mydogfarted

khoos is sick. It is a combination of bad reaction to the flu shot she had to get for her physical, for her permanent US visa. It weakens her immune system and she gets sick every time she has one. It flared up her colitis as well, and her poor butt is killing her.

Baby D is sick again. Wednesday night/Thursday morning around midnight she woke up with a really high fever. She was up until 2am, and we had to get up at 4am to go to Montreal for khoos' visa interview at the US Consulate.

I had to leave my girls behind. I hate coming home without them, AND I had to come back early because of an issue at work. The ride home was horrid. Let me lay out my past two days:

• Wake up @ midnight with sick D. At least I got to go back to sleep while khoos did what mommies do best, and what D hates daddy trying.
  


• Get up @ 4am and out of the house by 4:30 to drive to Montreal. Drive 2 hours to khoos' cousin to drop off T for a play date. Have quick breakfast and get back on the road.
  


• Drive 2.5 hours to Montreal in rush hour traffic (should take a little over an hour). Get to MTL at 9, rush to get the physical results to bring to visa interview by 9:30.
  


• Get to Consulate @ 9:15. Stand outside in line in freezing cold. Finally make it inside to security desk at 9:40. Rush upstairs for interview.
  


• Get message from dad that critical server has died. Tech from company we share office space with starts trying to rebuild server. Manages to get it partially back up, but I need to head home early to fix.
  


• Leave Montreal around noon, pick up T around 1, have quick lunch and head back to Ottawa. End up having to take back ass way due to highway closure.
  


• Take two hour nap, pack bags, kiss family, hit the road about 8pm.
  


• Midnight I'm too tired to keep driving. Pull over, grab another 2 hour nap, wake up to snow. Fuck.
  


• Snow starts getting harder and harder. Hit complete white out conditions several times, and have trouble keeping car on the road. Decide to give up. 3:45 am finally find rest area to pull off and sleep. Wake up freezing every 2 hours, so I run car for 5 minutes to heat it up.
  


• 7:30 phone rings to make sure I'm alive. Sore, pissed off, tired, but alive. See traffic moving on highway and decide to join them. Snow has turned to driving rain. Still below freezing, which means snow on highway is now frozen slush. Still have 150 miles to get home, so I get my ass in gear. Roads start to clear up after 45~ miles.
  


• Arrive in NJ @ 9am, pick up dog from vet, head home to shower and feed animals.
  


• Arrive at work @ 11 am. Back up server has corrupted the file for dead server, so I can't restore. Try fixing corrupted files on server, give up.
  


• Grab another server I'd been building for other project, install operating system. Find out motherboard does not support Windows 2003.
  


• Borrow new server from other company, install OS. Begin installing updates.
  

It is now 7pm and I'm still at work. Will probably be here for another 3-4 hours.

khoos' visa has been approved. She's stuck in Canada for 1-2 weeks while her visa packet gets completed, but she is now a legal U.S. resident. Not sure she'll ever go for citizenship, but at least now she can officially live in NJ with me!