{"id":228,"date":"2007-11-12T09:59:14","date_gmt":"2007-11-12T15:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/?p=228"},"modified":"2007-11-12T09:59:15","modified_gmt":"2007-11-12T15:59:15","slug":"has-anybody-seen-my-wife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/has-anybody-seen-my-wife\/","title":{"rendered":"Has Anybody Seen My Wife???"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another weekend “off.”\u00a0 I’ll report what I can with what I have to work with though.\u00a0 Friday night Donette was gone by the time I got home from another arduous work week.\u00a0 Something about needing to have some fun, which automatically excluded me, or something like that.\u00a0 She had an outing planned with her friend Susan actually… They hit the Plaza, Bobby Bakers, and various other haunts.\u00a0 Meanwhile, given the peace and quiet of an empty house, (rampaging Pit Bulls aside,) I decided to embark on a mission to finish “rating” all the music in our iTunes collection.\u00a0 This is a moderately important undertaking, as it affects which songs go on my iPod, and consequently what tunes I will hear all day at work, and so consequently my relative level of sanity.\u00a0 That project didn’t get too far though;\u00a0 After about an hour and a half of alternating country-western, 80’s tunes, symphony music, and metal, I was about to go on a bi-state killing spree.\u00a0 Perhaps I need to do some type of pre-filtering before I wade into the actual ranking process.\u00a0 After that failed effort, I settled in for a night of movies, starting with “Wild Hogs.”<\/a>\u00a0 That was a pretty awful movie.\u00a0 Just as I was thinking, “Well, at least Travolta isn’t dancing,” he even crossed that line and threw in the obligatory dance scene.\u00a0 Puke.\u00a0 I watched the whole thing though, so it must have been entertainment at some level.\u00a0 I followed up that cinematic debacle with “Texas Chainsaw Massacre:\u00a0 The Beginning.”<\/a>\u00a0 Now THAT<\/strong> was a great film.\u00a0 Pure, unabashed trash horror, with no pretense of usefulness at all.\u00a0 No plot, horrible acting, cheesy special effects;\u00a0 Right up my alley.<\/p>\n

Saturday morning, Donette got up at the crack of 9:00 and headed to my Mom’s house for an afternoon of cookie baking.\u00a0 Now THERE is a homey Saturday afternoon activity.\u00a0 They had a “girls day” out there, baking up a storm;\u00a0 Not something achieved very often in our own house.\u00a0 Meanwhile, I spent my afternoon sitting at the Brooksider with Martin & Brice, continuing on my never-ending quest to become a sports fan.\u00a0 The place was remarkably uncrowded and relatively quiet, so I made it all the way through the MU game.\u00a0 After the game I suggested, of my own free will no less, heading up to the Northlands and playing some dominoes at Martin’s house.\u00a0 In some veiled attempt at steering me elsewhere, he got out his pocket knife and threatened to stab me if I came within 2 miles of his house.\u00a0 Wow, what’s up with the unsociable attitude, Martin?\u00a0 Since Mr. Grumpy wasn’t going to entertain me any further, I went home and put down the rest of the sod in the back yard.\u00a0 For the best, I suppose;\u00a0 It had to be done sometime.\u00a0 I ought to take a few more pictures, as it really does look quite nice, at least for the time being.\u00a0 There is still a solid chance it will just die, or our sprinkle system will freeze and burst, turning the neighborhood into an ice-rink.<\/p>\n

Sunday didn’t bring much of note.\u00a0 We watched the entire, riveting drama that was the Chiefs game, then took the dogs for a nice walk.\u00a0 (Maybe the “nice” qualifier is a stretch;\u00a0 There is nothing “nice” about Belle on a leash.)\u00a0 After our walk I washed the motorcycle and scooter, and as far as I can remember that was pretty much the day.\u00a0 I watched bits and pieces of the rest of the football games;\u00a0 It was apparent early on that both of my Fantasy teams were going to receive an unprecedented drubbing, so that kind of knocked out what little value I get out of them in the first place.\u00a0 Donette fixed us a delectable can of soup for dinner (no, really, it was<\/strong> good) and I retired upstairs to alternate between the Sunday night game and “Two Mules for Sister Sara.<\/a>”\u00a0 My last gasp at winning one of my Fantasy games was Peyton Manning, and it was obvious that wasn’t going to work out for me, so a good Clint movie gave me an alternate diversion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another weekend “off.”\u00a0 I’ll report what I can with what I have to work with though.\u00a0 Friday night Donette was gone by the time I got home from another arduous work week.\u00a0 Something about needing to have some fun, which automatically excluded me, or something like that.\u00a0 She had an outing planned with her friend […]<\/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-228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228","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=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}