Bad time to depend on a scooter for everyday transportation.\u00a0 I even get sweaty on the way in to work at 6:30 in the morning.\u00a0 It’s tempting to go back to riding the bus every day, as they manage to keep it at a constant 42 degrees on there, but then there is the walk to the bus stop to consider.\u00a0 Oh well;\u00a0 July in KC, deal with it I guess.<\/p>\n
That was a pretty fine weekend, especially considering it was my oncall weekend.\u00a0 I never expect too much of those, so if I squeak in any fun at all it’s a bonus.\u00a0 Friday some friends were in from out of town, so that occupied our day.\u00a0 (Well, that and work.)\u00a0 One of my “Old Army Buddies” Scott & his wife Trish were visiting from the fine town of Wolbach, NE<\/a>.\u00a0 They were on a semi-business, semi-fun trip, so we tried to help out with the fun part.\u00a0 Donette showed them around all day, I can’t remember where all they went.\u00a0 I did get to meet them for lunch at Arthur Bryant’s<\/a>, which was definitely a solid pick on the wife’s part.\u00a0 That’s one of the bonus’ of seeing people from out of town;\u00a0 We tend to take them to places we know are good but for whatever reason we never go to.\u00a0 I hadn’t been to Bryant’s forever.\u00a0 Had an awesome brisket sandwich, made for a bit of a long afternoon though.\u00a0 I swear it had a full pound of beef on it, if not more.\u00a0 I met up with them again at the Peanut (Main Street location) after work.\u00a0 From there it was off to the Brooksider to relax for a while.\u00a0 Smart money would have called it an evening at that point, but I had other ideas.\u00a0 I decided to drag everybody down to Grinders<\/a> to see what was going on.\u00a0 They had some music out in the open area, and we ended up staying much too late.\u00a0 The Zeros<\/a> and a band called “Sellout<\/a>” were playing.\u00a0 The Zeros I’ve heard of plenty;\u00a0 I generally associate them with ruining my evening at the Brooksider.\u00a0 Not to say they’re bad or anything,\u00a0 I just don’t go there to listen to music.\u00a0 Get those crazy kids in there listening to their loud music and I can’t even hear the televisions.\u00a0 Bah.\u00a0 I wasn’t familiar with Sellout at all though, and they were pretty entertaining, especially outside on a relatively decent evening.<\/p>\n Saturday we slept in, a rather remarkable event in itself.\u00a0 Well, for one of us anyway.\u00a0 If not for the fact that we were supposed to meet Scott & Trish for lunch I may well have slept until noon.\u00a0 But, we had plans, so I rather reluctantly drug myself out of bed and headed out.\u00a0 We decided on the Power & Light district for lunch, then further narrowed it down to the Flying Saucer<\/a>.\u00a0 We all decided on hamburgers;\u00a0 Bad decision.\u00a0 I will go on record as labeling this the worst hamburger in KC.\u00a0 Our guests claimed to like them, but I have to think they were just being nice.\u00a0 Maybe it was just a bad day in the kitchen…\u00a0 I’ll never know because I will never risk ordering another one.\u00a0 Note to self:\u00a0 “Stick to the soft pretzels at the Saucer.”\u00a0 We killed the rest of the afternoon in random fashion, then for dinner headed up to Donette’s parents.\u00a0 After that burger I needed some good food, and this trip filled the bill.\u00a0 Fried chicken & Smokehouse BBQ<\/a>, yum.\u00a0 And, for a bonus, a homemade coconut creme pie that may well have been the best I’ve ever had.\u00a0 (If maybe not the best for my ever-expanding gut.)<\/p>\n Sunday started off strong.\u00a0 Got up and went on a 35-mile bike ride with Munkirs.\u00a0 We seem to be stuck at the 35-mile mark for whatever reason;\u00a0 Gonna have to man up and bump the mileage at some point.\u00a0 I think we’re up for a longer ride, as far as our “conditioning” goes.\u00a0 (I put that in quotes because I’m not sure “conditioned” would describe my current health status.)\u00a0 But, it takes around two hours to go 35 miles and I think that’s about the limit of my attention span.\u00a0 Not sure what to do about that;\u00a0 Maybe hire a traveling circus to ride alongside and entertain me or something.\u00a0 After our ride I headed down to the Brooksider with intentions of having some lunch and watching the Royals game.\u00a0 Alas, the game was blacked out.\u00a0 What is up with that?\u00a0 Literally threw my whole day out of whack.\u00a0 I did have a tasty sandwich, which took care of the lunch part of my plan, but didn’t want to sit there watching bowling all day so I went back home and listened to the game on mlb.com.\u00a0 After that I pretty much wasted the rest of the day.\u00a0 Luckily Donette brought me four new PS-3 games home from her shopping trip, that effectively killed the rest of my evening.\u00a0 I spent a few hours puzzling over Madden NFL.\u00a0 Wow, that game is a far cry from the last electronic football game I played.\u00a0 (Being the hand-held with the little red dots flashing on it;\u00a0 Amazing technology at the time.)\u00a0 There’s almost too much going on for my old mind to process, and definitely too many buttons to keep track of.\u00a0 It’s very entertaining though, as long as I keep things on the “beginner” setting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Bad time to depend on a scooter for everyday 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