At least I had a perfectly viable reason

[jon_chaisson]

This is why I was late for work today: a fire broke out next door to the building I work at. Although it was a 3-alarm fire, it doesn't look like too much damage, as it's a mostly concrete building and it was abandoned (that, and it's only about 3 floors high). Left a nice smoky smell in our building for most of the day, though, which was rather annoying...