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By chance, I had decided to take that tuesday off, because I wanted an extra day for the weekend. at 7:00 brett (BrettJ) called me. I groggily answered my phone, trying to sound coherent, When brett basically cut me off and said, "dude, don't go to work today."
"What are you talking about"
"Don't go downtown man ... have you seen the news?"
"No ... why?"
"The world trade center just got hit with a fucking airplane man! turn on the news!"
I don't really remember what we talked about after that... but we hung up shortly thereafter. I watched for another few minutes when the second plane hit ... then realized that we may be in for something crazy, and I suddenly got the urge to check in with my east coast colleagues ... first I tried to call fred from online, knowing that they were in the manhatten area (right?!?) and of course, got no answer. Then Bob and a few others. after a couple of failed dialings I realized that getting to anyone in NY was not going to work. So I called chad (Loster) and got through to him. We talked for a while about all the crazy shit that was going on, and we both fell silent when the first tower fell. That brief moment was followed by a lot of "Oh My God!"'s and "what the fuck?!"'s ... it was overwhelming. I couldn't do anything but sit in bed and watch tv for the first half of the day.
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