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.

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.

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.

Operation Golden Rule

Actually, I've never been the biggest fan of our governor. He hasn't always appeared to be the sharpest tool in the drawer. However, I'm having to give him higher marks than I previously would have.

I remember sort of mocking him during Hurricane Ivan when he called for mandatory evacuations of everything south of Montgomery three days before the storm hit -- and reversed the Interstate so that all lanes travelled north in the two days prior. (He wasn't as quick to call for mandatory evacuations this time, but we were never in danger of being hit by the eye of the storm this time). Over the weekend, I heard on CNN that it had long been established that it would take at least 72 hours to evacuate New Orleans but that Louisiana and New Orleans didn't order manadatory evacuations until about 24 hours before (And,I realize that even had they called for mandatory evacuations three days ahead of time, there were people who still wouldn't have had transportation). My point isn't about the mistakes made with Katrina, just that I take back my mocking of our governor for 'jumping the gun' in the past. Apparently, he was right to call for evacuations three days ahead of time and deserved more credit for his actions than I had thought.

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Operation Golden Rule

Actually, I've never been the biggest fan of our governor. He hasn't always appeared to be the sharpest tool in the drawer. However, I'm having to give him higher marks than I previously would have.

I remember sort of mocking him during Hurricane Ivan when he called for mandatory evacuations of everything south of Montgomery three days before the storm hit -- and reversed the Interstate so that all lanes travelled north in the two days prior. (He wasn't as quick to call for mandatory evacuations this time, but we were never in danger of being hit by the eye of the storm this time). Over the weekend, I heard on CNN that it had long been established that it would take at least 72 hours to evacuate New Orleans but that Louisiana and New Orleans didn't order manadatory evacuations until about 24 hours before (And,I realize that even had they called for mandatory evacuations three days ahead of time, there were people who still wouldn't have had transportation). My point isn't about the mistakes made with Katrina, just that I take back my mocking of our governor for 'jumping the gun' in the past. Apparently, he was right to call for evacuations three days ahead of time and deserved more credit for his actions than I had thought.

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Operation Golden Rule

Actually, I've never been the biggest fan of our governor. He hasn't always appeared to be the sharpest tool in the drawer. However, I'm having to give him higher marks than I previously would have.

I remember sort of mocking him during Hurricane Ivan when he called for mandatory evacuations of everything south of Montgomery three days before the storm hit -- and reversed the Interstate so that all lanes travelled north in the two days prior. (He wasn't as quick to call for mandatory evacuations this time, but we were never in danger of being hit by the eye of the storm this time). Over the weekend, I heard on CNN that it had long been established that it would take at least 72 hours to evacuate New Orleans but that Louisiana and New Orleans didn't order manadatory evacuations until about 24 hours before (And,I realize that even had they called for mandatory evacuations three days ahead of time, there were people who still wouldn't have had transportation). My point isn't about the mistakes made with Katrina, just that I take back my mocking of our governor for 'jumping the gun' in the past. Apparently, he was right to call for evacuations three days ahead of time and deserved more credit for his actions than I had thought.

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