U-571<\/a>” in the DVD player.\u00a0 Not a bad movie, maybe a little Macgyver-esque for my taste.\u00a0 Donette, meanwhile, went to bed around 7:00.\u00a0 Whew, wacky day in the ‘hood.<\/p>\nSaturday I got up early and cleaned out the basement, waxed all the floors, and sealed the driveway.\u00a0 Or, I might have drank coffee and very slowly read the paper.\u00a0 Something along those lines.\u00a0 Luckily Donette’s parents come over around noon to take us out to lunch, before I actually burst into tears from the boredom.\u00a0 We went to Princess Gardens at 89th & Wornall, which, despite the close proximity to our house, we’d never been to.\u00a0 It was a good lunch, but I wouldn’t be surprised if we don’t make it back there.\u00a0 Good food, good price, etc, but Kin Lin is closer and we’re used to it.\u00a0 But, you never know, we may decide to branch out again some day.\u00a0 After lunch, I worked on my computer a bit, which resulted in a large pile of parts and a non-working PC.\u00a0 Boy did THAT upgrade go wrong.\u00a0 But then, what doesn’t<\/em> go wrong when you put a screwdriver in my hand?\u00a0 What can ya’ do.\u00a0 I am still reeling from the scathing feedback given last time I tried to post an exciting expose’ on my computer projects, so I will skip the gory details.\u00a0 Briefly, my super-duper blazing fast PC has been reduced to rubble for want of a $2.50 piece of plastic, which nobody has in stock.\u00a0 Sigh.\u00a0 For evening entertainment, we went to our first (and likely only) Christmas party of the season.\u00a0 It was at John & Susan’s house over in the good part of town, which we don’t get to venture in to very often.\u00a0 We had a fine and festive time;\u00a0 It was pretty much like being at the Brooksider (same people) but with all the cheese you could eat.\u00a0 My stomach still ain’t right.\u00a0 After ingesting several pounds of assorted cheeses, I had to go fulfill some oncall obligations, so our evening was cut a bit short, but we had fun all the same.<\/p>\nSunday I slept in a bit, since I was up well past my bedtime working.\u00a0 What the heck, I don’t have a PC, why get out of bed anyway.\u00a0 I had to drag myself up eventually though, as my Mom and niece Rebecca were coming over for lunch.\u00a0 We fixed a tasty fritatta and some pancakes… more like breakfast I suppose, but that’s OK.\u00a0 After eating, the girls put together a very Christmas-y gingerbread house.\u00a0 Now how’s that<\/em> for festive?\u00a0 Next thing you know we’ll be putting up a tree and everything.\u00a0 (Not likely.)\u00a0 Later in the afternoon I headed down to the Brooksider to watch football while Donette did some shopping.\u00a0 I took a new tact this week in monitoring my fantasy football team, which was to totally ignore it, and so far my strategy has payed off.\u00a0 (Well, in one league anyway.)\u00a0 It ain’t over yet, there are still a few players to go this evening, but so far I am looking like a team of destiny.\u00a0 And that’s all I’m gonna say, I don’t want to jinx myself.\u00a0 (If I didn’t already…)<\/p>\nBy the way, Donette put up a few pictures of our Mexico trip in our photo gallery.\u00a0 For a much more comprehensive set, check out Ed’s<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brrrr.\u00a0 Surely it is almost Spring by now.\u00a0 What is it, mid-February?\u00a0 Poor little Belle, big mean pit bull that she is, gets so cold that she won’t hardly even go outside.\u00a0 We bought her some boots and a sweater (seriously) but she still doesn’t get too excited about “going” in the snow.\u00a0 And who […]<\/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-233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233","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=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}