Yes, even in the new year I am persisting with the late updates. \u00a0Timely blogging wasn’t one of my resolutions, what can I say. \u00a0The issue is, I didn’t want to turn on my PC yesterday and waste electricity, due to the ongoing drought conditions out here. \u00a0You are correct, that makes no sense at all, I’m just reaching.<\/p>\n
We kicked off the weekend Friday night with a big ol’ night of nothing. \u00a0It was sort of a rough week, I think we were both out of gas. \u00a0Donette sat on the couch and enjoyed whatever the TV\u00a0had to offer, and I chose to fire up the heater on the patio and have a cigar. \u00a0Yes, my first cigar in… \u00a0A long time. \u00a0I bought one a few weeks ago on a whim, despite the fact I have probably 30 sitting in my humidor, and decided it was time to give it a try. \u00a0Quite enjoyable really, or maybe it was just nice to be sitting outside in January. \u00a0It passed the time at any rate.<\/p>\n
Saturday we hosted a semi-impromptu football watch party. \u00a0It’s not just every year you get to see the Chiefs in a playoff game, so we decided to make the most of it. \u00a0Donette made a pot of chili, some cheese dip, salads, wings, etc, and we had a few friends over to watch the\u00a0games. \u00a0There was a two-year-old in the mix too, who kept us just about as entertained as the games. \u00a0(Despite the favorable outcome, I didn’t really find the Chiefs game all that interesting…) \u00a0One of her favorite pastimes is “running,” as in, race from one side of the house to the other. \u00a0The requirement to play this game comes up rather frequently, and you are all but obligated to play when directed. \u00a0A sample conversation would be:<\/p>\n
Harper: \u00a0“Phil, let’s run.”
\nPhil: “No, not right now, I’m watching the football game.”
\nHarper: \u00a0“Phil, let’s run.”
\nPhil: \u00a0“Go give Doni a try, she likes to run.”
\nHarper: \u00a0“Phil, let’s run.”<\/p>\n
You get the idea. \u00a0You can draw it out as long as you like, but at the end of the day you might as well just get up and run. \u00a0This scenario has played out many times, with many different victims, and to date I’ve never seen it end any differently. \u00a0Hey, I probably need the exercise anyway. \u00a0After enjoying the Chiefs victory, and many laps across the house, we still had a lot of food and a moderate amount of energy left so we tuned in to the second game. \u00a0Despite no interest whatsoever in the outcome (except wanting the Chiefs to get Denver in the next game,) we ended up watching that whole game also. \u00a0Hey, nothing better to do with a Saturday.<\/p>\n
Sunday we got up and headed to the big city of Folsom to meet some friends at Land Ocean<\/a> for a tasty brunch. \u00a0It was a fine brunch, I’d go back. \u00a0As usual, I had to find a few quibbles with the California food though. \u00a0I ordered the chilaquiles, based on the fact that, well, I like them. \u00a0What I got on my plate was a tasty dish indeed. \u00a0It was, however, by no possible stretch of the imagination, chilaquiles. \u00a0It didn’t even have chips in it! \u00a0(OK, there were a few strips sprinkled on top, sort of a garnish. \u00a0The very BASE of chilaquiles is chips.) \u00a0You can’t, or at least you shouldn’t, just throw together a few random things and name it after a semi-traditional dish. \u00a0It should at the very least vaguely RESEMBLE said dish. \u00a0This was a plate of black beans and potatoes with a fried egg on top. \u00a0What in the name of all that is holy. \u00a0I guess I can’t complain too much because I quite enjoyed it, but at the same time the disappointment was very real. \u00a0I have a tough go at the restaurants out here, I’ll tell you what. \u00a0After that, my heart heavy with another grave food injustice, we headed across the street to the movie theater and caught the noon showing of The Hateful Eight<\/a>. \u00a0It was every bit the over-the-top graphic bloodbath we expected, and so we thoroughly\u00a0enjoyed it. \u00a0When we got out of the theater it was a rather nice afternoon out, so we joined some friends at their house down the street for a little backyard party. \u00a0Just kind of sat around and watched his smoker and enjoyed the weather: \u00a0Fitting Sunday entertainment. \u00a0For the big Sunday finale, I went home and fixed myself a big skillet full of chilaquiles<\/a>, and ate the whole thing. \u00a0OK not really. \u00a0But I wanted to. \u00a0And maybe next weekend I shall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yes, even in the new year I am persisting with the late updates. \u00a0Timely blogging wasn’t one of my resolutions, what can I say. \u00a0The issue is, I didn’t want to turn on my PC yesterday and waste electricity, due to the ongoing drought conditions out here. \u00a0You are correct, that makes no sense at […]<\/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-2550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2550","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=2550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2551,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2550\/revisions\/2551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}