Marathon Thoughts 3: Summation(?)

EDITOR'S NOTE: These are my notes from the evening of Friday April 19th, written during the press conference BEFORE they caught the kid.  I did not post them in the moment because of the inherent negativity.  I debate posting them now for the same reason.  They are followed by my thoughts this morning.

Rough presser on both sides of the podium.

Lieutenant Colonel Alben, Superintendent of the Massachusetts State Police, looks angry and confused. He admits to knowing Nothing several times.

Deval Patrick and Mayor Menino haven't missed a press conference yet throughout the ordeal, and I don't mean that in a good way.

My screen is split, the podium on the left, an image of the kid on the right.  I'm having trouble buying in from this picture.  They should have found one where he was looking meaner.  or sadder.

A recap of FACTS I gleaned from this particular press conference:

1) The kid got away
2) The "stay in your home" mandate has been lifted
3) The MBTA is back online effective immediately
4) They are adding 10 stateys to every shift in Watertown, three times a day, through Monday

When asked if the additional manpower suggest they think the suspect is still in Watertown, Alben replied, "No."

When it came time for the Last Question someone shouted "How did he get away" and I shouted at my television "How was that not the first question?"

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Of course, the russian kid was very much still in Watertown, secretly trying to die alone and in peace, inside of a winterized boat he had slithered into.

There will be a million theories.  (He's the bottom rung of a Terrorist Cell!  Muslim Attack!  I personally expected it to be a Fat Guy who hated marathon runners)

It will be hard to avoid the darkness of the past week.  Can we return to normalcy without stopping at revenge and hatred along the way?  I hope so.

but if things were normal I wouldn't be writing this, I'd have been patting myself on the back about my 200th post (this one).