So easy a child could do it. NOT!
I spent the better part of Saturday trying to install a new deadbolt lock on the front door. Four screws, they said. Can't go wrong, they said. AND THEY WERE WRONG!
I took the newly broken lock back to Ace, got another one and a quick lesson on how to put it in. 5 or 6 hrs after starting, and another pair of hands, the lock was in...upside down, but it is in and it is jolly well gonna STAY in! I'll get used to putting the key in upside down and turning it in the wrong direction...I swear I will, 'cause it is not coming out to be put in up side right.
That wasn't the limit of my adventures for the day. After getting me up an hour before I would normally rise, I had to take Ozzie, with his itchy butt and pus filled ears to the vet. $227 later, two prescriptions, an injection of antibiotics and an injection of steroids later, I have a dog on the mend and an empty bank account.
I am sincerely hoping that the agency will call this weekend because what I paid out in vet bills is just about what I would make for an 8 hour shift.
The only saving grace to the weekend was getting to see Babylon 5, season 2 and start on season 3. Oh, and the discovery that the Chill channel is playing Dark Shadows. Yeah!
All in all, a productive weekend.
I took the newly broken lock back to Ace, got another one and a quick lesson on how to put it in. 5 or 6 hrs after starting, and another pair of hands, the lock was in...upside down, but it is in and it is jolly well gonna STAY in! I'll get used to putting the key in upside down and turning it in the wrong direction...I swear I will, 'cause it is not coming out to be put in up side right.
That wasn't the limit of my adventures for the day. After getting me up an hour before I would normally rise, I had to take Ozzie, with his itchy butt and pus filled ears to the vet. $227 later, two prescriptions, an injection of antibiotics and an injection of steroids later, I have a dog on the mend and an empty bank account.
I am sincerely hoping that the agency will call this weekend because what I paid out in vet bills is just about what I would make for an 8 hour shift.
The only saving grace to the weekend was getting to see Babylon 5, season 2 and start on season 3. Oh, and the discovery that the Chill channel is playing Dark Shadows. Yeah!
All in all, a productive weekend.