I wasn't at all sure that I would make it to tonight's sale. I'm working on a project that's not finished and is due tomorrow. I had this week scheduled as vacation and had to push it back because of this project. I've been working late every day for more than 2 weeks, but managed to leave early today so that I could get there, even if I was 17th in line.

The other reason I postponed my vacation is because my boss gave notice in order to work on a startup venture. He's the best boss I've ever had, in large part because he's also the most talented programmer I've ever worked with. He put in long hours, has a very wide skill set, and consistently churned out large volumes of quality work, so I needed to be available for every minute of turnover time that he could spare. In addition to my project being due tomorrow, it's also his last day and I'm not looking forward to trying to keep things together once he's gone -- there are a lot of things that he was the only person who knew how to them. We're a very small IT department for an an international non-profit org and there are some very scary days in my future.