[Grumpy_G]

Raised poor, frugal, cheap, whatever you want to call it, so the mindset was always on the back burner. Got out of the service and worked for an IT company doing Y2K remediation. Thanks to the efforts of companies like the one I worked for, it ended up being a big nothing burger. Talking to the coders prior to that, though, it could have been a big disastrous deal; no one knew for sure how bad it could have been. It made me realize A) exactly how fragile modern American society is and B) exactly how uncertain things can be. It started the process that led to where we are today.