This solemn day

Today was a bad day. I got ZERO work done today. Eight dead in Haifa. Fifty wounded. The bodies of the three missing sailors were found. And more and more missiles landing. Over 800 missiles and mortar attacks thus far.

Spent pretty much every second of the day reading news sites and blogs and watching television. I know I’m not the only one. A friend of mine who works at a fairly large corperation here IM’ed me earlier that everyone at his company must be surfing and not working because the network keeps crashing. Another friend’s company’s entire customer support system sits in Carmiel and the company is backlogged with hundreds of customer requests.

I went out briefly for some shwarma. Lots of people were out and about. Everyone of course was talking about the situation but the sense of detachment still exists. It’s just too surreal for people around here. I’m sure that will change as the missiles land even more south.

I got to tell you, I’m a bit weary that all these Israeli news sites are revealing the exact locations of where the missiles are landing. Isn’t that dangerous? Shouldn’t the IDF be censoring this? Hizbullah are fairly web savvy. I know Ketyushas don’t have targeting systems, but I assume the more advanced missiles do. Shit.

This Solemn Day – Iron & Wine (MP3)