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I tried to post this 12 ways to YHOO. No go.

This afternoon on my way home it started to rain, so I decided to take the subway for the seven blocks that I usually walk. There were uniformed police all over the platform, something that is never seen. The train came, but there was some malfunction and it created some smoke. Though it turned out to be nothing, you could see the apprehensiveness all around.

There have been a lot of changes around here, none for the better. To this day, all of the spectators galleries at the exchanges are closed. You need a badge to even step into the CME. Its pretty much the same story at the Board of Trade, CBOE, and the CSE. The MidAm went bankrupt. These were always open institutions, welcoming to the public and eager to a part of any good Chicago tour. No more. Concrete barriers around every one of them. Also around the Sears Tower, the Federal Building, City Hall, Daley Plaza, The Federation of Jewish Charities, etc. etc. There are a lot of buildings in the city that are a block square, where you could enter the lobby on one side and come out in the next block. It was a civilized way to avoid the subzero in the dead of winter. That’s done too.

I am not even slightly in the mood for all of the sentimental, media driven, rehash that is going to suffocating us in the next couple of days. I am just grateful that my cousins and close associates survived that horrible day. And sorry for those who were not so lucky.