Friday update

The Downtown Christmas tree lighting is tomorrow, Saturday, November 23, from 4 to 6 PM at Peabody Place and Main. Holiday vendor market, free hot chocolate and Butterific cookies. Get your photo taken with Santa.

The Tigers got a 68-64 win at San Francisco last night. Next up: vs. 2 UConn at 1:30 Monday in the Maui Invitational. TV: ESPN

Dumbass of the Day

Apologies for the brevity of this post. Still not feeling 100%.

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Thursday update

I’m out of the hospital and just left Bardog, where it was Allie Cat’s last regularly-scheduled shift. (She’ll work Saturday, Dec. 7, the day of the St. Jude Marathon. They’ll open at 7:30 that day.) While I was there, someone ordered a sausage patty, well done. As opposed to a medium rare sausage patty?

HOT GIRL ALERT: Downtown will be crawling with hot girls, dressed to the nines, starting about 3 PM this Saturday. The reason why will be a Justin Timberlake concert at FedExForum that night.

The Grizzlies hit the road to visit the Chicago Bulls Saturday. Slider Inn Downtown will host a watch party beginning at 7 PM.

In other Grizz news, congrats to Taylor Jenkins on becoming the winningest Grizzlies head coach of all time. He surpassed Lionel Hollins with last night’s win over the 76ers.

The McRib returns December 3 and this year, you can buy the sauce by the jug.

The Metal Museum seeks a guest services assistant.

The Archives Bistro inside Hotel Napoleon is hiring all positions.

I’m walking around Downtown but am still a little shaky. Give me a week or two to get this blog back up to full speed. I still plan on celebrating my belated birthday at Bardog Saturday from 11 AM until 3 PM or later if anyone wants to have a PBR with me.

Gotta go chase down a couple of interesting snippets of Downtown gossip. Back maybe Saturday with more news.

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Update on me

It looks like I’m going to be released from the hospital tomorrow, Wednesday, November 20. It was weird spending my birthday in the hospital, but it’s absolutely where I needed to be.

I’ll be at Bardog Saturday from about 11 AM to 3 PM if anyone wants to have a birthday PBR with me.

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Where I’ve been

I am in Regional One, the hospital on Jefferson.

My left leg has been extremely swollen lately, so swollen I could barely fit in the new shoes a friend gave me. The morning of Friday, November 1, I felt extremely hot. I tried to walk Downtown and do my normal routine, I began to feel so weak that I had to call an ambulance.

I was in bad shape. My temperature was 102. My blood pressure was 160/100. I was admitted to the acute care department.

Since then, I’ve gotten much better. My temperature is down to normal and my blood pressure is 117/75. I’m walking around my hospital room just fine. Two of my favorite Bardog girls came to see me and my friends Randy and Teresa brought me dessert.

I don’t know how much longer I’ll be in here. Monday, November 18 is my birthday and I really don’t want to be in the hospital on my birthday or the weekend proceeding it….we shall see.

Thanks for sticking with me. I’ll get back to regular news updates as soon as I can.

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