A few quick items this morning:
– Yesterday I was walking past Circa and noticed that the sign on their window says that Wi-Fi is available. Cool! As a professional laptopper, I appreciate it when restaurants offer free Wi-Fi – means I can work while I eat lunch. Circa, by the way, is now open for lunch as well as dinner. I hope to get by there this week and give it a try.
– Last night I ran into one of the bartenders from EP Delta Kitchen, and he tells me that they’re doing an ’80s night on Tuesday. Fun!
– The Flying Saucer is holding a Dogfish Head beer tasting Wednesday the 18th. They’ll have a guy in from the brewery, pairing different beers with a 5-course meal. One of the beers is Midas Touch, which has an interesting story behind it… archaeologists excavated an ancient tomb, believed to be of King Midas, and found remnants of a fermented beer-like beverage. They went to the lab and figured out the ingredients and how it must have been made… and they used that process to develop a new beer. So, you can drink the way they drank 2700 years ago.
Tickets are $25 and can be purchased in advance, or you can buy a Dinstuhl’s candy bar at the Saucer for $10, and if it contains a golden ticket you get to attend the tasting for free… all proceeds from the event go to charity, the Madonna Learning Center I think. This really doesn’t sound like a bad deal, $25 for a five-course meal and tastings of five beers. My initial reaction to this event was “hell no” but now I’m actually thinking I might attend.
– This just in from the STAX Museum: Bid on the car Shane Battier drove while he was in Memphis on eBay – a custom 1981 Lincoln Mark VI with a $5,000 Pioneer sound system, 10″ Kenwood Exelon sub-woofers, leopard-print interior and Shane’s autograph and number stitched into the headrests. Auction ends July 14 at 06:00:00 PDT, which would be 8 AM Saturday Central time. There’s a 12-picture slideshow of the car on the eBay auction. All proceeds from the sale of the car benefit after-school music programs and performance opportunities offered at the STAX Academy.
A word about eBay auctions… if you really want this car, go ahead and bid now, BUT… also set your alarm clock for Saturday morning. If you get outbid, you can submit a higher bid at 7:59 AM, one minute before the auction ends. An e-mail will notify the former high bidder that they’ve been outbid… but, by the time they’re able to respond, the auction will be over. This is likely a case where the early bird will get the worm… or in this case, the car, Saturday morning.
– Outta here for now… tonight promises to be an interesting evening, for reasons I won’t go into just yet, and there may be pictures.