Paul Ryburn’s Journal

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My trivia team The Rapscallions suffered another narrow loss at the Saucer last night. If we had known that Charlie Brown’s father was a barber, we would have finished in the money. It kills me that I missed that – when I was a kid I collected Peanuts comic books and must have [...]

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As I’ve mentioned a few times, I work at the city school board office in Midtown. Although, I don’t work FOR the city schools; I’m a third-party contractor through a staffing agency. I’ve been there almost five months now and it’s been a pretty good place to work. One of the things [...]

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Here’s a play-by-play look at what I did yesterday:
Drank a bottle of champagne at Sleep Out’s… posted Deal of the Week… played NTN Trivia and broke the 300K mark in Players Plus points… walked to the Flying Saucer… drank a fire sale… discovered the Frenchie pictures on my laptop… posted them… walked back to Sleep [...]

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These were taken in February 2006, and then I got too busy to go through them, rotate them to the appropriate angle, sanitize the pics that are not fit to be shown on the web, lighten/darken them. But now I’m sitting here at the Union Avenue branch office and I have nothing but time [...]

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Last night I did something that, for me, is practically unheard of – I drove my car on a weekend night. My bartender Emma from Sleep Out’s was having a party at her house out in the U of M area, and being a little bored with downtown lately, I decided to drive out [...]

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Found a few random pics from Sleep Out’s and the Flying Saucer on my hard drive that I never posted. So here ya go.
Whatcha hiding from John?
Congratulations Mikey!
A couple of weeks ago I ordered a happy hour beer at the Saucer and they brought it to me in this glass. Perhaps one of [...]

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Pull up Google, type in the word “failure” and click the I’m Feeling Lucky button.

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I’m sitting here having an after-work beer at the Flying Saucer. Abita Purple Haze is the fire sale today, so I’m happy.
This is going to be a pretty boring post. About the most interesting news I have to report is that this morning I was shaving, and – ow! I got nicked! [...]

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I was asked to post this to the blog and am happy to do so:
Downtown Chalk Art Festival
AIA Memphis and Memphis Heritage, Inc.Building Stronger Communities Through Architectural Education and Awareness

Sponsored by: [...]

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