After dinner this evening, I headed back to the hotel to grab a few things then I pointed the rental car in the direction of home. I knew that home would be warmer than the hotel, but it would have my bed and my cats. My cats… I don’t think I’ve ever been so happy to see them. They are fine. The temps today were in the 90s but the rig is nowhere near an oven, so I know they were okay. They seemed pretty happy to see me, too.

I’ll be spending a good part of tomorrow at home, but I will probably head back to the hotel for the night. I hope I can renew the room for several more days beyond Monday, but when I tried to book for the full week online, there was absolutely no availability.

I was quite angry to get a 5:30AM wake up call today when I fell asleep around 5. The call request was left in the system after the last person checked out. The call startled me so much that I wasn’t able to get back to sleep till almost 7AM and by 9AM, my body had decided it was daytime and that was that.

I don’t expect to hear anything from the insurance companies until noon Monday at the earliest. If I want to get back to Canada to attend the family event on the 19th, I just may have to get the repairs started without knowing who will be picking up the tab. I still don’t know how I would pay for them even if I was to get reimbursed later. But there’s no sense driving myself crazy with this over the weekend.

Now, reader Gary said something in a comment today about a cold beer and I think that’s a good idea. 🙂