{"id":13127,"date":"2012-11-26T13:00:29","date_gmt":"2012-11-26T19:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=13127"},"modified":"2012-11-26T13:00:29","modified_gmt":"2012-11-26T19:00:29","slug":"mon-update-lansky-cyber-monday-sale-reindeer-games-fedexforum-adopts-wanding-policy-and-a-weekend-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/26\/mon-update-lansky-cyber-monday-sale-reindeer-games-fedexforum-adopts-wanding-policy-and-a-weekend-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"Mon update: Lansky Cyber Monday sale, Reindeer Games, FedExForum adopts wanding policy, and a weekend recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lansky Bros. is having a Cyber Monday sale on their website<\/a> today: $50 off any order over $150. You have to purchase via the website; no phone orders allowed. Use code CYBERMONDAY when you check out. Sale ends at midnight tonight.<\/p>\n

The event flyer for Reindeer Games, Saturday, December 15 in Court Square, has been posted. Here’s a copy of it.<\/p>\n

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Per NBA requirements, the FedExForum will start hand-wanding all guests for security purposes before 50% of all Grizzlies games through the All-Star Break, and 100% of games after that. This will slow down lines to get in, so if you attend a game please plan on arriving a few minutes early. All three games this week (tonight vs. Cleveland, Wednesday vs. Toronto, Friday vs. Detroit) will use the wanding.<\/p>\n

Here’s a look at why I was 45 minutes late to work this morning<\/a>. It’s not a good thing when you pass the scene of an accident and see that the police have laid a tarp over a car’s windows. That’s a sure sign there’s a dead body inside. I got past the wreck about 8:35 and by 11 they still had not cleared it.<\/p>\n

All right, that’s the news, now let’s recap the latter half of the long Thanksgiving weekend. Saturday I was hanging out at the Flying Saucer when several people on adult-sized Big Wheels came in.<\/p>\n

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They had been on Beale Street for the second annual Big Wheel Race, a fundraiser for the Salvation Army’s Angel Tree foundation. WMC-TV has a photo gallery of the race<\/a>. They told me it costs about $600 to build a Big Wheel fit for adults.<\/p>\n

On Sunday I snapped this photo at the Silly Goose:<\/p>\n

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A suburbanite (center) explained to Buddha and Clay how much fun she has at Applebee’s, Chili’s, O’Charley’s, Home Depot, and TGI Friday’s. Apparently we’re missing out on a lot by not living in Olive Branch.<\/p>\n

It’s too bad the suburbanite wasn’t at the Flying Saucer on Saturday. A game token was found for one of her favorite hangouts, Chuck E. Cheese.<\/p>\n

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Before I could text the suburbanite and ask if she wanted the token, Tiffany claimed it.<\/p>\n

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It’s not hard to imagine Tiffany having a good ol’ time in Chuck E. Cheese’s game room.<\/p>\n

Sunday after stops at Blind Bear, the Goose, and the Saucer, it was time to think about eating. I really didn’t feel like staying out longer, so I ordered a pizza to go from Aldo’s Pizza Pies.<\/p>\n

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Instead of ordering one of the named pies on Aldo’s menu, I decided to go with the create-your-own option. I got an 18″ pizza with extra cheese, sausage, black olives, and mushrooms. As the recently-deceased Mr. Food would say, “Oooohhh it’s so good.” I was very happy with my creation. I ate three slices, and put the rest in the refrigerator for tonight and tomorrow. Considering I get three meals out of it, Aldo’s pizza really isn’t any more expensive than eating out elsewhere Downtown.<\/p>\n

Plans for tonight: I’m going to keep with my habit of avoiding the Flying Saucer until after the Grizzlies game starts, since it tends to get crowded with people pre-gaming there. I’ll go to whichever of Blind Bear, Silly Goose, or Bardog looks best on Foursquare\/Facebook at the time, then will migrate to the Saucer’s Pint Nite at 7. May be a second news post after work, so check back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lansky Bros. is having a Cyber Monday sale on their website today: $50 off any order over $150. You have to purchase via the website; no phone orders allowed. Use code CYBERMONDAY when you check out. Sale ends at midnight tonight. The event flyer for Reindeer Games, Saturday, December 15 in Court Square, has been … Continue reading “Mon update: Lansky Cyber Monday sale, Reindeer Games, FedExForum adopts wanding policy, and a weekend recap”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13127"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13134,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13127\/revisions\/13134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}