 Farrar said that the day of the fire , about a month after Farrar 's last release from the hospital , he had taken the day off from work — the first day of what he intended to be a week @-@ long vacation to recover some strength after restarting his job post @-@ hospital . He had spent the afternoon with Margaret Hacker and then picked up Tim and Kelly for Tim 's hockey game . After dropping the children back off with their mother at about 8 : 45 , he had dinner with Hacker , leaving her around 11 : 15 in the evening . 
