This week I have a valid excuse for my continued erratic posting schedule. \u00a0It is, in my opinion, actually too hot out to type. \u00a0I get overheated very easily. \u00a0It’s a health concern. \u00a0So there you have it. \u00a0Well that, and an utter lack of interesting events in my life. \u00a0I spent all last week in beautiful Earth City, MO; \u00a0Not exactly a tropical oasis. \u00a0Donette joined me for a few days though, and we managed to have a little fun, or at least we ate well.<\/p>\n
As to this weekend, it was somewhat low-key. \u00a0Now LAST weekend, that was a good one. \u00a0Unfortunately it wore me out so much I didn’t have enough strength left to recap it, and now it’s too late. \u00a0So, back to this weekend. \u00a0Friday we had a wedding reception on the calendar. \u00a0We didn’t make it though. \u00a0Donette fell asleep, and I “forgot” to wake her up in time to make it. \u00a0(Wink wink, nudge nudge.) \u00a0Ended up being a night on the couch, which was just fine by me as I’d just completed the arduous drive back from Earth City.<\/p>\n
Saturday we accomplished a whole bunch of nothing. \u00a0Our friend’s daughter was getting married at 4:00, so we pretty much laid around killing time until then. \u00a0I spent the day with what passes in my mind as “chores.” \u00a0This included loading Ubuntu<\/a> on my laptop, and getting the multimedia server working so I can stream movies throughout the house. \u00a0These projects didn’t go far towards getting the outside of the house painted, but I say stick with what you know. \u00a0Both were completed on time and under budget, successful projects indeed. \u00a0The Ubuntu is just slick; \u00a0Once again I am left wondering why I spent money on the new version of Windows. \u00a0It is honestly a more than capable replacement, and in some respects even better. \u00a0The media streaming project went well too, although it took a bit longer. \u00a0The idea was to copy movies onto my little NAS<\/a> server, so we can watch them on various devices around the house. \u00a0My full sized PC upstairs has served this function for a long time, but we don’t really leave it turned on that much any more. \u00a0The little server is turned on 24×7, uses a lot less electricity, and puts out a lot less heat. \u00a0And, as it turned out after getting it working, it actually serves the purpose much better. \u00a0It streams to our iPads as well, which I could never get working from the PC. \u00a0If you aren’t already bored to sleep, I shall continue on to the aforementioned wedding festivities. \u00a0Well, it was a wedding, and a fine one at that. \u00a0It makes me feel a bit old(er) to be attending the nuptials of my friend’s kids, but I guess then I AM old so what can you do. \u00a0After a nice ceremony, we headed down to the west bottoms for a fun reception. \u00a0We spent the evening dancing and cavorting, and before we knew it, it was 1:00 and the lights were coming on. \u00a0OR, we sat at the table with our friends, then scurried back to Brookside at 9:00. \u00a0You have to guess which of those actually happened.<\/p>\n Sunday didn’t bring much entertainment value. \u00a0I had grand plans of firing up the grill and cooking something, but the promised thunderstorms (which never materialized) scared me off. \u00a0Instead, I walked up to 75th Street<\/a> and watched the Royals game by myself. \u00a0Literally, by myself; \u00a0There wasn’t another soul in the place. \u00a0Hey, didn’t have to worry about getting the game turned on the TV that way. \u00a0I watched the entire game there, then Donette picked me up and we ran a few quick errands. \u00a0That included picking up a little kiddie pool for Teagan, which we filled up when we got home, much to her delight. \u00a0She does enjoy laying in the pool on a hot day, especially after a good game of fetch. \u00a0Rather comical actually; \u00a0She likes to run across the yard, get the ball, then blunder straight back to the pool for five minutes or so. \u00a0When she decides she has cooled off sufficiently, she’ll bring the ball back and do it again. \u00a0We ran that routine for a while, and never did get around to grilling. \u00a0As a reasonable substitute, I laid on the couch and watched back-to-back episodes of Pitmasters<\/a>. \u00a0Much as I \u00a0despise any and all reality shows, this one has kind of sucked me in. \u00a0Pretty darn exciting, and interesting. \u00a0Local team Pellet Envy came out on top at the end of the evening, which was sort of expected, at least by me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This week I have a valid excuse for my continued erratic posting schedule. \u00a0It is, in my opinion, actually too hot out to type. \u00a0I get overheated very easily. \u00a0It’s a health concern. \u00a0So there you have it. \u00a0Well that, and an utter lack of interesting events in my life. \u00a0I spent all last week […]<\/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-1512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512","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=1512"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1514,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512\/revisions\/1514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}