Y2K So Far Away

For some reason right about this time of year, just before it turns over to the next year, I start to think about how we were all so worried about what would happen when the year 2000 came around and if computer systems would fail, power would go out and chaos would ensue.  

None of that happened and the year 2000 started much like any other new year, with drunk people cheering at something falling slowly down a pole.   It's been twenty-two years since that night and yet it feels like only yesterday.  

I have children now who are already a decade into their lives.   This will be a night they get to stay up late for, unless they fall asleep early, which my daughter may well do.   

Tonight, my in-laws are coming over and we'll watch a countdown my husband is having play on the garage doors from a projector he has in the front yard that's been showing a scene on the house for the past few weeks.  

It will be mellow and no one will be drunk or watching something fall slowly down a pole.   But it will be nice even so.

The Big Boy Update:  My son has adapted to his reduced screen time without a fuss.   He was told if he made a fuss, he would get no more screen time and it appears he actually processed this enough to not get upset when his time is up.   He manages his time by setting incremental alarms on Alexa, deciding how much of his daily allotment he wants to spend at once.  Usually, that means all of it first thing when he wakes up.

The Tiny Girl Chronicles:  My daughter wanted to play Monopoly today.   I said I would play the electronic one, but we did't have the board set up tactually.   She said she didn't mind because she could have fun making up a game herself that way.   She is something else.   She does get bored, but she is also very resourceful and is always thinking up games to play.