{"id":1864,"date":"2008-04-13T10:13:13","date_gmt":"2008-04-13T15:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=1864"},"modified":"2008-04-13T10:13:13","modified_gmt":"2008-04-13T15:13:13","slug":"new-page-late-night-dining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/13\/new-page-late-night-dining\/","title":{"rendered":"New page: Late-night dining"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I compiled the list, I realized something:\u00a0 If you want to eat late at night, I hope you like burgers.\u00a0 They’re the featured menu item at nearly all the places that stay open late, and the only menu item at one place (Earnestine & Hazel’s).<\/p>\n

The Saturday night recap isn’t very interesting.\u00a0 Got to the Saucer at 7:00 and thanks to a good Fire Sale (Spaten Bock) and a good band (FreeWorld), I didn’t leave until 1 AM.\u00a0 Played the Window Game and counted over 130 hooptys between 7:00 and 9:30 – Caprice Classics and Devilles and ’80s Monte Carlos and various other cars cruising around with 26″ spinner rims.\u00a0 A friend of mine told me that there’s a hoopty convention in town this weekend.<\/p>\n

The good news is that I only saw 6 bums between 7 and 9:30.\u00a0 Before the security patrol, I would’ve seen close to 20 in that time frame.<\/p>\n

Beer report:<\/p>\n

Previous total:\u00a0 $1,221.00<\/p>\n

Beers 200, 201, and 202 by my count (193, 194, and 195 by the Saucer’s count):
\nNewcastle (hey, didn’t I already drink that?) $4.50
\nAnchor Liberty IPA $4.50
\nRedHook ESB (hey, didn’t I already drink that?) $4.00
\nTip:\u00a0 $13.00 x ~30% = $4.00
\nTotal:\u00a0 $17.00<\/p>\n

Grand total:\u00a0 $1,238.00<\/p>\n

I confronted Saucer waitress Mini-me about all my beer tickets that she’s lost.\u00a0 “Paul!\u00a0 I haven’t lost any of your tickets!\u00a0 I just forget to hand them in sometimes.\u00a0 I hand them in the next day, and they get scanned.”<\/p>\n

“Yeah, but what happens is, I come in the next day and drink 3 more beers,” I explained. “So the computer sees your 3 beer tickets that you scanned a day late, and my 3 beer tickets from that day, and it thinks I drank 6 beers.\u00a0 So it rejects 3 of them for being over the 3-beer-per-day limit.”<\/p>\n

“Ohhhhh,” said the mini-me.<\/p>\n

Brunch today at the Majestic (week 1 of 2, although with next Sunday being Rajun Cajun Crawfish Fest I’ll probably skip week 2).\u00a0 After that, on to the Saucer for a very long day of drinking Fire Sales and plate beers 196 (203) and 197 (204).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"