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Rednecks, Black Helicopters and Mass Hysteria
by: UnKHiram@aol.com
Now I don't know about yall but I got my bomb shelter loaded down with Beef Jerky, Hot Peanuts and Dr Pepper. My sweet blonde came home from Walmarts last week without our groceries or the new issue of "Big Guns and Little Animals", when I asked her why. She said the computer at Walmarts were down cause they had one of them Millenium bugs. Well yall know me a rational calm person who allways thinks before I act. I did the only sensible thing loaded the shotgun and dragged the whole family into the bomb shelter. We spent the weekend draggin all our valubles (Merle Haggard tapes and Black Velvet Paintings of Dawgs playing cards) into the shelter and preparing for all them city folkes flooding into the country when civilizastion fell.
Ok, Ok, all jokes aside I do believe the prudent genealogist should take a few precautions. Let me tell you what I plan on doing.
1) I'm gonna do a print out (With Sources) of all my materials. I'm then gonna take this hard copy over to a relatives house who lives in another town. This will ensure that if a disaster does happen and my computer crashes I will have a hard copy. If nothing happens and Y2K turns out to be the biggest joke since the Mondale Campaign it will still serve a good purpose, because my mother will end up with a copy of my research.
2) I'm gonna Email myself a copy of my Gedcom. If you do it a few days before Y2K hits you can leave it "up there" till you get your system back up or if Y2K turns out to be as big a let down as the Dallas Mavericks you can just delete it on the 2nd of January.
3) Do a complete back up. You can use the expected "Computer Meltdown" to justify the purchase of a Read/Write CD Rom. Then if Y2K turns out to be the biggest "NonEvent" since the opening of the Dudly Do Right Movie at least you got a Read/Write CD out of it
Now to be honest I doubt that civilization will fall on Y2K. There may be some disruption but I suspect we will survive it. On the other hand I need to get the rest of my Tanya Tucker CD's into the Bomb Shelter.
Adios and Keep Smiling
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