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I am safely home in Chicago but stuck on the tarmac while we wait for a clear gate. I love how "five minute delay" to a pilot is like "there is a train directly behind this one" is to am El driver. There may be a train geographically behind the current one, but 'directly' is a bit of a stretch to describe a situation more accurately portrayed as 'twenty minutes away' in reality. Similarly, there will definitely be a five minute delay, but more likely there will be several five minute delays...

Anyway, home now in a manner of speaking, and really home in a matter of an hour or two.