I get to go back to Washington, D.C. again. If you remember, I went back there in 2006 for the User Experience Week conferences. This time around, it’s strictly work-related.
I’ll be meeting with our Director of Strategic Planning to discuss the development of tools the company will use to track proposals made for projects. The tools we have out there now are sorely outdated (the last one was built over 7 years ago) and haven’t even been touched in years.
So, it’s time to make a trip out to D.C. and meet face-to-face to hash out the details. I’m leaving next Monday and coming back Thursday. Should be a fun-filled trip, heh.
What exactly is wrong with the Chargers defense? Are we missing Merriman that badly?
So last week’s game against Carolina was a disappointing loss for sure. Losing the game on the final play of the game. But it was a little easier to take knowing that Carolina won fair and square and that we just flat out lost the game.
Denver didn’t win, they were handed the game, twice.
The first came on just the second offensive play for the Chargers. It was ruled an interception, the replay clearly showed that Chambers was down before the ball was ripped out, so Turner challenged the play. However, the replay equipment was conveniently malfunctioning and after 2 minutes, the ruling on the field had to stand. Denver was given the ball and they quickly scored a touchdown.
The second was a fumble by Denver QB Jay Cutler on the San Diego 10-yard-line, recovered by the Chargers, but was blown dead and ruled an incomplete pass by the ref. They reviewed it and said, “yes it should have been called a fumble, but because it was already blown dead, we can’t overturn it.” Denver got to keep the ball and scored another touchdown, and then a subsequent 2-point conversion for the win.
Yes you could argue that the Chargers should have been able to overcome both blown calls, and that they had no business winning a game in which they allowed 31 points to be scored in the first half; I will give you that. The defense has been looking mighty weak the last two games. But the offense persevered and managed to score 21 unanswered points, even successfully converting a 2-point attempt, to take a 38-31 lead. I was excited again, thinking, “yeah we’ve got this”.
But then disaster.
Given the emotional rollercoaster that was yesterday’s game, and the tough loss a week ago, I’m thinking this is going to be a long season …
It’s amazing how quickly time seems to go by anymore, but when something big like the terrorist attacks happen, time seems to slow way down amid the chaos; it’s almost surreal.
I remember that day seven years ago today, rather vividly.
I woke up around 8:30, like it was any other Tuesday. I had school that morning so I went into the bathroom to take a shower. I had a radio in there that I used to listen to while I showered. Instead of the normal morning radio show, the mayor of San Diego was on the radio, talking about city services would be shut down for the day and that police are now on high alert. I thought to myself, “Umm, what’s going on?”
So I turned the radio off and went back into my bedroom and flipped on the TV. I turned to the Today show and they just had a camera fixated on lower Manhattan where the towers used to be. There was smoke billowing up, but that was all that was left.
Working for a defense contractor, we had several employees at the Pentagon that day; in fact one of our offices is not far from the Pentagon. Once I had heard the Pentagon was also hit, I immediately called my boss (who lives here in San Diego) to see if everyone was okay. Everyone at our office was accounted for, but we couldn’t reach the people we had at the Pentagon. It wasn’t until several very tense hours later that we finally got an email that all our employees were safe.
I was just glued to the TV for the rest of the day. School was canceled for the rest of the week, so I just sat there, watching everything, absorbing it, trying to find some kind of rational reasoning for all this. I never found one.
We had just gotten back a few days prior from my uncle’s wedding in Minnesota. So all the different scenarios started flying through my head. What if our plane got hijacked? What if we got stranded in Minnesota (or some other airport)? Of course though, I stopped myself because I knew I was safe and that my family was all okay; we were one of many lucky families that were far enough away to be directly affected.
But for those families that have been ripped apart, the families of the passengers, the families of the workers in the buildings, the firefighters and police, my heart goes out to you. I can only imagine the pain brought on by what happened only seven years ago …
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