{"id":1386,"date":"2012-11-27T11:27:40","date_gmt":"2012-11-27T17:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/?p=1386"},"modified":"2012-11-27T11:27:40","modified_gmt":"2012-11-27T17:27:40","slug":"happy-holidays-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/happy-holidays-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Holidays!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Humbug. \u00a0I’m slipping into a Holiday-induced slump already. \u00a0Nothing but downhill from here. \u00a0I don’t even have anything specific to complain about, just a general sense of malaise. \u00a0Actually, I didn’t have a bad weekend at all. \u00a0Actually, I didn’t have a bad week<\/strong> at all. \u00a0Backing all the way up to last Wednesday, I met up with a merry band of elderly gentlemen down at the Brooksider for the annual AKL Alumni Luncheon. \u00a0This event originated as a football game many years (decades) ago, but as we all aged and became increasingly incapable of exercise it slowly degenerated into a lunch event. \u00a0Much more relaxing I must say. \u00a0It was a well-attended event this year; \u00a0I believe at one point there were 21 guys around the table.<\/p>\n

Thursday was the official holiday, as I remember. \u00a0Unfortunately, still being oncall, I was relegated to the confines of my house. \u00a0I made the best of it though. \u00a0Threw a turkey on the smoker, and made sides of green rice casserole, mashed ‘taters and gravy, and kale with smoked turkey<\/a>. \u00a0It was a pretty solid meal, if slightly non-traditional in the sense we were by ourselves, and didn’t have any pie. \u00a0(Oops. \u00a0My bad.) \u00a0One of Donette’s nephews was kind enough to drive us down some deviled eggs to correct that oversight, luckily.<\/p>\n

Friday ended up a rather unplanned day of shopping. \u00a0It began with a somewhat benign oil-change appointment, and started going south when I decided to kill some time by walking around the showroom floor. \u00a0Eventually, I ran home and got Donette and we ended up test-driving four different vehicles. \u00a0(None of which we have purchased so far.) \u00a0It was oddly entertaining; \u00a0I generally despise car salesmen, not to mention driving in general. \u00a0After that we hit a few malls, still on the hunt for the elusive dutch oven deal. \u00a0Alas, no purchases were made to that end either. \u00a0Exhausted from my thoroughly unproductive day, I spent the rest of the evening at the Brooksider with The Guys, detailing our respective holiday adventures.<\/p>\n

Saturday and Sunday are something of a black hole; \u00a0I can’t really remember what I did. \u00a0I’m sure it was very fun, not to mention rewarding. \u00a0Or maybe it wasn’t. \u00a0Everyone will be relieved to know I did finally decide on a dutch oven. \u00a0I actually ended up ordering one directly from the Le Creuset<\/a> site, after getting an email that they were running some after-Thanksgiving sales. \u00a0Don’t actually have it in my hands yet, but presumably it is somewhere over the ocean at this writing. \u00a0I see a large pot of turkey soup in my near future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Humbug. \u00a0I’m slipping into a Holiday-induced slump already. \u00a0Nothing but downhill from here. \u00a0I don’t even have anything specific to complain about, just a general sense of malaise. \u00a0Actually, I didn’t have a bad weekend at all. \u00a0Actually, I didn’t have a bad week at all. \u00a0Backing all the way up to last Wednesday, I […]<\/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-1386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386","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=1386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1387,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386\/revisions\/1387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}