Thank you, Jenny - it is a tragic day.
It's gray and dreary here on the Central Coast of California, after a week of beautiful, warm, sunny weather, and this is as it should be.
Mr. Inspectorette has put our flag out at half staff. Hope all Freepers will remember to do this.
Putting mine out today as well, and expressing my fervent hope that this tragedy doesn't allow the hand-wringers to derail our space program again. For all our complacency about it, it's a dangerous business. Always was, always will be. But it is perhaps the business that speaks most directly to the American heart and sense of adventure. I'm quite certain President Bush knows this very well.
We had blue skies yesterday, as well, and we too are overcast today. Very appropriate, as you said.