Hey Thomas, I wanted to message you directly about this and apologize to you directly. I came into work today and was told by my boss that my vacation time has been canceled due to staffing shortages. I was told that if I fail to show up for work it would be grounds for termination and I absolutely cannot lose this job financially speaking. Unfortunately that means that I will no longer be able to attend the national which pisses me off because I was really looking forward to coming and being involved, especially with being an alternate driver. I know the national is important to attend so I wanted to contact you because PF has become very important to me and I'm trying to be as involved as I can with both my local network and now participating in the editing team. I don't want this to negatively impact my membership and still plan to contribute as much as I'm able to the movement.