Taking the Swine Flu situation as a drill, I learned a bit.

First of all, apparently a Pandemic plan for a township needs to be more than, "Buy enough beer and ammo" so I'll be working on that a little.

As far as supplies and such, we were fine, fine. In terms of emergency room panic visits - that was both expected and annoying. So much of system was bogged down with "I sneezed am I going to die" visits.

Finally, for me, the main thing that this little drill gave me was the impetus to start looking for a more local job. Almost 14 years of commuting 5 hours a day to Manhattan and I realized just how much of an incubator that bus really is.

It's a shame, I love my work, the company is great and we do good stuff...but I guess it's time to think about being out of that situation.