While going through old files at work, I found my self-assessment for 1999. I read or at least skimmed it a couple of times. I saw no mention of Y2K--the effect of moving from the 1900s to the 2000s--which was in everyone's thoughts that year, and preparing for which occupied some portion of my time. I guess that I did not mention this because my assessment responded to the goals that I had set down at the beginning of the year, when the attention to Y2K was slightly less.
By the fall we were thinking about the transition a good deal more. There was a weekend on which quite a few of Accounting and Information Technology departments came in to ensure that we would be able to run payroll, pay vendors, and (I suppose) run membership lists in the New Year. The tests ran smoothly, though also long, for I failed to retrieve my car from the garage before it closed, and required a ride from a co-worker. And when January came, the payrolls still ran, and work went on as usual.
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