We will be at the Stars game New Year's Eve, but we will be home before midnight and well before all the amateur [night] drunks hit the streets.
I think that is a colloquialism here in the States [but may be universal] that New Year's Eve is reffered as Amateur Night by
professional drunks. :^)
>Hmm, yeah. I'm staying at home because of the people who will be drunker and rowdier than ever before. Also, don't want to be a target for Millenialists who will realize that the world ain't ending and they might want to help that along.
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>>>Here's an interesting experiment (at least to me) I'm going to try: I'm going to leave my computer up and online at 12:00 AM EST. I'll be logged into the UT, although I won't be sitting at the KB. Think I'll come back to my PC in the morning and find everything still working?
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>>IMO, I think this will be a bust on the order of the Michelangelo virus scare several years ago. Some scattered incidents, but nothing to e-mail home about. The biggest problems will be the lunatics.
Mark McCasland
Midlothian, TX USA