{"id":1275,"date":"2012-04-30T09:41:22","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T14:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/?p=1275"},"modified":"2012-04-30T09:41:22","modified_gmt":"2012-04-30T14:41:22","slug":"news-in-brief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/news-in-brief\/","title":{"rendered":"News In Brief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I added a few more colors. \u00a0Better? \u00a0Worse? \u00a0Change it back? \u00a0I can&#8217;t get rid of the white lines for some reason, despite no less than 45 seconds of focused effort.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d say we maximized that weekend&#8217;s potential, especially given the rather gloomy weather. \u00a0Friday I moped around all day, convinced I was going to get rained out of my Brooksider time. \u00a0Matter of fact, I met up with Donette and a few friends at Hooper&#8217;s, fully prepared to just call the day a loss. \u00a0We headed towards the &#8216;Sider not long after that though, and actually found it rather pleasant out on the patio. \u00a0(They had the heaters running.) \u00a0I hung out there for a while, then took the girls down to Westport for some kind of fund raiser. \u00a0The Royals were on by that time, so I spent the rest of the evening on the couch watching one of their rare wins.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday we got up early-ish and headed up north to Martin&#8217;s house. \u00a0One of the nieces is graduating in a few weeks and we were supposed to cook up some bbq for the party. \u00a0We had two medium-sized briskets and two monstrous pork butts; \u00a0Not a ton of meat but considerably more than I could ever hope to fit on my smoker. \u00a0So, we spent the day up there with Martin&#8217;s rig, which had more than enough room. \u00a0Teagan came up with us too, which made it an exciting afternoon for her. \u00a0All fetch, all day. \u00a0While the smoker was going, Martin threw on another small pork butt, which we chopped up and threw in a homemade salsa verde; \u00a0Wow, that was a hit. \u00a0Gonna have to try that one at home.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday didn&#8217;t bring much excitement, once again. \u00a0Stormy weather sort of tends to do that around our house. \u00a0Kelly came down and they drug stuff out of the basement for some upcoming garage sale all day, and I did a whole bunch of nothing. \u00a0I watched the Royals return to their losing ways, watched some poor movies&#8230; \u00a0And that&#8217;s about it. \u00a0The dog was down for the count after her big day Saturday and just wanted to sleep on the couch, so I figured it best to take advantage of that opportunity while it was there. \u00a0We did go out for a little dinner at Waldo pizza, which was solid. \u00a0Donette let me pick the pie for once, and I came up with chicken &amp; basil with alfredo sauce, on thin crust. \u00a0She agreed it was delicious, although she might have just been humoring me. \u00a0I thought it was quite tasty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I added a few more colors. \u00a0Better? \u00a0Worse? \u00a0Change it back? \u00a0I can&#8217;t get rid of the white lines for some reason, despite no less than 45 seconds of focused effort. I&#8217;d say we maximized that weekend&#8217;s potential, especially given the rather gloomy weather. \u00a0Friday I moped around all day, convinced I was going to [&hellip;]<\/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-1275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275","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=1275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1276,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275\/revisions\/1276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}