{"id":1104,"date":"2011-06-28T09:23:53","date_gmt":"2011-06-28T14:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/?p=1104"},"modified":"2011-06-28T09:23:53","modified_gmt":"2011-06-28T14:23:53","slug":"mixing-things-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/mixing-things-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Mixing Things Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had a rather unusual urge to go on a bicycle ride last night.\u00a0 I think I was feeling a little guilty about not getting up and going to the gym in the morning, and thought I needed some exercise.\u00a0 I’ve only actually gotten up and gone to the gym before work once this year, so I don’t why it should have particularly bothered me yesterday, but such was the case.\u00a0 I did a quick scan of the handy local ride calendar<\/a>, and the “Martin City Brewery Ride” caught my eye.\u00a0 Hmmm, a new ride on the calendar!\u00a0 And, as it happened, I’d been wanting to check out the new restaurant also, so this struck me as a good plan all around.\u00a0 So, I headed out that way and easily found the group forming up for the ride.\u00a0 (It wasn’t very hard;\u00a0 Martin City only has about 10 buildings.)\u00a0 We took off right at 6:30, and after a rather dicey stretch down Blue Ridge we made a few turns and I began to recognize the route as a section of the much-maligned Summer Breeze<\/a> ride from last year.\u00a0 Rats, hills.\u00a0 Hills, indeed.\u00a0 Possessing one of the worst cardiovascular systems in the state of Missouri, I quickly lagged to the back of the group.\u00a0 I did manage to hang with them for the 20 mile ride though, if mostly out of fear of getting lost.\u00a0 I will definitely try the route again, it was really sort of nice in that there were very few stops and very little traffic.\u00a0 Flatten it out a bit and it would be outright wonderful.\u00a0 After finishing the ride, everybody went inside to hang out in the new restaurant.\u00a0 At least I thought<\/em> they went inside, so I snuck around back to grab a table by myself on the patio.\u00a0 To my dismay, I found they had all gone through the building and were sitting on the patio also.\u00a0 I felt I was somewhat obliged to join them at that point, so I pulled up a chair at the table.\u00a0 The place is OK, but they have some kinks to work out.\u00a0 Honestly it’s not a “Brewery” at all, it’s just a restaurant\/bar.\u00a0 Luckily I knew this beforehand by reading online a bit, so I wasn’t too disappointed.\u00a0 I also read that their service can be a bit sketchy, and man did they live up to that.\u00a0 Those poor kids messed up everything that could possibly be messed up, I kind of felt sorry for them.\u00a0 Then again, when you’re sitting at a table with 15-20 people, all of whom want separate checks, you are gonna hit some snags.\u00a0 (Another reason I didn’t really want to sit with the group.)\u00a0 It would probably be a lot fairer to ride the motorcycle out there for lunch some day with Donette, we’ll have to do that soon.\u00a0 (Soon as they come out with a coupon most likely…)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had a rather unusual urge to go on a bicycle ride last night.\u00a0 I think I was feeling a little guilty about not getting up and going to the gym in the morning, and thought I needed some exercise.\u00a0 I’ve only actually gotten up and gone to the gym before work once this year, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}