It looks like Tigers parade I mentioned in the previous post won’t happen. Several Tigers had previous plans to visit their families this weekend, with the season over. Some of them haven’t seen their families since September. It’s understandable. Parade has been postponed with no makeup date in sight. Shame we won’t get to give the Tigers their very-much-earned appreciation and respect, though.
Started at Itta Bena tonight for the Wednesday Downtown night. The free appetizer was crab dip and it was excellent as always. I ordered shrimp scampi off the menu and it was superb. And, of course, $5 well drinks on Downtown Night from 5-8. $5 not may sound like a bargain at first glance, but Itta Bena’s wells are better than most bars’ calls (e.g. Absolut is considered a well vodka there).
Great time at Itta Bena as always. They will see me again soon, perhaps within 24 hours.
After that, I took a walk down the part of Beale on which cars are allowed. Noticed that EP’s is doing a happy hour now, offering half-price appetizers and drink specials from 4:30-6:30. REALLY? Half-price Not-Yo-Crawfish (crawfish nachos with sweet potato chips)? EP’s may start seeing me hours earlier than usual.
Watched the new security patrol chase off a bum. They are great. They got him to admit he had been parking cars and selling free magazines in recent days. What an idiot. I took a second loop around Beale and he reappeared, and would you believe he was standing next to an unoccupied metered parking space. Wonder what he was doing there? Actually, I asked him, and he says he helps out the carriage drivers, and needed to have a good view of the carriages. The nearest carriage was a block away. I ran him off. He said, “I’m going to tell a whole bunch of guys you’re the one who has been calling the security patrols on us.” I may have to start carrying mace.
From there it was on to the Saucer. Ran into a friend of mine who celebrated her birthday today. She told me she had been taken to dinner at Grill 83. They asked if they could have a couple of drinks before dinner on the rooftop, and the staff said sure. They then came back down for dinner about 9. The staff started stacking chairs on nearby tables while my friends ate dinner. They were the only ones in the restaurant, but Grill 83’s posted closing time is 11. That’s pretty unprofessional. I could put up with that at Taco Bell. When I have a three-digit tab, not so much.
Beer report:
Previous total: $1,141.00
Beers 191, 192 and 193 by my count (184, 185 and 186 according to the Saucer):
Weihenstephaner Hefe-Weizen bottle $7.00
Rochefort 6 (they were out of the 8 and 10) $12.00
Westmalle Dubbel (they were out of the Tripel) $10.00
Tip: $29.00 x ~ 30% = $10.00
Total: $39.00
Grand total: $1,180.00
Monday will be my 200th beer (Saucer count) and will be REAL glad to be done. I’m tired of having to go there every day. Never in recent memory have other bars had such a good chance at stealing away my drinking dollars.
Thanks to Otto who installed various WordPress plugins today to make this blog run a lot better and load a lot faster. Otto was one of the main people who contributed to the WP 2.5 codebase. Although, I do have to take exception to his “branch out, folks” comment in a recent post. Yes, I go to the Saucer a lot, but since last Wednesday I’ve also been to Itta Bena (4 times), Big Foot Lodge (3 times), Calhoun’s (twice), Red Rooster (twice), McGuinness (twice), and Hoop’s Bar (once). All of those places, plus the Downtown Monkey if it EVER opens, are in position to steal away my drinking $ as mentioned in the previous paragraph.
I actually made it all the way through a drunk post. And it seems to make logical sense and basically be grammatically correct (yes, Skippy, I understand the irony of saying that within a sentence starting with a conjunction). Yay me. Time for bed now.