Hacked Off!

摘要

At last. Here I was at the trailhead of Avalanche Lake in Glacier National Park. 3,000 foot waterfalls and blue-ice glaciers darted the scenery. It was cool. It was fresh. It was beautiful, and it was just the respite from the Texas heat and months of hard work that I so desperately needed. For weeks, I had prepared to be gone from the office, taking care of a month's worth of business in advance, contemplating all that could go wrong and putting measures into place to back up operations in case they did. I couldn't be happier to be embarking on my first hike. And then I saw it... no, not a bear,...a voicemail. Shouldn't I just ignore it, I thought? I did my time in the office before I left; everything's in order. But it was my banker, and with all the banking transactions I had done for the coming month's expenses, I thought better of it and listened.