My husband and I had planned a weeks vacation at our lake cabin and I had gone up early to open it and buy food for the week. I was sitting on the glassed in porch late Friday afternoon, watching the sun on the water and gulls swooping about when my cell phone rang. I got up to answer it and it was my husband. He has a good job as a tech consultant. Unfortunately because he is very good he has to be on call.
"Honey, Im sorry, but one of our top clients server system crashed last night. I have to go out of town to get it back up and running, then do the clean up and try to figure out what went wrong."
"Damn! When do you leave?"
"They have plane tickets for me. I leave in two hours."
"Oh, shit. When will you be back?"
"I expect I am going to be gone all week."
"Jesus, dont they know you have a life?"
"Honey, its my job. It pays the bills and then some. Just stay up there and enjoy the lake. Get some sun and swim. Ill call as often as I can. Maybe I can get the job ...
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