There is still quite a lot of anger stored up inside this normally gentle man. He's lashing out unexpectedly, he gets quite angry about things that didn't bother him before.
He says he's come to terms with the lay-off, but he'll burrow down into some anger that seems to be bubbling just below the surface.
God bless him, he's trying to figure out what he wants to do now that he has the chance to change his life. In a perfect world, we would have enough money from all the stock that he purchased back when it was $42 a share, up to $102 a share. Unfortunately, all that he bought is now selling at $5.74 a share. You can't lean back on that. And you can only take $3K a year in loss. Guess we have to start selling that now or we'll never be able to get any benefit from all that loss.
MEANWHILE, back at the ranch, things are slow. Some days he apparently isn't even getting dressed. Other days he's up and out early. So, I'm not going to fret. He IS sleeping much better than he did over the last four months. He even mentions it. Then he'll digress into "but HE still has a job" kinds of comments. That was one uncomfortable dinner Saturday night. Two guys who were laid off and me. I truly didn't know what to say...or what NOT to say.
And so it goes...
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