Wow, Thanksgiving is almost upon us.\u00a0 The “pie” poll was surprisingly well-received, I’ll have to come up with more food-related surveys.<\/p>\n
I was oncall last weekend, so it was a rather low-key few days.\u00a0 Friday, as a matter of fact, I don’t think we did anything at all.\u00a0 I was a little under the weather all last week, and I needed one more day to recover.\u00a0 Plus, we had big plans for Saturday morning;\u00a0 The first run of the holiday sales!!!\u00a0 Yippee.\u00a0 We drove out to Nebraska Furniture Mart semi-early to score our first deal of the year;\u00a0 An eighteen quart roaster.\u00a0 You may wonder why a household of two people would need a roaster that big?\u00a0 Well I’m not really sure myself, but it was a great price and I figured it fell in the “If you ever needed one it would be nice to have” category.\u00a0 (Like we don’t have an entire basement full of items in that category already…)\u00a0 After escaping the NFM crowd, we made the obligitory trip next door to Cabelas (no purchases) and then had a quite tasty lunch at the Yard House.\u00a0 I went with the cubano sandwich, mostly for the sake of comparing it to the one I had at the Brooksider a few weeks ago.\u00a0 It was definitely a good lunch, although I’m not convinced it was twice as good as the ‘Siders.\u00a0 (The price was, so that’s where I set my expectation.)\u00a0 After our little shopping trip, we returned home to watch a little college ball.\u00a0 We tried to hook up with some company for the MU game, but couldn’t get any takers.\u00a0 Martins were busy, Munkirs were incommuncado, and our pizza-victim neighbors have quit returning our calls.\u00a0 Well, fine for them, we just sat at home at watched it by ourselves.\u00a0 Wasn’t a very competitive game anyway.<\/p>\n
Sunday, still being somewhat tethered to my PC for work, I stuck around the house and worked on some odds and ends.\u00a0 Perhaps my most arduous undertaking proved to be replacing the broken pull-cord on the lawnmower.\u00a0 Wow, that proved to be a lot bigger challenge than anticipated.\u00a0 I had to draw on every bit of my extensive military wrenching skills to accomplish this seemingly simple task.\u00a0 The project was further complicated by the cat, who kept waiting until I just about had the rope in place, then would dash in and attack it.\u00a0 It was kind of funny the first hundred or so times, but then it started getting a little tiresome.\u00a0 Just when I was starting to think about what kind of features I needed on my brand new lawnmower though, I got it figured out and everything went back together.\u00a0 Guess the clunker is good for another few years now.\u00a0 After that drudgery, we went over to John & Susan’s house, west-of-wornall, to work on their PC and eat a little dinner.\u00a0 I didn’t make much progress on the PC (it was just kind of an initial consultation) but we got a free dinner out of the deal.\u00a0 We’re going back this evening for a follow-up assessment of the situation.\u00a0 (And another free dinner.)\u00a0 Should take three or four more visits before things are straightened out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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