Klarinet Archive - Posting 001024.txt from 1999/11

From: LeliaLoban@-----.com
Subj: [kl] Thanksgiving with Y2K stuffing
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 12:01:39 -0500

Since no family lives nearby, my husband and I joined with old friends
likewise marooned, for a cooperative Thankgiving. This year's hostess,
Kevin's chamber music partner for more than 20 years, plays violin and viola.
She and Kevin played Bach and Mozart duets before and after dinner. Nobody
got stuck with all the cooking and cleanup and we all had a fine time.

I wrote,
>Since I never use this machine for spreadsheets or other date-sensitive
applications, I'm going to try to buy time and keep the dinosaur alive
anyway, by setting its calendar back to 1971 on December 31, so that it
thinks it's rolling over to 1972. The leap year and days of the week are the
same for 1972 (also 1944 and 1916) and 2000, so in theory the automatic
dating will continue to work correctly except for the year.>

Sorry for repeating that off-topic comment, but I'm getting a mailbox full of
replies from people who evidently missed it and sent me theme and variations
on this same suggestion. My bad, for burying it in the middle of an
overly-long message. After eating way too much yesterday, I'm too torpid to
do more than reply here rather than write individually to about a dozen
people (so far...). :-)

Hope everyone in the former Colonies had a lovely holiday--

Lelia
~~~~~~~~~~~
I feel like I'm diagonally parked in a parallel universe.

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