Easy like Sunday afternoon

The weekend that was (mostly)

Pretty good weekend here, it felt long, which is a good thing. Too often weekends go by in the blink of an eye...

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Friday I worked until closing time, even though I hoped to be in a bar stool by 4 p.m. (Grandma volunteered to pick up both kids.)

Adrianne had a co-worker's retirement party that I might or might not be invited to (turns out I was invited) at Johnny's West. So I drove over to Rick Younger's house first (owner of Rick's Place) and dropped off my new cover story for his review. From there, on to Johnny's West.

Nice party. Lots of familiar faces. Mostly friendly faces. The memory book created for Penny was phenomenal. And Lisa and Laura sent me some of the photos from the memory book, including one of John Wake that about broke my heart.

(How often do you see a new image of your friend who passed away 12 years ago? Damn.)

I'll post all those photos here, soon.

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Saturday morning we had another Leprechaun basketball game. Evey had a nice little game... a few rebounds, and some good defense. For a few possessions, I actually had her guarding the other team's best player. Her length bothered him, she did a nice job.

We won handily, again. It's shaping up to be the best season of our short Eudora Rec career.

From there we went to breakfast at the Cosmic Ale House in Eudora. It was the previous home of the Funky Monkey. The folks who owned the Black Cat Cafe closed that spot down, and reopened with a new name/theme here.

The new name was a nice touch for me, as I hate cats, especially unlucky black cats. They all make me sneeze, but I really don't want to worry about the unlucky ones when I'm eating...

Great breakfast! Good stuff.

Saturday afternoon Evey was invited over to her friend Adira's house for a sleepover. Adrianne, Boyd and me just chilled. Boyd went to bed early, for once. I rented Sex Tape with Cameron Diaz, to watch that evening. I laughed a few times, but overall, it was so stupid I gave up on it (Adro fell asleep on it.)

Snickers was a good dog.

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Sunday, no hoops, so I actually went to church with the family.

From there, back to COSMIC for another breakfast, which was as good for me on day two, but disappointing for Adro.

The kids went to the library with Judy afterwards. Adrianne went shopping (and bought all sorts of awesome stuff, at a super-reasonable price. Mostly groceries, I think, but there may have been a monkey's paw in there, or perhaps a disco ball.)

I worked, and pretty much wrapped up the new issue of Golfdom, including my column and the cover story.

I called Rick, and he approved of my new cover story. I respect his opinion, so that makes me happy.

A healthy dinner, then bedtime for the kids and Adro. A good thing, because Evey's lack of sleep had her behaving badly (grumpy/attitude) and Boyd seems to be getting sick.

I think we'll all be ready for Monday morning, after a solid weekend. We'll see, in a few hours... 

Big win vs. the 'Clones

Nice win last night versus the Cyclones... love where that puts us in the Big 12 race. And OU beating West Virginia tonight... another bonus.

Wayne Selden Jr. was killing me in the first half. Then he got red hot in the second half. Glad Bill didn't bench him!

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Boyd will randomly tell us, "I love you, too." We've almost gotten used to it, but at first it felt sarcastic. You know... "Yeah... I love you, too."

But it's just his way of saying it.

This whole section probably doesn't make sense. Oh, well.

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Evey is devouring books lately. She is into this series, like that "Dracula doesn't drink lemonade" book I posted the other day. She's reading about a book and a half an evening!

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Finally finished a cover story that had been looming over my head for over a week. Nice to have that off my plate. I'm OK with it right now... it isn't my best cover story, but it has some good parts.

It'll be out here in two weeks. Subscribe to the digital version of Golfdom at Golfdom.com!

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Happy birthday to Mark today!

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Boyd refuses to go to bed on time. Bedtime around here is a nightmare lately. It's just a stage...

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Watched the Super Bowl here at the house with the family. Adrianne picked up Pizza Hut. I drank a bunch of the porters off my keg (Ashtray Black.)

It was a low key Super Bowl, but it was nice. Crazy ending, huh?