{"id":808,"date":"2010-10-18T08:46:20","date_gmt":"2010-10-18T13:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/?p=808"},"modified":"2010-10-18T08:46:20","modified_gmt":"2010-10-18T13:46:20","slug":"happy-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/happy-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"

It IS<\/strong> Friday right?\u00a0 Please?\u00a0 Well I guess if it’s not, it will be some time.\u00a0 That weekend went by entire too fast, it could still be last<\/em> Friday for all I know.\u00a0 Things started out rather unremarkably;\u00a0 Spent Friday evening down at the Brooksider of all places.\u00a0 Hey, this weather ain’t gonna be around for ever, I feel I need to take advantage of it while it’s here.\u00a0 Nothing of note from down there;\u00a0 The same guys, sitting at the same table, talking about the same things.\u00a0 A routine I am quite comfortable with, I might add.<\/p>\n

Saturday brought another fine day outside.\u00a0 We spent our morning running errands, which took a lot longer than normal with the big marathon going on.\u00a0 I think we drove about 15 miles on the 5 mile trip to Costco.\u00a0 We got everything done though, just took a bit longer.\u00a0 Later in the afternoon we headed over to our friend Ron’s house, AKA “Brooksider North,” for a gathering.\u00a0 (He insists on referring to these events as “gatherings,” as the term “party” would somehow require too much responsibility.)\u00a0 Officially dubbed the Annual Fish Fry, it’s morphed into a more diverse buffet over the last few years, presumably because nobody wants to go catch and clean a bunch of fish.\u00a0 (I know I don’t.)\u00a0 We did fry up some obligatory fillets, but there was also fried chicken, ribs, and two kinds of smoked pork.\u00a0 For our part, we brought the fryer for the fish and threw some hush puppies in the grease too.\u00a0 The pups came out well this year;\u00a0 I just bought a few boxes of mix and then stirred in a few “extras.”\u00a0 Much better than the home-made route, and easier to boot.<\/p>\n

Sunday we got out of our routine a bit.\u00a0 Niece Dee was having some kind of BBQ at her dormitory in Columbia and needed a cooker, so she’d called a few weeks back to see what we could come up with.\u00a0 Details were a bit…\u00a0 “sketchy” around the event, but we borrowed our friend Troy’s cooker and headed up there early Sunday morning.\u00a0 It was a good time;\u00a0 Our responsibility pretty much consisted of starting the fire and then sitting in lawn chairs enjoying the weather.\u00a0 Never did really figure out what the party was for but that’s OK;\u00a0 Something to do with Homecoming I think.\u00a0 They set up a bunch of games and decorations and food, all of which was judged around 4:00.\u00a0 (I’m not even sure what the judging criteria was, but they seemed pleased with the event so that’s good…)\u00a0 The grill served admirably;\u00a0 Dee and a few friends churned out some serious burgers and dogs on it.\u00a0 I was rather surprised (shocked?\u00a0 scared?\u00a0 disturbed?) at the amount of food they went through.\u00a0 Final damage was 160 hamburgers, and at least that many hot dogs.\u00a0 And there were only like 35 people there.\u00a0 (OK maybe a few more than that.)\u00a0 You definitely wanted to pull your fingers back quickly when setting down a pan of food, or they would end up on a bun with relish and mustard.\u00a0 We spent the whole afternoon down there;\u00a0 By the time we got the cooker cooled down enough to pull it was around 6:00.\u00a0 A few hours driving back to KC, then add another hour for me to finally get it backed in the driveway when we got home, (180th time is a charm) and it was bedtime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It IS Friday right?\u00a0 Please?\u00a0 Well I guess if it’s not, it will be some time.\u00a0 That weekend went by entire too fast, it could still be last Friday for all I know.\u00a0 Things started out rather unremarkably;\u00a0 Spent Friday evening down at the Brooksider of all places.\u00a0 Hey, this weather ain’t gonna be around […]<\/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-808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808","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=808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}