Sunday : 11 September 05
Today marks the fourth anniversary of the terrorist attacks in New York, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C. For what I had to say before and continue to believe, I direct you to this entry.

I woke up this morning to the sound of the phone ringing. It was . Not good. Why? Because I should have been up a half-hour before… and getting ready to meet him at the airport. Verdammt! We hit the hygiene rituals and managed to arrive at the airport only a few minutes later than we should have been there. We picked him up and headed to a local restaurant for breakfast. We spent the next two hours catching up on the news from our respective parts of the country. He had spent a week or so in Mississippi helping with communications for the disaster relief/recovery. He showed us some pictures of the devastation. Wow. It’s one thing to see the news reports. It’s an entirely different matter to see pictures that someone you know took firsthand. Amazing.

After we dropped him back at the airport, we came home. We mowed the too-long neglected lawn. After that, it was off to Kate and Perry’s for a while. Then it was time to head back home because it was time for…

Football

Indianapolis at Baltimore
24 – 7
The Ravens, wearing their all-black uniforms, opened the season at home, hosting the Indianapolis Colts (a.k.a. “The Team-Formerly-Known-As-The-Baltimore-Colts”).


Peyton Manning and company came with their ‘A’ game. The first half was scoreless until the end of the second quarter, when Indy put three on the board… with fifteen seconds to play. From that point on, it was all about the Colts. Manning connected for two touchdown passes in seven passes. The defense was firing on all cylinders; Dwight Freeney ran circles around Jonathan Ogden. Their offense pounded out the yards. *sigh*

Baltimore, on the other hand, couldn’t buy a break. I really can’t fault the defense for their work. The offense… just couldn’t seem to get it in gear. The usually-reliable Matt Stover missed three straight field goals – two wide to the left, one wide to the right. ALL from within his range. Penalties took their toll on the team, too. Including one that chopped 86 yards off of a beautiful punt return. I do have to commend a couple of Ravens, though: Anthony Wright, Baltimore’s backup QB, put in a good effort after Kyle Boller got injured in the third quarter and former Tennessee Titan Derrick Mason made an impressive debut as a Raven. Unfortunately, they didn’t have quite enough support from the rest of the offensive line.

The High-Flying Adventures of Indigo Bolt
I did my cape mission tonight. Actually, I ran three cape missions – mine and two teammates. While it’s nice to have the option of wearing a cape, I think I’ll pass on actually using it. If there had been a cloak option, however, I might have considered it as part of a “dress uniform” accessory. *shrug* Maybe I’ll do a cape for a dress option at some point.

Stray Toasters

  • I am eating a cinnamon roll with Cookies & Cream ice cream.
  • I saw a Southwest commercial with women in linen store. One woman bends over to look at a towel on a low shelf… and another woman swats her in the butt with a towel. Woman #2 then just looks around like “What? Who? ME?!” The overlay comes up: “It must be football season,” just before the fade-to-black and the Southwest logo.
  • For : LMD
  • Until Perry mentioned it this afternoon, I was completely unaware that Kindred: The Embraced – based on White Wolf’s Vampire: The Masquerade had been a television series.
  • From this USAToday article, I discovered this site: Simply Fired.
  • Boomerang is showing “The Lion and the Unicorn”, an episode of Batman: The Animated Series. In it, Batman and Robin take the Batplane (I don’t recall whether or not they call it the “Batwing” in this series) to London, England. That raised a question in my mind: How does Bruce Wayne explain “just showing up” in England? No passport. No registry of entry. No nothing. And where does Batman park his plane? It’s not like he can just fly into Heathrow or Gatwick.
  • The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security

Namaste.