[Ipg-smz] 9/11

[Daniel Dern]

On Tue, 11 Sep 2018, Dana Blankenhorn wrote:

> Gee, the worst thing that happened to me was having Daniel Dern stay at our house
> for 3 days. <g> We were both covering Supercomm when the towers were hit

I vaguely remember it being Interop, but same diff.

Yeah, I was in the air flying Boston>Atlanta, when IT HAPPENED. (It didn't 
help Bobbi's peace of mind re me, back in Boston, that I'd changed from 
one Delta flight to another without updating her.

> Met there, and he told me about his problems getting back north.
And staying in a pricey hotel, on my dime, on like the 10+ floor, with a 
humongous picture window view of the sky... just what I didn't want to be 
looking at...

> So I had him over. Back then the kids were 10 and 13, and he had to 
> sleep on a futon in the front room.
Which was hardly a problem; when crashing at friends in NYC sometimes, 
I've slept on the floor, until they got an inflateable mattress.

> The futon is now a coach, the kids are now grown, and we added a master 
> suite in 2009 so if it happens again, Dan, you can have your choice of 3 
> bedrooms!
Good to know. What's the futon coaching?