shipperx | I need a vacation from my weekend

Didn't make it home from the game until close to 1am Sat...uh...Sunday morning. Then Sunday when my parents were leaving to go home, my father left the rear door open on his Tracker and I didn't see. I closed the garage door....and (thankfully for dad) the rear door of the car handled it fine. Not so great for me as it stripped the gear in the garage door opener, so after some begging to parents for help with installation, I bought a new garage door opener (which -- CRAP! -- not an expense I was anticipating. It's just from past experience with the garage door company who once charged me $80 to come out to the house and do NOTHING, as well as they're wanting to charge me $80 a piece for the garage door opener remotes which weren't working properly, I decided that it would be cheaper to buy a new one fro Lowes or Home Depot than have the original company fix it.) Unfortunately, it ended up being one of those box full of deconstructed parts with elaborate diagrams to assemble (so much for claims of 'easy installation.' Look, I passed Building Specialties - Mechanical/Electrical in college and I passed Electrical on the Architectural Registration Exam, and I found reading the wiring diagram on this thing to be confusing. What in the hell do people without building experience do with this piece of equipment? Give up and call an installer? It was a bitch.). Mom, Dad, and I worked all freaking afternoon on it and didn't finish installing it until last night at 9pm (and Mom was more than a little peeved about not making it home yesterday when she had wanted to -- for no readily visible reason. They are retired, and it's not like they had any appointments or schedules to meet). Finally, got the damn thing to work (no easy feat).

Thus was my weekend.

We did win the football game. We didn't play particularly well, but we won.

Ankle is healing. I can walk better but it's still very, very tender and irritable. It also swelled some after being put through so much use on game day. Still, it is improving... slowly.