{"id":64,"date":"2004-12-27T13:00:10","date_gmt":"2004-12-27T18:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/?p=64"},"modified":"2004-12-27T13:00:10","modified_gmt":"2004-12-27T18:00:10","slug":"merry-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/merry-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas.&nbsp; I managed to, despite my best efforts.&nbsp;  Had a nice little mix of &#8220;traditional&#8221; and &#8220;non-traditional&#8221; celebrations.&nbsp; I won&#8217;t elaborate there, I&#8217;ll just leave that line up for interpretation.&nbsp; The inlaws got me some nice practical things for the house; new blinds and the roller-things you put under your 200 lb. house plants.&nbsp; (That&#8217;s the best I know how to describe the roller-things&#8230; All I know is the plants are getting too heavy to move by picking them up, so you put these under them and roll them around.)&nbsp; Every &#8220;toy&#8221; I wanted for Christmas, I bought for myself.&nbsp; Playin&#8217; it safe, you know.&nbsp; Hopefully I can just send my Newegg and Microcenter bills to Santa Claus when they come in.&nbsp; Since Zim asked for details on said toys on the message board, I shall now bore everyone with the details of my acquisitions.<\/p>\n<p>My Christmas Toys<br \/>\n<UL><br \/>\n  <LI>Samsung 16x DVD burner.&nbsp; This might be my favorite purchase.&nbsp; I bought the burner OEM\/white-box from Microcenter, then bought an aluminum external case for it off newegg.com.&nbsp; So, I can just plug the burner into any of my PC&#8217;s USB ports, and voila, instant portable DVD factory.&nbsp; Sweet.<\/LI><br \/>\n  <LI>Seagate 80 gig hard drive.&nbsp; This was one of my &#8220;Black Friday&#8221; sale scores; I picked it up at CompUSA, then bought another aluminum case like the one for my DVD burner to put it in.&nbsp; So, I use it as a portable drive to carry around and back up all my PC&#8217;s to.<\/LI><br \/>\n  <LI>Panasonic 50&#8243; LCD rear-projection TV.&nbsp; That was our present to each other, I guess.<\/LI><br \/>\n  <LI>A new Palm Pilot.&nbsp; I can&#8217;t go into details there, because I haven&#8217;t actually bought it yet.&nbsp; I have one picked out on EBay though.&nbsp; As sure as I list any details of it out here, one of you knuckleheads will rush out and outbid me on it, purely for the joy of ticking me off.<\/LI><br \/>\n<\/UL><br \/>\nWhat did we do over the weekend?&nbsp; Well, you know, Christmas stuff.&nbsp; We went and exchanged gifts with the Munkirs over lunch at the Blue Moose on&#8230; Friday was it?&nbsp; Holy smokes, my days are all messed up.&nbsp; Couldn&#8217;t have been Saturday because I was doing Christmas stuff all that day, and it couldn&#8217;t have been Sunday because I watched football all day&#8230; Yeah, musta been Friday.&nbsp; Saturday I got up at the crack of 11:00 and drove up to Mom&#8217;s house.&nbsp; We aren&#8217;t having &#8220;Kenagy Christmas&#8221; until this Thursday, but I figured I better get up there anyway.&nbsp; This worked out very nicely because all her neighbors had brought over all kinds of food, which I gorged myself on.&nbsp; After a few hours of visiting, I had to run back home and fry a turkey for the &#8220;Morelock Christmas.&#8221;&nbsp; Since they also had ham and brisket, I&#8217;m not sure we really needed a turkey too, but I like frying them anyway so I wasn&#8217;t asking questions.&nbsp; After dinner we played some game called &#8220;bunko.&#8221;&nbsp; On the surface it seemed like a pretty simple game, but I never really caught onto it.&nbsp; You roll some dice and then everybody takes your money.&nbsp; Sometimes the person to your left takes your money, sometimes the person to your right takes your money; but somebody is always taking your money.&nbsp; Much like every other game I&#8217;ve ever played, I guess&#8230; That&#8217;s why I never play them.<\/p>\n<p>Outside of that, I pretty much hung out with &#8220;The Group&#8221; at the Brooksider and watched football.&nbsp; Those days are over now though; it&#8217;s back to the gym this week baby.&amp;nbsp Ohhhhh yeah.&nbsp; That&#8217;s the plan anyway.&nbsp; Speaking of football&#8230; Barring some total catastrophe in this evenings game, my Fantasy Football team will be in the league Super Bowl next weekend.&nbsp; Given my somewhat embarrassing lack of knowledge about sports, and my well-documented propensity for bad luck, this is really quite a remarkable event.&nbsp; We shall see what happens&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas.&nbsp; I managed to, despite my best efforts.&nbsp; Had a nice little mix of &#8220;traditional&#8221; and &#8220;non-traditional&#8221; celebrations.&nbsp; I won&#8217;t elaborate there, I&#8217;ll just leave that line up for interpretation.&nbsp; The inlaws got me some nice practical things for the house; new blinds and the roller-things you put under your [&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-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","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=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}