It feels like we have a fresh start to begin again. We'll wake up tomorrow with all the same problems but today we can take a deep breath and hope we will do better in the next century, millenium.

It's been a bit of a rainy day today. Not much, just an occasional sprinkle, but the clouds were nice and it smelled good giving me a feeling of a clean washed day. That's a good way to end the century.

I walked up to the shopping center to pick up some photos and leave a roll of film. It was so busy and people were shopping like crazy. Walmart was jammed and it's shelves were getting empty in some cases. People didn't seem to be stocking up for Y2K so much as just picking up some good sales, though the bottled water is pretty well cleaned out. I didn't buy any bottled water but I did fill some bottles at home, just in case. I do live in a desert and water is always a worry.

I figure I have enough food to live on for a couple of weeks. It wouldn't be fun as it's all those things you buy and never use or that you buy in a fit of frugality, or for diets, or because you saw that great sounding recipe, but never used. From what I've heard today I won't be needing it since there don't seem to be many Y2K problems. The problems that did occur were minor and easily corrected and not vital. I've heard of a few people having weird billings in December, but those were easily corrected also.

It sounds like I won't have to eat all the stuff in the back of my cupboards and won't have anything more exciting than coming up with some New Year resolutions, which is something I agonize over rather than get excited about. I have an equal mix of overly high expectations and the dread of knowing that I won't keep them. I still make them but it's with resignation.

The millenium is a couple minutes away from hitting Newfoundland, Canada so I'll watch the celebrations in the America's now and then go to bed knowing that tomorrow I will wake up to a world that is still there and still working.