{"id":138,"date":"2002-09-11T07:04:00","date_gmt":"2002-09-11T13:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thefranciscos.net\/wordpress\/?p=138"},"modified":"2002-09-11T07:04:00","modified_gmt":"2002-09-11T13:04:00","slug":"today-is-the-first-anniversary-of-911-a-day-wh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thefranciscos.net\/wordpress\/2002\/09\/11\/today-is-the-first-anniversary-of-911-a-day-wh","title":{"rendered":"Today is the first anniversary of 9\/11, a day wh…"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Today is the first anniversary of 9\/11, a day which we will all probably remember for the rest of our lives. People will deal with it in their own ways – some will attend ceremonies, some will hear mass at their local church, some will watch tv specials and read news articles on the net, others will choose to write about it, whether it be in the form of a poem, article or even a weblog entry, others will choose to pretend it didn’t happen and completely ignore it, and in other parts of the world, some people are actually rejoicing. In any case though, this day has changed our lives and we should never forget what happened on this fateful day.<\/p>\n

What I really think of the most when I remember 9\/11 are all those fathers who left their families behind. When I think back, this event is what really made me think about how important my wife and daughter are to me. It made me realize that my family is the most important thing in life, and I should never take it for granted. I recall that my first instinct upon seeing the WTC tragedy unfold on CNN was that I wanted to be with my family, and that’s exactly what I did on that day. Right after work (which ended early that day), I drove the 5 hours or so to be with them. They actually could have been 10 or 20 hours away, and it still wouldn’t have mattered. I just knew that I wouldn’t feel safe until I was with them, and on that day I made my resolve to finally make the move from one end of PA to the other. I keep thinking about how this tragedy has affected everybody’s lives and what lessons it has taught them. Something terrible happen one year ago today, but at the same time I feel that a lot of lessons have also been learned.<\/p>\n

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On another note, I’ve been real busy with work lately – this week I finally got to start looking over some code and see what piece of our software that I’ll be working on. It turns out I’ll be working on something called a “packager”, which is a machine that basically packages drugs in order to be used my McK’s robots. Pretty cool and challenging stuff, especially since part of the work means that I’ll be porting some of the Powerbuilder code (which the original application was written in) over to VB. Coming from a VB background, I just needed to point out that the PB IDE sucks! Besides that though, it’s mainly just serial port communications and pretty straightforward, so I don’t think I’ll have much trouble getting it to work. We’ll see in a couple of weeks how this turns out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today is the first anniversary of 9\/11, a day which we will all probably remember for the rest of our lives. People will deal with it in their own ways – some will attend ceremonies, some will hear mass at their local church, some will watch tv specials and read news articles on the net, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefranciscos.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefranciscos.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefranciscos.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefranciscos.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefranciscos.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefranciscos.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefranciscos.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefranciscos.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefranciscos.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}