{"id":14728,"date":"2014-01-14T12:55:29","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T18:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=14728"},"modified":"2014-01-14T12:55:29","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T18:55:29","slug":"tue-update-kerfluffle-scarf-giveaway-sidewalk-repairs-in-uptown-bad-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/14\/tue-update-kerfluffle-scarf-giveaway-sidewalk-repairs-in-uptown-bad-decisions\/","title":{"rendered":"Tue update: Kerfluffle, scarf giveaway, sidewalk repairs in Uptown, bad decisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I came across an email that said that certain events that had occurred had caused a minor kerfluffle. It was the first time in my life I could recall &#8220;kerfluffle&#8221; used in a sentence, and I looked it up on Dictionary.com.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>kerfluffle<\/b><\/p>\n<p>row, disturbance, c.1930, first in Canadian English, ult. from Scot. curfuffle.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t wrong before I heard the word again. Wiseacre Brewery has announced that their KERFLUFFLE Oatmeal Stout is now on tap at the Flying Saucer. Tonight&#8217;s 7:30 trivia game has a bonus round where you could win a chance to take a tour of the brewery.<\/p>\n<p>Going to the Grizzlies game tonight? Get there early if you want a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jpmemphis\/status\/423117414725718016\/photo\/1\">Grizzlies scarf<\/a>. They are free to the first 5000 fans. Last week&#8217;s headphone giveaway ran out in 15 minutes. Game time is 7 and Oklahoma City is the opponent.<\/p>\n<p>Pretty smart to do those giveaways. They get people in the arena early, paying $10 for an extra beer they&#8217;d get for $4-5 if they pre-gamed at a bar down the street.<\/p>\n<p>Uptown news: Sidewalk repairs on North Main between Henry and Keel beginning tomorrow. The repairs are funded by the Main2Main project that will connect Memphis&#8217; Main Street with West Memphis&#8217; Broadway.<\/p>\n<p>From Lifehacker: <a href=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/why-you-make-bad-decisions-when-youre-attracted-to-som-1501035149\">Why You Make Bad Decisions when You&#8217;re Attracted to Someone<\/a>. I&#8217;m tempted to email this link to a few people with the subject &#8220;2013: Your Year in Review.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be at Tuesday night poker at the Blind Bear at 8. I may show up a little early to try one of the Bear&#8217;s new menu items. I had the crab cakes last night and they were fabulous; I will discuss them soon in a Paul&#8217;s PBR Review, but if you&#8217;re a fan of seafood do not wait for my review to come out to try these.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully everyone will play nice at poker tonight and no one will start a kerfluffle. Happy Tuesday everyone and Go Grizzlies!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I came across an email that said that certain events that had occurred had caused a minor kerfluffle. It was the first time in my life I could recall &#8220;kerfluffle&#8221; used in a sentence, and I looked it up on Dictionary.com. kerfluffle row, disturbance, c.1930, first in Canadian English, ult. from Scot. curfuffle. It &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/14\/tue-update-kerfluffle-scarf-giveaway-sidewalk-repairs-in-uptown-bad-decisions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tue update: Kerfluffle, scarf giveaway, sidewalk repairs in Uptown, bad decisions&#8221;<\/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\/14728"}],"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=14728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14729,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14728\/revisions\/14729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->