I did some redesigning to the left menu pane of my blog yesterday morning. I wasn’t happy with WordPress displaying lists of links in alphabetical order. Usually, this is the best way to do it, but it didn’t work so well with my list of photo albums. I wanted them displayed in reverse chronological order starting with the most recent, not alphabetically by title. So I split the photo albums out and re-ordered them the way I wanted them. I also added the more recent photo albums to the list, since previously it displayed Stumbling Santa (12/1/07) as the most recent. I got the list up to date through the last photo album I made, which was the Big Foot Lodge birthday party on 6/16/08.
Two more photo albums will be added to the list soon. I’ll have photos from yesterday’s Pub Olympics at Hoop’s Bar as soon as I get my camera back from Mikey the Camera Nazi. Also, I’m sure there will be a large photo album from TubeTopalooza after that event occurs.
I also rearranged the “places I hang out” section. I wanted those to represent my ranking order of the places I hang out, not alphabetically. So I fixed that too.
Hopefully this week I’ll start work on my “Downtown Memphis Info” section as well. It needs to be ordered some way other than alphabetically, and I plan to move some of those pages over to Squidoo along with my new restaurant guide where they will have a wider audience. I also need to get the happy hour and Wi-Fi sections up to date.
Pub Olympics at Hoop’s Bar turned out to be a much bigger event than I had thought. They had something like 20 teams entered. I was a judge, and as promised I got free beer, which along with the hot sun and the 3 hours sleep I got the night before did me in… I judged a beer pong tournament which seemed to take forever, then between events I went home to get extra camera batteries. I realized I badly needed something to eat. So I stopped in Big Foot. Former BFF/bartender Meghan said, “I’M NOT SERVING YOU ANY ALCOHOL, PAUL” before I even sat down, and for once she was absolutely correct to do so, even if she said it out of a desire to get one up on me rather than out of genuine concern for my well-being. So I ordered Paul’s Drunkass Burger to go and she tried to upsell me on sweet potato fries, bacon, etc. to increase her tip. Didn’t work. I was so busy arguing with her that I forgot that part of the reason I went in there was to invite her to TubeTopalooza.
Came home, ate the burger, checked my e-mail. Next thing I knew I was lying on the couch and it was 12:47 AM… sorry, Hoop and Tony, didn’t mean to miss the entire second half of Pub Olympics. I’ll get the stopwatch back to you this week.
Soon as they update their blog announcing the winners I’ll link to it here.
Back to work today. Meeting a newspaper reporter at the Saucer after work… she asked if I’d give her a Downtown orientation, so she can learn how to sniff out good news stories down here. Sounds like fun, always happy to do stuff like that.