My Thanskgiving Weekend

Started off great - nice turkey dinner with Ben, Dallas and Jeff. And Jeff brought an apple crumble he made himself! Martinis at Sheldon's and then dancing at Zippers Sunday night. Those are the highlights and now...the rest of the story...

Saturday night: Dallas and I locked ourselves out of the house during Saturday night's thunderstorm. Only decision we had was "which door will cost us the least to break down?". Decided to go for one on the second floor. Had to borrow neighbour's ladder from their backyard as second floor balcony was deemed too hazardous to scale cat-burglar-style. Neighbour was not home so executive decision to steal the ladder was made on the spot. Carried ladder back - in the pouring rain -, scaled the balcony, broke down door, calmed down panicky dog, let drenched daughter in, carried ladder back to neighbour's yard.

Sunday afternoon: Tried to set up a new home network by 'getting around' stupid microsoft processes and wrecked my business laptop connection to the corporate network. It is not fixable by me. I must beg forgiveness from the help desk with my tail between my legs.

Later Sunday afternoon: Cat got out via the broken door on the second floor. Spent an hour trying to lure cat in with tinned food. Poured some draino-type stuff into the backed up kitchen sink to unclog the drain and went dancing while my liquid plumber did it's thing.

Still later Sunday evening, and on into Monday: Realized that shoving a turkey through the garburator was the likely cause of my kitchen flood. Bought more draino AND a jet-blast-in-a-can product that quietly went "phhhuut" and had absolutely no effect on the problem. Made a coat-hanger snake that didn't work. Tried to feed helpful neighbour's electrical snake through the pipes - also unsuccessful. Borrowed helpful neighbour's hacksaw - succesfully cut through main drain pipe but broke neighbour's blade. Resulted in yet another mini-flood, and the clog is still nowhere to be found. Visit to Home Depot to rent drain auger planned for Tuesday night. Helpful neighbour has offered to help with augering and pipe installation - says it's a two-man job.

I may tell helpful neighbour that in addition to borrowing all his tools Monday afternoon AND breaking his hacksaw, I stole his ladder on Saturday night. Or I may not...