OK, the new site is officially online, albeit in something of a beta status.  There are still a few tweaks pending.  As you likely have not noticed, the recipe section is missing.  That’s because I can’t decide how to lay it out, not to mention nobody uses it anyway.  That’s probably in the “long range” category.  I haven’t moved any of the old pictures over either, and I’m not too sure I plan on it.  I am not sure I like this WordPress thingy either, which is running the Current Events page.  It uses an SQL database, which seems to be a bit taxing on my poor little 133 Mhz processor.  Hence the ~6 second lag when you hit this page.  At any rate, everything seems to be functional, so I’m happy with it for now.  Thanks again to Ed for all the help with the layout and other random issues that cropped up.

Wow, we had a relatively busy weekend.  We started off Friday with our usual meet-and-greet at the Brooksider.  We spent a few hours there, and then our friend David met up with us.  He was on a driving trip from Chicago to Albuquerque, so he took a little layover to visit us.  For the most part we just sat around and caught up on news, and enjoyed the El Pinto salsa he brought us.

Saturday we started things off by laying down a good base of grub down at Sharp’s in Brookside.  David needed some carbs to continue his drive, you know.  I’ll have to say, I’ve been kind of down on ol’ Sharp’s lately, but they served up a good breakfast Saturday.  Might have to put them back in the rotation.  Todd joined us for breakfast too, and after feeding we took off to the dreaded Johnson County to watch Ed’s hockey game.  We finally found the place in time to watch about the last 10 or 15 minutes of the game, after wandering aimlessly up and down 135th street for at least an hour.  Most of this hour was spent either sitting at one of the thousands of unsync’d traffic lights, or trying to get around the idiot KS drivers who seem to revel in going 10 mph under the speed limit.  Mark my words, I will never, ever, ever, ever go down that street again, no matter what the occasion.  MISERABLE.  After the hockey game, we hightailed it back across the state line and hit the Red X to do some shopping for Todd’s big party on Sunday.  All that driving wore me out, so I sorta hunkered down at my computer for the rest of the day.  Doni and I hit Carmen’s in Brookside for dinner, and then watched Mr. & Mrs. Smith for evening entertainment.  (Thumbs down on the movie.)

We kicked off Sunday by participating in the annual Trolley Run.  Although I was fully prepared to skip the event, Doni surprised me by actually wanting to get up and go.  Personally I was kind of counting on a rain cancellation, but what the heck.  Kevin B. had hooked everybody up with entries from Capitol Electric, so we already had the shirts and everything ready to go.  (Which is the most important part of any run, bike ride, etc.)  As I mentioned, I was taken off guard somewhat when Doni got up and made the “go” call on the race.  I was even more surprised when she took off jogging right from the start.  We had signed up to WALK, and believe me I had every intention of doing just that.  Not to be shown up though, Martin and I gamely joined in the trot.  At least I was wearing some semblance of running clothes; Martin was wearing khaki cargo shorts.  Anyway, to make a long, arduous, painful, agonizing story short, we actually jogged “most” of the four miles.  Rather remarkable actually, considering my last jog of any note was last year’s Trolley Run.  While it is possible that I may be in moderate to severe pain for the next few days, it was rather enjoyable.  After the run, we all met up at Todd’s for his post-race fiesta.  We undid any possible healthy effects of the run with some mimosas, muffins, and the James-Family-Recipe breakfast casserole that Todd’s Mom brought.  We were having a festive good time, but eventually the run took it’s toll and I had to go home and take a nap.  After a solid sleep, we had our usual Soprano’s gathering.  We had a little larger crowd than usual; Bruce, the Martin’s, Susan, and Todd all came over.  We had a little spaghetti, watched the show, and called it a week.

Well, I actually had what I thought to be a much better post put together earlier, but when I hit “save” it disappeared into WordPress never-never land.  Sigh.  Learning curve I guess.  If this one gets eaten too there is a good chance I shall (literally) throw the whole thing out the window and go back to Blogger.