I think I woke up on the proverbial wrong side of the bed.  There is no good reason for this, it just happens sometimes I suppose, and most commonly on Mondays.  What can ya’ do.  I shall type up an obligatory update anyway.

So, beginning with Friday:  You guessed it, an afternoon at my favorite local haunt.  By all rights I should have just gone home, given the weather.  I sort of look forward to it through the week though, and I didn’t want to start my weekend off on the wrong foot.  So, I headed down and took up a perch in the “duck blind” with several other guys.  That’s the small, covered part of the patio attached to the back of the building, which gave us a bit of respite from the drenching rain.  Our excitement for the evening?  Well, we were sitting there rehashing the weeks woes when we saw a big freaking rat about the size of Kane go slogging through the water.  Eww.  We promptly procured some chips and went about chumming for him, and then trying to crack him with a piece of firewood when he’d come out.  Ahhhh, good clean fun.  (Nobody had good enough aim to bag him though, rats.  HA HA HA, get it, “rats.”  Oh boy.)

Saturday I don’t much recall what I did.  I hit the gym around noon and spent a good amount of time there.  Given the wonderful weather, I’m sure I did something incredibly fun and exciting after that, but the details escape me.  After I got done doing whatever it was, I went and watched basketball games and bad horror movies on the couch.  Donette, meanwhile, was up north at a slumber party with a bunch of hens.  Not exactly as fun as chucking firewood at a rat, but every day can’t be that exciting I guess.

Sunday I mowed the yard.  Woo hoo.  The second mowing of the season, and it was way too tall.  I expect I’ll be cutting it again Wednesday if I am to keep up with it.  Sigh.  After that I headed out for a little spin on the bicycle.  To mix things up a bit, I headed straight north up Main and kept going until I hit the river.  Nice ride I think;  Got a few good hills mixed in and as long as you watch out for potholes the pavement is pretty good.  After that I decided to head down and watch the late basketball game at the Brooksider.  Wow, nice day.  I elected to sit at a table in the sun, which was too bright to really see the TV’s, but I was pretty neutral as far as the game went anyway.  After a liberal dose of rays, we headed home for some dinner.  Fired up the grill for the first time this year and had some good burgers.