When my boss announced that our firm was holding a company conference in northern California my first thought was "You have to be kidding." My second thought was, "My wife is going to divorce me!" We live in a frozen, rural area of Maine and business trips had already forced me to be gone three weeks this winter, leaving my wife alone in the house with two busy preschoolers. She was already displeased with me. This would send her over the edge!
