Wow, I am even more challenged than usual for material this week.  We just never really got out of the gate.  I’d blame the weather but it really wasn’t that bad.  Just lazy I guess.  Friday was “OK” on the amusement scale, or at least as good as it got.  Donette came down and picked me up from work and we went to happy hour at The Flying Saucer, which is high on our list of “places we like but never go to.”  We only stayed about an hour, (hence the phrase “happy hour“) and then headed home for some dinner.  We’ve been on sort of a ‘fridge cleaning project lately, and as such have ended up with some… errr… unusual dishes as a result.  Case in point, Friday evening was “fried rice with smoked baby-back ribs.”  Bet you don’t find that on any local Chinese restaurant menus.  Hey, you throw enough garlic and hot sauce in anything and it comes out about the same anyway.  After that we went our separate ways for the rest of the evening;  Her to the downstairs (Wii) television, and me to the upstairs (PS-3) television.  I got some new PS-3 toys last week and have been busy playing around with them.  I got a second game, and an HDMI switch and associated cables.  The HDMI set up is SWEET.  I had no idea a simple cable could make so much difference.  Wow, it’s like a totally different game.  If you have a PS-3 and are still using the cables that came with it, stop whatever you are doing, run to the store, and buy new ones.  Now.  I didn’t get a whole lot of game-time in though, as I fell asleep on the couch at 8:00.  That’s become something of a habit lately, which I’m actively working on fixing but not having a lot of luck.  “Old Man Syndrome,” I think.  Asleep at 8:00, up at 3:00.  What can ya’ do.

I am tempted to just skip Saturday and move right on to Sunday, but in the interest of thoroughness I’ll throw a few sentences in.  We kicked off the day with our usual morning hobby of late, the crossword puzzle.  Now there’s some wholesome bonding for you.  After that, we literally spent the rest of the day 5 feet from each other, me on the laptop and her on the desktop, playing online games against each other.  All…  Day… Long.  Wow.  Oh well, it was an oddly engaging afternoon.  I did step out of the house for a little bit and took Gabe on a nice long walk.  We got about 2 miles in.  Our usual trail was still a little soupy with all the melt-off, so we walked in the grass the whole way.  I mention that not because it is of any interest what so ever, only to make this paragraph a bit longer.  After our stroll, it was back to the computer games until dinner rolled around.  Donette made some pizzas, again following the theme of “clean out the ‘fridge.”  I ended up with one topped with chicken, sundried tomatoes, and mushrooms, and she had canadian bacon with pineapple.  After that it was off to our respective TV’s to waste the remainder of the day with our amusements of choice.

Sunday was only marginally more entertaining than Saturday.  As a matter of fact, Donette actually completed the entire weekend without ever stepping foot out the front door.  Not to get the paper, the mail, walk around the block…  Nothing.  Rather impressive, really.  Not that I was too far behind her.  I did go to the shootin’ range for a while with Mark, and burned through a few boxes of ammo.  After that I went back home and cleaned the guns, and then we talked about going out to dinner.  After deciding against dinner, we talked about going to the Brooksider to watch the football games.  After deciding against that, we resumed playing online games against each other while watching the football games at home.  Sigh.  I blame the economy.  I guess with all the money we saved staying home this weekend we can afford to do absolutely nothing next weekend also.