Somehow this New Year doesn't seem like such a big deal, although it's certainly great to be through with 1998*. Does anyone else feel like 1999 is just kind of a lame duck year, dead time waiting for the new millenium (which doesn't start until 2001, of course, but there's no way to convince most people of that). Anyway, it's the days that are important, and the weeks (an artificial construct, but none-the-less important to the way most people organize their lives), and the seasons. Years? It's true that the earth makes a trip around the sun about once every 365.24 days, but so what? (I had a very boring New Year's Eve, as you've probably guessed). --seed

*Actually, we're going to be living with 1998 for much of 1999, I'm afraid. It's another of those years that won't die. Maybe we oughta drive a stake into its heart.

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If this works (graphically, on the thread, that is), it'll be a miracle.