{"id":667,"date":"2010-06-28T09:38:48","date_gmt":"2010-06-28T14:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/?p=667"},"modified":"2010-06-28T09:48:24","modified_gmt":"2010-06-28T14:48:24","slug":"back-to-the-3-day-weekends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/back-to-the-3-day-weekends\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to the 3-day Weekends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ahhh, another 3-day weekend.\u00a0 I just don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m really cut out for a 5-day work week.\u00a0 Four is more than enough.\u00a0 I had Friday off courtesy of my oncall week.\u00a0 It was earned too, geez.\u00a0 Oncall is a young man&#8217;s game, I tell you.\u00a0 Once again, I&#8217;m having a little trouble recalling exactly what we did that far back.\u00a0 Maybe I need to start taking notes or something.\u00a0 I took the motorcycle up the street to get re-inspected.\u00a0 My tags are expired, as Officer Friendly reminded me on the way home a few weeks ago.\u00a0 He also reminded me that there is a speed limit on Main Street, and it is not mach II, a fact I was previously unaware of.\u00a0 After that we went and hung out at the pool for several hours until the heat drove us out.\u00a0 Wow, it was hot.\u00a0 Still June and the pool water is hot already.\u00a0 Dang global warming.\u00a0 After that details are kind of sketchy.\u00a0 Donette went to the baseball game with our friend Katie.\u00a0 As for me, well I did something remarkably fun and exciting, I just can&#8217;t remember what.\u00a0 I think I sat on the couch and watched TV.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday didn&#8217;t develop quite as planned.\u00a0 I had intended to waste my day on the back porch smoking a brisket.\u00a0 I goofed around all morning and finally threw it on around 10:30.\u00a0 About that time, Donette reminded me we had a wedding to go to at 4:30.\u00a0 Dang it!\u00a0 This left me in brisket limbo;\u00a0 Too late to take it off and save it for another time, and not enough time to get it cooked.\u00a0 I ended up cooking it for 6 hours and then foiling it up and leaving it on the smoker.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t know if it got done or not, haven&#8217;t even sliced it yet.\u00a0 It was a failed experiment at any rate;\u00a0 My goal was to cook it without using any foil but that didn&#8217;t work out.\u00a0 What can ya&#8217; 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