I was just about to leave for work this AM when I saw the Today show carrying live footage of the World Trade Center on fire.  Then I saw the second plane hit the other tower ... shocking.  I had to force myself to quit watching TV and leave for work.



All the way there, I was thinking about our company's CFO (who's one of the people I work for, and whose office is across the hall from me).  He was supposed to fly to our office on Long Island this morning, through Chicago.   I kept hoping he wasn't on one of the planes that hit the WTC towers.  (We later heard from him ... he was stuck at Midway.  In early afternoon, he called from the train station in Chicago -- he's taking a train back to STL later today.  Lord knows when he'll get his car back -- it's in a parking lot at the STL airport, which is shut down.)  



Meanwhile, our CEO is stuck on Long Island.  Thank God/dess. (He was in Manhattan yesterday on biz, but went out to the Island last night.)  Somehow, his assistant managed to get him a Southwest flight back here tomorrow afternoon.



It's just sickening.  My thoughts and prayers are with those of you in NY and DC.