{"id":6524,"date":"2018-08-04T20:34:25","date_gmt":"2018-08-05T01:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=6524"},"modified":"2018-08-04T20:34:25","modified_gmt":"2018-08-05T01:34:25","slug":"a-wrench-and-a-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=6524","title":{"rendered":"A wrench and a party"},"content":{"rendered":"

[today’s run: about 7.5 miles\u00a0 (walmart route to first water stop)]<\/p>\n

On today’s run I had a good surprise and a bad surprise.\u00a0 The bad surprise was when I showed up at the advertised time (6:00 AM) and everyone had already gone.\u00a0 The regular summer time had been 5:30, but the text I received said 6:00.\u00a0 Group texting is not reliable.\u00a0 Someone probably responded with a correction but left me off of the list.<\/p>\n

The good surprise was that I found a nice shiny 10mm wrench by the side of the road.<\/p>\n

After the run, the next big event of the day was our Block Party.\u00a0 My neighbor and I had been thinking about this for a couple of months.\u00a0 I sent out invitations.\u00a0 He did the cooking (BBQ).\u00a0 And we had people there from almost every house on our street and from a couple of houses just slightly off of our street (who were relatives and wanted to\u00a0 come).<\/p>\n

His BBQ was pretty good stuff.\u00a0 My home-made ice cream was a flop, it never froze (I think I should have hard-frozen some ice blocks instead of using the soft ice from the convenience store.\u00a0 Whatever it was, I’ll have to practice to get it right before I assume it will work next time.) But!\u00a0 someone else brought ice cream cups and I had a half-gallon as plan B.\u00a0 And someone brought a cake!\u00a0 So we had BBQ (ribs, chicken, hot-links, hot dogs, burgers), baked beans, cole slaw, chips, salsa,\u00a0 fruit,\u00a0 cake, ice cream … seems like I am missing something… we had lots of pop, water, sweet tea and some beer.\u00a0 I think we must have had about 20 people there.<\/p>\n

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