Notes:
^* the rest of the world has enough problems just surviving day to day to worry about what year it is in whose calendar...
^** as if there weren't enough issues of real substance to reflect upon at the turn of the millennium...
^¶ and in so doing we made our modest contribution to the economy of Sweden, a nation that by law prohibits from television all toy ads and food item ads directed at children---imagine that!
[hmm ... might not the WTO consider this a violation of its restraint-of-trade clause?]
^¶¶ roman numerals, duh ..., finally we know what that letter on the sugar coated chocolate stands for:
it's millennium candy!

As usual we were remiss again this year in follow-up thank you notes, and in initiating dinner invitations to people we would really like to visit with. Let's face it: we are passive social lab rats, responding to outside stimuli but unable to initiate our own experiments most of the time. Push us a little!