I waited until that exact minute.

I wish I could have made it to the party, but it seems like just like in the story, I missed it. Of course, it was for a much less exiting reason: I had to work. The night before, I heard about people in Annapolis seeing a bright blue-green flash in the sky and the power going out. So there was some speculation that the Mayans were onto something, but it turns out it was just a massive power surge that blew out the transformers. The funny thing is that I based the mall in the story loosely off of the Annapolis Mall, so I thought that was a crazy coincidence. As for how I rang in the new age, well you saw it above.