Have you ever been riding in the car with the radio on but not turned up too loud, and you hear a funny sound, like a tuneful electric buzz or a broken hum coming through the speakers underneath the music, and then in the next moment your cell phone rings? I’ve noticed that a lot. And just now, as I finally started to drift off into blessed airplane-sleep, I had a fantasy for a moment that I could faintly hear that sound without the aid of the radio’s amplification. That somehow we were flying through streams of data being sent up to satellites and I was picking it up with my suddenly radar-sensitive ears.

I don~t know what I actually heard. I’m sure there are far more signals bouncing around on the ground than 10,000 meters in the air. But it did wake me back up. Damn.

Home already seems like a place that I visited, once, maybe years ago.