Great American BBQ<\/a>, which we were heading out to on Saturday.\u00a0 Probably the highlight of my day was getting pulled over by the po-po on my scooter.\u00a0 Seriously, why would the man want to hassle somebody on a scooter?\u00a0 It’s not bad enough that a guy is stuck riding a scooter for transportation, you have to shake him down too?\u00a0 Well it turned out it was my buddy Mike from college, having some fun at my expense.\u00a0 Yeah, thanks for that.\u00a0 Apparently he was in such a state of euphoria at seeing me on a scooter he didn’t notice that my tags expired two months ago, so HA.<\/p>\nSaturday and Sunday ran together into one big blur at the BBQ competition.\u00a0 I think I might just be getting too old for those things.\u00a0 I rode out to the site with Bob around 2:00 Saturday afternoon and helped out just a bit with the booth setup.\u00a0 We had a nice big spot so we got everything arranged and then generally sat around and baked in the heat.\u00a0 Munkirs, Belanger and Scotten came out and visited us for a while, but for the most part it was a low-key event.\u00a0 We mostly sat around and lounged.\u00a0 Later in the evening we went and saw a decent blues band, Martin & Scotten rode some carnie rides, and then before we knew it midnight was upon us and it was time to start cooking.\u00a0 So, the next 15 hours or so were spent feeding the fire, basting, wrapping, spraying, cutting, and all the other fun stuff that makes me continually wonder why we do these competitions at all.\u00a0 It was oddly fun this time though.\u00a0 Our results?\u00a0 Well, probably the worst showing we have ever made.\u00a0 Only Martin (ribs) did anywhere near acceptable.\u00a0 I don’t really know what happened;\u00a0 We may not have been expecting ribbons, but c’mon, it wasn’t THAT bad.\u00a0 Or maybe it was and my judgement was skewed by extreme fatigue, I’m just not sure.<\/p>\n
After dragging my semi-concious carcass back home and sleeping for 12 hours, I woke up Monday really wanting some barbecue.\u00a0 Actually, just the thought of it made me want to puke, but we’d invited John & Susan over for ribs, so I fired up the smoker and got to work again.\u00a0 They came out OK I guess;\u00a0 I gave myself a break on them because I rarely cook ribs so I was happy with anything considered “edible.”\u00a0 We had a nice little dinner, took a beating in a game of pitch, and called it a weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ow.\u00a0 I am in such physical pain today I almost stayed home from work.\u00a0 I ain’t as young as I used to be I guess;\u00a0 That four day weekend, while enjoyable, took quite a bit out of me. I had Friday off but didn’t really take advantage of it.\u00a0 I hit Costco and picked up […]<\/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-414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414","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=414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}