Until he said he had a problem I'd forgotten that the Lounge was set to be invisible unless logged in as that was a change made after my moderating days ended.

Alas, the last time I logged into mouseplanet was even longer ago than the last time I logged into micechat - - both a very, very, very long time ago. ;)

Holy sh*t I think Herman Cain has just applied for and gotten an offer for the job of conductor of the crazy train. I can't express how unhinged I now think he is to think this was a touching, patriotic thing to do.

ETA: Not that I had a high regard to begin with...

OK, warning for everyone. It shows graphic images from September 11th, 2001. I turned it off after 7 seconds.

Le sigh. This site has air traffic audio from that morning, and not only in much higher quality that I used for a project 3 years ago, but playable from any single point of indexed dialog.

Ok, so ... I simply cannot resist redoing the opening minutes of an audio project I did on nine-eleven, which in turn was for an audio project on American history.

I must have listened to and culled dozens of hours of newscasts, fire department radio calls, interviews, speeches, video tapes, and air traffic radio to use in the final 17-minute segment. And I got so insanely immersed in nine eleven, more than I had been since that morning 10 years ago, and more than I'd like to ever be again. It was more than a little disturbing.

But I can't resist the material that will let me improve that project which - because of all the work and tragedy-immersion that went into it - is very dear to my heart. So I'm reworking the intro tonight, and likely won't finish it until tomorrow night or Sunday. Not how I'd planned to memorialize the event - because it's a little more chilling than I care to deal with. But there's no denying to myself that it's more than a little appropriate.

Le.

Sigh.

I can't log in to MP. Something must be wrong. ;)

Personally, I could live a happier life if I didn't have to be reminded of 9/11 on a regular basis. Of course, I'm reading a book involving the early days of Nazi Germany which isn't any happier.

NA, I'm taking today as off-the-grid as I can because I don't need to see-hear it all again. I'll be thinking about it plenty anyway. Big peace to all here.

I missed it all the first time round and I just can't make myself try to re-live it.

One thing that still sticks out in my mind is how fvcking professional Doc on the Roc (KROQ's news guy) and the rest of the Kevin and Bean crew was that morning.

The other, among many, really is sitting at Starbucks during the days following with Erica thinking how eerily quiet it was without planes flying over and how loud it was once planes were allowed back in the air.

Then there was the convoy of tanks driving down Edinger, heading towards NWS Seal Beach (we presumed).

I was supposed to start a new job as crew scheduler with National Airlines on the 12th. Of course, with no planes flying...

So yeah, I was hyper aware of the air silence. Started the next day. I felt kind of bad for the panicked flight attendants stuck in random cities we didn't fly to calling in to ask when they could come home and suddenly there's a new voice on the line.