[GH85Carrera]

The kids across the street that used to shoot off fireworks, which is illegal in Oklahoma City, they are all grown up, and have little kids. It is usually pretty quiet on new Years Eve around here at midnight.

I never did understand what makes it worth a party, getting drunk and making noise. It is just another night like all the rest. We will be in bed by 10:30 as usual. I have not been up for midnight since 2000 when the world was going to implode with the Y2K bug. Pretty much, nothing happened, the TVs all worked. My computers were fine. I went to bed at 12:30 that night. I was running a BBS for PCA national back then. I had most of the newsletter editors swapping articles and graphics on it. At the 1996 Parade I was the registrar and our parade ws the first to have reports via a computer download. Before my BBS they had to mail the reports. My BBS did not even hiccup. It was a mighty IBM PC 4.77 MHz, PC running DOS 6.2 with 640K of memory and a 10 MG hard drive.

I remember reading 2001 A space Odyssey back in 1969 which was when the paperback and the movie came out. 2001 seemed so far in the future. I went with my mom and brother. They were totally confused about the plot. I had to explain it to them on the ride home.

It was set 32 year into the future! Now we are 24 years past 2001, or we will be tomorrow.