 16, 1999.

Lots of eating out... Lots of target shooting, Flint... Lots of reloading to offset the target shooting. Lots of long walks, long talks, and long relaxing hot showers... Not working as much... double check everything and make sure I didn't miss TOO much...

And for those who know me, Lon, lots of conversations at the back wall.

gettin closer...

loungin' on the couch (BAD DOG!)

The Dog

-- Dog (Desert Dog@-sand.com), November 16, 1999.


Since my XMAS shopping (and other preps) are pretty much done, I can concentrate on all the seed catalogs just coming out now. (I'm not concerned about delivery, that's an extra, but I really do enjoy going through them at this time of year and dreaming about how spectacular next year's garden will be.)

-- Brooks (brooksbie@hotmail.com), November 16, 1999.

Next 6 weeks....

Continuing polishing my preps, studying, putting a solar panel, 2 golf car batts and my small sine-wave inverter in my van, etc. I'm not expecting the world to change substanially in January (maybe lots by the end of 2000 though). Planning to do more garage-sales, and visiting with friends. And, of course, trying to make this Christmas a very happy one for my 10 year old.

-- Don Kulha (dkulha@vom.com), November 16, 1999.


I'm with it's@coming... too much to do and so little time.

-- Patrick (pmchenry@gradall.com), November 16, 1999.

I hadn't really thought of it as last minute fun, but I've been subconsiously planning to indulge in the one thing I've been in love with my whole life ---- goin' down the road. Maybe one last trip, Florida Keys or Davis Mountains, or Las Vegas. The old bus is gassed up, and my obligations are done by next week. Maybe Kit and I will come see YOU.

(Dog, don't be so hard on yourself. Strech out on that couch!)

-- Lon Frank (lgal@exp.net), November 16, 1999.


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