Priorities

After a few false alarms over the past weeks, it looks as though the time is near for my mother-in-law, I'm sad to say. My wife is going to travel up to the Midlands tomorrow afternoon, and I'll be calling my manager in the morning to let him know that my 'rebrief' will have to be postponed. He might not like it, but family stuff comes first. Given my attitude towards my job at the moment, if he does cut up rough, I'd probably tell him to shove it where the sun doesn't shine anyway.
Just to add another layer of complication to the situation, my daughter isn't well, either, unusually for her - it looks like she might have a throat infection or something similar, so she's been off school today, spending most of the day in bed looking pretty woebegone, poor thing, and will be off to the doctor's tomorrow if there's no improvement.
Just to alleviate the unremitting bad news, my brother called me to let me know he's got a new job, not only with better pay, but office-based and around a 40 minute drive from his place, meaning he'll be home every night, rather than the extensive travelling he's had to do over the past few years. Hopefully a bit of his good luck might rub off on us.

Love & best wishes to all
Sammy B