{"id":246,"date":"2008-03-17T10:05:27","date_gmt":"2008-03-17T16:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/?p=246"},"modified":"2008-03-17T10:05:27","modified_gmt":"2008-03-17T16:05:27","slug":"oh-well-be-floating-all-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/oh-well-be-floating-all-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh We’ll Be Floating All Right"},"content":{"rendered":"

Boy it looks like a beautiful week to go camping, am I ever excited!!\u00a0 I hope the basketball tourney is on satellite radio, because we’ll need something to pass the time while we sit in the car watching the rain\/snow mixture come down.\u00a0 Geez, we’ll probably have to send a look-out canoe ahead of the main group to call out icebergs.\u00a0 Oh well, so far it looks like it is going to be just a bit warmer than last year, and we survived that one.\u00a0 Last Easter<\/a> it dipped into the teens at night, forcing Munkirs and I to snuggle in one sleeping bag just to survive.\u00a0 (Nah, we’d have frozen to death before that happened.\u00a0 It was cold, but we stayed well on our respective sides of the 6-man tent.)<\/p>\n

Remarkably, we actually left the house a few times this weekend.\u00a0 Friday was a non-event however, so I’ll substitute Thursday’s outing for the sake of some material.\u00a0 That evening, I went up to the bowling alley in Raytown and hung out with some co-workers, as if I hadn’t seen enough of them during the afternoon.\u00a0 That’s the second Thursday in a row I’ve been to a bowling alley…\u00a0 Suspicious.\u00a0 They’ve got two-fer-a-buck tacos though, can’t go wrong there.\u00a0 I hung out there for a while, and then headed back home.\u00a0 Mid-drive, however, I was notified that the neighbor girls were watching the Big 12 tourney on TV down at the Brooksider.\u00a0\u00a0 Donette was up North having dinner with her family, so I figured “What the heck” and stopped by for a while.\u00a0 We watched MU get thrashed by the mighty Nebraska team, then I headed home, since it was well past 7:00!!\u00a0 The neighbor girls, meanwhile, decided it would be a good idea to go hit Westport for the evening.\u00a0 Ahhhh, to be young.<\/p>\n

Saturday got off to a rough start, but rebounded later.\u00a0 I woke up early, and decided to start the day with a solid breakfast.\u00a0 A quick inventory of the ‘fridge turned up all the stuff for a ham and cheese omelet, which sounded like just the thing.\u00a0 I must say, it turned out masterfully;\u00a0 Sharp’s ain’t got anything on that omelet.\u00a0 I enjoyed a few bites of it, then decided I needed a glass of milk to accompany my meal.\u00a0 As soon as I turned my back to go into the kitchen, Gabe and Kane got into one of their all-too-common disagreements.\u00a0 You would think Gabe would be the instigator of these events, but Kane has been observed more than once taking an unprovoked swat at his nose, so I’m not really sure who started this one.\u00a0 (He might not be the smartest kitty in KC, but I’ll wager you he’s one of the fastest.)\u00a0 Anyway, I got everybody all settled down, then returned to the table to find that Kane’s path of escape had been right through the middle of my beautiful omelet, as well as my full cup of coffee, which got dumped all over my unread paper.\u00a0 I think I blacked out for a few seconds, but when I came around I was still screaming at those dumb animals.\u00a0 I’m not sure they cared though;\u00a0 Heck I think Kane was rather pleased at the delicious coating of mexican-blend cheese on his paws.\u00a0 I can’t really blame him anyway;\u00a0 I suppose if I had a snarling 75-lb. pitbull snapping at my heels I wouldn’t really care whose breakfast I ruined getting away either.<\/p>\n

So, after a delicious meal of cold cereal, Donette got out of bed and we took the bus downtown to check out the Big 12 scene.\u00a0 (Wow, a two-paragraph day!!)\u00a0 I had a pair of tickets to the games, so we went down a few hours early to walk around the new Power & Light district.\u00a0 I’ll give it high marks so far;\u00a0 Pretty cool spot, especially for around here.\u00a0 We bummed around a while, then went over to check out the new arena and watch a little basketball.\u00a0 Unfortunately, our seats were so high up that the game was kind of hard to follow, so we only made it until half-time of the KU game.\u00a0 It was still early, so we headed back across the street and had a remarkably good lunch at Gordon Biersch<\/a>.\u00a0 I say “remarkably” because they seemed to be struggling a bit with the crowd, so I wasn’t expecting much.\u00a0 It came out very good though, if a bit slow.\u00a0 After the basketball game was over, the place got just ridiculously crowded, so we bailed back to the bus stop for the ride home.\u00a0 Of note regarding the ride home, I actually initiated a conversation with a complete stranger!\u00a0 And after all the grief I give Donette about talking to strangers, sheesh.\u00a0 I noticed the guy was wearing a Pellet Envy<\/a> jacket though, and it piqued my curiosity.\u00a0 Turns out that he and his wife (who was with him) are indeed the Pellet Envy team, and we had just a fine chat about competition BBQ’ing on the way back to Brookside.\u00a0 (Remarkably, he was not familiar with the Triple Fat Back moniker.)\u00a0 It also turns out he is entered in the Memphis In May<\/a> competition for the first time this year, so he invited us to stop by his booth while we’re there and check things out;\u00a0 Score!\u00a0 Weary from all this interaction, I spent the rest of the day on the couch watching TV.\u00a0 I watched Hostel II<\/a> and some other horror flick that was so bad I can’t even remember the name of it.\u00a0 Whew, busy day though.\u00a0 I even took some pictures of the tourney and a few of the dogs playing in the back yard;\u00a0 They are posted in the photo gallery<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Sunday I was still tired from the previous day’s events, but I managed to rally and get down to the gym for a while.\u00a0 After a grueling 10 minute workout, I headed back to the Brooksider and joined Martin to watch the championship game on TV.\u00a0 It wasn’t even that crowded down there;\u00a0 I guess everybody was downtown watching it maybe?\u00a0 We hung out there most of the afternoon;\u00a0 I even had a cigar and then we sampled a few of the Boulevard Smokestack<\/a> beers.\u00a0 They were quite interesting brews, if maybe a bit on the expensive side.\u00a0 Unfortunately I forgot my wallet and Martin had to pick them up, so money was no object.\u00a0 After the game Donette came down and visited for a while, then we went and had dinner at Tanners to wrap up the weekend.\u00a0 Oddly, we ran into our new bestest friends from Pellet Envy there again…\u00a0 I think they are stalking us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Boy it looks like a beautiful week to go camping, am I ever excited!!\u00a0 I hope the basketball tourney is on satellite radio, because we’ll need something to pass the time while we sit in the car watching the rain\/snow mixture come down.\u00a0 Geez, we’ll probably have to send a look-out canoe ahead of the […]<\/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-246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246","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=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}