{"id":1559,"date":"2008-02-04T11:38:08","date_gmt":"2008-02-04T17:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=1559"},"modified":"2008-02-04T11:38:08","modified_gmt":"2008-02-04T17:38:08","slug":"work-on-second-plate-begins-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/04\/work-on-second-plate-begins-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Work on second plate begins today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve decided to go ahead with my plan to get a second plate at the Flying Saucer.\u00a0 Tonight I&#8217;ll start on the list of 200 different beers.\u00a0 If I do 3 a day until I&#8217;m done, that would put me on track to finish Thursday, April 10.<\/p>\n<p>Since it&#8217;s Pint Nite, my strategy for tonight will be &#8220;draft beers that do qualify for Pint Nite but never appear as Fire Sales during the rest of the week.&#8221;\u00a0 That means I&#8217;ll have to resist the temptation to make Dos Equis Special Lager my first beer, as it very occasionally shows up as the Fire Sale.\u00a0 Hmmm&#8230; IPAs seem to never be Fire Sales&#8230; maybe I&#8217;ll order Bridgeport IPA and Avery IPA at the same time, and taste-test them and figure out which one I like better.\u00a0 Bridgeport has always been my IPA of choice, but I have friends who are big Avery fans, so I&#8217;ll give it a chance.<\/p>\n<p>One question my friends and I have long asked is, &#8220;how much does it cost to get a plate?&#8221;\u00a0 I&#8217;m going to attempt to answer that question by keeping a running tally the next 67 days.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s how I&#8217;m going to count it:\u00a0 The cost of the three beers plus the tip on those three beers, using my regular tipping strategy of 30% or a dollar a beer, whichever is more.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not going to count the cost of\u00a0food or additional beers ordered beyond the three that count.\u00a0 If someone buys me a beer I&#8217;ll make note of it, but the amount I would have paid and tipped will still count toward the running total.\u00a0 Needless to say I&#8217;m going to try to get the plate as cheaply as possible, avoiding the two $30 beers and some of the other pricey ones if I can.<\/p>\n<p>Looking forward to learning about some new beers&#8230; a lot of the current ones\u00a0were not around when I completed my first plate.\u00a0 Not looking forward to having to deal with Turbo Dog and some of the other really disgusting beers.<\/p>\n<p>Will be up there about 5.\u00a0 Hmmm&#8230; forecast is high 72, low 62, bet the windows will be open today.\u00a0 I may have to play the Window Game this evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve decided to go ahead with my plan to get a second plate at the Flying Saucer.\u00a0 Tonight I&#8217;ll start on the list of 200 different beers.\u00a0 If I do 3 a day until I&#8217;m done, that would put me on track to finish Thursday, April 10. Since it&#8217;s Pint Nite, my strategy for tonight &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/04\/work-on-second-plate-begins-today\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Work on second plate begins today&#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\/1559"}],"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=1559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1559"}],"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! -->