Woke up this morning to a frantic call from my mother. Tornadoes ripped through her neighborhood in Little Rock, the neighborhood where I grew up, last night. Her house is OK but there are three trees down at the house across the street. Power will be out for 2-3 days and the police have set up a command center about 5 blocks from where she lives. The primary school I went to suffered severe enough damage to close it for the day.
Started the evening at Itta Bena last night, where I had the She Crab soup and now I understand why people rave about it. Had the Filet Bites too. Then I moved on to the Saucer where I did my plate beers, and also had my free Dos Equis Lager that I won from the Tennessee vs. Louisville bet. Never did make it to the rooftop party because it took so long to do my beers. Beer report:
Previous total: $1,022.00
Beers 173, 174, and 175 by my count (and the Saucer’s count is even more screwed up because they lost ANOTHER beer. I’m going to talk to the managers tonight and get a lot of beers put back on):
Sierra Nevada ESB draft $4.50
Young’s Oatmeal Stout THIS BEEER SUCKED $4.50
North Coast Red Seal Pale Ale $4.50
Tip: $13.50 x ~30% = $4.00
Total: $17.50
Grand total: $1,039.50
I’m wondering if the Saucer will cancel Pint Nite and charge full price for beers Monday if the Tigers make it to the championship game. If they do I may take an entire month vacation from the Saucer after my plate party.
Never made it to the Peabody rooftop, but I heard it was really dead anyway because they moved the party indoors. After the Saucer, I hung out at the Red Rooster for a couple of hours with members of my BBQ team.
Voting is running about 90% in favor of kicking my BFF to the curb. Here’s one of the messages I received:
“Curb.
And please, when you do so, let’s have a moment of silence and pity for the curb.
It didn’t do anything to warrant such harsh treatment.”
I’ll take the weekend to think it over, but as of right now I see no reason to go against public opinion. A telling sign is that NOT ONE PERSON who knows both my BFF and me personally voted that I should keep her.
All right, gotta get to work. The rest will have to wait until my lunchtime post, if I have time to do one.