Hey that weekend wasn’t so bad. \u00a0Actually I’ve had several “events” lumped into the last week, so I’ll throw out a brief overview of them all. \u00a0Last Wednesday, as mentioned a few posts below, was our annual AKL Alumni luncheon at the Brooksider. \u00a0Organized by our former social chairman James Munkirs, this is always a well-attended event. \u00a0Unfortunately I think some have chosen to substitute it for Float Trip, but I guess we all have choices to make. \u00a0At any rate, we all had a good time. \u00a0After lunch I migrated out to the patio to join the “regular” crowd and stayed a few more hours, making for a fine mid-week break.<\/p>\n
Thursday, as you might recall, was Thanksgiving. \u00a0As we usually do, we headed out to Mom’s for the holiday feast. \u00a0Donette’s cousin Haleigh joined us this year. \u00a0She’s a student at UMKC and wasn’t making the long drive home, so it worked out well. \u00a0We had a grand spread. \u00a0I am quite a fan of the Thanksgiving staples, with the exception of cranberries. \u00a0In the spirit of the season, I thoroughly glutted myself. \u00a0After eating I joined my nephew in the front yard to toss the ol’ pigskin around a bit. \u00a0I can honestly say I haven’t thrown, or even held, a football since the demise of the Turkey Bowl series some ten or twelve years ago. \u00a0So severe was the taunting of my peers that I haven’t been able to even look at a football since then. \u00a0Luckily my kind-hearted nephew was more forgiving of my unique throwing style than those other bullies. \u00a0Plus, there was a 30 mph wind blowing, so I could reasonably blame much of my failure on that. \u00a0Given the unseasonably warm weather, I was almost tempted to go battle the crowd down at the Plaza lighting ceremony later that night. \u00a0Just almost though, I didn’t end up following through on it.<\/p>\n
Friday was a regular ol’ workday for me. \u00a0Bummer. \u00a0Kind of broke up the tempo of the\u00a0pseudo-vacation. \u00a0Had to be done though. \u00a0I put in my time, then ventured on down to the Brooksider for my regularly scheduled Friday gathering time. \u00a0Didn’t stay too long though; \u00a0The cold weather is kicking in. \u00a0Given the early ending to my day, and still in search of more entertainment, we headed over to our friend Susan’s house for some dinner. \u00a0After eating we settled in and watched “Hall Pass<\/a>,” which provided some level of entertainment. \u00a0Pretty darn funny, actually. \u00a0It must have been relatively engaging, as I actually stayed awake for the entire movie. \u00a0Actually I was so wide awake that when I got home I decided to fire up another movie, despite the rather late hour. \u00a0I made a brief run through the Netflix listings and settled on “13 Assassins<\/a>.” \u00a0I can’t offer much of an opinion on this one; \u00a0I think I was actually asleep before the opening credits were finished.<\/p>\n Saturday I can’t seem to recall what I did all day, leading me to believe it wasn’t terribly exciting. \u00a0Given the lack of cable TV at our house, I did wander over to the neighbor’s and watch the “Border War” football game, which despite the favorable outcome pretty much defined “not terribly exciting.” \u00a0I’m going to throw out an educated guess that the rest of the afternoon was spent playing Angry Birds on my PS3. \u00a0Luckily after dinner a friend from out of town called and rescued me from absolute boredom. \u00a0He and another guy were up at 75th Street, so I headed up there to catch up on the latest news in their lives, which, not remarkably, are somewhat more eventful than mine. \u00a0I headed home when they decided to move the party to Kennedy’s, as it was getting rather late in the day; \u00a0Well past my bedtime. \u00a0(This might explain their\u00a0comparatively\u00a0eventful lives…)<\/p>\n Sunday I made my long-delayed return to the gym. \u00a0Given the end of cycling season, I’ve been meaning to actually go get some use out of the money I give them every month. \u00a0So, we headed up there about 10:00, workout equipment in hand. \u00a0I’ve always found it best to ease into these things, so we spent the first 45 minutes in the hot tub, then another 20 or so in the sauna. \u00a0Then we went home. \u00a0Didn’t want to hit it too hard and pull a hammy right off the bat. \u00a0The remainder of the afternoon was wasted in typical Sunday fashion, watching football games I really had no interest in. \u00a0Donette’s parents came out for dinner, so that broke up the boredom nicely. \u00a0She whipped up a fine batch of red sauce with meatballs, which came out quite well. \u00a0Heck, she even made some bread pudding for dessert, my favorite. \u00a0After that I turned on the Chief’s game. \u00a0It was pretty evident how it was going to end up though, so I quit watching it at halftime. \u00a0Sounds like they made a run at it, but the end result was as expected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hey that weekend wasn’t so bad. \u00a0Actually I’ve had several “events” lumped into the last week, so I’ll throw out a brief overview of them all. \u00a0Last Wednesday, as mentioned a few posts below, was our annual AKL Alumni luncheon at the Brooksider. \u00a0Organized by our former social chairman James Munkirs, this is always a […]<\/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-1192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192","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=1192"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1194,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192\/revisions\/1194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}