Flight Status

It's two minutes 'till midnight, and I'm heading off to bed. As usual, I take one more look at the flight he's on, where it is, and how much longer he'll be in the air. I look at the little airplane on the screen, having more of a connection with the little icon than with the truth that it is just that. An icon. I get the lump in my throat when I see that he's about to leave the U.S. and head over the "big pond" as he calls it. As he gets closer to leaving land, I zoom in on his little plane icon, only to see that it's heading in the opposite direction. Why does it look like he's turning around? Why does it look like he's making an emergency landing? Would there be any reason he would need to land in Greenland? Or Iceland? What's happening? But he's not landing there. Nor is he turning around to come home. He's just going around weather, or whatever, and for some reason the tracking program picks it up. Thanks a lot. All I can say is that it's keeping my heart healthy because every time it changes, I feel my pulse race. So now I'm x-ing out of the tracking system. And sadly enough, he'll still be in the air when I hear the light footsteps coming up the stairs followed by kisses on the hand. That'll work. Okay guys, I'm up.