So sue me

Yeah, I said I'd be back on Tuesday, but what can I say? Traffic is a bitch. It was hell trying to leave NYC at rush hour (too much time spent at the Met really killed our momentum) let alone the entire Tri-State area. Phew... so glad it's over. The trip itself was fun though. It had been more than 3 years since I'd been back in New York (I used to live about an hour upstate) and a lot of things have definitely changed. I gotta hand it to Guiliani (and now Bloomberg) for cleaning up the city. Driving through Harlem was a shock: I actually didn't feel in the least bit unsafe. Greenwich Village, however, has not changed for reasons that are better left undisclosed (wink, wink).

Anyways, it was hard staying up with the news while I was there, but I did hear that Peter Jennings passed away. And yeah, he was a hot-shot journalist and all, but I can't say I was a fan. Perhaps if it had been Tom Brokaw, I would have paid more attention to the media coverage. Besides, my dad met Jennings once at a press conference and said he acted like a jerk. I'm frankly not that surprised.

Oh yeah, and the Discovery returned to Earth safely. Woo. I heard on NPR on the way back that the White House is planning to keep the shuttle flying until 2010. Now, I know that nothing happens very quickly with NASA in terms of planning and designing new flight programs, but I'm not so sure that after two flights in a row having problems with insulation (the first one costing the crew their lives) that anyone is going to be willing to go back up there on one of those antiques.

Real blogging to come later this "morning" hopefully.