For animal lovers who read this blog, here’s a worthy organization to support: Lucky Farms Animal Rescue. They rescue dogs, specializing in large breeds, and work on finding them foster and forever homes. You can view their adoptables. A friend of mine lost his senior companion that he adopted from Lucky Farms yesterday, and I wanted to honor her loss by mentioning this great animal rescue.
FAIL: King’s Palace Tap Room had ONE bartender working yesterday, on a sunny 78 degree day when there was a parade going on outside. It was taking people up to 45 minutes to get beers. Not the bartender’s fault at all by the way – she couldn’t have been working any harder. It’s just that they needed at least three more people back there.
I left about 15 minutes into the parade. Just too damn crowded and I wasn’t in a position where I was going to catch any beads.
Later in the day I walked up to the Brass Door for their St. Pat’s celebration. I got to try the Pabst APA.
This was one of the better pale ales I have tried, and given that I have 8 plates at the Flying Saucer I have tried quite a few. Maybe one day in the future Pabst products other than Blue Ribbon will become common in the Memphis area.
With St. Pat’s and the NCAA tournament going on, it’s easy to go a day or two without watching the news. President Trump was counting on that to hope a couple of items fly under the public radar. FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe was set to retire today, his 50th birthday. Trump fired him Friday, two days before his planned retirement. That will cost McCabe his pension. What a petty, spiteful, vindictive man our president is.
Trump has also strongly hinted that he wants deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein to bring an end to the Russia investigation being conducted by Special Counsel Mueller. Sealed indictments will come flying open if that happens. This investigation is too far along to be derailed now.
All right… time to send out a BBQ team email and then it will be Sunday Fun Day. Determined to get to sleep by 8 PM tonight so I am well rested for my first day at work tomorrow. Back sometime between tomorrow and Wednesday with more news.