{"id":439,"date":"2009-07-06T10:18:43","date_gmt":"2009-07-06T15:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/?p=439"},"modified":"2009-07-06T10:18:43","modified_gmt":"2009-07-06T15:18:43","slug":"bang-bang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/bang-bang\/","title":{"rendered":"Bang Bang"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hopefully everyone still has all their fingers intact after the Fourth.\u00a0 I can’t decide if the weather was a boon or bust at this point.\u00a0 I could have done without all the rain, but at least it was reasonably cool.\u00a0 I had Friday off work, and, ahem, Donette did too, so we started our weekend Thursday evening.\u00a0 I started things off by “fixing” my webserver for a few hours.\u00a0 There wasn’t anything wrong with it in the first place, but by the time I finished there certainly was.\u00a0 I gave up after a while;\u00a0 I’ll figure it out later, or start over, or something.\u00a0 Luckily, I keep a spare for just such an emergency, so I moved everything over to the super-duper backup and went about more entertaining ways to kill time.\u00a0 For the first evening of the long weekend, we picked up Brooke and went down to the newly opened Vox Theatre<\/a>, where they were having an open house of sorts.\u00a0 It was definitely worth the time;\u00a0 They had a nice table of feed out with some good pulled pork and trimmings.\u00a0 There was also Shatto ice cream, which I’ve always wanted to try but am too cheap to buy.\u00a0 (It’s probably worth the extra coin after trying it.)\u00a0 We also got to test out the new Tank 7 from Boulevard, which I think will be a hit.\u00a0 We hung out there for\u00a0a few hours and then it started getting a little crowded so I freaked out and left.\u00a0 Fun gathering though.<\/p>\n

Friday we got up and headed to Smithville Lake for some psuedo-camping, which would take up the rest of our weekend.\u00a0 Donette’s folks have a big motorhome, which they let us borrow, so we pretty much just threw a few changes of clothes in a sack and headed up there.\u00a0 Since all our northland friends were so rude as to sell their boats we really didn’t have any water-related entertainment, so we just kinda hung out.\u00a0 And hung out, and hung out, and…\u00a0 Hey it was “relaxing.”\u00a0 We met our camping neighbors and spent a considerable amount of time talking with them.\u00a0 Yep that’s us, making new friends, building bridges.\u00a0 They were nice people though, and it passed the time.\u00a0 The guy was pretty funny too;\u00a0 By the end of the weekend I noticed that every time the dozen or so kids in their camp started getting extra wound up, he would wander over to our camp.\u00a0 Hmmm, coincidence?\u00a0 That was about the whole of the weekend.\u00a0 We enjoyed the fireworks, at least the ones that didn’t get lost in the clouds.\u00a0 There were several rainstorms, but that is relatively insignificant when you’re in a motorhome.\u00a0 During those wet interludes and the 14 hours a day Donette was sleeping, Gabe & I watched movies.\u00a0 Our cinematic entertainment included:\u00a0 The Happening<\/a>, The Strangers<\/a>, & Max Payne<\/a>.\u00a0 The Happening was one of the worst flicks I’ve ever endured, but I didn’t have anything else to do so I sat through it anyway.\u00a0 The Strangers was…\u00a0 OK.\u00a0 It might have been better if I didn’t watch the first 20 minutes without hearing any of the dialogue.\u00a0 I could hear the music fine, but no voices, which I figured was supposed to be some sort of artsy-fartsy suspense builder.\u00a0 It started getting ridiculous after a while though, and then I figured out I didn’t have my headphones pushed in all the way.\u00a0 It wasn’t worth starting over though, so I just let it run from there.\u00a0 I liked Max Payne better than the other two;\u00a0 It was good enough to restore my faith in Marky Mark as the top-notch actor that he is, after watching “The Happening” disaster.<\/p>\n

Sunday we broke camp and headed back\u00a0 home around noon.\u00a0 I was feeling mysteriously beat up for no more than I actually did all weekend.\u00a0 I watched the Royals game, took a short bike ride down to the Plaza and back, and well, that was about it.\u00a0 Our old neighbor Rick was in town again, so we went to dinner at Waldo Pizza with him and called it a night.\u00a0 If I would have taken any pictures at the lake I would post them…\u00a0 But I didn’t.\u00a0 Sort of forgot I had the camera I guess.\u00a0 There wasn’t much to photograph anyway though;\u00a0 I guess I could have done a 48 hour time-lapse of Gabe sleeping on the picnic table.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hopefully everyone still has all their fingers intact after the Fourth.\u00a0 I can’t decide if the weather was a boon or bust at this point.\u00a0 I could have done without all the rain, but at least it was reasonably cool.\u00a0 I had Friday off work, and, ahem, Donette did too, so we started our weekend […]<\/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-439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439","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=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}