I was at work, stressed about the budget I was working on, and I got a breaking news flash in my email feed. Logged into the CNN website and saw the second plane hit. It felt surreal. I called a couple of my colleagues to tell them to get on-line and they all thought I was making a sick joke. Nobody was working - we were all glued to our monitors, so they closed the office early and sent us all home. I wound up watching CNN for most of the day.