{"id":1429,"date":"2013-03-11T09:32:55","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T14:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/?p=1429"},"modified":"2013-03-11T09:32:55","modified_gmt":"2013-03-11T14:32:55","slug":"when-irish-eyes-are-smiling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/when-irish-eyes-are-smiling\/","title":{"rendered":"When Irish Eyes Are Smiling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I must say, I&#8217;ve rather lost interest in updating this, partially because it strikes me as a tedious labor and partially because I haven&#8217;t been doing anything worth recounting. \u00a0Last week, for instance, I was in Not-So-Beautiful Earth City all week working. \u00a0That place is about as boring and industrial as a city gets. \u00a0Save a McDonald&#8217;s and a gas station, entertainment options are non-existent. \u00a0That&#8217;s not to say I didn&#8217;t have any fun though. \u00a0Tuesday night I met up with\u00a0several\u00a0old college buddies (and I mean that in the most literal sense of &#8220;old&#8221;) at The Village to watch the MU game. \u00a0Eight or nine guys showed up, a fine turnout indeed. \u00a0Seems like an awfully big social effort considering I&#8217;m going to see them all again at Float Trip in a few weeks, but I had a good time. \u00a0Wednesday and Thursday I went to dinner with my sister-in-law and her hubby, and got to check out their new house. \u00a0Pretty awesome neighborhood they moved into; \u00a0I&#8217;ll grudgingly admit it might even be funner than Waldo.<\/p>\n<p>As far as the weekend, I don&#8217;t exactly have a plethora of material to work with. \u00a0Probably our most notable outing was the <a title=\"4 Mile Run\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stpatricksday4milerun.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">St. Patrick&#8217;s 4 Mile Run<\/a> down in Westport. \u00a0That was a lot of fun, or at least as much fun as one can have running. \u00a0(Which, by definition, just isn&#8217;t really fun.) \u00a0We ran into all kinds of people we knew; \u00a0As a matter of fact pretty much everybody except the ones we were supposed to meet. \u00a0We both completed the run (errrr&#8230;. \u00a0Run\/Walk) with relative ease, then hung out in Westport for a while. \u00a0After that we felt we&#8217;d earned a few calories, so we headed up to 75th Street and had some tasty feed. \u00a0Unfortunately we ran smack into a pub-crawl, which we are entirely too old to tolerate, so we didn&#8217;t stay long.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday didn&#8217;t bring much entertainment. \u00a0I think I was moderately sore from the previous day&#8217;s event. \u00a0Matter of fact, other than our weekly trip to Costco, we stayed inside all day. \u00a0For dinner we cooked up a nice pot of <a title=\"Fish Stew\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/recipes\/portuguese-style-fish-stew\/\" target=\"_blank\">fish stew<\/a>, then settled in for an evening of bad TV and gin rummy on the iPads. \u00a0Sheesh we&#8217;re old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I must say, I&#8217;ve rather lost interest in updating this, partially because it strikes me as a tedious labor and partially because I haven&#8217;t been doing anything worth recounting. \u00a0Last week, for instance, I was in Not-So-Beautiful Earth City all week working. \u00a0That place is about as boring and industrial as a city gets. \u00a0Save [&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-1429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429","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=1429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1430,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429\/revisions\/1430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}