People have already started to play the “where were you on 911?” game. (Dave’s right, there’s no good place-name designation for the events of yesterday, although the date itself is resonant enough in today’s society.)

The millennial-transition-defining crisis that people have been waiting for since the Y2K bug turned out to be an anticlimax has hit us, and for better or worse, may have set the tone that our new century has been lacking thus far. I’m proud at how well people handled the crisis yesterday at the actual attack sites, I’m likewise appalled that the terrorists were able to take over planes with nothing more than knives. No guns, no Uzis… glorified sharp sticks. “Knife-like objects”. I attribute that to the fact that people on the plane expected the plane to be set down on a tarmac somewhere in anticipation of hostage trade negotiations — no one wants to take a knife in the gut for that — had we only known.

I actually heard a song on one of the local radio stations today. They went back to taking calls from listeners right afterwards, but I heard a song.

It wasn’t a good song, but I was glad to hear it. The President can say we need to get back to business as usual, and get Congress to get back to work, but until the radio stations start playing music, and we ‘return to our regularly scheduled broadcast’ — things will not be normal. I’m not saying we should stop talking about it, we shouldn’t, but if I don’t agree with one other thing GW ever says, I agree that we need to get back to business as usual, just to send a message.

That’s what I’m going to do.

I won’t stop talking about the attacks, but that’s not all I’m going to talk about, because I’ve never talked about just one thing. It’s all about falling down, after all — not the way in which we fail, but how fast we get back up. I don’t have much of a manifesto for the site, but if that’s it, so be it: I’m going to at least pretend to get back to the ‘normal’ activities on this site, and eventually my act will become my reality.

So…

The folks at Eateasy were apparently so worried about my current state of mind that they sent me a copy of the SirCam virus to try to cheer me up. They seem to say with this message, “Hey, we know you:00 AMericans are having a hard time trusting people right now, so we just want to show you that there are still trusting souls in the world, people so trusting that they will blindly open unsolicited email attachments and send viruses to all the web sites they regularly visit.”

Thanks guys; you’re a bunch of idiots, but today, I love yah.