>Dirk;
>
>Congrats on surviving. Saw a bit of that on the tube. Looked like a
>beautiful celebration, Wash. Mon. fireworks and all. Perhaps you got
>some ADITL3 candidates?
>
thanks. that's what I'm hoping for.
>According to the tube, the Wash celeb was tame and short compared with
>Times Square, where revelers were still partying at 2AM, long after the
>Wash Mall had pretty much emptied.
>
We left soon after the monument went off. Got home about 2am. Not bad
considering.
>And, so much for all the Y2K scares, huh? I'm actually surprised that
>there weren't some hitches as the problem was real. Kudos to those who
>worked long and hard (and got paid well!) to find and fix the problems.
>I guess the real test will come when we all get our bank and 401K
>statements in January! :>)
>
I was saying last night that it would have been news *if* the power grid
went down, the atm's crashed and the new world order took over. Oh well,
better luck next year. :)
>If you had had an OM-2000 along, you would have been cursing it same as
>the FM-10. It works the same way and I think it's really a dumb
>cost-saving idea. I mean, whats a few pennies for a simple timer
>circuit? Geez. Although I will say that in the few occasions when I've
>used mine, I have been able to sometimes adjust the shutter speed with
>my thumb while pressing the shutter release with forefinger. Still is a
>pain though.
>
Well, that's it. I'm stocking up on single digit OM bodies from now on. None
of this cosina crap for me.
Be seeing you.
Dirk Wright
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