- Tickets in Hand 2001-09-18 12:16:27 Well, I picked up paper tickets for my Friday morning flight to Atlanta for AWA. So long as the flight is not canceled, I'll be there!
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Still shock
2001-09-12 20:33:10
This afternoon was a little better. A few times I got cought in the "programming tunnel" (basically you think of nothing but the program you are working on, kinda like hypnosis, programmers know what I'm talking about) and I the whole terrorist thing felt like it was just a bad dream, but then I came back to reality again and just had to get a grip again. It's one of the wierdest things ever.
Mary is very calm today, bright and thinking. She'll be fine now. I wonder if we'll actually be able to make it to AWA. We are scheduled to fly there that Friday morning directly from Dulles to Atlanta... -
What a day...
2001-09-12 10:23:10
What a time for me to put the journal up.
Yesterday was a day. For me, it started off normal. I came to the office and started work just like every other day. After about 20 mins, Mary calls and says that a plane had hit the World Trade Center in New York. Since I don't have a TV at the office, in my mind I pictured a propeller Sestena [sp] plane carrying sight see-ers flying too close to the building and then hitting it when a big gust of wind kicked up suddenly. I reassured Mary that it was a bad thing but that things would be fine. I go back to work.
Later I get a more frantic call from Mary that a second plane has hit the towers. Did a second Sestena do the same thing? Mary says it was a terrorist attack. A friend of mine IMs me that they were 737s. I start shock and disbelief. A plane hits the Pentagon. Mary says she is packing to leave the area. I leave work to find out what's going on.
I get home to watch the horror first hand. I can see now why Mary is in a panic. Mary had seen the second crash and the collapse for the towers live on television. I try to calm her down. I try to stay calm myself. It seems like the beginning of the end of the world. We watch TV and run around the house not knowing what to do. When all the planes are on the ground, we are able to calm down considerably. We are still shocked at the sights of the day.
It's now Wednesday morning. I expected to have nightmares last night, but I didn't. I had a wierd dream of walking around in an old wooden building. At least in my dreams I had forgotten the events of yesterday.
I'm still in shock, trying to actually do some work. It's not working. Maybe this afternoon... - Journal Test 2001-09-09 19:44:04 This is a test of the journal. It works!!
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