No crow, but I had to eat bacon for breakfast - freezer thawed!greenspun.com : LUSENET : TimeBomb 2000 (Y2000) : One Thread |
On Tuesday 28Dec99, my DGI wife was rushing me to pack the car and leave to go snowmobiling at Lake Muskoka, Ontario. I was in the middle of a final test of my generator. When I finished up my testing, I unplugged the Christmas lights. I only found out 30Dec99 a.m. that it wasn't the Christmas lights I unplugged, but the freezer. The bacon had thawed so I had to eat it this morning. Boy was it good, I haven't eaten bacon for months!You know, I didn't think it would happen, but I really wanted a power failure - it would have been lots of fun - for a day or two.
I will admit, I have had a ton of fun kidding people about Y2K for months. The stock market will crash, the power will go out, global economic catastrophic failure, etc.. When anyone asked me what was in my waist pouch, I told them I had a tin of sardines, fishing line and gold bullion to survive Y2K.
I think I will have even more fun kidding people about Y2K now. "What, the power didn't go off at your house? - It was off at mine, I had to go on generator power for 7 hours last night! Other glitches included getting a phone call that was the wrong number!! And my library card failed this morning! Glad I was prepared to eat sardines!! :-)
From now on, I'm going to do everything the opposite of what I think, like George Kastanza on Seinfeld.
Here's hoping the stock market will crash soon :-)
-- Cable_man (tlangan@iname.com), January 01, 2000
cable-man you are a beautiful human being!!
-- lenny (Chmielecki@worldnet.att.net), January 01, 2000.
I think we saw about 1% of the computers runing. Wate a week or two bet you see things by then. After a month I know it will be geeting hard to hide what have we heard about phone and power nothing about OIL it makes the world go. Hang in there give it a chance. dident have a flat tire list night but I still going to keep the spair tire in the jeep. Hang in there........Wacko
-- Wacko (gonewackie@aol.com), January 01, 2000.
Cable man:Have you done any snowmobile cruising in the Lake Simcoe area? Otter Lake, up by Point au Baril, is also great (check out Sunny Point Cottages and Inn). I don't skidoo myself, but I have dogs, and so winter vacances tend to be at places that welcome both.
Bacon sandwiches. Yum.
-- silver ion (ag3@interlog.com), January 01, 2000.
I'm never mucking w/ text again. Promise.
-- silver ion (ag3@interlog.com), January 01, 2000.
Honest.
-- silver ion (ag3@interlog.com), January 01, 2000.
Really
-- silver ion (ag3@interlog.com), January 01, 2000.
Going off to a corner to hide now.
-- silver ion (ag#@interlog.com), January 01, 2000.
try again
-- silver ion's techno-geek partner (to@the.rescue), January 01, 2000.
silver ion:How did you know it was bacon sandwiches?
I've only been snowmobiling at Scarcliff Bay area of Lake Muskoka half way beetween Bracebridge and Port Carling, near Milford Bay.
The owner of the beautiful cottage I stayed at had some computer problems I fixed for her. She then asked about Y2K problems, to which I replied, "yes, you need to upgrade and patch lots of things, which I can do next time I come up". "You'll have to come back soon" was her reply. I expect to be back up later this month, and hopefully the Lake will then be frozen enough to snowmobile across, which would get us onto some of the bigger trails.
I had LOTs of fun snowmobiling.
Years ago I had a friend with a cottage on Lake Simcoe near Oro. Bob Waite. A hockey player had the cottage next door.
Thanks for the tips.
-- Cable_man (tlangan@iname.com), January 01, 2000.
Here is some more generator fun I've had:http://209.52.183.182/Generator/readers_rigs.htm
My favourite generator story is about the phone call I made to my brother-in-law while I was doing a final test before putting it away for long term storage. I was on the phone bragging about how I had my furnace, microwave, coffee maker, lights, refrigerator, freezer, TV and computer working all at the same time. I also had a 240 volt baseboard heater working. With a cup in hand, I told my brother-in- law to come over for "generator coffee" which I had just brewed. Through the whole conversation you could hear the drone of the generator in the background. All of a sudden it went quiet. It ran out of gas!
-- Cable_man (tlangan@iname.com), January 01, 2000.
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-- Cable_man (tlangan@iname.com), January 01, 2000.
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-- Cable_man (tlangan@iname.com), January 01, 2000.
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-- Cable_man (tlangan@ianem.com), January 01, 2000.
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-- Cable_man (tlangan@iname.com), January 01, 2000.
-- Cable_man (tlangan@iname.com), January 01, 2000.
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-- Cable_man (tlangan@iname.com), January 01, 2000.
So glad to see you politely accommodating the thread format I imposed. The boy has such nice manners.
-- silver ion (ag3@interlog.com), January 02, 2000.
My pleasure.The virtue of persistence. Keep at something no matter how long it takes.
-- Cable_man (tlangan@iname.com), January 02, 2000.