{"id":27,"date":"2006-06-05T11:05:27","date_gmt":"2006-06-05T16:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/?p=27"},"modified":"2006-06-05T11:12:05","modified_gmt":"2006-06-05T16:12:05","slug":"dialing-things-back-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/dialing-things-back-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Dialing Things Back Down"},"content":{"rendered":"

We slowed things down quite a bit last weekend, mostly so I wouldn’t have to engage in a rambling, 3000 word update today.\u00a0 Always thinking ahead.\u00a0 But, in a huge bonus for all, I am not going to start with the usual “Friday” events, and instead jump all the way back to WEDNESDAY!!!\u00a0 Oh yeah, we’re gettin’ crazy now!!!\u00a0 Anyway… Wednesday I went to the DMB<\/a> concert out at Verizon with Ed & Kim<\/a>.\u00a0 I’ve always wanted to see Dave, but I am quite a staunch Verizon-hater.\u00a0 That place plain sucks.\u00a0 While I’ve seen some good shows there many moons ago, everything about the whole amphitheatre experience has been crappy.\u00a0 Actually, when declining the occasional concert invitations I get, my mantra has always been “I wouldn’t go see Dave Matthews & R.E.M together at that hole.”\u00a0 But, Ed ended up with an extra ticket to this show, and in a possible indication of the apocalypse I went ahead and picked it up from him.\u00a0 I will call the evening an overwhelming success.\u00a0 I think the key was that Ed is much more show-savvy than I;\u00a0 He had us in and out of that miserable parking lot death-trap with barely a slow-down.\u00a0 It seems like they’ve lightened up on the rubber-glove-searches getting into the gates too.\u00a0 Overall, much less painful than I remember.\u00a0 And the show itself?? Nothing short of awesome.\u00a0 Mind you, I have no intention of following him all over the country seeing all the other shows on the tour like Ed.\u00a0 I’m more in the “OK I’ve seen my DMB show now, check that one off the list” category.\u00a0 Definitely something to remember though.<\/p>\n

Friday I don’t guess I have anything to report.\u00a0 We shut down and watched movies.\u00a0 At least I think we did… Honestly I don’t really remember.\u00a0 Next thing I knew it was 9:00 at night and I was starving.\u00a0 We fired up our hand-me-down Weber Kettle grill and cooked up some salmon and potatoes.\u00a0 Man I haven’t grilled on charcoal for a long time, and I’ve missed it.\u00a0 It came out rather well if I do say so my darn self.<\/p>\n

Saturday started off with round two of Gabe’s agility class.\u00a0 He did even better than last week, if that’s even possible.\u00a0 Easily the star of the class, in my unbiased opinion.\u00a0 Well, OK, there was that little incident where he panicked in the middle of the collapsible tunnel.\u00a0 The instructor-lady has a little repair work to do on her equipment this week.\u00a0 Oops.\u00a0 Overall he did quite fabulously though.\u00a0 After that we headed over to Mom’s for a little lunch.\u00a0 My nephew Matthew has been staying with her all week, so we got to see him too.\u00a0 (Sorry Carl, no pictures this time.)\u00a0 After lunch it was back home to kick back and do a whole lot of nothing, save mowing the lawn.\u00a0 I spent the greater part of the afternoon working on my new firewall project, which finally ended successfully.\u00a0 I am now using my Linksys WRT-54G<\/a> as a nifty little firewall, managed by “firewall builder<\/a>” software running on a Fedora FC4<\/a> box.\u00a0 Oh yeah, I’m cool.\u00a0 After wasting the day in that manner, the Martins came over and joined us for a little Mexican take-out food.\u00a0 I think we had plans to play cards or something like that, but we ended up just sitting on the back deck watching Gabe run around all crazy with the neighbor dog.<\/p>\n

Sunday our big project was installing a doggie-door for Gabe.\u00a0 I swear, that boy is a mess.\u00a0 I would surely not be able to handle a child, I guarantee that.\u00a0 Now that he is no longer welcome at his daycare place (which is a whole other story) we have got to find something to do with the boy during the day.\u00a0 For the last year and a half, I’ve rushed home immediately after work to let the boy out of his kennel.\u00a0 Something of an inconvenience, but tolerable with those couple of “daycare” days when I can stay at work if I need to, or stop by the Brooksider on the way home, or whatever.\u00a0 Now that he’s stuck at home full time, we need some options.\u00a0 We’ve tried leaving him in the house when we’re gone;\u00a0 Suffice to say that did not go well.\u00a0 We’ve tried leaving him in the yard, but he tears up the screens and gnaws on the fence.\u00a0 So, the latest idea is to let him in and out as he pleases.\u00a0 This is directly against all his training, which is that he gets told when to go in and out, but I’m ready to make some concessions.\u00a0 He was howling pitifully at the back gate when I left this morning, which is not a good indicator of things to come, but we’ll see what happens.\u00a0 We wrapped up that project just in time for the Martins to join us for dinner again.\u00a0 I fired up the charcoal grill again and threw on some sirloins, while Martin did pork chops and tuna.\u00a0 After that we watched the merciful end of the pathetic Sopranos season, and called it a weekend.<\/p>\n

Well, look at that, I rambled into another long update anyway.\u00a0 Just wordy I guess.\u00a0 I turned on the “comments” thingy for these too.\u00a0 Don’t ask me how to use it, I don’t even know if it works.\u00a0 One spam message and it’s right back off, I can tell you that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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