tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37948384Mon, 09 Sep 2024 05:40:13 +0000My life and my thoughts about my life.http://tlotwtc.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Patrick)Blogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37948384.post-5189130842513612968Mon, 10 Sep 2007 15:44:00 +00002007-12-09T01:46:44.396-05:00I was only half paying attention, so I don't know who said it, but someone on CNN just used the word "zombie" to refer to the infected. Great. Engineered bioweapons reduced to the level of a 1940s Val Lewton b-movie.http://tlotwtc.blogspot.com/2007/09/i-was-only-half-paying-attention-so-i.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Patrick)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37948384.post-2860009202141011836Sun, 09 Sep 2007 05:10:00 +00002007-09-10T07:46:17.278-04:00Today's New York Times reports that all over the country people are having the talk: what they expect their loved ones to do if they get infected. Tonight, inspired by the article, Christina sat down next to me at the small table in the kitchen. I knew that there was going to be trouble, because she reserves sitting-at-night-at-the-small-kitchen-table for quarrelsome talks. She gives me that http://tlotwtc.blogspot.com/2007/07/talk.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Patrick)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37948384.post-2732077707103438823Mon, 03 Sep 2007 06:05:00 +00002007-09-03T11:29:33.817-04:00It seems to be the classic pattern. The disease puts the patient into a coma, as it reproduces into every niche of the body. It then wakes them up and gets them out into the world infecting people. Then it turns the original carriers into brainless berserkers.http://tlotwtc.blogspot.com/2007/07/is-it-official.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Patrick)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37948384.post-2561419249671886604Mon, 25 Jun 2007 13:40:00 +00002007-06-25T00:07:19.358-04:00Altogether a total of one hundred fifty five people, all of whom were bystanders at The Site, Grand Central, or Penn Station, were hospitalized for coma. Now all of them are awake. Early reports say that they're fine -- no impairment, no known side effects, nothing. They're being screened for all known diseases, and there's talk of quarantining them for at least a week.http://tlotwtc.blogspot.com/2007/06/wake-up-little-suzie.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Patrick)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37948384.post-8539325576064522056Sat, 23 Jun 2007 16:50:00 +00002007-06-23T11:06:19.863-04:00Downtown hospital just announced that Nick Sabatini, a Site firefighter who had been in a coma, has just woken up. Preliminary reports indicate that there was no sign of brain damage -its as if he was just asleep for two days.The real question is, of course, what made him go under, and what brought him out. If other Site victims start coming out of their comas, that might help doctors figure http://tlotwtc.blogspot.com/2007/06/wake-up-little-suzie_23.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Patrick)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37948384.post-4401518686003125169Fri, 22 Jun 2007 22:59:00 +00002007-06-23T11:06:06.829-04:00Went into the office today. First day back in the office after the bombings.New York is in lockdown. Kelly has decided that the police will be doing random personal searches of everyone entering the subway at certain entrances of certain stations. Since this is entirely meaningless, this is known as "security theater" -- it's as if the police upper echelon said "We have to do something. This http://tlotwtc.blogspot.com/2007/06/after-horse-has-bolted.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Patrick)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37948384.post-7036502552779921012Thu, 21 Jun 2007 22:21:00 +00002007-06-21T23:52:39.289-04:00One hundred seventeen first responders and bystanders from The Site, Grand Central, and Penn Station are in a coma now. Apparently all these people were fine one minute, then they complained of a headache and swiftly collapsed. The director of the CDC, Dr. Julie Gerberding, claims that these symptoms are NOT a side effect of low-level radiation exposure, which is of course totally true. Whathttp://tlotwtc.blogspot.com/2007/05/wtfigo.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Patrick)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37948384.post-3934505829499846850Wed, 20 Jun 2007 18:19:00 +00002007-06-21T23:52:27.016-04:00Bloomberg on TV, reporting that 23 first responders to all three bomb sites -- cops and firemen, with 2 EMS -- have lapsed into a coma. This is bad.http://tlotwtc.blogspot.com/2007/05/oh-shit.