I have a widget on my Google homepage called “Today’s Reason to Drink.”\u00a0 It tells me that today is something called Newman’s Day, where you are supposed to drink 24 beers in 24 hours without changing your daily schedule, falling asleep, or vomiting.\u00a0 Hmmm, better run up to Jack’s and get a couple of 12-packs of PBR cans.<\/p>\n
Anyone need a new cell phone?\u00a0 Amazon.com is running a TODAY-ONLY deal<\/a> where you can get any new AT&T cell phone, except the Tilt, for a penny when you also purchase a service plan.\u00a0 This is your chance to get a high-tech phone instead of el cheapo.<\/p>\n There’s a new organization called LaunchMemphis whose mission is to support entrepreneurs who have ideas they want to launch, and to help those entrepreneurs connect with investors, in order to bring focus to such activities in Memphis and deliver new tech startups to our economy.\u00a0 Find out more about them here<\/a>.\u00a0 They’re holding a kick-off networking event<\/a> on Thursday, May 8 from 5 to 7 PM at Fox & Hound Sanderlin.<\/p>\n So, it’s Thursday party night.\u00a0 What’s going on:<\/p>\n If the Peabody party doesn’t get moved indoors due to rain, I may stop by for a little while prior to hitting the Saucer for the Dempseys.\u00a0 Gotta stop by Itta Bena for a drink too.<\/p>\n There was an article<\/a> in the Commercial Appeal today about the Center City Development Corporation’s plan to revitalize retail in Downtown Memphis by opening the Main Street Mall back up to traffic.\u00a0 I mentioned this about a week ago.\u00a0 As someone who lives on Main Street, I’d be in favor of it if it would bring additional shopping and restaurants to the area, and because it would make the street better lit which would chase away bums.<\/p>\n Got an e-mail from Ben & Jerry’s about their ice cream giveaway – it’s Tuesday, April 29, not the 28th as I had reported.\u00a0 They will open their doors at noon and give ice cream away until it runs out.\u00a0 That being a trivia day, I guess that means the Nuh-Uh Sister will run down there and get an ice cream cone before trivia.\u00a0 Hope she wears a tube top again.<\/p>\n For lunch today:\u00a0 Greek chicken salad from McAlister’s Deli, with chicken breast, black olives, red peppers, croutons, feta cheese, salad\u00a0peppers,\u00a0and Greek dressing.\u00a0 Third day in a row I’ve had a salad.\u00a0 Had to run in the rain to get it.\u00a0 On the way there, one of my blog readers said, “Hey, Paul!”\u00a0 A bum standing nearby doing the “bum-brella” gimmick then said, “Hey, Paul!” like he knew me.\u00a0 “You’re gonna get awful wet out there in the rain, ain’t ya?”\u00a0 Damn bums.\u00a0 Luckily it wasn’t raining real hard, but I’d allow myself to get soaked down to my socks and underwear before I’d give a bum a dolla for holding a flimsy umbrella over my head.<\/p>\n BBQ-related post later today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have a widget on my Google homepage called “Today’s Reason to Drink.”\u00a0 It tells me that today is something called Newman’s Day, where you are supposed to drink 24 beers in 24 hours without changing your daily schedule, falling asleep, or vomiting.\u00a0 Hmmm, better run up to Jack’s and get a couple of 12-packs … Continue reading “Thur update: Cheap cell phones, networking for entrepreneurs, Main Street, parties, ice cream correction”<\/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\/1928"}],"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=1928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n