{"id":484,"date":"2009-09-28T09:07:19","date_gmt":"2009-09-28T14:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/?p=484"},"modified":"2009-09-28T09:07:19","modified_gmt":"2009-09-28T14:07:19","slug":"enjoy-it-while-its-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/enjoy-it-while-its-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Enjoy It While It’s Here"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now this<\/strong> is weather.\u00a0 It would be this way all year if I had any say in it.\u00a0 Hopefully it holds out for the big BBQ this weekend…\u00a0 (Jinx.)\u00a0 By the way, I know everybody has been on the edge of their seats waiting for status on my web server instability issue.\u00a0 Well, after turning on some logging here and there and watching things for a while, it turned out there were about 150 or more spam-bots hitting my message boards every twenty minutes or so.\u00a0 Given the rather anemic specs of the little server<\/a> I use, it would just puke all over itself.\u00a0 After ciphering on a few different solutions for a while, I took the easy way out and just deleted the message board.\u00a0 Bah, nobody (except the spammers) has used it for several months anyway.\u00a0 Done.<\/p>\n

That weekend was definitely a bit toned down after last.\u00a0 That was a good thing, I need my rest.\u00a0 Friday, case in point, I didn’t do much at all.\u00a0 I stopped by the Brooksider for a bit and sat out on the deck, enjoying the fine weather and catching up on the latest local news, then went home and watched TV.\u00a0 Donette, meanwhile, stood in as Susan’s date to a highschool reunion.\u00a0 She stayed out quite a bit later than I, and that’s all the info I was privy too…<\/p>\n

Saturday, after sleeping in just a bit, we headed down to Brookside & joined John and Susan for breakfast at Sharp’s.\u00a0 I had the biscuits and gravy for about the tenth time in a row;\u00a0 Probably need to branch out a bit.\u00a0 Then again, I like their biscuits and gravy, so why risk it?\u00a0 We ate breakfast, then walked around the Wayside Waifs event for a little bit, checking out all the puppies.\u00a0 (I didn’t know that was going on or I would have probably gone elsewhere for breakfast…\u00a0 It was pretty crazy with all the streets blocked off and mutts everywhere.)\u00a0 After that, with a nice full belly, I headed to the wilds of the northlands, to join Martin and crew (skeleton crew, I might add) working the smoker up at Chris’ house.\u00a0 Brice & Zim showed up to help out too, and I think we got everything pretty well prepped for next weekend.\u00a0 Of note, while we had the smoker running, Chris turned out what could have been the best slab of ribs he has ever prepared.\u00a0 Bold statement, but quite possibly true.\u00a0 Deeee-licious.\u00a0 Fluke, or can they be duplicated next weekend under the pressure of competition?\u00a0 Time will tell.\u00a0 (If we even bother turning in our entries…\u00a0 Time will tell that too.)\u00a0 After all that, I headed back home for another evening of nothing.\u00a0 I had been snacking on ribs and chicken all day and wasn’t even hungry, so I skipped dinner and just hit the TV again.<\/p>\n

Sunday, after the previous evening of nothing, I was well rested and ready to enjoy the day.\u00a0 I drove over to Mark’s house and picked him up, and we headed to the shooting range out by Parkville for a few hours.\u00a0 Can’t beat that for a fine Sunday afternoon’s entertainment.\u00a0 We killed a few dozen pieces of paper, then scurried back to midtown.\u00a0 There was still plenty of afternoon left, and the weather couldn’t get much better, so Donette and I made the arduous .5-mile trip to The Well to enjoy the weather.\u00a0 I had the best pastrami sandwich I’d had in recent memory, and Donette gave her burger high marks too.\u00a0 That was the first time we’d eaten there, and I must say it easily rivals 75th Street for food.\u00a0 The downside is that every time we’ve been there, (admittedly not many) there has been something a little “off” about it that almost, if not quite, ruins it.\u00a0 For instance, last time we were there, one of the neighboring businesses had some kind of sewer issue going on, and every so often you’d get an overwhelming whiff of rotten eggs.\u00a0 (It was still there yesterday actually, but we had a more favorable breeze.)\u00a0 Then yesterday it was the bees;\u00a0 Friggin’ honey bees everywhere<\/strong>.\u00a0 What the heck?\u00a0 They even kept getting in our tea, which wasn’t even sweetened.\u00a0 It was a bit unnerving.\u00a0 But, the pastrami was excellent and I didn’t get stung, so I guess in the end it worked out OK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now this is weather.\u00a0 It would be this way all year if I had any say in it.\u00a0 Hopefully it holds out for the big BBQ this weekend…\u00a0 (Jinx.)\u00a0 By the way, I know everybody has been on the edge of their seats waiting for status on my web server instability issue.\u00a0 Well, after turning […]<\/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-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484","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=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}