I just spoke with my youngest daughter. She works for a company that does the actual billing for hospitals.
On 9-9-99 servers crashed, inputs came in incorrectly, many of her co-workers were sent home because there was no work to be done until the computer mess was straightened out.
Interestingly enough, the problem was all from the hospitals' end. My daughter's company had no problems. They proved that because SOME hospitals had 100% okay input. Other hospitals, 100% bad.
My daughter asked for two weeks off starting December 30th. The harried boss grinned and said, "Get to work - if there's any you can do!"
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Let's see. Here in the pantry. Got bottled water, bread, Shiner Bock, propane for the stoves, flashlights and batteries, Shiner Bock, peanut butter, jelly, Shiner Bock, medications, toilet paper, Shiner Bock, Kleenex, soups,... hmmm.
May have to get some Shiner Bock....