I’m shooting for an on-time post this week!  Gotta set your goals high.  Since I didn’t really do anything all weekend, that should be pretty attainable.  Case in point, Friday night Donette went to a play with friends, so I sat home on the couch and watched the Royals game.  Boring, but not as boring as that event usually is.  It helped immensely that A) the weather was finally nice enough to watch the game on the back patio, and B) it was a quite exciting game for once.  (At least the ending.)  It was sort of the perfect crime too:  The weird water-break issue thing flooding the outfield caused just enough of a delay to keep me up until a respectable time, so I could actually say I was up past 9:00 on a Friday.

Saturday, I’m not too sure what we did all day, but it led up to an eventual epic dinner.  We went over to a friend’s house in the neighborhood and threw a 3+ lb tomahawk steak on the grill.  Now that was a hunk of steak.  It took at least 30 minutes to get it cooked.  We threw on some shrimp & scallops to go with it, and a few potatoes and salad just for looks.  Great dinner.  Any minor quibbles?  Oh, but of course.  I will say, I’ve caved to the whole gas grill scene.  I use mine 90% of the time I cook outside.  But for a nice steak, I have to say I still prefer a charcoal grill.  We tried the “smoke bomb” technique on his grill, but I couldn’t really detect any smoke flavor at all.  I have been wanting to try them though…  And now I can say I have.  The steak was delicious all the same.

Sunday, as the case has been of late, I sat around and waited for work, which is generally at 6:00 in the evening.  I occupied my time fiddling with my new DVR set up, which is going quite nicely.  I am pretty sure I’ve rambled about this before, but the current status of our TV entertainment is an antenna hooked up to pull local channels.  It works fine, gets everything I need.  I added the Plex Pass recently for the reasonable cost of $3 a month, and that gives me recording ability.  I had about 15 episodes of Gunsmoke queued up so that passed the time nicely.  My work went as well as could be expected.  (I think I can safely say that now without jinxing myself.)  So well, in fact, that there was still enough time in the day left for dinner.  After a brief consultation among some amigos, we decided on the recently opened Boulevard 41 just around the corner from us.  So recent that they were only sorta-kinda-almost open actually.  They’ve still got some kinks to work out, but our pizza was very good and I guess that’s all that really matters.  They also brought us out a few plates of complimentary appetizers to try, all of which were excellent.  (I think they noticed my ample belly and profiled me as a potential high-value customer.)