I’m shooting for an on-time post this week!\u00a0 Gotta set your goals high.\u00a0 Since I didn’t really do anything all weekend, that should be pretty attainable.\u00a0 Case in point, Friday night Donette went to a play with friends, so I sat home on the couch and watched the Royals game.\u00a0 Boring, but not as boring as that event usually is.\u00a0 It helped immensely that A) the weather was finally nice enough to watch the game on the back patio, and B) it was a quite exciting game for once.\u00a0 (At least the ending.)\u00a0 It was sort of the perfect crime too:\u00a0 The weird water-break issue thing flooding the outfield caused just enough of a delay to keep me up until a respectable time, so I could actually say I was up past 9:00 on a Friday.<\/p>\n
Saturday, I’m not too sure what we did all day, but it led up to an eventual epic dinner.\u00a0 We went over to a friend’s house in the neighborhood and threw a 3+ lb tomahawk steak on the grill.\u00a0 Now that was a hunk of steak.\u00a0 It took at least 30 minutes to get it cooked.\u00a0 We threw on some shrimp & scallops to go with it, and a few potatoes and salad just for looks.\u00a0 Great dinner.\u00a0 Any minor quibbles?\u00a0 Oh, but of course.\u00a0 I will say, I’ve caved to the whole gas grill scene.\u00a0 I use mine 90% of the time I cook outside.\u00a0 But for a nice steak, I have to say I still prefer a charcoal grill.\u00a0 We tried the “smoke bomb” technique on his grill, but I couldn’t really detect any smoke flavor at all.\u00a0 I have been wanting to try them though…\u00a0 And now I can say I have.\u00a0 The steak was delicious all the same.<\/p>\n
Sunday, as the case has been of late, I sat around and waited for work, which is generally at 6:00 in the evening.\u00a0 I occupied my time fiddling with my new DVR set up, which is going quite nicely.\u00a0 I am pretty sure I’ve rambled about this before, but the current status of our TV entertainment is an antenna hooked up to pull local channels.\u00a0 It works fine, gets everything I need.\u00a0 I added the Plex Pass recently for the reasonable cost of $3 a month, and that gives me recording ability.\u00a0 I had about 15 episodes of Gunsmoke queued up so that passed the time nicely.\u00a0 My work went as well as could be expected.\u00a0 (I think I can safely say that now without jinxing myself.)\u00a0 So well, in fact, that there was still enough time in the day left for dinner.\u00a0 After a brief consultation among some amigos, we decided on the recently opened Boulevard 41<\/a> just around the corner from us.\u00a0 So recent that they were only sorta-kinda-almost open actually.\u00a0 They’ve still got some kinks to work out, but our pizza was very good and I guess that’s all that really matters.\u00a0 They also brought us out a few plates of complimentary appetizers to try, all of which were excellent.\u00a0 (I think they noticed my ample belly and profiled me as a potential high-value customer.)<\/p>\n\n\t\t