Update

Howdy folks. Well, to bring you up to speed...

I'm back in Ohio and have been here since October 12th. The wife of one of my best friends passed away on the 10th. He is also in our unit but wasn't part of the group that went to New Orleans. He'd stayed behind because the week we left, he was giving his wife a kidney. Things went well and she was home a bit over a week later. Then she had a heart attack. He asked me to be a pallbearer and since he was in our unit, it was easier to go to Chief to see if I could go home for the funeral (this rarely happens. Exceptions like this are only made for immediate family members).

I flew Southwest out of New Orleans to Houston to Chicago to Columbus. While I was waiting in line to get on the Chicago to Columbus flight, I look over and see the wife of another one of my best friends. What are the odds of that? We decided to mess with her husband and get off the plane and meet him in baggage claim holding hands like we'd been on some weekend getaway in Chicago.

On a related note...have you ever held hands with someone you had no romantic feelings for? It's weird. There was nothing wrong with her at all but it just felt tremendously awkward. I'm sure it was 10 times worse for her though.

I've been here in Mansfield staying with my friend who lost his wife ever since I got back. I'll be coming back down to Dayton to stay on Sunday. I'm looking forward to it.