House arrest day 26 (Tue) / update 2 (chicken and dumplings)

The Memphis River Parks Partnership is challenging Memphians to stay active while maintaining social distancing. The first challenge goal is to walk or run 500 miles in two weeks . You can enter your progress into their tracking form. People’s progress will be shared on their @memriverparks social media outlets, and each time you submit, you’ll be entered into a raffle to win a $100 gift certificate to the Downtown Memphis restaurant of your choice.

500 miles in two weeks? That’s more than a marathon a day! Maybe they mean all the participants combined, not individually.

They’ll also highlight new workouts created by fitness instructors who, let’s face it, don’t have shit else to do these days. These workouts, shared on social media and Vimeo, will hopefully inspire you to get moving.

You can also sign up for “recess texts” encourage you to breathe in, breathe out, get up, get down, get moving, do the hokey pokey and turn yourself around, because that’s what it’s all about. Just don’t do it within 6 feet of another person.

From Crosstown Concourse:

Today’s @saucychicken901 family dinner deal (Tuesday, April 14): chicken & dumplings, mac & cheese, fried okra, and cheesy corn muffins. Feeds four for $29.99. Available for pick-up or with free Concourse delivery!

Their delivery range includes Downtown.

J.D. Westmoreland performs on #dontletmedown Facebook Live today from 4 to 6 PM.

The Small Business Administration has disaster response jobs open, some of which are either virtual or duty station negotiable. These include

  • Disaster recovery specialist/call center
  • Attorney adviser
  • Commercial loan specialist
  • Loan processing assistant
  • Loan servicing assistant
  • Supervisory commercial loan specialist
  • General loan specialist

If you’re multi-lingual, that is a huge plus.

Good news if you plan on flying anytime soon:

Proof that politicians can be bought: Florida Republican governor Rick DeSantis deemed WWE an essential business so it can continue to operate during Florida’s Safer at Home order. Well, I guess that makes sense. After keeping the beaches open a month longer than he should have, allowing COVID-19 to spread far and wide, there’s going to be a lot of need for The Undertaker in that state.

Ah ha… right after I linked the story in this blog post, I found this tweet. Well this explains a lot.

One third of cable subscribers may cancel if the NFL season is canceled.

Great quote I read today: “If you believe the noises of the world rather than the silences of your soul, you will be lost.”

New experiment I’m gonna try today: Take the most obscure or forgotten songs I can think of, turn them into Pandora stations, and see what happens. The song that gave me this idea was the ’70s song “I Beg Your Pardon, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden” that Bardog had on the jukebox for a while. I’ll give that a try later today and let you know what happens. I’ll try to think of some other good songs to turn into Pandora stations as well. I think that songs that pre-dated the MTV era will generally lead to more interesting stuff, although I could be wrong.

From CBS Sports: Three storylines to watch as college basketball enters the late signing period. One of the stories is whether Penny will be able to repeat his 2019 recruiting success.

This graphic reduces the chance I will go outside today to just about zero.

The Big O!

All right, since this post contains a daily food special I’m going to go ahead and publish it. Possibly back this afternoon with another post.