Airplanes again

My mom is safely back in Shinnston, WV, after her marathon travels: from before Thanksgiving to now, West Virginia to Tennessee, to California, to New Jersey to Cleveland and back to WV. Now I have to keep Joel's plane in the air tonight as he returns from California with Doug and Alex K. after their Kobe versus Bron Bron basketball game last night.
His plane left late and is in flight now. This is the magical thinking problem-- that somehow I am responsible for keeping planes in the air, and it seems like a lot of people who are important to me are flying.