No kidding! Al Anderson, who puts this thing out, seems like he's getting ready for food shortages, civil unrest, and possibly even an end to late night talk radio, which is a sadly probable result of power failures all over the world.

We're not unprepared ourselves: plenty of firewood, a good stock of booze, extra batteries for the laptop, a hand-crank coffee grinder and plenty of candles in case the electricity goes out, and all that sort of thing. But we always live like that. Our local electric utility has the bad habit of giving us unanticipated power outages that scramble our work so !2;f~~=-;ds. ;hj96jg,n;klkl;kl;h243cgf

Where were we before everything went dark? Talking about the electricity going out in Y2K, right? Anyway, in our part of the country we're used to power outages and even a hint of a rumor of snow strips store shelves of essential items like toilet paper, generic shampoo, and canned soup, so as long as it doesn't snow on Dec. 31, 1999, we should be safe from all the Y2K stuff.

But you may not be as prepared (or apathetic) as we are. If this is the case, go ahead and subscribe to The Y2K Files, buy and read all the doom/gloom books it lists, lay in a few extra boxes of shotgun shells, and have a fine time hunkering down and waiting for The End of the World, when the Internet will stop along with everything else.