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I TEST the temperature. It is 83 degrees, warm but not hot. Just right.

I spend the next hour puttering around, checking medications, adjusting the
humidity, cleaning one of the life stations. Then Superintendent Bailey stops
by on his way out to dinner.

How are your charges doing? he asks. Any problems today?

No, sir, evrything's fine, I answer.

Good, he says. We wouldn't want any problems, especially not with the
celebration coming up.

The celebration is the turn of the century, although there is some debate
about that, because we are all preparing to celebrate the instant the clock
hits midnight and 2200 A.D. begins, but some spoilsport scientists (or maybe
they're mathematicians) have told the press that the new centuryreally begins
a year later, when we enter 2201.

Not that my charges know the difference, but I'm glad we're celebrating it