Early Bird Tournament -T minus 28 h

This story begins before we'd even left:

Problem A: Early in the afternoon your vehicle unexpectedly requires repair. It will be on the hoist for 2-3 days. In 2 hours you are expected in another city to pick up players on the school's field hockey team. Two hours after that, your in-house goalie needs to be in Toronto. John, who is at the office, also has to get to a meeting that evening. Solve this in a way that each person gets to where he/she needs to be on time.

Problem B: The next morning is your turn to drive the student carpool to school. You have a med delivery and an appointment. John arranged earlier in the week to drive a co-worker to the office on this day. There is a field hockey game from 3:30 - 5:00, a social event for your other teen, another meeting for John to attend and you need to pack then get to a hockey tournament out of town. You still have one vehicle. Solve this in such a way as to minimize cancellations. Bonus: Feed the dog and walk him, too.

On the road - T + 100:
A little behind schedule, but it's under control. A driver in a Honda thinks that my 120 kmh on the connecting ramp (DVP to 401) is too slow and veers around us. He's at the top of the arc at 135 kmh, realizes he has too much speed, slides sideways to the concrete wall on his left and just misses it. Since he has over-corrected, he slides down to the wall on the inside, turns the wheels hard to avoid the crash, straightens it all by the end of the curve and merges onto the 401 without a scratch.

Summers End, a wonderful country retreat, will be our home for the next couple of days. We are used to placing floor lamps on top of tables to simulate an IV pole, and I have this 2-hanger-contraption I've developed that works well on wall sconces too. Ceiling hooks are the best, but rarely found. There are several tricks we've learned since tearing a curtain rod out of the wall at a hotel one trip. (Maintenance should've used anchors!). The ceiling hooks here are no good: the ceiling is 20-feet away, the IV tubing is only 30-inches! The lamps are far too delicate to handle the weight of the bag. I take a mirror off the wall, put the pump on the table and that seems to work, as long as I don't roll over! The original plan included bringing the IV pole, but had to be left behind as part of the solution to Problem B.

I have been awake for 40 hours and look forward to sleep. Set the alarm. Sleep.