An abbreviated posting is in order, as I have the day off and I don’t want to spend it frivolously on my computer.\u00a0 I’m thinking maybe on the couch watching movies or something exciting like that.\u00a0 Hey, it’s raining, what else can I do.\u00a0 Plus the paper put me at a two-star day so I better not push my luck.<\/p>\n
Good weekend, all in all.\u00a0 Friday, believe it or not, we stopped by the Brooksider.\u00a0 Our best intention was to wish our friend Jerry a happy birthday, then get on home.\u00a0 It didn’t work out exactly as planned, but that’s the way it goes.\u00a0 Jerry wasn’t even there, but Martin & Brice were, so I ended up staying much later than I meant to.\u00a0 Then, our friend Brooke made an unannounced visit to KC and dropped by the ‘Sider, and we stayed much much<\/em> later than planned.\u00a0 It happens.<\/p>\n Saturday I starting paying the price of my unscheduled later nighter when the alarm went off at 5:00.\u00a0 Munkirs was picking me at 6:00 to drive out to Independence for a bike ride.\u00a0 No, this wasn’t a last-second event, we’d been planning it all week.\u00a0 I was well aware of the plans when I stayed out Friday night, it was just an exercise in poor judgement.\u00a0 Anyway, I managed to drag my carcass out of bed, get some breakfast in me, and for the most part be ready when my ride showed up.\u00a0 Martin met us out there, and we all three were actually in relatively good shape by the time the ride started.\u00a0 (They had coffee and donuts on site;\u00a0 Probably a life-saver.)\u00a0 The ride was a cancer benefit called “Freedom Ride<\/a>.”\u00a0 We opted for the 40 mile<\/a> route.\u00a0 I’m confident we could have survived the listed 50 mile ride, but it wasn’t an option listed when we got there.\u00a0 It jumped from 40 to 70, which sounded a bit optimistic.\u00a0 The forty turned out great though, it was really a good route.\u00a0 I haven’t gotten to ride on any open roads in a long time.\u00a0 Everything around here is all stop signs every two blocks or so;\u00a0 Gets pretty old.\u00a0 This was just long stretches of uninterrupted riding, much nicer.\u00a0 The only downside was a few listed “rolling hills.”\u00a0 I wasn’t aware they had mountains in Independence;\u00a0 Now I know better.\u00a0 After that nice bit of exercise, I got home to find Donette getting ready for the pool.\u00a0 Sounded good to me, so I joined her for an afternoon of lethargy.\u00a0 We got rained out around 5:00, so we headed over to a nearby friend’s house for bit, then home to watch the Royals game.<\/p>\n We took it easy on the holiday.\u00a0 Just don’t celebrate the Fourth like I used to.\u00a0 We puttered around the house all day doing a little cooking, and that was about it.\u00a0 My Uncle Roy & Aunt Joyce stopped by for a nice little visit, so we got to catch up with them.\u00a0 Then, around 3:30 or so we headed over to our friend Ronnie’s house for a “gathering.”\u00a0 (He didn’t want to have a “party” due to the work involved with that, so we all agreed on the term “gathering,” with the understanding “You want it, you bring it.”)\u00a0 It was a fine gathering, indeed.\u00a0 He’s got a huge front porch, so about 15 of us just sat outside and enjoyed the relatively decent weather and some good food.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An abbreviated posting is in order, as I have the day off and I don’t want to spend it frivolously on my computer.\u00a0 I’m thinking maybe on the couch watching movies or something exciting like that.\u00a0 Hey, it’s raining, what else can I do.\u00a0 Plus the paper put me at a two-star day so I […]<\/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-678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678","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=678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}