{"id":208,"date":"2007-07-16T10:09:53","date_gmt":"2007-07-16T15:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/?p=208"},"modified":"2007-07-16T13:22:35","modified_gmt":"2007-07-16T18:22:35","slug":"more-bike-bling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/more-bike-bling\/","title":{"rendered":"More Bike Bling"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our weekend sorta kinda started Thursday, which is always nice.\u00a0 The Martins joined us in Westport for an O.A.R.<\/a> concert.\u00a0 Normally we wouldn’t take part in such wackiness on a school night, but we were feeling particularly energetic I guess.\u00a0 It was a good show, other than the slightly uncomfortable feeling that we were 20 years older than everybody else.\u00a0 I also had hard time shaking the notion that we were getting cheated on the venue a bit.\u00a0 Saturday night Ed<\/a> went to see them in Denver, where they were playing at Red Rocks<\/a>; In KC the show was in a parking lot outside the friggin’ Beaumont Club.\u00a0 I can’t help but notice a bit of disparity there, yet the ticket prices were the same.\u00a0 Welcome to Kansas City, cultural center of the Midwest.\u00a0 After carefully comparing the setlists<\/a> with my seasoned eye for the arts, however, I don’t think we got shorted any on the music;\u00a0 Good show.<\/p>\n

Friday I had to work, which was pretty tough after a late night out.\u00a0 I gave ‘er my usual 110% though, showing up early and staying late.\u00a0 (Never know who actually reads these things…)\u00a0 After that, I hit the lovely new digs at the Brooksider for a while, enjoying their copious amount of man-made shade, also known as a covered deck.\u00a0 Donette joined me after a bit and we headed down to Jalapenos for a big dinner.\u00a0 We were so full after that we ended up just going home and lounging in front of the TV the rest of the night.<\/p>\n

Saturday morning I was scheduled to drop off my motorcycle at a shop in Excelsior Springs, so they can install my new handlebars and grips.\u00a0 I’m pretty pumped for this upgrade, if not for leaving my toy in Excelsior all week.\u00a0 I was having some trouble finding a place to get the swap done, at least in a reasonable amount of time.\u00a0 Seems everybody is all booked up.\u00a0 Anyway, I had to ride all the way out there and leave it with them, which I wasn’t too excited about.\u00a0 I thought I heard them bang something into the gas tank last night, although it might have been my imagination.\u00a0 Donette picked me up out there, and we headed over to her parents house to eat some lunch.\u00a0 Gotta maximize your trips north of the river, you know.\u00a0 For evening entertainment, we went to see “Sweet Charity” at Starlight with the Martins.\u00a0 We haven’t been having much luck with our Starlight tickets this year.\u00a0 We missed the first show entirely while we were on vacation.\u00a0 At the second show, we sat in the pouring rain for the entire first half before bailing out during intermission.\u00a0 Then, Saturday night the show was delayed for an hour and a half while they tried to get the stage door un-stuck<\/a>.\u00a0 Honestly I didn’t notice a big difference in entertainment value between staring at the door and staring at the production itself, but it was a rather boring wait.\u00a0 They finally started the show around 10:00, but then we had to leave at intermission again because I had to work at midnight.<\/p>\n

Sunday we spent the better part of the day up on Smithville Lake with the Martins and Browns.\u00a0 I’d planned on smoking a “practice” brisket, even had one all seasoned up in the ‘fridge, but couldn’t refuse a little boat time.\u00a0 We floated around all afternoon, listening to the Royals lose again and soaking up some sun.\u00a0 I managed to burn myself again too… Slow learner.<\/p>\n

By the way, there are some new pictures of our recent Spain trip up in the gallery<\/a>; check ’em out.\u00a0 Plenty more to go… I’m getting there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our weekend sorta kinda started Thursday, which is always nice.\u00a0 The Martins joined us in Westport for an O.A.R. concert.\u00a0 Normally we wouldn’t take part in such wackiness on a school night, but we were feeling particularly energetic I guess.\u00a0 It was a good show, other than the slightly uncomfortable feeling that we were 20 […]<\/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-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","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=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}