Sitting here at the Silly Goose trying to find a good PHP photo album that I can install on the Ques Brothers website… I want the team photos to be hosted on the team’s server from now on, rather than my personal Picasa account. So far I’ve installed two WordPress plugins and two stand-alone programs, and have not been real happy with any of them. Installing Coppermine now… I wasn’t completely happy with it the last time I used it in 2006, but I figure it’s had three years to improve.
BBQ season is here… we picked up our team packets yesterday… got our shirts, team wristbands, guest wristbands, etc. Thanks to John Bragg for providing some great beer specials for the team, and to the Silly Goose for slipping a $10 gift certificate in each member’s bag.
I’m starting to get a lot of requests of the variety “Hey Paul, I’ve never met you personally (or, in the case of some of the requests, I met you at the Saucer about 8 months ago) and I don’t know anyone on the Ques Brothers team, but I was wondering if I could come hang out in your booth for BBQ Fest, and bring a couple of friends.” Sorry… I know how it feels to be on the outside looking in at BBQ Fest, and was in that position myself for many years. However, the team is really cracking down on the number of guests in the booth this year. With over a thousand blog readers per day on the weekdays, there’s no way I can invite everyone who reads my blog to our booth.
I’m probably not going to work a security shift at the door this year. It takes away from my duties as team photographer, and we need people at the door who are better at saying no than I am. Some of the stories we get are just ridiculous. “Hey, I’m friends with someone who knows a guy who works with the brother of one of your team members, can you let me and the 18 people with me in?” “Hey, we saw a Circa sign on your booth, does that mean you’re giving out Circa cocktails for free?” Argh.
In other news… MTV is creating a new reality series based on the website Hot Chicks with Douchebags. That should be fun. Wonder if they’ll bring the camera crews to Memphis… plenty of ‘bags to film at the Saucer and the Rooster on a typical Saturday night.
Wang dang, sweet Zing Zang… sitting here drinking a Bloody Mary I built myself, while waiting for whoever is minding the store at GoDaddy to get off his lazy ass and set up the database I need for Coppermine… usually those requests take about 30 seconds… this one was put in over an hour ago. Get with it dude or I’ll call my Congressman and get your H-1B visa pulled and you’ll be on the first ship back to Bangalore.
Damn this is a good Bloody Mary. Think I’ll have another one. I’m in no particular hurry to take the show on the road to the Saucer, because the Fire Sale today (Abita Amber) is a rather mediocre beer.
Melvin the parking scammer is on the lot at Main and Beale. He’s criminally trespassed from that lot. Bum patrol has been called. Hopefully he’ll be taking a ride in the back of a white limo with blue lights in a few minutes.
Database still not set up… and my battery’s about dead… and I’m not near an outlet. Guess I better hit Publish and take the laptop home. Rain moving this way.