that next number and that looked like 00, we thought how are the electronics, how are the computers going to deal with that? maybe all the lights will go out. maybe toasters will start, you know, talking, maybe airplanes will fall out of the sky. it was a strange almost distraction. i mean, i'm not saying it wasn't a real concern. but the flipping of a calendar into a new millennium was a heck of a milestone to live through. you thought it would have been an occasion for a lot of awe and wonder maybe even spiritual if not just numerological reflection. but mostly we were just really freaked out about y2k. that was kind of the experience of december 31st, 1999. but it's interesting. one very large country where they didn't end up freaking out all that much about y2k on december 31st, '99 while america and the rest of the world was worried about that problem, one place this they ended up not all distracted by that problem, they