{"id":254,"date":"2008-05-12T10:48:44","date_gmt":"2008-05-12T15:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/?p=254"},"modified":"2008-05-12T10:48:44","modified_gmt":"2008-05-12T15:48:44","slug":"keep-that-que-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/keep-that-que-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"Keep That ‘Que Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"

Man will it EVER<\/strong> warm up out there?\u00a0 We were supposed to go the Royals game yesterday but it was so marginal out we bailed on that plan.\u00a0 I’m getting tired of sitting outside trying to convince myself I’m having fun when it’s 50 degrees and windy.\u00a0 Screw it, I’m just going to stay inside for the rest of my life.<\/p>\n

We kicked off the weekend pretty strong on Friday, going down the Power & Light District to celebrate K.B.’s 45th birthday.\u00a0 I like going to those, makes me feel young.\u00a0 That place is really taking off, it was packed everywhere;\u00a0 Most places even had a line to get in.\u00a0 We started things off at the “PBR Big Sky<\/a>,” which proved “interesting.”\u00a0 In what would be the theme for the evening, it started out tolerable and then the music got so loud (and bad) that it drove us out.\u00a0 We ended up moving over to the bowling alley<\/a> for a little peace and quiet.\u00a0 This bowling alley had a slightly different format than the ones I’ve been to though;\u00a0 After we’d been there a few hours it had mysteriously shifted from “bowling alley” to “hip-hop club.”\u00a0 Time for Phil & Donette to go home.\u00a0 On our way to catch the bus though, we ran into the neighbor girls, who talked us into stopping by the newly-opened Flying Saucer<\/a>.\u00a0 That was one of our favorite places when we lived in Fort Worth, so it really wasn’t very hard to convince us to check it out.\u00a0 We ended up staying there approximately “way too long.”\u00a0 We finally left at some unreasonable hour, and found out that we’d missed the last bus home by about an hour…\u00a0 Whoops!\u00a0 I knew I hated public transportation for a reason.\u00a0 So, we split a cab with the girls, which worked out fine.\u00a0 (They stopped by the Plaza on the way home to keep the night going though… Crazy kids.)<\/p>\n

Saturday morning I rather grudgingly drug myself out of bed and headed north to Platte City, to judge my very first BBQ competition.\u00a0 I wasn’t very sold on the idea at first;\u00a0 It was cold and rainy, and I stayed out way too late Friday night.\u00a0 But, I’d signed up for it so I figured I better show.\u00a0 It turned out to be a good time though, and I got to eat a lot of good BBQ.\u00a0 (And a little bit of not-so-good too.)\u00a0 It was a lot easier, and cheaper, than cooking in the competitions, that’s for sure.\u00a0 I hung around and talked to some guys about a new cooker too, but didn’t pull the trigger just yet.\u00a0 I’ve been sorta eying a new rig for a while, if for no reason other than I’ve had mine for over 15 years.\u00a0 Anyway, these guys were cooking on a few models from American BBQ<\/a> in Olathe, and they looked like pretty solid units.\u00a0 I’ll wait and see how they did in the competition.\u00a0 At the end of the day though, I don’t have near enough coin to get a new one anyway, so it’s kinda a moot point.\u00a0 That event took up most of the afternoon;\u00a0 I finally got home around 3:00 to find Donette still in bed.\u00a0 Sheesh.\u00a0 I carefully rousted her, and we went out in search of a place to watch the Royals game.\u00a0 Never did find it on TV, so we just hung out at Tanner’s for a while and headed back home.\u00a0 We opened the front door to find Gabe had escaped his kennel and was tearing around the house like the 85 lb. moose that he is.\u00a0 He has somehow figured out how to open the latches, and has been escaping more often than not lately.\u00a0 We can’t figure it out either;\u00a0 Best guess is he has developed retractable thumbs and folds them out when we’re not around.\u00a0 Oh well, so far he hasn’t torn anything up, knock on wood.\u00a0 He just sorta moves things around…\u00a0 You might find your shoes in different rooms, and a hat laying in the middle of the back yard, that kind of stuff.\u00a0 Weird dog.<\/p>\n

Sunday, as briefly mentioned, we intended to go to the Royals game, but decided against it.\u00a0 Instead, we went and bought some brisket and chicken and fired up the smoker.\u00a0 Slightly disheartened by my mediocre finish at the St. Joe competition, I’ve begun my quest to improve the product.\u00a0 I made a few key changes, which I thought resulted in a slight improvement.\u00a0 Still need a few more tweaks though, although I haven’t figured out exactly what.\u00a0 Donette’s first try at chicken turned out well too.\u00a0 I even stirred up a pot of BBQ gumbo with all the leftovers I’d brought home from Platte City.\u00a0 Faced with four lbs. of beef, eight pieces of chicken, and a few gallons of gumbo, we called up the neighbors, who luckily came over and helped us at least put a dent in the spread.\u00a0 The freezer is getting a little stuffed with leftovers though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Man will it EVER warm up out there?\u00a0 We were supposed to go the Royals game yesterday but it was so marginal out we bailed on that plan.\u00a0 I’m getting tired of sitting outside trying to convince myself I’m having fun when it’s 50 degrees and windy.\u00a0 Screw it, I’m just going to stay inside […]<\/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-254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254","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=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}