Axodys

Mary woke me up this morning with the stunning news. The rest of the day is a blur of television reports and weblog reading. I emailed my friend Jesse, who works in Greenwich Village, wondering if he was okay. He replied a while later saying that he had been in the city when the buildings fell down, and that it had been a scary and bizarre day, but he was okay. That was a relief.

I don’t really have much else to say today. Actually that’s not true. I do have a couple thoughts:

First of all I’m more worried about future loss of civil liberties than future terrorist attacks. It’s easy to take rights away; it’s hard to give them back.

Secondly I expect and look forward to a strong response from the U.S. Military against the perpetrators of this atrocity and any country that gives them sanctuary. I just hope we can get it right the first time. And if Osama bin Laden is responsible, I hope we have the patience to come up with an effective means of snaring him rather than relying on brute force.

Well, this weekend has been fairly productive as far the work related projects go. I’m still not finished with them, but I’m much closer.

The Seahawks managed to pull out a 9-6 squeaker over Cleveland thanks to the efforts of WSU alum Ryan Lindell.

Cool Birthday gifts received:

• Panasonic MiniDV camera - an early dual birthday present Mary and I gave to ourselves back in August
• Harry Potter watch - from my mom
• Minolta Binoculars - from Mary’s parents

I can’t believe I hadn’t heard about Cybiko until I stumbled across their site last night. Now I’m curious to fiddle around with one. Wireless peer to peer networking with up to 3000 other users in a scientific calculator sized package. Too cool. Must. Learn. More.

Did I mention that tomorrow is my birthday?

I’ve been really busy with work related stuff of late. Hopefully I’ll be able to return to regular posting now that things are settling down a bit. There’s still a lot of stuff to be done though so we’ll see what happens.