For the first time in five years, I'm back in the office for September 11th. Actually, now that I think of it, I've NEVER been in the downtown office on September 11th of any year. The last few years I've been working from home, before that I was in Weehawken, and on the first 9/11, I was doing this. So I never actually sat in the World Financial Center on this day. Which means I didn't realize there would be so many tourists getting in my way on my way to the office. There are always tourists wandering around down here, but today of course was especially bad. Oh well, I guess we should all have extra leeway to be spacey today.

Things around here sure are a lot different than they were in 2001. Clinton Hill has gone from a sketchy neighborhood to the place where no home shall sell for less than a million dollars (except this one). I live with none of the people I did back then, though for the time being I'm still in the same house. I'm poised to purchase a house in a part of the boro I probably didn't even know existed back then. I'm still working for the same company, though my status has changed a lot (though all that happened in the last 6 months). Smoking has been banned. ToddP has become a household name (well, in my household anyway). And Shellac has played twice. Last time they were here was October of 2002, they finally returned to Brooklyn last week.

And somehow, I'm still using the hacked guestbook script as a blog, with a commenting script that's so old that the guy who wrote it doesn't even have it on his site anymore. I haven't quite figured out the problem yet, I sure hope I don't lose all the comments from all these years. I mean, I hope I can get this to work without manually replacing all the comments on every post.