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Patrick)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37948384.post-8659515992422014786Wed, 20 Jun 2007 16:44:00 +00002007-06-20T12:47:00.372-04:00FDNY spokesman was just on CNN, reporting that three first responders to The Site are in a coma. No further information. They're not going into any more details, but coma with no other symptoms is not an indication of radiation poisoning. Those poor guys.http://tlotwtc.blogspot.com/2007/05/uh-oh.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Patrick)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37948384.post-1631621792493295483Tue, 19 Jun 2007 13:47:00 +00002007-06-19T10:36:43.521-04:00Of course, Chertoff just came on to say that the Site bomb was NOT dirty, there was NO radioactivity and NYC Sanitation crews operating under the guidance of DHS scientists are going to simply wash down the area and everything is going to be all right. Isn't that wonderful.What he didn't mention is a little known Department of Homeland Security guideline stating that cleaning up after a dirty http://tlotwtc.blogspot.com/2007/05/bending-rules.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Patrick)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37948384.post-4107329200588219503Tue, 19 Jun 2007 13:31:00 +00002007-06-19T10:36:20.658-04:00Christina is not going in to work, which I heartily agree with. I work from home, so we're golden that way. She's going to try to make it home. We have food and toilet paper, so we're taken care of that way. We can stay indoors for a pretty long time. We're not that close to The Site or The Red Zone, but who wants to take chances?http://tlotwtc.blogspot.com/2007/05/christina-is-not-going-in-to-work-which.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Patrick)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37948384.post-6125034918356967065Tue, 19 Jun 2007 12:16:00 +00002007-06-19T10:36:07.921-04:00A Terrorism Emergency Services Team has been flown in from Las Vegas (Las Vegas???) to examine the area. They have cordoned off a ridiculously tiny swath of Manhattan: All of the lower level of Grand Central Terminal and all of Penn Station is off limits. The Red Zone starts at the Hudson, goes down Vesey-Ann-Fulton streets, up Pearl Street to Chambers, and back to the Hudson along Chambers. http://tlotwtc.blogspot.com/2007/01/where-have-i-seen-this-before.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Patrick)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37948384.post-2829183583326319030Tue, 19 Jun 2007 00:33:00 +00002007-06-13T18:10:07.644-04:00Manhattan is open again, in that people can leave certain parts of the island. The Brookyln Battery Tunnel, and the Manhattan and the Brooklyn Bridges all remain closed. The subways are royally fucked up: none of them stop at Penn Station or Grand Central, and nearly all the trains that ran through lower manhattan to Brooklyn are now running in two segments. Only the F is unscathed.The http://tlotwtc.blogspot.com/2007/05/open.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Patrick)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37948384.post-1327494152390179736Mon, 18 Jun 2007 19:06:00 +00002007-06-13T18:10:54.826-04:00Just got an SMS from Christina, timestamped 1:34pm. It took an hour and a half to be delivered. She's ok, she's going to stay with a friend who lives in Inwood. That's an unbelievable load off my mind.http://tlotwtc.blogspot.com/2007/01/just-got-sms-from-christina-timestamped.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Patrick)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37948384.post-3936769133517715331Mon, 18 Jun 2007 18:50:00 +00002007-06-13T18:10:46.742-04:00Bloomberg at news conference: "The murderous explosions this afternoon in the heart of our city are abomination that all civilized people condemn."The west wing of City Hall is rubble. The main waiting room of Grand Central is damaged. No word on Penn Station. Victims are reported in Downtown Hospital, St. Vincents, Roosevelt. I need to find Christina right away, but I'm in the lockdown zonehttp://tlotwtc.blogspot.com/2007/05/wtf.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Patrick)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37948384.post-843350785836507493Mon, 18 Jun 2007 17:49:00 +00002007-06-13T18:10:36.952-04:00CNN is reporting a suicide bomber in Penn Station as well. Every closet lunatic, every embittered Seventies radical, has taken to calling in bomb threats to every major building in the city. ESB evacuated.Cheney on the TV saying that the terror alert level has been increased to Red, which means that a terrorist attack is imminent. Duh, thanks.http://tlotwtc.blogspot.com/2007/05/red-alert.