I have a day off again, whoopie.\u00a0 No such thing as too many days off.\u00a0 How I shall spend it remains to be seen.\u00a0 I haven’t ruled out heading to the Brooksider and watching the basketball games this afternoon.\u00a0 Anybody in for that?\u00a0 Anyone, anyone?<\/p>\n
That was a reasonably entertaining weekend;\u00a0 Much more so than I had anticipated, that’s for sure.\u00a0 Given our lingering fiscal crisis I had fully expected to spend my time sitting in front of the TV.\u00a0 Donette’s nephew Jeremy was in town though, so we met him down at the Brooksider Friday night.\u00a0 And I do mean Friday “night<\/strong>“;\u00a0 We didn’t even head down there until <gasp> 6:30.\u00a0 Stayed pretty late for us too.\u00a0 Matter of fact it was so late that after we left we couldn’t find any dinner, everywhere was closed.\u00a0 So, we headed back home and dug through the cabinets.\u00a0 The pantry is pretty bare, as we still haven’t re-stocked from our recent vacation, but we did manage to find a dusty can of Skyline Chili<\/a> in the back of a cabinet.\u00a0 Yummy.<\/p>\n Saturday Martin gave me a call, apparently suffering from the winter boredom syndrome as much as myself.\u00a0 He suggested spending the day stirring a pot of gumbo<\/a>, which sounded as good as anything else I had planned.\u00a0 So, I trekked up to the Northlands, and that indeed is how we spent our day.\u00a0 I took my propane cooker up there and we set up in the garage, which was tolerably warm.\u00a0 As for the gumbo, it came out pretty well.\u00a0 At least I guess it did, I left it all there.\u00a0 It was too hot and too huge to deal with that night so we decided to just portion it out later.\u00a0 It had taken on a life of it’s own by the time we finished randomly adding stuff.\u00a0 I’m estimating the final amount at 5 gallons.\u00a0 I have no idea what the two of us are going to do with that much gumbo but we’ll figure something out.<\/p>\n Sunday I headed up to Mom’s for some “chores.”\u00a0 Sheesh, I ran through two week’s worth of gasoline between the North & South trips this weekend.\u00a0 I will admit I haven’t been that direction in a while though, guess I was due.\u00a0 She had all kinds of difficult home maintenance items lined up waiting for me, like changing the light bulb in the kitchen.\u00a0 Oh, sure, that sounds funny until I mention it took me three times before I got it right.\u00a0 It was a special<\/em> light bulb, see.\u00a0 My handy-man skills are kind of “special” too, that might have contributed to the difficulties.\u00a0 I stayed up there for a few hours, then headed back home and watched the 3:30 football game.\u00a0 I wasn’t particularly interested in the outcome, but it provided a means to kill the rest of the afternoon.\u00a0 For my evening diversion I watched “Murder in the First<\/a>“, which wasn’t too bad.\u00a0 Can’t go wrong with Kevin Bacon, as a rule.<\/p>\n Edit – Spent my morning trying to figure out my video editing software, with moderate success.\u00a0 Now I need to figure out how to get it on here.
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