I'd better get this uploaded before the world ends :)

For me, so far, it's been an unexciting end to the Millenium, since I was obliged to spend the last two days (with the exception of a break for dinner with Davis, and also another social encounter which I'll get to later) making backup CDs, installing software, copying files and Y2K-checking the three computers I'm responsible for. Try simultaneously working on three computers! I kept finding myself wondering why one of them wasn't responding to the keyboard when I'd realize I was typing on the wrong keyboard.

At least, I finally got my ass out of gear, and got everything done by midday on New Year's Eve. Talk about prevaricating. The reason it was so complex is that my desktop computer dates from 1996, and needed a lot of attention. Also, since I have to send my main computer (my laptop) in for repair, I had to make backups of all the important files on it, and export all my thousands of emails etc so that I could reinstall all of it on my desktop. Finally, I needed to install all the software that I use to maintain my website on my work laptop so that I can keep in touch while travelling without having to take two laptops on every trip. But, after weeks of delaying it all, it's done! And my laptop is shipped off.

Speaking of asses, mine experienced perceptable droopage this morning when I opened the curtains and realized that this glorious December of sun and warmth was ending with a cold, overcast day. The weather has made the last few weeks not seem at all like Winter. Now, though, we're back to more normal weather - low fifties, and dreary skies. I hope it's not an omen for the New Millenium :)

Got up this morning just in time for dawn in Kiribati (I think) - the first dawn over inhabited land for the new Millenium, which I happened to catch live on PBS. While native dancers ... well ... danced, the commentator ... well commented about how happy they all looked, while the sun rose anticlimactically behind the clouds. I guess I can watch it all later - I'm recording both NBC's and PBS's Millenial shows - twenty four hours of each!

Working out this afternoon with Cecilia, San Francisco felt eerily subdued. You wouldn't have known it was any special day except for their being an unusually large number of extremely good-looking men in the gym. The Gods always seem to come up from Los Angeles for holidays. Cecilia and I watched the fireworks go off over Big Ben in London on the TV monitors over the exercise bikes, and it all seemed so remote.

Brett and I finally pulled something together for tonight, though - we're spending the night at the downtown Marriot - that ugly building that looks like an upside-down ice-cream cone. We may or may not go to a party, and may or may not walk down to the Embarcadero to watch the fireworks. It will be nice, though, to be just the two of us, and it will be fun to be downtown with all the (hopefully, by then) excited crowds.

It's time to wish everyone a great New Year. It's been a great year for me, and I hope you can say the same. May all your dreams come true this year! Or if not, at least you have a thousand years to fulfil them :)