Happy New Year!

Thank God we had no Y2K Bug problems!

I will save on grocery bills for the next two months!

Have any of y'all made New Year's resolutions?

-- Anonymous, January 01, 2000

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Oh brother!!!

-- Anonymous, January 01, 2000

Yes, Praise God we made it throught the FIRST hurdle. But don't get rid of those supplies just yet. I know some will disagree but Y2K is not just the utilities. Monday or Tuesday is the first day back to work for many and lots of problems will not show up for days or even weeks. Plus with all the evil in this world? I think it is wise to just rotate those supplies. We never know what is coming in the future and being prepared is smart and I think Biblical.

-- Anonymous, January 01, 2000

A very happy new year to all!

-- Anonymous, January 01, 2000

Oh Sister!

-- Anonymous, January 02, 2000

oh my!

They're coming to take me away. Ha ha!

OK, over the first hurdle now... What are the new hurdles we can expect?

I'm NOT downing the efforts of those who brought Y2K to our attention. It is to their efforts that we had a mostly uneventful rollover. My thanks to all of you who heralded the bug to get our attention.... to enable us to fix it. (Yes Duane, even to you! :-D)

I'm His!

-- Anonymous, January 03, 2000

Happy New Year All!!!

-- Anonymous, January 04, 2000

Did you hear on the news what happened to a person in New Jersey, who rented a video over the holidays and then brought it back? The store's computer said that they owed $93,000. in late fees since they rented the video back in 1900. Wow... what a bill? I hope I get that in reverse concerning my student loans. I hope they one day write me a letter saying that I no longer have to pay... lol. Of course, that would not happen, but I can dream.

-- Anonymous, January 04, 2000

Subj: Re: [humptydumptyy2k] Y2K computer crisis: any lessons learned? Date: 3/31/01 3:24:58 AM Eastern Standard Time From: sbrg3@juno.com Reply-to: humptydumptyy2k@yahoogroups.com To: humptydumptyy2k@yahoogroups.com

Jesse, I have kept up with continued problems from the date change: mostly through fellow pastors and missionaries who minister in other countries. Because of the lack of funding for the mission field, many of my fellowworkers have had to take jobs in the oil fields, refineries, etc. Beginning on January 1, 2000 I knew of 16 pastors who lost their jobs in the countries of Nigeria and Venezuela, due to a failure or shut down in the systems embedded chips. Being out of work sort of caused a lot of problems with local workers too. The next jobs they got were jobs in the re-construction of these refineries, but some parts needed to build these couldn't be got due to the factories having problems ... either with supply of power or chips... I don't know. We see now that the worlds supply of oil has diminished greatly due to production. It was good that there wasn't a complete and total collapse... the slow deterioration of the system has allowed many of us to develop our own form of power generation and survival preparations for the upcoming hard times. I produced 46% of all my electrical power needs last year... this year I project I will be self-contained. Y2K did happen! But the governments of the world are really clever about how to cover up and diverting attention of these problems. We just need to stay aware that it is not over and preparations still are wise. Regards, B

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I imagine with the power problems all over the world (only California's seem to get on the 6:00 news) some of these people are not sorry they were like the ant of the Old Testament, Joseph, Noah, and the five wise vrgins.

They like being grasshoppers, I guess.

Everything I bought for Y2k I didn't have to buy this past year at higher prices. It was a bargain. I didn't sin by worrying about it beyond the first week I discovered about it in March or April of 1999.

When one prepares, one worries less. In buying our medications for a year in advance (my husband has to use insulin and I have other medications), we saved much more than the original $200 I thought. My husband's insulin is now $2.00 more than it was then, so that is another $200. My medications are also higher in cost than they were then.

All-in-all, we made out like bandits. We're still using our stored food, and paper and plastic goods. All will cost more when we start buying again.

Am I sorry we have a water filter and kerosene heater and generator and wood? No, because we feel prepared if we should need them at another time.

That beatutiful turnover 15 months ago was a thrill, though. God is good. (And always has been).

Blessings,

-- Anonymous, March 31, 2001