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I remember it like it was yesterday

September 9th, 2011 1 comment

(Just my little, insignificant, story about 9/11/01)

A normal day
Tuesday (9/11/01) started out as a normal, average day. Just the normal routine of driving to the office, stopping by Wendy’s for some breakfast, and grabbing some coffee on the way to my desk. It didn’t appear it was going to be an eventful day by any means.  As I always did, I made my rounds throughout the office, to check with everyone to see if we had any issues, or if I could get to work on some of my projects.

I was working primarily as a web developer, with some infrastructure management mixed in.  A typical eventful day for me at the time was arguing with my Director about using Java versus ASP.  He would always ask for Java applications and I would resist, only to win a few days later when I could kick out ASP code in about 30 minutes versus 2 days in Java.

All of that is minuscule now, given what transpired that day.

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