{"id":16051,"date":"2015-03-18T17:17:55","date_gmt":"2015-03-18T22:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=16051"},"modified":"2015-03-18T17:17:55","modified_gmt":"2015-03-18T22:17:55","slug":"second-wednesday-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/18\/second-wednesday-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Wednesday update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before I get to the local news in this post, I have to file this one under the &#8220;people never cease to amaze me&#8221; department: <a href=\"http:\/\/memphis.suntimes.com\/bal-entertainment\/7\/101\/88983\/gofundme-cheating-girlfriend\">Man creates GoFundMe account to pay to travel go on spring break with his girlfriend<\/a>, to make sure that she doesn&#8217;t cheat on him while she is away. Why would he even bother being with someone who he is so sure would cheat? And why would the girl stay with a man who thinks so little of her that he assumes she cheats? I don&#8217;t get people. If I didn&#8217;t trust someone, I wouldn&#8217;t be in a relationship with her, no matter how hot she is.<\/p>\n<p>This Saturday, the Metal Museum will have a Cosmic Trunk show from 10 to 5. The artisan market will feature an array of jewelry, housewares and sculpture by artists affiliated with Tennessee Craft-Southwest. The Stick&#8217;em food truck will be on hand, and there will be a cash bar. Free to attend.<\/p>\n<p>Bikes and Beers, a fundraiser for Cystic Fibrosis, will depart from the Flying Saucer Sunday, April 12. For $10 you can join a bicycle ride along the Mississippi River and Main Street. There will be a poker run with great prizes, and afterward you can have a pint at the Saucer. Registration at 11, departure at 12. The event is sponsored by Yazoo Brewery.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wreg.com\/2015\/03\/18\/another-meeting-about-the-future-of-riverside-drive-set\/\">Another meeting has been set<\/a> to discuss the future of Riverside Drive. None of the options to be discussed include a return to four lanes.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/youthvillages.hodesiq.com\/job_detail.asp?JobID=5002815&amp;user_id\">a job opportunity at Youth Villages<\/a> for a Family Intervention Specialist.<\/p>\n<p>High Ground News reports that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.highgroundnews.com\/inthenews\/uofmgraduaterankings.aspx\">four of the University of Memphis&#8217; graduate programs<\/a> rank among the best in the nation.<\/p>\n<p>I found an article about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fraud.org\/news\/57-tech-support-scams-costing-computer-users\">the tech support scam<\/a> I told you to warn elderly relatives about. Someone from India calls, claiming to be a Microsoft employee. They say they will &#8220;fix&#8221; (actually, install malware) on your computer if you will Western Union them $99 (actually rings up as $207). Don&#8217;t fall for this.<\/p>\n<p>Related, here&#8217;s another good anti-scam article: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/tag\/five-things-banks-will-never-ask-online\/\">Five things banks will never ask online<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Home after work. Just ran into my former leasing manager on the elevator, and she told me I haven&#8217;t been very active on Facebook lately. I haven&#8217;t???? I&#8217;ll try to do better. Maybe I&#8217;m more active in the summer months, when it&#8217;s tube top weather. Anyway, I&#8217;m out, heading to the Goose for some happy hour PBR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before I get to the local news in this post, I have to file this one under the &#8220;people never cease to amaze me&#8221; department: Man creates GoFundMe account to pay to travel go on spring break with his girlfriend, to make sure that she doesn&#8217;t cheat on him while she is away. Why would &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/18\/second-wednesday-update\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Second Wednesday update&#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\/16051"}],"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=16051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16052,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16051\/revisions\/16052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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