Nicron #106 13 января 1999

Congratulations - Happy New Year!

        Happy New Year!

(C) Wlodek Black
Figure (c) Spencer Winset / Diamond group


... And with the "old"
Happy new year - too.
1999-nd already recorded his arrival
finally and irrevocably. Entered whether he
flew into whether there has crept
in our homes - but
At least the numbers
on the calendar change. Here and there
black and green piles soar over Moscow's snow-covered lawns 
piled shapeless armfuls still smelling of pine needles "forest

Beauty "- and
not sold, have already lost all its value and therefore not 
protected by anyone ... Thousands of them in the flame will 
burn the lodge fire, and God forbid, so that from this fire 
even though someone was warmer. The first time I've seen it: 
mountains of unsold Christmas trees and mincing past them in 
the first New Year's Day the first passers-by, trying to take 
away look. The numbers on the calendar changed, and this is 
probably the most noticeable change. Eighth year of crazy 
hopeless "reforms" showed us the three nines, which reversed 
many of the world seem sinister three sixes. And only the 
children enjoy the new year as always - snowmen and 
firecrackers, crackers and fireworks. From the celebratory 
"gunfire" vzvyvayut car alarm sirens drowned in snowdrifts 
Zhiguli and foreign cars but sometimes wince sifting through 
garbage cans stray dogs and homeless people. Moscow ZXNet-chiki 
(we, I mean) spent the evening of Dec. 31 New Year sisopnik in 
Izmailovo Park and in the evening around us traditionally 
patrolled "Glavmosbutylkontrol - old ladies who collect 
emptying glass. Kids have fun as a child, adult - an adult 
drink. Already on their way by the old year. "The hands are 
approaching midnight." Bell strikes twelve Kremlin chimes, and 
in a moment, muttering incoherently overlapping TV to trembling 
panes of the balcony exhibited a powerful speaker, on a 
completely deserted streets, lighted by hundreds of luminous 
windows, carried by the majestic national anthem - "The Union 
ironclad ...". Spinning a little vinyl gramophone record. 
Rumble speakers on the balcony and explosions of firecrackers 
in the rapidly reviving street. On a lonely highway is 
absolutely free flying "Moskvich2141-taxi, the rate of under 
two hundred, as soon as at all possible. Hisses champagne. 
Happy New Year, with a new happiness! Smiley face or something, 
put it? The keyboard has already in his hands. At MUSIC BBS - a 
traditional virtual "party". Well, it's on Saturdays it is 
traditional, but this time - Christmas. But the fact is does 
not change. Spectrum entered into the eighteenth year of its 
existence ... No, not the existence - of life! Hastily erased 
smiley and pressed "On line". Happy New Year, ZX-People!