Well, I asked my boss today if he could get the powers that be to lay me off. Probably could have picked a better time than when he was walking out the door; just sorta got this "now or never " feeling and went for it. He asked me why-- I said I need to go home. He said we could talk about it tomorrow, he had to get to this dinner.
OK.
So right after that i gte this call. Saw it was a Houston number. Was my sister and I know it's just wrong for her to call me during the workday so instantly I am worried. Well, my stepfather was rushed to the hospital today, very sick. Some kind of internal bleeding. He is being put into ICU and this sounds sort of bad. He has diabetes and the beginnings of kidney failure and lots of health things. He is such a good, kind, gentle man and means the world to me. I am scared.