>When the "end of the world as we know it" comes, I shall barter knitted clothing for whatever I need here in the frozen northeast. And yes, I can spin my own yarn too.
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>Brush up on your basic 1st Aid knowledge -- for yourself and your pets if you have them. If you have a friendly vet see if you can sit in on a few surgeries -- get a first hand look at wounds and how to sew them up and bandage them.

I've always admired the American passion for panic. It's cultivated - just where else in the world could Orson Welles do his famous gag, or which other culture could give birth to a genre called "disaster movie".

You may stay calm - things can get indefinitely worse, and yet one may continue to live, being even happy at times. It's just a matter of not getting disgusted too often seeing yourself adapting to the ever-lower level of everything. Note my flag.

>Y2K will be almost but not quite exacly unlike what we expect. But it will happen and we will all deal with it and get on with our lives as well as we can. In them immortal words of Douglas Adams: "Don't Panic!" --sorry I've forgotten the HTML code for large friendly letters :-)

You can always draw a free-hand .gif with coal and chalk :)