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Eh, hell if I know. There are a ton of scripts which automate things over here... Some of my date routines might go wacky. I've not given it much thought. If they do, oh well. I won't lose sleep over it, and I'm sure y'all won't, either.
I'll just find out when the time comes. Worst case scenario? I spend five minutes fixing some perl.
Whoop de doo.
So throughout the house, all day, ABC News's Millennium 2000 coverage has been on. It's been a nightmare for me. It hurts.
But what really ticks me off was when some guy from the "2MI" organization somehow made it onto the set, and tried to explain to the head honcho at ABC News (Peter Jennings or Tom Broke,aw, or one of them) that the 2001-01-01 was the first day of the new Millennium. In effect, the guy with ABC news laughed at the 2MI guy, and was told that if he could convince the majority of the people in Union Square, then he would believe him.
This really irritates me. A lot. Oh well. I could rant for way too long on this, so I won't.
A New Year is no big deal, considering it's just an arbitrary date on a calendar created by people. But then, all holidays are arbitrary dates on a calendar, and none of those dates hold any importance for me.
Why should I give a damn about going from three nines when I write a check to writing three zeroes when I write a check. No biggy.
Christmas has been commercialized to hell, Thanksgiving destroyed by repeated lessons in elementary school, Halloween turned into a bizarre costume party by fearful christians, the fourth of july an excuse to make noise, and so on. What happened to meaningful days that had a right to be meaningful, like Armistice Day?
So I'm not celebrating any more holidays.
My sister gave me a card to be hung on the refrigerator year round in honor of "Valeastergivingweenmas". Doesn't sound like a half bad idea to me, only full status to easter just doesn't bode well with me.
So instead, I'll celebrate Valeasticegivingweenmas when I feel like it. It'll be meaningful to me, which is what counts. I don't give a damn what is SUPPOSED to be meaningful to me. I don't need people telling me what I should be thankful for, or when I should blow stuff up, and so on. I'll do such things when it's meaningful to me.
Yes, I'm ranting/fuming. All the same, holidays are stupid ideas. Same as religion, telling a person what is to be important. I'll make my own decisions as to what is important to me. To ME!
Valeasticegivingweenmas cannot be associated with a date, because once I rule the world and get rid of all the other holidays, then an association with a date will be meaningless to so many other people. And an association with a date will just bread another merchandising monster. No good, no date. Celebrate Valeasticegivingweenmas when you have a reason to.
So we're approaching the end of the 90's as far as the gregorian calendar as concerned. Other calendars read a bit differently.
The above is not a mis-spelling. I decided some number of months ago that all the idiots misspelling millennium were the same idiots who were associating y2k with the beginning of the new millennium.
So y2k is really the beginning of the new millenium, while 2001 will be the beginning of the third millennium of the common era. That's the way I've been dealing with things.
Of course, there are 40 some odd other calendars in use in the world, so I'm not sure what the significance of our Christian associated calendar is. Bleh.
bleh bleh bleh.
I beat Final Fantasy FFVIII the other night. It was absolutely fabulous! I loved it, and I'll be playing it again. What a great game, and I look forward to IX.
I also look forward to finally getting to play Chrono Cross next year, which is the sequel to the amazing Chrono Trigger. While at Player One in Bakersfield, I saw a Japanese copy of Chrono Cross, which made me envious. I also saw a copy of the psx-remake of Chrono Trigger, which includes a lot of Anime style cut scenes. This also made me envious, and I look forward to its American release.
I picked up Final Fantasy Anthology, and I started playing a little of V. Playing VI again will be great. These are a great pair of games.
I'm looking for a copy of Final Fantasy Tactics to play, because I never got to play it, and now it's no longer being published. I know a couple of people who have it, and if all else fails, I can resort to eBay.
And then there's FFVII... The game that I loathe. Thing is, I had a grudge against the game before I ever played it... I didn't like the fact that it was on the Playstation. I think I'm over this grudge, so I think I'm going to try giving FFVII another try... Not that I'm any happier with the playstation, mind you. The controller still sucks. I appreciate memory cards more than I used to, though. But I'm going to give FFVII another try. I'll try to like the characters, I'll try to get over the wishy-washy villain, and I'll try to understand just why so many people are so convinced that this game is better than VI. The graphics are better than VI, sure, but that by no means does a better game make.
And finally, the reason for all this rambling. I'm considering taking various sources of information all of the games listed above and putting it into a database and making a web page out of all of it. The ultimate easy reference for fans of Square Soft. I sure like them a lot, at least.
Okay, I'm less irritated than I was, but I'm still really ticked. I'm going to go hide somewhere and read. Away from the world, away from constant irritation.
Oh, and in the "funny as all hell" category, falls Zaphod's update about Q3A's Y2K compliance.
Nope, not gonna happen. A New Year isn't a worthwhile time to make resolutions. It's the middle of my break. End of school year, for example, is a much more logical time to make resolutions. So I'm not making any now. I have no resolutions to make.
So I don't have much of a grudge with people advertising using the Millennium. I was thinking to myself that it'd be nice if they didn't, but then I realised that their millennial advertising is even more effective than I first thought. As I sit here thinking about it, I could name numerous places which have used the phrase Millennium in their advertising over the last several months, but I can name very few other ad's off the top of my head.
You see, every time the word "Millennium" is used, I stiffen, and it attracts my attention.
In other words, even though I wish it weren't, their advertising has been effective. And a year from now, when they use the word again, it'll be effective again.
And so as I was thinking about that, I thought to myself "bugger" and moped off with the dog down the street awhile. It was so dark, though, that I turned back, because I didn't really know where I was going.
First, the fucking idiots at buy.com. For a month, I asked them to cancel my order, and they told me that they couldn't, because it'd already been sent to processing. They told me they could only cancel it if it was back ordered.
Last night they emailed me and told me that not only had it been back ordered for the last month, but also that it was no longer available from the manufacturer. Idiots. I'm never ordering from buy.com ever again. Neither should you.
Second, the check from MA. I got it on December 27. It was postmarked December 7. 20 days in the mail! Unimagineable!
It seems like there was one other that was in the pipe, but I've forgotten it. Sorry. Have a nice another new day.
After listening to Simon and Garfunkle's Concert in Central Park and Roger Miller's Golden Hits for something like the 80th time, I finally went and borrowed some other tapes from my sister to listen to in the car. It's not that I don't like those two albums... It's just that there's a certain point at which insanity sets in, and you're prepared to gnaw off your ears.