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Patrick)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37948384.post-6783925538128500986Mon, 18 Jun 2007 17:16:00 +00002007-06-13T18:10:26.772-04:00The entire subway system has been shut down. Trains in transit were pulled into stations and the people were ordered off. No one is allowed back into the system. Station managers and token booth clerks are being ordered to lock the gates.Bridges and tunnels are being blocked with dump trucks, garbage trucks, and sander trucks.Manhattan Island is sealed off.http://tlotwtc.blogspot.com/2007/05/lockdown.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Patrick)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37948384.post-6275351060946931915Mon, 18 Jun 2007 16:53:00 +00002007-06-13T18:10:17.768-04:00There are now reports of a suicide bomber in the West 4th Street subway station.Tried Christina's, my sister's, and my brother in law's cell phones and got a fast busy signal for all of them. Dave's office number goes directly to his voicemail without even ringing. The network is overloaded as everyone calls everyone else asking what that explosion was.Christina was heading up to Rockefeller http://tlotwtc.blogspot.com/2007/05/more-again.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Patrick)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37948384.post-48389492531407415Mon, 18 Jun 2007 16:47:00 +00002007-06-13T18:09:53.144-04:00CNN is reporting that there was a massive explosion at the corner of Vesey Street and Park Row, right outside of City Hall. There is talk that it was a truck bomb. City Hall is partially damaged and on fire. Deputy Mayor Pat Harris is on the radio telling people south of 14th street to stay (or get indoors) and to keep the windows closed.Fuck.http://tlotwtc.blogspot.com/2007/05/more.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Patrick)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37948384.post-2277836290995476245Mon, 18 Jun 2007 16:36:00 +00002007-06-13T18:09:33.258-04:00Channel 2 is reporting that about a dozen people in the area around the explosion at City Hall are being brought into Downtown Hospital.http://tlotwtc.blogspot.com/2007/05/ok-now-things-are-bad.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Patrick)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37948384.post-8292559375303354650Mon, 18 Jun 2007 15:44:00 +00002007-06-13T18:08:36.756-04:00Massive explosion about ten minutes ago. This is the scene out the kitchen window. It looks to have been south of Houston maybe, but its hard to tell exactly where it was.http://tlotwtc.blogspot.com/2007/05/massive-explosion-about-ten-minutes-ago.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Patrick)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37948384.post-116574283811935298Tue, 12 Jun 2007 23:26:00 +00002007-06-13T18:25:07.408-04:00This story just gets better and better. Today, in some more "getting to know you" chatting in the lunchroom, Alexandr the Czech told us about the time soon after he had arrived in the United States, "wit' no maney in my pawket, unly the chuthes on my back!" Pretty soon, though, he was running a McDonald's in Tonawanda, NY, just outside of Buffalo. There was an Old Order Mennonite community http://tlotwtc.blogspot.com/2006/05/job.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Patrick)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37948384.post-4417032068752443242Mon, 11 Jun 2007 23:52:00 +00002007-06-08T10:04:59.067-04:00Good times! The corporate headquarters in Boston sent them a new SVP to take Roger's place. The new SVP, Alexandr ("you can call me Al"), is a 55 year old lawyer who escaped from Czechoslovakia back in the days when (1) there was a Czechoslovakia and (2) you had to escape from it. Jerry introduced him to the assembled group as a "mover and a shaper" [sic], a man who could right what was wrong,http://tlotwtc.blogspot.com/2007/05/bouncing-czech.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Patrick)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37948384.post-223676383713968187Wed, 23 May 2007 14:46:00 +00002007-05-26T22:49:05.570-04:00Spent the entire day at the Big F---ing Client's office. Just before lunch, Jerry called all the employees into the conference room. I tagged along for some reason. Jerry announced that effective immediately, Roger was no longer working for the company. Some people were surprised, some people were nonplussed, some were smug. This effectively leaves them without an SVP, but it's not as if http://tlotwtc.blogspot.com/2007/06/i-really-am-not-crook.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Patrick)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37948384.post-116574268936104924Thu, 10 May 2007 08:21:00 +00002006-12-31T09:49:36.027-05:00Will I become the hero of my own life?I'm going to be going through a lot of changes in the next couple of months. I'm bringing about some changes by myself. I'm being forced to go through other changes.Let's watch the changes together.http://tlotwtc.blogspot.com/2006/05/to-start-with.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Patrick)0