DailyJim: Flying to the US on 9/11

Hello everyone, welcome to another Daily Gym. This is the episode for Wednesday, September 11th, 2024. I miss Monday and Tuesday because I could say it's because of travel, logistics, but it's really, I think, motivation is slacking these days, so I'm curious to see if it picks up over the next week. Today I want to talk about flying to the U.S. on September 11th. So, this may not go super in-depth, because I have been traveling for 33 hours now, I think it was. Nairobi to London, 8 hours in London, London to Philadelphia, Philadelphia to Detroit, and then Detroit back to the house. So oh and plus the airport strike that i think happened in nairobi which normally a security line takes 10 minutes took me two hours hey and not just me but everyone else um and that was, i was originally supposed to fly on monday but i got uh overbooked so therefore kicked off the flight not kicked off but like they didn't give me a seat so i had to fly on tuesday instead of Monday. So it's been quite the journey. Um, but yeah, you know, I thought about it on the way flying in. Uh, I was supposed to arrive on September 10th. Uh, and for those of you who don't know or don't remember September 11th, 9-11 is a big day in American history. Um, uh, 9-11, it was 2001 right hey yeah it was 2001 um i was.

Yeah i remember exactly where i was but i remember afterwards uh i was on the football team and we'd be out practicing american football and at one point we saw one plane fly over over our head and we're like what no no no there shouldn't be any planes in the sky what's going on like i felt fear. I don't know about other people, but confusion and fear. And then now I'm just flying back on 9-11 and security wasn't that strict. It wasn't over hyped in the places where I was. Sure, obviously TSA and their counterparts in foreign countries and the machines have improved drastically. But.

It's like I almost forgot that it was happening, and I saw something in the news where he was showing Biden and Harris and Trump and Vance and a couple other people, Bloomberg and others, in a line commemorating, I don't know what the right word is, grieving, honoring the event and those who had passed away. And I thought, oh, yeah, it is 9-11, isn't it? So it just goes to show, I think, that sometimes our emotions towards certain events can change drastically over the years. And also, you know, maybe the salience of them. And also it can really depend on our state of mind and what environment we're surrounded with. I was surrounded with Nairobi and London and trying to get all my flights organized and this and that. And really not paying attention to the news whatsoever. whatsoever um and if it was news it was what was in the local paper while i was writing the underground in london didn't just talking about like of course uk football uh the soccer in this term and a couple of things and reality tv shows and uk politics but i don't even think it mentioned to 9-11. I talked about the Kenyan, no, sorry, the U, was it? Ugandan marathoner, I think, who died in Kenya. Is that what it was? Hey, man, my brain is fried right now. But yeah, anyways, just wanted to check in, let you know that I am alive and ticking and hopefully I will be alive and sleeping quite soon. So I will talk to you all tomorrow. Bye.