Saw a CNN tweet about Ben Jacobs and made the mistake of looking at the replies. Ugh, seems a majority of people think assaulting reports for asking questions is awesome. Have to remind myself it's only a majority of people who respond to CNN tweets.

How does this work? My father calls me, I don't get to the phone in time, I call him right back...he doesn't pick up.

Pocket dial, maybe.

That happens with my wife sometimes. She gets so pissed that I didn't answer the phone so she won't take my calls for awhile.

Probably not the case in this instance.

Your wife doesn't seem to understand how life works.

I have had a morning. My dad had a 'sode last night and ended up in the hospital. He's fine now and about to be released. They think it was cased by a weird meds interaction.

But my sister is not great in an emergency and had me in a panic most of the morning because she first just left a cryptic message on my phone, and then gave me a wrong number for my other sister's new cell to get updates. I feel like I need a drink.

Oh dear, Sue. I hope things settle down and dad is good.

Simple answer about my father -- he was leaving a voicemail while I was calling back.

How complicated is it to figure out how to make a cell phone ring longer before kicking over to voicemail? I've been on hold with the customer service agent for six minutes while he looks it up.

My co-workers: So you're telling me that your fantasy is to run a bed and breakfast in hell.

I think I came in mid-conversation.

It was actually longer than six minutes, I hung up at 26 minutes.