OK, my “always-optimistic” outlook on the weather has waned considerably since last week.\u00a0 I have progressed from “Well at least it was a mild July” to considering a move out of country.\u00a0 Nowhere particular, just as long as it’s 30 degrees cooler.\u00a0 It’s so hot out I couldn’t wait for the weekend to end so I could get back to work, where they keep a nice meat-locker temperature going all day.<\/p>\n
That was a pretty lame weekend.\u00a0 I was oncall so I kept a low profile.\u00a0 Friday night we went to see “West Side Story” at Starlight.\u00a0 I made it through dinner, but didn’t stay for much of the show.\u00a0 As in, my butt never even hit the chair, I walked straight from the air-conditioned dining room to the air-conditioned car and drove home to watch TV in the air-conditioning.\u00a0 Donette and Kelly sat through it though, and said it was pretty good.\u00a0 I’ll take their word for it.<\/p>\n
Saturday didn’t bring much more in the entertainment arena.\u00a0 I took the scooter out on a ride in the morning, before it got too hot.\u00a0 I stopped by Scooter World<\/a> to hang out with all the other cool kids, and then went to Microcenter<\/a> and bought some new PC speakers.\u00a0 I’ve the same set of Altec Lansings for about 12 years, they are without a doubt the oldest piece of computer equipment I still use.\u00a0 They had developed a seriously annoying hum though, so I decided it was time to retire them.\u00a0 So, I bought another set of Altecs.\u00a0 They don’t sound nearly as good as the old set, but then again they were only $15 and they don’t hum.\u00a0 That pretty well covers Saturday.\u00a0 About the only other thing we did was go to Costco.\u00a0 We were out of coffee, which rates as something of an emergency.\u00a0 Unfortunately our car is acting up again, so we had to ride the scooter.\u00a0 Boy THAT was a nice comfortable ride.\u00a0 Nothing like putting on a full-face helmet and climbing on top of a burning hot motor, then zipping around in a blast furnace.\u00a0 It’s not really that bad when you’re moving, believe it or not, but when you’re stopped at one of the 600 traffic lights in midtown you pretty much bake.\u00a0 But, hey we got our coffee so all is good.\u00a0 By the way, on the off chance that you care, we bought a bag of Parisi<\/a> beans this time.\u00a0 I’d never heard of them, but they are right here in KC, somewhere down by the Roasterie<\/a>.\u00a0 I’ll be darned, learn something every day.<\/p>\n Sunday, for the third time in as many weeks, I spent the day smoking a brisket.\u00a0 Anybody want a sandwich?\u00a0 We’ve got about 10 lbs of leftover beef in the freezer by now.\u00a0 I think my technique is coming along nicely though;\u00a0 I am pretty happy with the progress each week.\u00a0 I also nearly threw my entry at St. Joe in the trash but did rather well with the judges, so what the heck do I know.\u00a0 I think it’s a crap-shoot.\u00a0 While the smoker was doing it’s thing, I sat in front of the PC and got some pictures up.\u00a0 I finally<\/em> got some more pictures from our big Europe trip posted, if not nearly all of them.\u00a0 I put up a few from Seville, Spain<\/a>, and some from Portugal<\/a>.\u00a0 That leaves only the New York pics still to go.\u00a0 I also put up some random photos<\/a> that I snapped over the last few weeks, just because.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" OK, my “always-optimistic” outlook on the weather has waned considerably since last week.\u00a0 I have progressed from “Well at least it was a mild July” to considering a move out of country.\u00a0 Nowhere particular, just as long as it’s 30 degrees cooler.\u00a0 It’s so hot out I couldn’t wait for the weekend to end so […]<\/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-213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213","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=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}