Fast forward to the present. I power on my computer and get this warning dialog:

"That's weird" I thought, "Perhaps someone has finally written a virus for the Mac OS warranting I start being careful what I do online...damn." "Wait! The outage, yeah that is more probable." So I go to my Date/Time Prefs to change it back to today. I thought it was actually set to the date the warning dialog told me, or at least close to 2001. But I was wrong, and it made me laugh...and apparently blog about it.

All seems well, no viruses...yet. I'm really dreding that day. I really like the no frills - no worries part of the internet that Mac gives me.