{"id":610,"date":"2010-04-26T08:16:55","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T13:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/?p=610"},"modified":"2010-04-26T08:16:56","modified_gmt":"2010-04-26T13:16:56","slug":"short-week-coming-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/short-week-coming-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Short Week Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yes, I have a 3-day week upon me.\u00a0 Thursday we are off to Fort Worth for a little R&R.\u00a0 Things are off to a screaming good start too;\u00a0 For the first time in weeks I made the light at 51rst street this morning.\u00a0 Of the 42 traffic lights I go through on the way to work, that particular one is especially annoying.\u00a0 It turns yellow on me every single morning, and after I’ve just gotten done sitting through the equally ridiculous light two blocks before.\u00a0 It’s one of those stupid lights that serves no purpose either.\u00a0 It’s set way too long, and nobody ever<\/strong> goes down 51rst at that time of morning.\u00a0 Today I finally got a good run at it and made it through.\u00a0 Small victories, people.\u00a0 Let’s not go into nit-picky details like how fast I was going when I went through it.\u00a0 The simple fact is the light was definitely mostly green.\u00a0 I’m sure this coup shaved at least<\/strong> 3 minutes off my total commute time.<\/p>\n

I suppose that was a decent weekend.\u00a0 I’ve had worse.\u00a0 On the upside, I didn’t have to mow the lawn, due to the standing water.\u00a0 Of course that will just make things worse if and when it ever dries out, but I’m all about a little procrastination.\u00a0 Friday evening, for no particular reason, I spent the evening hanging out at the Brooksider.\u00a0 It was a “decent” night out, so I just sort of hung out on the deck and enjoyed it.\u00a0 Watched the Royals get a particularly brutal thrashing, then called it a night.\u00a0 Donette, meanwhile, got some kind of wild hair and headed out south to see some band with her friend Lori.\u00a0 That’s two late Fridays in a row for her.\u00a0 Dang kids.<\/p>\n

Saturday I got up pseudo-early and headed down to the airport to meet Munkirs again, for our third round of cycling.\u00a0 Didn’t up the mileage any this time, stayed at the almost-20 level.\u00a0 I suppose we’ll have to bump that up a little sooner or later.\u00a0 We may need to mix up the route a bit too, I’m getting a bit weary of riding in circles.\u00a0 (Albeit nearly flat<\/strong> circles, which is nice.)\u00a0 We managed to time it right too.\u00a0 It started raining as soon as we were leaving.\u00a0 One more lap and we’d have gotten soaked.\u00a0 It was lunch time when I got back to the house, so we headed up to the Well.\u00a0 They’ve got a good enough menu, but for some reason I just don’t care for the place much.\u00a0 Maybe because we were stuck inside with the rain, I don’t know.\u00a0 My sandwich was good, the service was good, the price is good…\u00a0 The place just doesn’t do it for me.\u00a0 The day didn’t progress much from there, we sorta hung out on the couch and watched the rain come down.\u00a0 Luckily later in the evening Zim called to let me know he was in Brookside, saving me from totally wasting the day.\u00a0 I went and met up with the Zims down at the ‘Sider and watched the Royals with them.\u00a0 Well, at least until the stupid band started their stupid sound-check, and I couldn’t hear the stupid TV’s.\u00a0 I maintain they should not have bands when there is a local sports event on, it’s annoying.\u00a0 Meanwhile, they maintain no interest in my opinion.\u00a0 Fair enough.<\/p>\n

Sunday Donette was scheduled to participate in the Trolley Run<\/a> with Kelly & Susan.\u00a0 When 7:00 rolled around though, she rather predictably informed me that it was raining too hard and she wasn’t going.\u00a0 I’m not sure how she managed to ascertain this buried beneath the covers.\u00a0 Her plot fell apart when I went out to get the paper and discovered it was actually quite dry.\u00a0 With some help from Kelly, we were finally able to shame her into going, although she stubbornly continued to insist it was pouring, even as we stood outside under the clear skies.\u00a0 They made it up to the start in time though.\u00a0 Meanwhile, Gabe and I sat at the end of the street and watched the festivities.\u00a0 Wow, it was huge this year;\u00a0 I’m not sure but I think they may have gone over 10,000 participants this time.\u00a0 Gabe had a big time too, he got all kinds of attention.\u00a0 After the race, we all headed up to 75th Street and enjoyed a rather gluttonous brunch.\u00a0 The whole Brown clan made it up too.\u00a0 (They did the Trolley Run also.)\u00a0 After that…\u00a0 Well, not too much.\u00a0 Watched the Royals game from the couch, and then we rented “Blind Side” for evening entertainment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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