{"id":443,"date":"2009-07-20T09:23:17","date_gmt":"2009-07-20T14:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/?p=443"},"modified":"2009-07-20T19:04:51","modified_gmt":"2009-07-21T00:04:51","slug":"what-huh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/what-huh\/","title":{"rendered":"What??!! Huh??!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ahhh, a nice three day weekend.\u00a0 This week is short too, which I’m looking forward to.\u00a0 Last week I decided to take Friday off because we were going to a concert Thursday night, and I thought I might require additional recovery time.\u00a0 We scored some tickets to the Crossroads<\/a> to see Seven <\/a>Mary Three<\/a> (with Marcy Playground,) both of whom I rather enjoy.\u00a0 And for free I downright like them, plus it was an absolutely perfect evening for an outdoor concert.\u00a0 So, we headed down there with our friends Brooke, Fritz & Holly, and proceeded to generally enjoy the show.\u00a0 Fritz had VIP passes for us all, which just meant we got to stand right down front.\u00a0 I kid you not, if I had any hair, it would have been blowing in the breeze the speakers were generating.\u00a0 It was LOUD<\/strong>.\u00a0 There is a relatively good chance I sustained some level of hearing impairment.\u00a0 Then again, I am about 1\/2 deef anyway so no big loss.\u00a0 We actually stayed until the very end of the show.\u00a0 As if that wasn’t late enough for us, we rounded the evening out with a little Rock Band back at the house.\u00a0 Hmmm, lay off the energy drinks Phil, no good can come of them.\u00a0 ** Late addition:\u00a0 I forgot to mention the delicious dinner we had.\u00a0 The pizza from Grinders was very good, but Donette hit the home run with the “Frito Pie.”\u00a0 They take a bag of Chili Cheese Fritos, and just open the bag and dump in beef, cheese, sour cream, etc.\u00a0 In addition to being a nutritionally balanced snack, it got very high presentation marks.<\/p>\n

Friday…\u00a0 Well, we didn’t do too much.\u00a0 One of our old neighbors, Molly, (Brooke’s roommate) came into town so we joined her down at Jalapenos for lunch.\u00a0 After that we went to the pool with them for a bit, and then we went back home and hit the couch.\u00a0 We were supposed to go to a party with them, but we had to own up that we just weren’t quite up to two nights out in a row.\u00a0 Old age gets the better of us once again.<\/p>\n

Saturday we got up rested and in much better shape than the day before.\u00a0 After walking the dog, we headed down to the pool with Susan for some lounging.\u00a0 We actually stayed there for several hours, much longer than I can usually tolerate it.\u00a0 This came at the expense of a rather nasty sunburn though…\u00a0 Drat.\u00a0 After we had duly lounged, we headed to the Brooksider to enjoy the weather a bit more on the back deck.\u00a0 Good times.\u00a0 For evening entertainment, we went to my big twenty-fifth high school reunion.\u00a0 Wow…\u00a0 Twenty five years, I am indeed old.\u00a0 It was down at the Cashew<\/a>, well within our geographic comfort zone, so I figured what the heck.\u00a0 Well…\u00a0 As probably anybody but myself would have likely predicted, it may have been within my geographic comfort zone but perhaps not so much in my social comfort zone.\u00a0 Maybe “excruciating” is an overstatement, but there are probably ways I would have rather spent the evening.\u00a0 Usually I can count on Donette to bail me out in such dicey scenarios, but I think she took a “Hey, this was your bright idea” tact this time.\u00a0 While I certainly did get to see some old friends, I think I spent the majority of the time sitting at a table trying to recall exactly what I was thinking when I RSVP’d.\u00a0 Oh, and I came up with my first million-dollar idea:\u00a0 The reunion tee-shirt.\u00a0 Everybody gets a tee-shirt with their essentials listed on the front and back:\u00a0 “Hi, my name is ___, I’m here with my ___ whose name is ___.\u00a0 We have ___ children, live in ___ & work at ___.”\u00a0 You get the idea.\u00a0 Hand out a sharpie to fill in the blanks and boom, you’ve just shaved ten minutes off the front of every single conversation.\u00a0 Let’s say you talk to ten people that night, you’ve just saved yourself over an hour and a half of excess chit-chat.<\/p>\n

Sunday was a pretty low-key day too.\u00a0 My sunburn had gotten progressively worse, to the point it was really rather uncomfortable.\u00a0 I did manage to take Gabe on another long walk, which he sort of enjoys.\u00a0 I say “sort of” because the boy has the lowest heat tolerance of any animal I’ve ever seen.\u00a0 For being a generally athletic breed, he does not last long at all in any kind of heat.\u00a0 Around the two-mile mark, he started dragging me over to every bit of shade in sight and would just plop down.\u00a0 I thought I was going to have to call the sag wagon for a while, but he finally toughed it out.\u00a0 For dinner, we had John & Susan over for some blue cheese burgers.\u00a0 We’ve been making those quite a bit lately;\u00a0 take a 1\/2 lb. burger, mix it up with a bunch of fresh herbs and seasoning, stuff it with blue cheese, and grill it up.\u00a0 Pretty solid.\u00a0 We added bacon this time too, which topped it off quite nicely.\u00a0 After dinner we played a round of Yahtzee, which I managed to win despite not having any idea what I was doing.<\/p>\n

Funny comment Donette made in passing this morning while I was slathering on another gallon of aloe:\u00a0 “Hey, didn’t that antibiotic you’re taking say something about avoiding direct sunlight because it makes you sensitive to sunburn?”\u00a0 Ya’ know, now that you mention it… DOH!!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ahhh, a nice three day weekend.\u00a0 This week is short too, which I’m looking forward to.\u00a0 Last week I decided to take Friday off because we were going to a concert Thursday night, and I thought I might require additional recovery time.\u00a0 We scored some tickets to the Crossroads to see Seven Mary Three (with […]<\/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-443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443","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=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}