My day started about the same time Slim started this thread ... made it into The City by 6, where many of the traffic lights were still flashing red ... the mayor had tried to get the traffic engineers to turn all the lights red at 5:45 (the time of the first attack) and have all traffic stop for a few minutes in rememberance of events last year ... turned out, that was a logistical problem and many of the lights flashed either amber and red or amber and green, resulting in a certain amount of confusion ... good idea that didn't quite work ...
No one I encountered today had their heart in their work ... maybe we all should've stayed at home. Some moving stuff on TV this evening capped by a very interesting interview of Bill Clinton on the David Letterman show ... I found myself agreeing with the former president more tonight than at any time while he was in office ...
Now, it's past 11 and like Slim, I know I need to get up in only a few hours for work, but sleep isn't working as it should. Lots of introspection here ... dunno what cigar this is I'm smoking, so I can't tell you, but it's a good one ... fitting, I think.
I've always said that cigar smokers are a special breed of guy ... gals too, in surprising number. In a lot of ways, our group is like an extended family ... we've got our differences, but there's a common bond that exists among us ... and a lot of genuine regard for one another. President Clinton said something on the Letterman show I think bears repeating ... as best I can relate it, he said that people needed to be proud of who they are, proud of their different backgrounds, proud of their heritage and of their culture ... but even more, proud of what exists in common with one another.
That sounded pretty good to me.