It could always be worse

There may be things about my job and life I don't like, but at least I don't have a crazy ex-husband like my co-worker the new outreach librarian does. As a computer analyst and someone who had just built a house, he felt like his life was missing something, and so he decided to start building a steel sailboat which he intends to sail around the world. While this plan is very ambitious and quite cool, it didn't really include his wife and two kids (age 6 and 13), who he expected to drop everything, sell the house and just go sailing for the next 10 years. If this didn't agree with them, well then they didn't have to come, but he would still be selling the house and doing the trip regardless of what they thought. My co-worker, who felt like she was in a book or movie (especially when the local newspaper decided to interview her husband about his project and possibly create a Canadian version of Ewan Mcgregor's Long Way Round - book and tv show, but with a boat instead of motorcycles) decided to leave him and take her kids with her, and bring them here to this mid-sized Canadian city to start a new life. I told her I thought it was a pretty damn good reason to leave your husband ... it's not one fo those things that they could compromise on down the road. He's sailing around the world, and to hell with his wife and kids. Here's the website that will detail the building of the boat, and likely also the journey around the world:

http://sailboat.creatica.org/index.html