I was awake and getting ready for work, with IRC open and one of my friends said to check the TV. That day was the first and only day that I ever used the tuner in that car since the empeg was installed. Work was eerily quiet, usually filled with talking and laughing the only noise was keyboards and the radio that somebody turned on to the news station.

During that time, I was traveling a lot out of country (in fact I was in Japan just two weeks before) and my parents called to see if I was OK. It felt weird talking, like I was interrupting something.