This week I returned to the poker table at the Blind Bear after an absence of most of 2015, playing the Sunday and Thursday games. Sunday was pretty much a disaster but last night I came in third, out of the money for a gift card but earning some final table points.<\/p>\n
While at the table, I learned something from one of the other players: The Memphis Public Library has a mobile app<\/a> that lets you check out books and read them on your Kindle or iPad. All you have to do is sign in with your library card number. That’s pretty cool. I need to go get my library card renewed so I can use that service.<\/p>\n High Cotton Brewery at 598 Monroe is doing a brewery tour this Saturday at 3. For $12 you get a tour of the brewery, a pint glass, and beer samples.<\/p>\n On Sunday, High Cotton has Service Industry Day in the afternoon. If you bring a pay stub, a business card, or wear your work uniform, you can get pints for $3.50.<\/p>\n Rep. Steve Cohen is giving away several tickets<\/a> to see Pope Francis when he addresses Congress later this month. The tickets are standing-room-only, but hey, it’s the Pope.<\/p>\n The Orpheum’s annual showing of Rocky Horror Picture Show<\/a> is tonight at 8. Doors open at 7 and you can arrive early and purchase prop bags. I have been to this and it is a lot of fun.<\/p>\n In addition to the Memphis Music & Heritage Festival and the Beale Street Cigar Festival, I have learned of yet ANOTHER festival happening Downtown this weekend. Hometown Festival<\/a> is a family-friendly festival at Bass Pro Saturday and Sunday. Free funnel cake samples, hot dogs, apple cobbler samples, ring toss, crafts, photo booth, face painting, duck pond, and more.<\/p>\n Pianos in the Park<\/a> Jazzfest happens tomorrow at Handy Park, Third and Beale, 6 to 9 PM.<\/p>\n Holly has five reasons to go to the Cooper-Young Regional Beerfest<\/a> on October 17. Good stuff.<\/p>\n The Belz Museum now has a new audio tour that is only $3 and is free for the visually impaired. Check it out if you come to the area for Memphis Music & Heritage Festival this weekend.<\/p>\n That’ll do it for this lunchtime update. I don’t anticipate an after-work post but I should be back tomorrow with more news. I have to make a brief stop at Max’s Sports Bar after work but I don’t anticipate being there long, at most one hour\/two beers. Hopefully work will let us go early and I can get there right at 4:30 and get this done. After Max’s I will head back to the Downtown core, check Foursquare\/Swarm\/Facebook to see where people are, then plan the rest of my evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This week I returned to the poker table at the Blind Bear after an absence of most of 2015, playing the Sunday and Thursday games. Sunday was pretty much a disaster but last night I came in third, out of the money for a gift card but earning some final table points. While at the … Continue reading “Friday update”<\/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\/16926"}],"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=16926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16927,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16926\/revisions\/16927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}