Y2K-COMPLIANT MICROWAVE

*SPOILER ALERT*

Can you imagine having to start a fire simply to heat up some leftover macaroni and cheese?

Fortunately, Deer Creek Cabin has an electric range and microwave. But it's also equipped with this beautiful beast. And it's amazingly like the one that Dad bought for our Y2K adventure.

It occurs to me that I need to do a little housekeeping to be sure we're all on the same page. If you read this blog, you may be:

-in the story, therefore you are familiar with it. Or at least your version of it.

-my friend from before my Y2K adventure, and yet you still claim me. Thank you for that.

-my friend from after my Y2K adventure, and have heard parts of the story.

-someone who wandered onto this site by accident and wonder what I'm talking about.

-Brandon, who is in a category of his own, and probably doesn't read this anyway.

Let me explain to you this screenplay I've been referencing—of which I completed my first nine pages today!

In the summer of 1998, when I was pregnant with Will, Dad came at me with some articles and websites explaining that the world was basically going to end when we rolled into 1999, based on a lack of foresight when computers became a thing. There was lots of talk about COBOL code and non-compliant computer chips, and it was all very convincing because, technology.

So, my little family and I eventually sold our house and quit our jobs and/or preschools to move to Colorado and survive the end of the world to get Dad to shut up about it.

Here's the SPOILER ALERT:

Everybody lived.

Recently my director friend Phil read the book manuscript I've written about the whole affair. He called me to say that Hollywood is low on screenplays featuring strong female leads, and that I should definitely write this one up.

I've never written a screenplay, I have a little time right now, and life handed this story to me with perfect movie structure—three good reasons to be here doing this amongst the Ponderosa pines where we courageously survived nothing 17 years ago.

Bet you can't wait to see what happens.