I’ve made another life decision. I’ve decided it’s time for my little green-haired troll to retire. She won’t be coming out with me anymore. Don’t worry, I didn’t throw her away. She’s resting comfortably in a memory box just a few feet from where she stood on my kitchen counter. If I ever want to see her she’s there.<\/p>\n
Sunday I more or less bared my soul on Facebook and the response reminded me how loved, respected, and supported I am by so many people. Those people are where my energy and focus need to be (well, that and getting a job). The troll had become a distraction from that.<\/p>\n
One of those people, by the way, is my career coach Angela Copeland<\/a>, with whom I have an appointment to work on my resume tomorrow. She is the best and if you are looking to take your career to a better place I cannot recommend her enough. Paradoxically, I always wanted to use her services but hoped I’d never have to. Now I get to.<\/p>\n Beale Street has lost one of its legends. Preston Shannon is dead at 70.<\/a> He performed at B.B. King’s club on Beale and had several Music Fest performances.<\/p>\n A date has been set for the second annual 901 Popper Throwdown: March 25. Teams compete to see who can make the best jalapeno poppers. This is organized by the same team that brought you Best Memphis Burger Fest.<\/p>\n The ever-popular beginner sushi class<\/a> returns to Memphis Made Brewing Co. Sunday, March 4 from 3 to 5 in the afternoon. These things nearly always sell out, so if you want to go, don’t delay making reservations.<\/p>\n There’s going to be a Downtown Disco<\/a> at the 409 South Main food hall Friday night from 8 to 11. Best costume wins a prize.<\/p>\n South Main Sounds Songwriter Night<\/a> returns to 550 S. Main Friday night from 7 to 9.<\/p>\n One last reminder that Drinks with Democrats<\/a> happens at Brass Door tomorrow night at 6 PM.<\/p>\n That’s it for now. Back tomorrow with more news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve made another life decision. I’ve decided it’s time for my little green-haired troll to retire. She won’t be coming out with me anymore. Don’t worry, I didn’t throw her away. She’s resting comfortably in a memory box just a few feet from where she stood on my kitchen counter. If I ever want to … Continue reading “Tuesday 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\/20536"}],"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=20536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20537,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20536\/revisions\/20537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}