Not a whole lot interesting to report from this weekend.  I did re-visit a couple of places I haven’t been recently.  Saturday night I left Hoop’s Bar about 1:30, and as I stumbled past Swig I saw one of the managers of the Saucer and one of the owners of the Majestic inside, and I went in and had a drink with them.  It was actually kind of fun and my friend Ugly Steve is now bartending there.  I may actually give the place a chance and start going in there once in a while.

Another place I haven’t been to in a long time is the Black Diamond.  Tonight at the Saucer I got hungry and didn’t want Saucer food.  So I walked down to the Fish for their 25-cent oysters, but they had run out so I went to the Diamond and got pizza.  It was kind of nice to sit at the bar and watch the tourists and the bums walk around Beale Street.  The bartender remembered my name and what I drink (PBR can, of course), even though I haven’t been in there in more than 6 months.  They had The Simpsons, King of the Hill, and Family Guy on TV with the sound on.  Every now and then I turned to another TV to watch Clemson almost take down North Carolina.  The Tar Heels managed to hold on to their #1 spot – for now.  I’ll point out that they barely scraped past the #19 team, whereas #2 Memphis convincingly beat the #4 team a couple of weeks ago.

After eating I went back to the Saucer and stayed there until close.  Inside joke that almost no one gets department – one of the regulars asked me to put this in the blog:  Jason Canada, what’s up from Johnny Mason, get buck from Fancher.

Played a game called Catch Phrases with a bored waitress.  I had never heard of it before but was pretty good at it because it’s similar to a game show called Password I watched when I was a kid.  Allen Ludden… now that guy was one of the great game show hosts of all time.

I got the high score on Gone Fishing on the video crack machine at Hoop’s Bar Saturday night.  I now hold 6 of the top 10 scores.  That’s enough for now.  I’ll probably take a break from the crack machine and start actually socializing at Hoop’s again, unless someone beats my score and then it’ll be time to get serious again.

I meet my boss in the morning.  Odd considering I’ve been there 2 months now, but he works in the New York office and I work in the Memphis office.  Up ’til now we’ve used Yahoo Messenger to communicate.  We also have 7 new IT people who start tomorrow.  It’s going to be a wild and crazy day.

If you like Elvis, hit AllMemphisMusic.com on Tuesday.  The Internet radio station will play nothing but Elvis for the entire 24 hours in honor of his birthday.

High is predicted to be in the 70s.  That means after work I’ll have to change into shorts before I head to Pint Nite.