{"id":2493,"date":"2015-11-23T14:36:39","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T22:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/?p=2493"},"modified":"2015-11-23T14:36:39","modified_gmt":"2015-11-23T22:36:39","slug":"turkey-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/turkey-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Turkey Day is coming! \u00a0I’m feeling particularly thankful this year so I’m ready to feast. \u00a0So much so, in fact, that I bought two turkeys. \u00a0That’s one way to insure I get some leftovers I guess. \u00a0As far as the weekend went, well it was rather uneventful. \u00a0I was geared up for a big happy hour Friday, but nobody was buying into my plan so I ended up on my back patio as usual. \u00a0Hey, it was a nice evening out, nothing to complain about there. \u00a0I ended up with a big fat cigar and my feet kicked up on the coffee table, listening to some good tunes and enjoying the weather. \u00a0We did make it out to dinner at Selland’s<\/a> a little later, which was tasty as always. \u00a0I’ll admit I go there for the very reasonable price though; Their $25 special<\/a> cannot be beat, at least not around here.<\/p>\n

Saturday I actually got outside and got a little yard work done. \u00a0My citrus trees, which I was just certain were going to produce a little bit of fruit this year, got all broken up in the neighbor’s landscaping project, so I tried to salvage them the best I could. \u00a0I think they’ll make it. \u00a0They offered to replace them but eh, no thanks. \u00a0I don’t so much mind buying new ones, I don’t want to dig the stinkin’ holes to plant them. \u00a0The so-called dirt out here is no joy to dig in, that’s for sure. \u00a0I got them all repaired, we’ll see if they heal up. \u00a0I trimmed a few of the rosemary bushes too, those things are ridiculous. \u00a0Definitely in the “drought tolerant” family. \u00a0They’ll take over your whole yard if you let them. \u00a0After I got done with that, we headed up to the AT&T store, presumably to get our monthly bill lowered a bit. \u00a0Several hours and a sizable sum of money later, we walked back out in a fog. \u00a0My head is still swimming, I don’t know what happened exactly. \u00a0Hopefully my monthly savings are enough to cover the out-of-pocket expenses over the next decade or so, but I rather doubt it. \u00a0Good grief. \u00a0Note to self: \u00a0Conduct all AT&T business online next time.<\/p>\n

The majority of Sunday was spent on the couch, as has been the tradition as of late. \u00a0We got out to the grocery store and bought our turkeys, and that was about it. \u00a0I did spend a good deal of time fine-tuning my home automation setup that I’ve been working on. \u00a0I’m pretty happy with the door locks and lights and that generic stuff, but I was trying to program\u00a0the thermostat schedules with it too. \u00a0The little voice in the back of my head kept saying “The thermostats have built-in scheduling, what’s the point?” \u00a0And the other voice would answer “Because it would be cooler to have it in your automation setup.” \u00a0Well, I woke up about 2:30 this morning and it had set the temp upstairs to 62, and downstairs to 70. \u00a0Not too bad, except I’d wanted 62 degrees on both. \u00a0Unfortunately though, the stupid thing had set the upstairs to “cool” and the downstairs to “heat.” \u00a0So yeah, the heater was rocking downstairs trying to get the house up to 70, while the air conditioner was trying to cool the upstairs to 62. \u00a0I\u00a0shut it all off and turned the thermostat scheduling back on for the time being…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Turkey Day is coming! \u00a0I’m feeling particularly thankful this year so I’m ready to feast. \u00a0So much so, in fact, that I bought two turkeys. \u00a0That’s one way to insure I get some leftovers I guess. \u00a0As far as the weekend went, well it was rather uneventful. \u00a0I was geared up for a big happy […]<\/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-2493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493","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=2493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2494,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493\/revisions\/2494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}