{"id":200,"date":"2007-05-29T09:14:29","date_gmt":"2007-05-29T15:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/?p=200"},"modified":"2007-05-29T09:14:30","modified_gmt":"2007-05-29T15:14:30","slug":"the-countdown-has-begun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/the-countdown-has-begun\/","title":{"rendered":"The Countdown Has Begun"},"content":{"rendered":"

I spent the better part of my holiday weekend working and getting ready for our upcoming European adventure, leaving the update material a bit sparse.\u00a0 In the interests of consistency I’ll throw something out here though.<\/p>\n

Saturday Donette’s parents come over and joined us for dinner.\u00a0 This gave us a chance to try out the rotisserie attachment on our new grill.\u00a0 I am officially “for” the rotisserie at this point.\u00a0 We threw on a 4 lb. pork loin and it cooked it to “just right” in just under two hours, using only the back infrared burner.\u00a0 Granted, not a lot of grilled flava, but I liked the results all the same.\u00a0 After dinner we went down to Foo’s and had a round of concretes.\u00a0 I went for the “raspberry cheesecake.”\u00a0 Highly recommended, although next time I’ll leave out the cheesecake part.<\/p>\n

Sunday, in between some very disappointing bouts of work-related stuff, I added a little more bling to the motorcycle.\u00a0 I bought some used chrome foot controls off the RSWarrior<\/a> site, which made for a nice little upgrade.\u00a0 I got some extensions for the brake and shifter too, but I didn’t get that part done; it looked a little too intimidating.\u00a0 Naturally, it rained all day AGAIN so I didn’t get to go riding.\u00a0 Hopefully it dries out while we’re gone on vacation.<\/p>\n

Monday brought more work stuff, boo.\u00a0 We did squeeze in an exciting shopping trip to Metro North mall, where I purchased a new suit for our trip.\u00a0 I don’t want Martin to out-dress me, you know.\u00a0 We made it out of the neighborhood a second time for dinner, when we headed due south to the Munkir’s house.\u00a0 They grilled up some Iowa-cut pork chops, which were, in fact, actually from Iowa.\u00a0 We hadn’t seen the Munkirs clan in a while;\u00a0 It was nice seeing them again but I was really interested in checking out the new dog, who I hadn’t met yet.\u00a0 She is a pretty chunky lil’ pup, but not quite ready to go a round with Belle just yet.\u00a0 We’ll give her another 6 -8 months and check back.\u00a0 Throw a tug-rope in the living room and see what happens.<\/p>\n

Yes, I am aware that is a lame summary of a three-day weekend, but it’s all I’ve got.\u00a0 I’m tired, distracted, and generally dis-interested.\u00a0 It’s the best I can offer under those conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I spent the better part of my holiday weekend working and getting ready for our upcoming European adventure, leaving the update material a bit sparse.\u00a0 In the interests of consistency I’ll throw something out here though. Saturday Donette’s parents come over and joined us for dinner.\u00a0 This gave us a chance to try out the […]<\/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-200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200","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=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}