I just realized that the last post I made was my 9/11 post 11 days ago.  In the interestes of lightening the tone, I will announce that my little girl is now standing on her own, for seconds at a time.  But it is a step in the right direction.  Go her!!  I will get some pictures up here as soon as I have time to upload them from the camera.

On 9/11 I was in physics class when the woman who sat next to me told me she had heard a plane had crashed into the world trade center.  This was about 9:30 am.  I thought maybe some drunk had taken a wrong turn and crashed his Cessna into a building.  I was thinking of the plane that hit the Empire State Building in the 30s.  She said she they thought maybe it had something to do with terrorists.

At 11 class got out and I went to the library.  I went to say hi to my boss.  She was normally pale but today she looked stricken.  I’ve never seen anyone in such shock.  She told me about the second plane, she told me about the towers coming down, she told me about the pentagon.  I felt like I had been punched in the gut.  I sat in her cubicle for the longest time trying to find any information online but most major news sites had crashed at that point.  Then they announced the school was closing.

I had to take a shuttle bus back to my car.  So did 500 other people.  If it had not been for the timely arrival of campus police a riot would have started about five feet from me.  Just tense people waiting for a bus to come.

It took two hours but I finally got home.  I talked to my friends, online, on the phone, i watched tv, i listened to the radio.  I was searching desparately for new information.  I called my parent’s cell phones over and over trying to reach them.  They were in Orlando, on a trip.  I finally talked to them that night.

I remember laying on my couch, crying, unable to comprehend the events off the day.

I remember the thrill I felt, the pride, anger, aggression, joy that I felt when I heard we had invaded Afghanistan.

I remember on the 10th of september I was in a deep, dark depression.  I remember how great I felt on the 12th, like every negative emotion had been lifted.  I wasn’t the only one.  My friend’s father was psychiatrist.  She told me his patients started paying all their delinquent bills.  I think that was a weird phenomenon but I can safely say it was real.

I just read the funniest quote on that bastion of critical thinking, Fark.com: “I was pretty annoyed with [the choice of] Palin, I’ve seen more qualified people running meetings at work”

That’s comedy gold.

I am sitting in the living room, writing this on my laptop.  My wife and my daughter are bothing taking a morning nap so the house is quiet.  It’s really nice.  I do have about a million things to do today but right now the world seems really peaceful.

We’re thinking about remodeling our kitchen.  Right now it is just too small and cramped for us.  The cabinets are also pretty ugly.  Whoever put them in had horrendous taste.  We just need to come up with a way to pay for it.  The cost of remodeling anything in your house is pretty steep.  Plus, when I dream at night, I dream of stainless steel appliances.  Oh, if only.

For the first time since the baby came home, my wife and I were able to go out into the garden and get some work done.  Well, I got some work done while my wife sat with our daughter and watched us.

It’s not going to be a banner year for our garden, too many distractions caused us not to do enough work in it.  It was overrun with weeds although I managed to get all of them out.  However, my veggies are looking kind of sad.  Oh well, next year we can do a lot more with it.

It looks like there won’t a Jekyll Island Rental this Labor Day Weekend.  I just checked Travelocity and there is only one hotel with rooms left on the island and it is way over priced.  So that sucks but at least I still get a three day weekend.  I was really looking forward to taking our baby to the beach for the first time.  Oh well.  It’ll still be there the next time we can take a 3 day weekend.

I  like the name of this blog.  It fits me.  Very thorough.  I guess the first thing I want to tallk about it my trip to the beach..  I am checking out hotels on travelocity right now.  It’s going to be so great to get away for awhile.  I hope they have something though because we were thinking about labor day weekend and that is just a few weeks from now.  We’ll see I guess.

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