Not a bad weekend, all in all.\u00a0 Didn’t accomplish everything we had planned, or even a significant part of it, but then again I don’t know why we would start now.\u00a0 Friday I hit happy hour down at the Brooksider, good and early so I could see everybody.\u00a0 I made the social rounds down there, then Donette picked me up for a fancy dinner out on the town.\u00a0 Our high-end restaurant of choice this week was the DQ at 85th & Wornall.\u00a0 (Yes, as in “Dairy Queen.”)\u00a0 They do a promotion every now and then where Donette’s school gets a percentage of the proceeds from food sales, so we were obligated to do our part.\u00a0 Anything for the children, that’s our motto.\u00a0 It was quite good as a matter of fact.\u00a0 I sorta like DQ’s, at least the once a year I go there.\u00a0 Had a very tasty burger and fries, and an obligatory strawberry shake for dessert.\u00a0 I didn’t want to order the biggest burger and shake on the menu, but since the children would benefit more from my gluttony I did what I had to.<\/p>\n
Saturday was sort of a bust.\u00a0 Disappointing because I was looking forward to it, too.\u00a0 We kicked off the day judging a BBQ competition out in Blue Springs.\u00a0 We showed up at the judging tent at 10:30, got settled in and commenced to feeding.\u00a0 We did this event last year too, and it was so good we were both looking forward to it again.\u00a0 This year was pretty much a let-down I would say.\u00a0 But for one lonely pork entry, everything I tried was, to put it nicely, “not good.”\u00a0 Donette reported her table was no better.\u00a0 I don’t know what the deal was, maybe the rain storms Friday night gave everybody trouble?\u00a0 I have never (in my admittedly limited judging experience) given out scores that low.\u00a0 Blech.\u00a0 It wasn’t just us either, all the people at our tables were under-whelmed.\u00a0 We were out there until about 2:30.\u00a0 After that we were going to head down to the Power & Light, where the Flying Saucer was putting on a big outdoor festival.\u00a0 Alas, the twenty servings of sketchy bbq had left us both feeling somewhat less than festive.\u00a0 We rolled back home to try and nap it off, but never recovered enough to even consider going out again.\u00a0 Blech, it’s making me a bit queasy thinking about it still.<\/p>\n
Sunday I woke up feeling marginally recovered, and headed out on a bike ride with Munkirs.\u00a0 He had the admittedly novel idea of combining our Tuesday night and Thursday night routes, which worked out very nicely.\u00a0 We left from my house and wound out kind of southwest, and as luck would have it we were very near his house at the half-way point.\u00a0 We stopped by his house to get some water, and Janine had made us some hot pancakes and PBJ sandwiches.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (Or maybe it was just the water…\u00a0 I can’t remember.)\u00a0 From there we headed back to my house, ending up right at 40 miles.\u00a0 Good route, I hope we can remember it for future rides.\u00a0 After the cycling Donette and I walked around the corner to our newly opened local breakfast place.\u00a0 I can’t even remember the name of it.\u00a0 Somebody or another’s Diner.\u00a0 Mixed review on that place.\u00a0 The food, when we finally got it, was actually very good.\u00a0 I am going to guess conservatively we waited 45 minutes from ordering for it to show up though.\u00a0 It was pretty apparent that everybody in the place was in the same situation too.\u00a0 There’s only 15 tables in the whole place;\u00a0 I never really figured out what the issues were.\u00a0 For amusement while we waited, we watched the waitresses running around.\u00a0 Nobody was getting any service, but it certainly wasn’t for a lack of motion.\u00a0 All the staff was running around like crazy, they just didn’t really seem to be getting anything done.\u00a0 By the time we finally got done eating breakfast, it was time for the football games.\u00a0 Given the outstanding weather, I headed down to the Brooksider to watch the TV’s out on the back deck.\u00a0 Had a good time of it, I stayed through the 3:00 games too.\u00a0 By the time I got home Donette had headed out to Starlight with Kelly to watch Rain.\u00a0 That left me to lay on the couch and watch the last football game of the day;\u00a0 Fine ending to the weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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