{"id":77,"date":"2005-03-21T11:48:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-21T16:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/?p=77"},"modified":"2005-03-21T11:48:00","modified_gmt":"2005-03-21T16:48:00","slug":"25-days-till-float-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/25-days-till-float-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"2.5 days &#8217;till FLOAT TRIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s right kiddies, the count-down has begun in earnest.&nbsp; Some light packing has begun, some groceries have been purchased, and the trip-plan is being composed.&nbsp; The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weather.com\/activities\/other\/other\/weather\/tenday.html?locid=USMO0128\">weather forecast<\/a> looks a bit foreboding, but we&#8217;ll have to take what we get.&nbsp; I borrowed the in-law&#8217;s vacuum-packer-thing for the food, and it&#8217;s working out famously.&nbsp; I vacuum-sealed the steaks, the danishes, some salad, and a few random household items that were within reach.&nbsp; I gotta get one of those things.&nbsp; Doni got a little nervous when I started calling the cat.<\/p>\n<p>Well the weekend was relatively uneventful, but that&#8217;s how I like &#8217;em.&nbsp; I headed to the Brooksider on Friday after work and watched the basketball games, and then got up Saturday and went back for some more.&nbsp; I sat down there for about 5 hours, and then the Munkirs&#8217; came over and we went to dinner at Carmen&#8217;s, under the guise of a &#8220;Float Trip Planning&#8221; meeting.&nbsp; I wonder if that&#8217;s tax deductible as some kind of business expense&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Sunday morning was the typical &#8220;relaxation&#8221; period.&nbsp; I worked late Saturday night so we slept in a bit, then had our ritual 3-hour &#8220;coffee and newspaper&#8221; event.&nbsp; After that I drove out to Mom&#8217;s to do a few light chores, and that more-or-less wrapped up the weekend.&nbsp; I&#8217;m about 80 percent sure we did something fun later on Sunday but I can&#8217;t remember what it was.&nbsp; (Besides the vacuum-seal-athon, that did take a while.)<\/p>\n<p>Now it&#8217;s Monday, and I&#8217;m sitting at my desk facing the harsh reality of work without free popcorn.&nbsp; Not good.&nbsp; It would be an enormous quality of life upgrade if they had that machine here all the time.&nbsp; Perhaps I&#8217;ll put that in the suggestion box.&nbsp; At least it&#8217;s a short week.&nbsp; I&#8217;m still working on posting the Mexico pics, but I can guarantee it won&#8217;t be until at least next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s right kiddies, the count-down has begun in earnest.&nbsp; Some light packing has begun, some groceries have been purchased, and the trip-plan is being composed.&nbsp; The weather forecast looks a bit foreboding, but we&#8217;ll have to take what we get.&nbsp; I borrowed the in-law&#8217;s vacuum-packer-thing for the food, and it&#8217;s working out famously.&nbsp; I vacuum-sealed [&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-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","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=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}