Missy was home again this weekend! Most notably, because on Saturday we all went to Wabash to see Cary Elwes speaking at the Honeywell Center. I went to pick her up on Friday after work again, again without Beth since riding in a car is still too painful. And it was inconceivable that Beth and I wouldn’t take Missy with us since we didn’t do so for Josh Gates a few months ago.

The show itself was a lot of fun. In the pretty much sold out Ford Theater (not the Eagles Theater as I had thought) a crowd of people who can all recite all the lines gathered for a screening of the movie “The Princess Bride,” followed by Cary Elwes (Westley/Dread Pirate Roberts) speaking for an hour or so about stories from the making of the movie. Especially stories about Andre the Giant.

The van became trapped in the garage for a while this week. Starting sometime in the middle of the week the garage door opener was unable to raise the door entirely, and when I pulled the cord to disengage the door from the opener, the door went slamming down and landed with a mighty crash. At that point I couldn’t miss seeing the broken door spring, which undoubtedly was why the garage door has been making such screeching noises lately. I couldn’t raise the door by myself, not without hurting my back badly I suspected, so I got Trey from work to come by and help me raise it long enough to get the van out on Friday evening.

And oh yes, the Super Bowl. Since Missy was home this weekend, and Beth still isn't much for driving, it fell to me to drive Missy back to school on Sunday and miss the Super Bowl, even with the Niners in it. Well, we left Warsaw a few minutes into the game, enough for me to see the Niners fumble away a promising opening drive. By the time we got to the dorm, it was just past halftime with the Niners leading 10-6 and her roommate had the game on tv. I looked. And the Niners immediately fumbled away a punt, and it went downhill from there. They lost in overtime just before I made it home. It's my fault, I shouldn't have looked. Dang.