10:42 AM Sunday 9/16/01
Writing on a very weird Sunday. Just some random thoughts on paper. Electronic as it is.
For the first time in my lifetime there will be no NFL, no NHL, no NBA or Professional Baseball on a Sunday when they were either in season or in preseason and games were scheduled.
There are still no flights out of the major airport in DC.
While most of the “local channels” from LA are back to normal program, the stations from NY are slow to go back to normal. After all, their city was hit the hardest by the events of this week.
It’s a Sunday of silence from a lot of folks. Maybe that’s a good thing. With no distractions we can get together with our families and enjoy a distraction free Sunday together. To be grateful that we can be together and grateful that even though the worst events in the country’s recent history happened this week, we’re still standing together, as one big dysfunctional family and that we are here to help one another cope with surviving.
We will get through the pain and the heartache that’s going on right now. We *will* survive this. If we don’t, the terrorists will have won.
Ground zero coverage on CBS right now. Ground zero is at least sixteen acres big. The FBI may move in and go square by square in a big grid because this is a crime scene.
Right now if you’re looking to donate, donate blood at your local red cross. While NY can’t use it right now, dang it, the red cross can. Our blood banks were in a state of emergency before this event happened and let’s hope that people realize that there’s an on-going need for blood even after these weeks and months and years of healing are over.
Also, they’re saying that if you donate other things, water and food — they’re good on. They need work boots, gloves, hats, rebreathers (with canisters that can be changed), foot powder, and those sort of supplies. While the workers on the scene of the WTC are working super-heroically, never forget they’re men and women and have all the needs that men and women need when they’re working under high stress. They’re going to need foot powder, corn remover, you name it. That’s just the reality of being human and working in a scene like that.
Next week there’s a huge gathering in New York’s central park to honor the firefighters and police officers who were killed on Tuesday. While I can’t go, I hope that as many of you who can make it there go.
On our front two big birthdays were over-shadowed by events this week. Again, happy belated birthdays to both Laura Burstein and Robyn Huggiebear. If you want to send them belated birthday greetings, check TechTV’s web site for their e-mail addresses. Every smile counts right now.
I was moved on Friday from the special feedback hour TechTV put together. They covered every aspect of TechTV and brought in as many on-air personalities as they could get on to share in the hour. In chat everyone had been working their butts off to keep the room and the community alive — and it was great that they all pulled together to put an awesome hour together to check in and see if we were all okay.
It’s times like this the best comes out in America. I was so proud of TechTV on Friday.
Take care all,
k9