Author: Greg

So where are we five years on?

I’ve had pretty little to say about this day over the years, The day after was a big long spiel. But I’ll go back to what I said a few days before 9/11 in 2002:

Has it really been a year? I can close my eyes and remember it like it was yesterday. And what has been accomplished in that year? Next to nothing… Sure, they’ve cleaned up Ground Zero and stormed Afghanistan but really, we’re no further on than we were on September 12th 2001. The main bad guys are still at large and attention has shifted to Iraq.

What are you going to do on Wednesday? I think I’ll have a few quiet moments at approximately 9am EST then get on with my life. I’m kinda glad I’m not in America for that event, as I’m sure it will be blown way out of proportion in a shower of red, white and blue. Don’t get me wrong, to each their own, but life goes on, all things must pass. That’s all I will say on that subject. For now…

A year on it was more like:

So, it’s been two years since the two planes hit the two towers of the World Trade Center. How much has been accomplished in those two years?

The Taliban were driven out of Afghanistan, but most of it remains a No-Go zone. Iraq was “conquered” but soldiers are still dying today on the lawless streets. Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein still remain at large.

And that’s it.

And apart from Saddam being captured and now currently tried in a show trial, not a lot has been done in 2 years. 2004 and 2005 passed without much thought and today I’ll probably do what I did every year since then, pause for a moment before 9am and then get on with my life

I’ve added a new feature that comes via Twitter, a little notice of what I’m currently doing…

So far I’ve only posted two entries, but since it can be updated via the web or via SMS on the phone it should be a bit more frequent, at least until I get bored. If you’re a fellow Twitter user then you can find me here…

So tonight is the big kick off, and for the first time since 2003 it’s not taking place at the not-quite-frozen-yet tundra of Gillette Stadium, instead it’s at Heinz Field, Pittsburgh…

As the Pats aren’t playing I don’t really give a proverbial crap about tonight, and seeing as most of the Pittsburgh team is either injured, moved on or in the commentary booth, it’s hard to even care about them… Without Ben Roethlisberger, Jerome Bettis and Antwan Randle-El, that leaves, what? Hines Ward and Troy Polamalu playing ironman football against the entire Miami Dolphins, and judging by the Dolphins dire performance last year, Hines and Troy might just win…

And what’s with Big Ben? First a major motorbike accident, now a burst appendix, doesn’t this guy even care about his internal organs anymore? Instead they’ll have Charlie Batch at QB tonight, at least it’s an improvement over Tommy Maddox, but not much…