Honestly I don’t have much more to go on this week than last.\u00a0 I think I’m in a funk;\u00a0 The Memphis trip knocked all the energy out of me, and I didn’t have that much to start with.\u00a0 It’s not like I didn’t do anything at all over the three-day weekend, I just didn’t have the inclination to retell it.\u00a0 We hit the Power and Light district a few times, checked out the new Bass Pro shop, and I judged the Great American BBQ contest, to summarize a few of the “highlights.”\u00a0 As far as this weekend goes, I guess I’ll work with what I have.\u00a0 Friday I went oncall, so we kept things low-key.\u00a0 We went to a neighborhood “happy hour”, and then I think we might have, um, watched TV or something.\u00a0 Maybe the Royals game?\u00a0 Oh, we went to dinner at Jalapeno’s.\u00a0 Chicken verde burrito night, quite exciting.\u00a0 (See my dilemma here with the whole boring weekend thing?)<\/p>\n
Saturday, Donette got up at the crack of 10:00 and we took Gabe to the dog park<\/a>.\u00a0 He has fun there, but much like his owner he runs out of energy pretty quick.\u00a0 He generally runs like a crazed moose for around 15 or 20 minutes and then lays down and goes to sleep, at which point we shove him back in the car and go home.\u00a0 Wears him out I guess, so it’s worth the drive.\u00a0 After that short foray, I dropped Donette down at the Plaza where she met up with a dozen or so other girls for the big “Sex in the City” festivities.\u00a0 That was an all-day event apparently, so I set out on a somewhat circuitous journey around the city on my motorcycle.\u00a0 That’s pretty pricey entertainment these days, but what the heck, it was a nice day and I couldn’t think of anything else to do.\u00a0 I had a little bit of new “gear” to road-test, so that was moderately exciting.\u00a0 I got a new helmet, a new tank-bag, and a new jacket, as well as a new seat that I bought over the winter.\u00a0 My main theory behind the tank-bag was to have someplace to put my ipod, but it turns out that if you get much over 40 mph you can’t hear anything but wind noise anyway.\u00a0 Oh well, it’s still pretty handy.\u00a0 Once Donette got home we grilled some dinner, and then it was back to another night of TV.<\/p>\n Sunday brought a moderate amount of activity, at least in relation to the rest of the weekend.\u00a0 We fired up the smoker to practice some brisket and chicken, with several radical, cutting edge ideas to test out.\u00a0 While the meat was cooking, we also set about cleaning out the garage.\u00a0 Wow, they should feature that undertaking on that “Dirty Jobs”<\/a> show.\u00a0 ICKY!!!!\u00a0 Geez, it’s only been six or seven years since the last time we cleaned it, you wouldn’t think it would be that gross already.\u00a0 Blecht, I’m getting itchy just thinking about it.\u00a0 We got it into pretty decent shape though, including ripping out what could well have been the most impractical shelving infrastructure in the world, and disposing of Kane’s secret litter box.\u00a0 (BAD kitty.)\u00a0 So, short of a trip to the dump to get rid of all the stuff we got rid of, I guess it’s good for another seven years.\u00a0 The Martins came over later in the afternoon to test out the BBQ product, which they deemed “serviceable.”\u00a0 Donette’s chicken experiment was more successful than my brisket I thought, although it did yield a little promise.\u00a0 A few more tweaks next weekend and I might be onto something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Honestly I don’t have much more to go on this week than last.\u00a0 I think I’m in a funk;\u00a0 The Memphis trip knocked all the energy out of me, and I didn’t have that much to start with.\u00a0 It’s not like I didn’t do anything at all over the three-day weekend, I just didn’t have […]<\/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-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257","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=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}