Jalapenos<\/a>, always a solid bet.\u00a0 And, speaking of Jalapenos, we found out they have “customer appreciation” cards!!\u00a0 Geez, I’d have appreciated them telling me that about 50 meals ago.\u00a0 It’s only the 7th day of the year and they already owe us one free meal, and I need one more stamp on mine for another free-bee.\u00a0 For dinner, I had a rather unusual urge to stir fry something.\u00a0 So, I broke out the trusty wok and one of my treasured Jeff Smith cookbooks and got to cipherin’.\u00a0 You can’t beat a Frugal Gourmet cookbook in some instances, particularly for a cheap, easy stir fry.\u00a0 Heck, he was one of my favorite TV cooks until that unfortunate, alleged incident with…\u00a0 Oh never mind.\u00a0 Still good books.\u00a0 Anyway, I decided on chicken with leeks in black bean sauce.\u00a0 Solid.\u00a0 For evening entertainment, I played “Call of Duty” (the first edition) all night, which my friend John loaned me.\u00a0 I’ve been looking for some alternate means of entertainment, as my usual routine of clicking endlessly through 100 some-odd TV channels is getting rather tedious, and I’ve tentatively decided on PC games as that new hobby.\u00a0 I’m not sure it’s going to work out, but we’ll see.\u00a0 I’m not very good at them, generally ending up totally lost and having no idea what to do next.\u00a0 Maybe you have to play them more than once or twice to figure things out, who knows.\u00a0 Not being blessed with any sort of attention span, it might be a short-lived hobby.<\/p>\nSunday I got up and fixed a fine frittata,\u00a0 our recent weekend breakfast of choice.\u00a0 Donette labeled it her favorite so far, so I guess I’ll keep that recipe on file for future reference.\u00a0 (I didn’t like it as much as she did…\u00a0 Needed some meat in it.)\u00a0 After that we went on a short burst of “home maintenance” projects.\u00a0 I have been meaning to work on our generator, which has been sitting idle in the garage since the ice storm in 2002.\u00a0 I’d blocked out the entire afternoon for this project, convinced it would take hours of Internet research and several trips to the hardware store.\u00a0 But, what do you know, I poured some gas in it and it fired up on the fourth or fifth pull.\u00a0 Good ol’ Briggs & Stratton, can’t beat ’em.\u00a0 Guess it’s good for another six years now.\u00a0 Meanwhile, Donette was inside trying her luck at carpet patching.\u00a0 We had a rather disappointing situation arise over Christmas involving Belle, a few pounds of butter she stole off the counter, and…\u00a0 well, never mind the gory details, suffice to say the carpet needed patched.\u00a0 The fit came out good, although the color is no where near a match.\u00a0 It looks better than the previous color though, if you get my drift.\u00a0 Emboldened by my success with the generator, I then undertook a little plumbing project.\u00a0 We’ve had a slow drain in the shower for several months, and before dropping the standard $200 fee for the plumber visit I figured I’d at least take things apart and see if there was anything obvious.\u00a0 I can’t really decide what was grosser, Belle’s mess on the carpet or what came out of the shower drain.\u00a0 All I’m gonna say is that after that project I spent the rest of the day down at the Brooksider watching TV, trying to erase those horrible visions from my memory.\u00a0 The shower drains now though…\u00a0 VICTORY!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Not a terribly exciting weekend.\u00a0 On the entertainment scale, I’d put it somewhere between cleaning out the garage and picking up dog crap in the yard.\u00a0 Kind of sets the tone for my 2008 I guess.\u00a0 Speaking of the New Year, we had a good, albeit low key, holiday celebration.\u00a0 The Martin’s came over and […]<\/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-236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236","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=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}