Flashback:  9/11/2001

The following is a column which appeared on my web site, www.spatulacitybbs.com, on September 11th, 2001:


NOTE:  This column contains some coarse language.  Back out now  if such language offends you, please.

I got four hours of sleep last night.  I'm fighting the obligatory yearly case of tonsillitis.  My throat hurts like Hell™, my body is racked with soreness, and - not to put too fine a point thereupon - I'm in need of a tube of Prep H.

You get the idea. (sigh)

So here I am on LBJ Freeway in Dallas, plodding my way through traffic, fighting hard the urge to fall asleep at the wheel, literally.  I'm listening to our sports-talk/guy-talk station on AM, the Ticket (KTCK 1310), when the sports jocks there suddenly exclaim something to the effect of, "WTF...?!".  Apparently, a heavy jet has veered off course and slammed into one of the World Trade Center twin towers in New York City.

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(Note the 2nd:  Because of current space limitations in the Backyard™, I'm having to direct you to the old Web site which was hosted by Tripod.  Meaning, get your pop-up blockers ready 'n all that.)