Paul Ryburn’s Journal

Just got back in town.  Found a voice mail and text message from one of the other Saucer regulars.  The Dempseys are apparently not playing the Downtown Saucer tonight, as I’d announced twice this week on my blog.  “One of the managers can’t read a calendar,” said the text message.  I had posted they’d be playing [...]

Among my Christmas presents were two biographies:

The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt

I’ve been reading the Buffett biography tonight and am finding a lot in common with the greatest investor of our times. He was barred from his 8th grade [...]

This is going to be a different kind of post from my usual.

I’m home in Little Rock on Christmas Eve night.  It’s a more eventful Christmas than usual around here.  My mother is moving into an assisted living facility this month.  She’ll still have her own apartment and a normal life, but help will be a [...]

(9:31 PM Wed night:  Had posting problems this morning, sorry.)

It’s Wednesday morning and I’m waiting for the rain to clear out of here so I can drive to Little Rock.  In the meantime, a few notes:

The owner of Calhoun’s Sports Bar e-mailed me and said that the bar will be open at 4:30 on Christmas Day.

Jennifer [...]

Sitting here watching the weather.  I’m supposed to drive to Little Rock today, but it’s below freezing with ice and snow between here and there.  I’m going to wait until about 2 and see if it gets significantly above freezing all the way there.

In the meantime… time to launch my latest website.

College Logo Golf [...]

This morning I told you about two web stores my friend Buck Daddy had recently launched.  Well, now it’s time to launch another of my own:

College Logo Billiards is the latest in my series of “college logo” niche stores, organizing billiards and pool items sold through Amazon.com into an easy-to-find-things shopping experience.  There you’ll [...]

There’s a new Restaurant.com coupon code good for 80% off restaurant gift certificates.  (Edit:  I forgot to post the code!  It’s HOLIDAY.) Heck if I know why they didn’t just continue last week’s coupon code, since it was also 80% off… maybe they wanted to separate the two weeks for reporting purposes.  Anyway, if you haven’t [...]

A rare day without a post yesterday… that’s partly due to a big Friday night.  I had a party to go to at a condo in South Main.  We did an anonymous gift exchange were the point was to give a crap gift under $5.  I got one of those toilet bowl cleaner cakes as my [...]

My College Logo Watches, College Logo Jewlery, and College Logo Cornhole web storefronts have all been wildly successful in the short time they’ve been up, so I decided to create another one:

College Logo Rugs sells rugs of all shapes and sizes with your favorite college’s logo on them.  In addition to rugs and carpets, [...]

Last night at Big Foot Lodge’s Christmas party, it was announced that the restaurant’s name is changing to Kooky Canuck.  They already have their new website up, and the 7 1/2 pound Sasquatch burger has been renamed the “Kookamunga.”  They’ll still be able to maintain the “lodge” theme of the restaurant.  The changes are being made [...]