I guess the holidays have officially arrived, and with it my annual bout of foul temperament.  Blech.

Let’s see now;  I guess I spent a rather unusual amount of time at the Brooksider this weekend.  Mostly out of sheer boredom I think.  I headed there Friday after work for a little happy hour, just to get the weekend started.  Donette, meanwhile, was up in the northlands visiting her Dad, who unfortunately is stuck in the hospital to start the holidays.  He had an unplanned surgery last Wednesday  (as a follow-up to semi-planned surgery a week ago.)  He’s recovering well, but it doesn’t look like he will be home in time for turkey-day at this point.  Anyway, she spent the night up there so I stayed home and played Wii games with Gabe.  I like playing him best because I can absolutely thrash him on almost every game.  (Poor lil’ guy can’t work the controller very well without thumbs.)

Saturday I spent the greater part of the day on the couch.  I finished tweaking my super-duper Windows 7 install;  I think I’m finally ready to call it “done.”  My backups aren’t running correctly, but I’ll just kick them off manually for the time being.  After that, I took Gabe for a nice long walk and then went down to the Brooksider to watch the MU game.  Alas, it was not to be found on any of their 5 bajillion channels!  Geez, what a drag.  They had it on the radio though, for what that was worth.  I killed a few hours down there and then called it a day;  Headed back home to the couch and reveled in the KU thrashing.

Sunday we kicked off the day with breakfast at Amigos.  Man, that place is solid.  We might have to make that drive part of our weekend routine.  It’s considerably further than our “regular” spots, but I think it’s worth the drive.  I almost went with the menudo on this visit, but didn’t feel quite that brave just yet.  Maybe next time.  I would guess roughly 1/2 the people there ordered it, so it must be good.  (As good as menudo gets, anyway…)  After breakfast we headed up north and visited her Dad for a few hours, then it was back to the ‘Sider for an afternoon of football.  We watched the highly improbable Chief’s victory, then stayed around for the 3:00 games too.  After a while it started getting a little crowded, presumably with post-Chiefs-game revelers, so we walked across the street to the grocery store, picked up a coupla steaks, and headed home.  Big ol’ fat ribeyes;  A fine ending to the weekend.