{"id":137,"date":"2006-03-13T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-13T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/?p=137"},"modified":"2006-03-13T10:30:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-13T15:30:00","slug":"more-driving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/more-driving\/","title":{"rendered":"MORE driving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dang I worked too much this weekend.&nbsp; That&#8217;s always a bad thing, it gets me all disoriented on Monday.&nbsp; I&#8217;ll spend all week thinking it&#8217;s Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Friday we again had a semi-date-night.&nbsp; It was a stay-at-home thing though, it takes too much energy to go out on Fridays.&nbsp; I fired up the grill and did some salmon steaks, and a nice little medley of potatoes, peppers, garlic and onion.&nbsp; It came out pretty well; The fish was a bit oily, perhaps due to the liberal dousing of olive oil.&nbsp; Tasted darn good though.&nbsp; After dinner we watched &#8220;The 40 Year-Old Virgin.&#8221;&nbsp; Not too bad of a movie, but a bit long.&nbsp; Good grief, who ever heard of a 133 minute comedy?&nbsp; My attention span goes 90 minutes tops, so I was pretty distracted by the end of the flick.&nbsp; I found the similarities to Todd rather unsettling also.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday was, of course, parade day.&nbsp; We didn&#8217;t make it to Snake Saturday Parade this year though, we decided to focus on the Brookside event.&nbsp; I had planned to take Gabe, but Doni didn&#8217;t think that a very good idea.&nbsp; Turned out to be a good choice; it was a lot more crowded than I expected.&nbsp; Nice weather brings everybody out, I guess.&nbsp; We scored an awesome table on the Brooksider deck, and watched the whole event from there.&nbsp; After the parade, we headed to Lee&#8217;s Summit for Brett F&#8217;s 40th birthday celebration.&nbsp; Man, ANOTHER 40th party.&nbsp; I really need to quit hanging out with all these old people, it&#8217;s making me feel older.&nbsp; Matter of fact, I think I actually did age about 5 years just due to the friggin&#8217; drive out there.&nbsp; From our house to Lakewood must be the longest 20 miles in the entire city.&nbsp; And, you would think with the prices of the homes out there they would be able to afford legible street signs.&nbsp; We finally got there though, safe and sound.&nbsp; I had to work at 10:00 though, so we didn&#8217;t stay too long.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday afternoon was pretty much a waste.&nbsp; I had a little work event that drug into the early afternoon, and by then the storms were all over the place.&nbsp; Every time I would step outside to do something, it started raining.&nbsp; So, I pretty much played games on the computer and worked on my message board for a few minutes.&nbsp; Incidentally, the messages are now limited to 300 characters.&nbsp; I can&#8217;t imagine anyone I know having anything longer than that to say.&nbsp; This latest change is due to the never-ending battle against the stupid message-board spammers.&nbsp; What an annoyance.&nbsp; I changed the page name a while back and that seemed to work, but then it started up again.&nbsp; So then I started blocking ip&#8217;s, but now they are coming from a different address every time.&nbsp; The thing they all seem to have in common is that they are very, very long though, mostly made up of a bunch of html crap that redirects your browser to stupid search sites.&nbsp; So, when I found the latest posting for &#8220;Shaved German Teens&#8221; I decided it was time for yet another technique.&nbsp; We&#8217;ll see how long this one lasts.&nbsp; Anyway&#8230; After a generally uneventful day, Todd and Susan came over for a spaghetti dinner, followed by the kickoff of Sopranos, season six.&nbsp; Gosh, will the excitement ever stop at the Kenagy house.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dang I worked too much this weekend.&nbsp; That&#8217;s always a bad thing, it gets me all disoriented on Monday.&nbsp; I&#8217;ll spend all week thinking it&#8217;s Friday. 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