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[@Pakde]

It is currently an "American Holiday", and I work healthcare. I am derailing the game with my absence from it. I am just being swamped by having to cover multiple other people who took the next few days off. It is not intentional; just the result of healthcare being 90+% female, and "BUT MY KIDS!!!!!!" being the #1, guaranteed-to-be-mentioned, "I GOTTA HAVE THE HOLIDAY OFF, OR THE WORLD WILL END!!!!" nonsense maker. 

Happens on second thursday of November, and on Dec 25 as well, EVERY. SINGLE. YEAR.

(Heaven FORBID that maybe, just maybe, they should have the conversation about not getting what you want with their kids, and that it should be professional and mature. No no. Those brats' expectations HAVE. TO. BE. MET.)

It has gotten to the point that I have started getting really salty about it, asking sharply when it is that I ever get to visit my own family for a holiday.  Being the asex man with no kids gets really old some times.  

Anyhow-- I did not intend to rant. Just mentioning why I am slow to respond. Having to do the work of 3 people for a week tends to do that.
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Calm down buddy, I didn't mean to push anybody. 

The interval between posts in both threads is still quite worrying though.