HAHAHAHAHA!!!

I got a BlackBerry message from Karl this morning in the wee hours, telling me that he was out of the Middle East and back on the ground. He had made a couple of stops to drop off/pick up stuff in the night and was supposed to land in Kuwait for crew rest before making another trip downrange. There was no room for them in Kuwait, it turned out, probably because they already had too many jets there. That happens sometimes. Karl and his crew were instead told to fly to Sicily. Now, here's the funny part. Karl had been up for 24 hours and was exhausted, so he was headed to bed.....then an hour later I get another message that he decided to grab something for dinner first: a mini microwave pizza from a box! The man is in Sicily, and he is eating cardboard nuked pizza! For some reason, the irony of it made me laugh loud and hard at 3 am. He travels all over the world and hardly ever gets to eat local cuisine because the stops are short and he's so tired.

The great news is that, because they were rerouted, he no longer has to head back in. He will be headed toward home again!