{"id":595,"date":"2010-03-29T08:25:08","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T13:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/?p=595"},"modified":"2010-03-29T08:25:08","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T13:25:08","slug":"brrrrr-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/brrrrr-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Brrrrr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scootin&#8217; season has officially begun;\u00a0 I rode the scooter all last week.\u00a0 Why yes, it <strong>DID<\/strong> rain a few days, and yes I <strong>DID<\/strong> get very wet, thanks for asking.\u00a0 Better soaked on the scoot than dry on the bus though.\u00a0 (We&#8217;ll see how long that sentiment holds up.)\u00a0 I rode the motorcycle for the first time today.\u00a0 CHILLY!!\u00a0 I haven&#8217;t figured out the science behind it, but it is a proven fact that 35 degrees on the motorcycle is <strong>a lot<\/strong> colder than 35 degrees on the scooter.\u00a0 I think that little windshield may help out a lot.\u00a0 Hopefully my teeth will stop chattering in time for the ride home.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d rate that about the most boring weekend on record.\u00a0 Considering my usual mundane schedule, that is quite an accomplishment.\u00a0 I was feeling rather beat-down on Friday, so I stopped by the Brooksider for about 30 minutes and then headed home.\u00a0 I got a new (work) laptop so I spent most of the evening getting that all set up.\u00a0 How&#8217;s that for excitement??\u00a0 I did watch a movie later in the evening, solely because it was Friday night and I didn&#8217;t want to go to bed at 8:30.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t remember the name of it but it was absolutely horrible.\u00a0 It was so bad I ended up rather angry that I had even watched it.\u00a0 For two hours I stared at it waiting for a plot, or even some vague point, to develop.\u00a0 Never happened.\u00a0 I even randomly skipped through it afterward to\u00a0 see if maybe I had dozed off during some critical scene.\u00a0 Nope, it was just bad.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday developed in the absolute pinnacle of boredom.\u00a0 I accomplished nothing what-so-ever.\u00a0 One perfectly good weekend day down the tubes, never to be recovered.\u00a0 Didn&#8217;t even walk the dog.\u00a0 I kept telling myself it was due to the inclement weather, but it really wasn&#8217;t even raining at our house.\u00a0 I guess we went to lunch at The Well.\u00a0 Split a turkey wrap.\u00a0 Good grief even our lunch was boring.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday I spent the day tethered to the smoker, cooking a brisket for Float Trip this coming weekend.\u00a0 Not exactly an exciting day by any stretch, but at least I could say I did <em>something<\/em> with my time.\u00a0 I dug the motorcycle out of storage too.\u00a0 That thing has been hard to start the first time over the last two years I&#8217;ve had it, so I was ready for a few hours of messing around with it.\u00a0 This year it fired right up;\u00a0 Guess it was tired of this winter too.\u00a0 By the time the brisket was done it was bed-time.\u00a0 At least I <em>hope<\/em> it&#8217;s done, I didn&#8217;t really slice into it.\u00a0 It was on the cooker 12 hours though, I&#8217;d like to think it should be tender after that much time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scootin&#8217; season has officially begun;\u00a0 I rode the scooter all last week.\u00a0 Why yes, it DID rain a few days, and yes I DID get very wet, thanks for asking.\u00a0 Better soaked on the scoot than dry on the bus though.\u00a0 (We&#8217;ll see how long that sentiment holds up.)\u00a0 I rode the motorcycle for the [&hellip;]<\/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-595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595","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=595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}