All that's missing is someone following him with a boom box that plays the fanfare from Rocky. Nick raises his hand, and the room grows quiet almost i...stantly. I can tell by his expression that he is enormously pleased by this."Good morning," he says."I scheduled a department meeting to let everyone know about the changes I'll be making. I'm your new Director of Information Technology," he adds with a smile, as if that information isn't completely gratuitous at this point."I'm not going to lie. Do they know that 4.3972% of patients who are put into a medically induced coma do not ever come out of it? Did that enter their calculations? Have they taken into account the relatively high chance of infection? My estimate is that 54.87916% of the time a patient will get an infection from an operation in an underwater office on a submarine. How are they going to deal with that? The infection will probably lodge in his brain?And where is Martinez? I cannot believe that his voice will be. .. both physical and mental."I could see she was about to argue once more, but stopped and smiled her thanks."Tell me about Robert. What happened? The last time I saw you, everything was fine." No ... it wasn't. He's always had a problem with alcohol. He just hid it better than most. But when he lost his job, he went downhill in a hurry. I had to go to work to pay the rent. Even though we were struggling to make ends meet, he was still drinking. We sold my car to get some cash to pay the bills,. At that hesaid we'd just go out for a few hours and then go home.That decided we went home and got changed. Him into his favourite pair offaded jeans and while I got into my agreed outfit of tight stretch pantsand these painful boots. I sometimes wonder what he sees in me when I am in this defiant mood as Istart to apply my make-up in a darker style. It doesn't take me long toapply a lot more mascara and other make-up which makes my look evensexier. I brush out my long hair and then apply.