I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving.\u00a0 Ours was all good; Even the grilled\u00a0turkey experiment turned out favorably.\u00a0 It only took 3 hours, kept the stove freed up for other stuff,\u00a0and didn’t make the mess of deep-frying one.\u00a0 After dinner we took a quick nap and then headed down to Todd’s, where we watched the Plaza Lighting from the relative safety of his living room.<\/p>\n
Friday was a work day, albeit not much of one.\u00a0 I managed to get Gabe in to the Vet, as his horrible tummy issue from last week wasn’t magically going away.\u00a0 Poor lil’ guy, it got so bad we couldn’t stand to have his stinky butt in the same room.\u00a0 Not remarkably, it turned out he had another one of his intestinal infections.\u00a0 (Like anybody in the same zip code couldn’t diagnose THAT one.)\u00a0 They gave him a few shots and sent him home with some medicine, a can of industrial air freshener, and a hefty bill.<\/p>\n
Saturday I went over to a neighbor’s house and worked on his PC issue most of the morning.\u00a0 He’d been unable to connect to the Internet for a few weeks, presumably because of a suspect email he’d clicked a while back.\u00a0 After at least an hour of head-scratching, we found out that the problem wasn’t a virus, but that his wireless card was turned off.\u00a0 Literally, there was a little switch on the bottom of his laptop that\u00a0had been\u00a0inadvertently set to “off.”\u00a0 Clicked it to “on,” and the mysterious connectivity problem was solved.\u00a0 Good grief.\u00a0 After that humbling experience, I headed over to Microcenter and bought a few of their big “sale” items.\u00a0 Nothing too spectactular, I just felt I needed to contribute my little part to the post-Thanksgiving economy.\u00a0 The miserable drive from Wornall to Metcalf\u00a0via 95th street reminded of two very important words though;\u00a0 “Online Shopping.”\u00a0 Henceforth, I declare that if I can’t get it in Brookside, Waldo, or online, I don’t really need it.\u00a0 Later in the evening, we headed to Northtown for Schmidt’s 40th birthday party.\u00a0 It was a surprise party, and a well-disguised one at that;\u00a0 He’s not 40, and it wasn’t his birthday.\u00a0 Sneaky.\u00a0 Hey, that’s one way to catch somebody off guard.<\/p>\n
Sunday I spent the better part of the afternoon making a pot of gumbo from the leftover Thanksgiving turkey.\u00a0 It came out much better than my last pot… I’m starting to get the method down.\u00a0 I think I will\u00a0call\u00a0gumbo-making my winter project.\u00a0 It serves lots of good purpose;\u00a0 Keeps the leftovers down, makes the house smell good, and roux-stirring seems to be the only exercise I can do these days without hurting myself.\u00a0 Sad, but true.\u00a0 I had to work Sunday night, so the rest of the day was spent dreading that.\u00a0 Kind of a day-killer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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