Tam I am very happy and very certain he feels the same. We have been friends a very long time but let being shy get in our way. I met him when I was 17 and I am 50 something now.

Also I do not work when I am sick. I have no distinction between personal and sick time, they come from the same leave bank. I got short tern disability for surgery but was denied it for radioactive iodine. That is an insurance company fight which I hate. The position is that I was depressed and that is a pre-existing condition. Evil insurers. Never mind I was in isolation and a danger to my co-workers.