(actual events have been edited to save time)
I'll start this out the way it should, with the good times.

I woke up Saturday morning around 10 at  atomisk 's house in Longbeach. The drive down the previous day had been miserable and I was glad to have gotten it out of the way. Atomisk and I spent Saturday morning exchanging stories from the last 6 months and getting ready for the Prancing Skiltaire.
The Drive Prancing Skiltaire went well, I even arrived in time to park in my regular spot. Whilst at the PS I talked with old friends and made some new ones, ate some of  ladydewinter fudge, and played with  lockfords linear motor. Before I knew it the party was over, and it was time to go to norm restaurant for the after party. So I sed my goodbyes packed up my suit and got in my car and started driving to norms.
Half way to Norms I discovered something very important.

I had no brakes....

The rest of the drive involved some hard downshifts and strategic use of the parking brake. But i had made it to Norms. So I went inside and ordered some food.

If I was at home I could fix the brakes. If I had my tools I could do it. The only problem was that my home was 157 miles away.

I am grateful to  inferno9 and  angeladeluna for helping me. Angela found a 24/7 AutoZone, drove me there, then took me to her house to liberate the tools I needed to "fix" my car. We discovered that one of the rear brake cylinders had detonated, causing the hole brake system to have no pressure. (for you who don't know cars, no presser means you can't stop) We lacked the necessary tools to repair the broken brake, so I threaded a bolt into the hydraulic line to cut off the leaking brake, effectively severing the left rear brake from the car. This aloud the other 3 brakes to operate normally. (after bleeding the air out)

My car left the Norms parking lot at 4:30am.
I arrived home at 6:30am


At 6:45am I got a call from my friend who is taking care of my old ferrets. Boudica is convulsing.
He doesn't drive or have a car.

It's 7am on a Sunday, and I have an illegal animal that is convulsing. The vet I normally take ferrets to is closed.
The closest vet that excepts ferrets is in Thousand oaks, 98miles from me.

one hour later Boudica is at the vet. They had her on an iv, and had given her some valium. She looked to be more conferrable and in less pain.
I left the vet at noon to come home. we had decided that we would leave her with the vet for 24 hours and hope that her condition would improve.

I got my friend home at 2 and I got home at 2:30
I finally got some sleep at 3


At 10 I got the call, Boudica is gone.

I had a good week end, I had fun at the PS, I got to know some of my friends better over problem solving getting me home.
Thank you Boudica for bringing years of entertainment and hundreds of stories to my life.