I was oncall again this weekend, so that consumed the vast majority of my time.  Either working, or sitting there waiting for the inevitable work to come.  Not as fun as last weekend.  I did get down to the Brooksider on Friday and see everybody.  That kind of sums up my entertainment for the weekend though…

Saturday I spent most of the day putting up a new garage door opener.  Our old one just up ‘n quit working last week.  That is probably a two hour job for most homeowners, but it took me the majority of the day.  And, while I was as it, I couldn’t help but notice that our garage door is (literally) falling apart.  I guess I never really had a reason to look at it.  So, the garage-door-dude is coming tonight.  Sigh.  After that project, Donette took off for a night out with the girls.  They ate, and shopped, and then went to some hotel down on the Plaza that they had price-lined.  Who knows what kind of treachery went on from that point;  I didn’t ask.  Meanwhile, in something of departure from my usual form of entertainment, I trotted up the street to a party at a neighbor’s house.  These people (I’d never met them) went around and dropped an invitation in everybody’s mailbox to come over for an open house.  How downright gregarious of them.  I was not so much interested in seeing the house (although they did do a very nice job on it I must say) as meeting people who would do such an odd thing as inviting over a bunch of strangers.  As it turns out, He (whose name I’ve since forgotten…) was a pretty nice guy; generally normal.  I never got a chance to meet Her.  Anyway, I hung around for several hours and chatted with everybody, and had just a real fine time.  Actually, when I looked at my watch on the way home, it had been just under twenty minutes;  But it SEEMED like several hours.

Sunday was relatively uneventful.  Donette got a new ipod last week… the super-duper new 80 gig model.  No lie; 80 gig.  That’s as much as our computer.  Wacky.  Anyway, I took possession of her little four gig hand-me-down, and spent the better part of the morning building my playlists and stuff.  I find that iTunes stuff very non-user-friendly for some reason.  I got it loaded up pretty well though.  Unfortunately, as I start listening to it, I am finding my playlist needs a little fine-tuning.  I just kind of went through our music library and added every song I liked.  The unfortunate result of this method is that one minute you will be listening to Frank Sinatra, then Staind, then an 80’s tune, then the KC Symphony… you get the idea.  It was kind of humorous actually, but there’s also about a 85% chance of severe schizophrenia setting in after a while.  After that, I cooked up a big pot of gumbo and watched football all afternoon.  Pretty tolerable day.  All the stars aligned in my Fantasy Football league and I was vaulted from third to first place;  Not too shabby.  First in my division anyway… which is luckily a rather weak division.