Thank goodness the weekend is almost over

After our esteemed houseguest left, I was looking forward to a slow weekend of catching up on things. Including playing a little Forza Motorsport and researching the purchase of an SSD hard drive, as on all my laptops my platter hard drives seem to die with alarming regularity, and I thought I’d head that off at the pass (I think it’s my habit of sleeping the laptop and dragging it all over the place, tossing it into the car, etc, I’m hard on stuff) and get all the responsiveness that an SSD brings.

But the weekend had other plans than relaxing. Thalia ran a scary fever and had to go the ER with Emily Saturday night, so we ended up going to bed really late. Today, while Emily was out shopping for groceries, I tackled the question of why the ice maker in the freezer had thrown up its arms and quit on us, and also tackled defrosting the amazing icicle sculptures inside the freezer created after water overran the ice tray and poured out into the freezer.

Now the freezer seems to be working, but the cheap thermometer I tossed inside of it says it’s only 40 degrees, so cold, but not freezing, and the fridge decided to just stop working all together today (after much taking of things apart, I’ve determined it’s time to accede defeat and call a repairman).

And I was so proud of myself for figuring out why the ice machine had failed and fixing it.

Also, fortunately Emily didn’t bring back too much from the store for the fridge.

And then, just moments ago, one of the cats started hurfing up on a counter, then leaning over the counter to hurf onto the back of the dog underneath.

And that has been the gradual descent of this weekend.

I was having so much fun Friday and early Saturday, I guess this sort of thing was inevitable.

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