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October 16, 2003

So. Each day is another opportunity to start over.

Idle question: am I the only person in the world who doesn't think it's natural to get up every day at an ungodly hour, drag myself to a place with an at-best-tolerable ambience, and spent the better part of every day there? Especially as the sun starts to set earlier and earlier.

I run into this problem at every job I have. They keep wanting me to show up at the same time every day, day in and day out. It gets dull.

Badger tells me that this is another sign that I should go independent. And that I probably have ADD. Just what I need—another frickin' diagnosis.

I stand on the brink of independence, looking into the void. Where will the money come from?

Of course, I get no money for the days I don't show up to work now. So there you have it. Catch-22.

In other news, I was investigating flights out to California for the Yuletide gathering of the clan, and decided to do a little research on an airline I hadn't heard of before. I went to the NTSB website and looked them up in their Aviation Accident Database. While I was there, I decided to check out the American Airlines safety record as well, just for context. And all of a sudden, marked out with a red "fatal" label, was a familiar date: September 11, 2001.

This is all that the NSTB Aviation Accident database has to say about that incedent:

NTSB Identification: DCA01MA064
Scheduled 14 CFR Part 121: Air Carrier operation of American Airlines
Accident occurred Tuesday, September 11, 2001 in Arlington, VA
Aircraft: Boeing 757-200, registration: N644AA
Injuries: 189 Fatal.

This event is being investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation as a criminal act.

That's it. 189 fatalities—more, if you count the other three flights that also went down—reduced to a single sentence. It took me a minute to realize what I was reading. And then a further minute for the irony to sink in.

After all the media hype, waving flags, and incessantly looping footage of the towers coming down, this is all the NTSB has to say about it.