{"id":1597,"date":"2008-02-15T13:03:32","date_gmt":"2008-02-15T19:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=1597"},"modified":"2008-02-15T13:03:32","modified_gmt":"2008-02-15T19:03:32","slug":"not-even-as-popular-as-john-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/15\/not-even-as-popular-as-john-d\/","title":{"rendered":"Not even as popular as John D"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blogging from the Saucer today at lunch&#8230; having a Lindeman&#8217;s Framboise and the Abita Root Beer as my plate beers.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll come back after work and knock off the third one, but I don&#8217;t anticipate a long stay here tonight.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blueman.com\/\">Blue Man Group<\/a> will perform their new show &#8220;How to be a Megastar&#8221; on April 6 at the DeSoto Civic Center.\u00a0 Blue Man Group is awesome&#8230; I may actually have to get in the car and drive for that one.<\/p>\n<p>I shudder at the thought of getting in the car.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve driven it 3 times since the beginning of calendar 2008.\u00a0 It&#8217;s covered in dust due to construction going on in the building next door to the parking garage.\u00a0 The upholstery is falling apart inside.\u00a0 There are drink bottles lying around from back when I worked at the City Schools (a job I quit last June).\u00a0 The air conditioner has gone out and I&#8217;m too lazy to take it to the dealership and get it fixed.\u00a0 Life is really going to suck if I don&#8217;t get that done in the next month.\u00a0 It&#8217;s out of windshield wiper fluid too.\u00a0 I just ignore the stupid thing because I hate driving.\u00a0 But it occurs to me, if I ever had a date outside of the Downtown area I would be SO embarrassed.\u00a0 Of course, I try as hard as possible to stay Downtown, but I gotta admit, The Cove would be a cool place to take a date, and that would require a car.<\/p>\n<p>Having the chicken quesadilla for lunch.\u00a0 The waitress who calls me her &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=B.F.F.\">BFF<\/a>&#8221; is working.\u00a0 She&#8217;s not my waitress though&#8230; I&#8217;ve got the sweetie who worked our last Rapscallion party, so I&#8217;m getting food without the &#8216;tude.\u00a0 &#8220;BFF&#8221; girl claims I mention her in every post.\u00a0 I just did a count and in the last 20 posts (not counting this one) she&#8217;s been mentioned exactly 3 times.\u00a0 15%.\u00a0 By comparison Bud Light connoisseur John D has been mentioned in 4 of the last 20.\u00a0 She wants so desperately to believe she&#8217;s my first, my last, my everything, and she&#8217;s actually not even as popular as John D.\u00a0 Sad.<\/p>\n<p>Rogue Bullfrog is the Fire Sale, in case you&#8217;re curious.<\/p>\n<p>In honor of Valentine&#8217;s Day yesterday, I read the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Casanova\">Wikipedia entry on Casanova<\/a>, known the world over as one of the great lovers of women of all time, and a consummate seducer.\u00a0 Interesting article&#8230; if you read it all the way down, you&#8217;ll read that the player got played a few times by women even more manipulative than he.<\/p>\n<p>I forgot to mention that I had a great lunch at Circa yesterday with awesome company.\u00a0 Really enjoyed it.\u00a0 I haven&#8217;t been in Circa in two weeks, since I started this second-plate thing.\u00a0 I need to make an appearance at House&#8217;s bar sometime soon.\u00a0 Blast, I just realized, now Itta Bena&#8217;s Downtown Night is competing with Circa&#8217;s wine flight night!\u00a0 That&#8217;s going to be a tough choice to make!\u00a0 This is what is referred to as a high-class problem to have.<\/p>\n<p>Time flies when you&#8217;re watching waitresses walk around.\u00a0 Time to get back to work.\u00a0 Three-day weekend for me, starting in four hours!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blogging from the Saucer today at lunch&#8230; having a Lindeman&#8217;s Framboise and the Abita Root Beer as my plate beers.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll come back after work and knock off the third one, but I don&#8217;t anticipate a long stay here tonight. Blue Man Group will perform their new show &#8220;How to be a Megastar&#8221; on April &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/15\/not-even-as-popular-as-john-d\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Not even as popular as John D&#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\/1597"}],"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=1597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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