{"id":172,"date":"2006-11-20T11:23:29","date_gmt":"2006-11-20T17:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/?p=172"},"modified":"2006-11-20T11:23:29","modified_gmt":"2006-11-20T17:23:29","slug":"oh-joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/oh-joy\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh Joy"},"content":{"rendered":"

I guess the holiday season is here again, and there’s not a dang thing I can do about it.\u00a0 Suffer through it and wait for Spring.\u00a0 We are doing Thanksgiving dinner at our house this year, which promises to be an adventure.\u00a0 Not sure what we’re going to do with all the beasties while we try to eat though;\u00a0 that has me a bit concerned.\u00a0 I can already envision the cat jumping up on the table and helping himself to some gravy, and the dogs drooling all over everyone’s feet.\u00a0 Sigh.\u00a0 I am planning to grill the turkey on a Weber, and that should be an interesting feat in itself.\u00a0 The directions on the website<\/a> sound deceptively simple… color me skeptical.\u00a0 I put the odds on food poisoning at about 50%.\u00a0 (Don’t worry though, there is a good chinese place down the street that I’ve got lined up for a backup plan.)<\/p>\n

Not a bad weekend overall.\u00a0 Friday we met all the young ‘uns (and Todd) down at George Brett’s on the Plaza for some appetizers.\u00a0 After dinner they all went to a movie, while the old folks bailed for home.\u00a0 I spent the rest of the evening tweaking my new home firewall<\/a> policy, as I felt I hadn’t spent quite enough time working on firewalls all week.\u00a0 Good grief I am a friggin’ LOSER!!!\u00a0 I now have a dedicated PC in the basement running Fedora FC5<\/a> that does nothing but manage the firewall, because I’m too cheap to spend the $50 on the Windows version.\u00a0 Rather sad and ridiculous now that I think about it.\u00a0 (It’s a pretty darn cool firewall though, I must admit…)<\/p>\n

Saturday we spent the majority of the day at Nebraska Furniture Mart.\u00a0 Oh, the horror.\u00a0 We had planned on going, but I wasn’t aware they were doing some kind of pre-Thanksgiving sale.\u00a0 It was nightmarish to be sure.\u00a0 As soon as we saw the line to get in the parking lot we bailed out for lunch to gather our wits.\u00a0 We had a very tasty lunch at the Yard House to soothe our nerves a bit, then dove into the fray.\u00a0 Our main goal was a surround sound system for the TV room downstairs.\u00a0 We had our sights set on a Sony system because it was the only one I’d seen with a good wireless option for the rear speakers.\u00a0 I don’t really like Sony stuff though, for no particular reason, so I wasn’t overly excited about it.\u00a0 We ended up with a Samsung system instead, which looks pretty nice.\u00a0 Unfortunately I can’t hook it up because I don’t have the evil HDMI cable yet.\u00a0 NFM wanted $99 for a 3′ cable; I found a 6′ one on mwave<\/a> for 9 bucks but I have to wait for them to ship it of course.\u00a0 Now, granted it doesn’t have a lifetime warranty like the $99 one, so if it mysteriously goes bad I can replace it nine more times.\u00a0 After that purchase, me made the poor decision to stroll upstairs and look at bedroom sets.\u00a0 Three hours and a credit-limit-extension later, we left with a new set up for our bedroom.\u00a0 I’m actually pretty pumped about it… we finally will be getting the king-size bed we’ve wanted for fifteen years.\u00a0 Not to mention, an actual dresser to put our clothes in, so we don’t have to just stack them on the spare bed anymore.\u00a0 Odd things make me happy in my old age.\u00a0 All that shopping wore us out, so we went home and rested a bit, then headed up north with Ed and Kim to have dinner at Ronda’s house.\u00a0 (Donette’s sister.)\u00a0 She fixed a grilled chicken dinner that would have fed at least 15 people.\u00a0 Not wanting to waste any of it, I ate enough for about 7 people and then we hung out and watched college football for the rest of the evening.<\/p>\n

Sunday was the same ol’ same ol’.\u00a0 I guess Donette did have to run back out NFM and pick up our stereo, but I graciously declined that trip.\u00a0 It turned out to be a bad decision on my part, as I ended up spending a few hours cleaning up a little accident that Gabe had, involving about half of the first floor of our house.\u00a0 I’m sure everyone would get much joy from the sordid details, but I’m still a little queasy about the whole situation and don’t think I’m quite ready to talk about it yet.\u00a0 Shudder.\u00a0 Just take my word for it;\u00a0 the time he puked in the TV room pales in comparison.\u00a0 After that, I headed down to the Brooksider to watch the football games and let the house air out a bit.\u00a0 I’m trying not to get overly pumped and jinx myself, but my Fantasy Football team is just kicking butt.\u00a0 I would not be surprised if I end up with more in high-score payouts than whoever wins the first place gets.\u00a0 I’ll get another notch this week unless some kicker tonight makes like 10 field goals over 40 yards… things are looking good at this point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I guess the holiday season is here again, and there’s not a dang thing I can do about it.\u00a0 Suffer through it and wait for Spring.\u00a0 We are doing Thanksgiving dinner at our house this year, which promises to be an adventure.\u00a0 Not sure what we’re going to do with all the beasties while we […]<\/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-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","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=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}