Stupid Tetris garage

OK I'm off to kingdom come tomorrow to see a bunch of young Arabians.
I hope this isn't gonna be a wasted weekend, but I have to try. (Sorry - for some reason blogger won't accept the return key tonight and this is gonna be hard to read.) This farm has all these sale horses they get from another farm...they didn't say, but I found out with some googling skills. All the horses I will look at this weekend are from Michalow Stud in Poland. The offspring of horses such as Drabant and Enzo. I am surprised they are so affordable, and really curious what is going on here. Perhaps they are the rejects, the worst, and sent to Germany where they can at least get a little more money. They update their saleslist constantly and I saw a new horse on there tonight.

I'm not fond of white markings but he's one of the few in my range. ***

I had a really bad night as the inevitable happened, our electronic, car-stacking garage at work broke with all our cars inside. It was bound to happen, since it happens so often before we park. This time we faced the reality of being stuck in downtown Cologne, and I have to drive across Germany tomorrow, and I need my car. I could take the Yaris but the navi is in the Prius and I really need a navi when I travel alone. Our company was having a ping-pong championship (really) and there was a nice buffet and champagne and koelsch (Cologne's signature beer) and I was sooooo grouchy sitting there wondering if I'd be able to make my trip tomorrow. My man was on the way to get me, but there was still the chance the mechanics would arrive and we'd be freed. This just does not happen if you have a normal garage. Of course, as soon as my man was on his way, the mechanics said they could get us out. I tried calling for an hour, no answer. My man does not answer the cell phone while driving. So he made an unnecessary trip to Cologne tonight, (after an unnecessary trip to work today because the children assumed he was still sick and they did not show up for their test he'd prepared!!), my poor husband, two trips in opposite directions today, and he's really still sick. His voice is so messed up I told him he'd do a great job singing "Everybody Knows" by Leonard Cohen and then showed him the song on YouTube (great song). (Anyone remember that Christian Slater movie with this song?) I asked the mechanics, "Is it typical for these tetris-garages to break so often, or is ours something special?" The mechanic said, "I'm only the emergency tech, I don't know much about this garage, but I can say this is an very old model." OK then. We stood there in the rain until finally, one by one, we were freed from the horrible, awful trap of a garage and I parked down the street (in that record-making crappy public garage that I like cuz the attendant is nice to me). Finally my man came and I said, "OK off to the geocaching event you wanted to attend in Cologne tonight!" and he said, "Tired." Yah, he's really been sick all week and today was even worse. Sick enough to not want to attend our buddy's geocaching event tonight. We both drove home and as I got closer and closer I started driving over white stuff and then more white stuff - snow! I said, "WTFRAK" and drove very very slowly, and then realized he was right behind me. I didn't know for sure it was him, but I knew whoever it was was really annoyed with my Seattle driving ability. Creeping along in the white stuff. So here we are tonight together at our laptops showing each other Internet stuff having finished a nice healthy dinner of stir-fry. I oiled my half chaps and put my helmet by the door. I hope and hope for tomorrow.