I've been scanning a few local news sites for more info about something I heard on the subway yesterday evening. The 6 train was jammed and moving uptown with exquisite slowness. The conductor was making some kind of important announcement, but the only bits I could make out, there and on the platform at 59th Street when I transferred, were "trains are moving slow" and "building collapse."

Anyone know anything about a building collapse in Manhattan?

In the process of looking for a story on a building collapse, I ran across thisNew York Times story about a police officer who found a murder suspect asleep on the 2 train in Brooklyn. Even with the lead first, this story actually made my pulse pound.

(KDAWA?)

Last night I broke out the screwdriver and braved gigantic bust bunnies to replace the old, crappy, slow CD-RW drive in our PC with a shiny, new, fast CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive. Then I burned about 20 CDs, a process that used to take a good chunk of a day. I finished in less than 2 hours. Bliss.

█████ was getting ready for work when the radio told us that President Bush would be observing Veterans' Day with his annual tribute to the armed forces. █████ said, "What's he going to do, this?" and flipped the bird.

And I'm going off the air for the day. My employer an advocacy group based in Washington, D.C., so we close for every Federal holiday. I haven't checked email this morning, and I don't plan to the rest of the day. Nothing but writing today. And the occasional ball tossed to the puppy. Catch you on the verso side.