{"id":2143,"date":"2008-06-03T13:03:43","date_gmt":"2008-06-03T18:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=2143"},"modified":"2008-06-03T13:05:53","modified_gmt":"2008-06-03T18:05:53","slug":"monday-recap-this-bff-of-the-month-thing-seems-to-be-working-out-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/03\/monday-recap-this-bff-of-the-month-thing-seems-to-be-working-out-well\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday recap: This BFF of the Month thing seems to be working out well"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I was at home building my latest online shopping site, when my new BFF Suzy called.  &#8220;A couple of your neighbors and I are having a party on your rooftop,&#8221; she told me.  &#8220;Come on up.&#8221;  So I did.  Here&#8217;s a pic of some of the party people:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/p1000046.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2146\" title=\"p1000046\" src=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/p1000046.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/home\/content\/p\/a\/u\/paulrybu\/html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/p1000046.jpg?w=1920 1920w, http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/home\/content\/p\/a\/u\/paulrybu\/html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/p1000046.jpg?resize=300%2C225 300w, http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/home\/content\/p\/a\/u\/paulrybu\/html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/p1000046.jpg?w=1680 1680w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a pic of me with my new BFF:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/p1000040.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2145\" title=\"p1000040\" src=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/p1000040.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/home\/content\/p\/a\/u\/paulrybu\/html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/p1000040.jpg?w=1920 1920w, http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/home\/content\/p\/a\/u\/paulrybu\/html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/p1000040.jpg?resize=300%2C225 300w, http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/home\/content\/p\/a\/u\/paulrybu\/html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/p1000040.jpg?w=1680 1680w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not only did I score free drinks at the party, but my new BFF introduced me to cute girls as well (although none of them had tube tops on).  Here&#8217;s a pic of me with cute girls:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/p1000054.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2148\" title=\"p1000054\" src=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/p1000054.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/home\/content\/p\/a\/u\/paulrybu\/html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/p1000054.jpg?w=1920 1920w, http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/home\/content\/p\/a\/u\/paulrybu\/html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/p1000054.jpg?resize=300%2C225 300w, http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/home\/content\/p\/a\/u\/paulrybu\/html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/p1000054.jpg?w=1680 1680w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While on the roof, I tested the 10x zoom on my new camera and took a pic of the rooftop deck on the newly opened Court Square Center\/Lincoln-American Tower Apartments, a block and a half away:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/p1000048.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2147\" title=\"p1000048\" src=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/p1000048.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/home\/content\/p\/a\/u\/paulrybu\/html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/p1000048.jpg?w=1920 1920w, http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/home\/content\/p\/a\/u\/paulrybu\/html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/p1000048.jpg?resize=300%2C225 300w, http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/home\/content\/p\/a\/u\/paulrybu\/html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/p1000048.jpg?w=1680 1680w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After a couple of hours on the rooftop, they left to go watch the stupid Sex and the City movie, and I decided to head to Pint Nite at the Saucer.  But as I walked past Big Foot, I saw my former BFF at a nearly empty bar (only one customer).  I felt bad for her.  She just hasn&#8217;t been able to develop any regulars, I guess.  So I decided to stop in and have a Flying Moose (the ingredients of which I still don&#8217;t know, because they&#8217;re taking forever to get their new drink menu cards).  While I drank my drink, my former BFF did a lot of important stuff, like text her friend Brittney (or as I call her, Lazy Do-Nothing Sit-On-Her-Ass-All-Day Brittney) and build houses out of straws.  She used a lighter to weld the straws together.  Here&#8217;s a pic of that:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/p1000061.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2149\" title=\"p1000061\" src=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/p1000061.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/home\/content\/p\/a\/u\/paulrybu\/html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/p1000061.jpg?w=1920 1920w, http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/home\/content\/p\/a\/u\/paulrybu\/html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/p1000061.jpg?resize=300%2C225 300w, http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/home\/content\/p\/a\/u\/paulrybu\/html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/p1000061.jpg?w=1680 1680w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>She must have gone through an entire lighter&#8217;s worth of fluid building that stupid thing.  Good thing there was nothing flammable around, like alcohol.<\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s the completed house:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/p1000073.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2144\" title=\"p1000073\" src=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/p1000073.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/home\/content\/p\/a\/u\/paulrybu\/html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/p1000073.jpg?w=1920 1920w, http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/home\/content\/p\/a\/u\/paulrybu\/html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/p1000073.jpg?resize=300%2C225 300w, http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/home\/content\/p\/a\/u\/paulrybu\/html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/p1000073.jpg?w=1680 1680w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tabbed out about 11:15, decided to do the late shift at the Saucer.  But as I walked down Second, who did I run into but my REAL BFF, with the two cute friends pictured above.  &#8220;We want vodka!&#8221; they said.  The Saucer isn&#8217;t a great place to get vodka, so I suggested a return to Big Foot.<\/p>\n<p>Oddly enough, my former BFF did not seem happy to see us.  Funny&#8230; if I were bartending a near-empty bar, I&#8217;d probably be thrilled if a guy and three girls came in and sat down.  But my former BFF&#8217;s mood turned sour&#8230; even more sour than usual.  I ordered the ladies a round and we sat and talked.  But when my real BFF tried to order round two, the former BFF said, &#8220;I&#8217;M NOT SERVING ANY OF YOU.  YOU&#8217;RE ALL DRUNK.  I CAN REFUSE TO SERVE ANYONE I WANT.  Here&#8217;s your tab, Paul.  Pay it.&#8221;\u00a0 She seemed really angry.  Odd because I&#8217;ve had way more to drink than that in the past and she&#8217;s served me, both at Big Foot and when she used to work at the Saucer.  I wonder what was different about last night?<\/p>\n<p>Since my former BFF ruined our good time, the three girls and I decided to call it a night after that.  First Monday in a long, long time I didn&#8217;t make it to Pint Nite at the Saucer.  I heard people were calling around, asking where I was, asking if I was okay.<\/p>\n<p>My new BFF is awesome.<\/p>\n<p>Much more to post about&#8230; if I can get a quick post in while a large file is processing this afternoon, I will.  Otherwise, tonight or tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I was at home building my latest online shopping site, when my new BFF Suzy called. &#8220;A couple of your neighbors and I are having a party on your rooftop,&#8221; she told me. &#8220;Come on up.&#8221; So I did. Here&#8217;s a pic of some of the party people: Here&#8217;s a pic of me &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/03\/monday-recap-this-bff-of-the-month-thing-seems-to-be-working-out-well\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Monday recap: This BFF of the Month thing seems to be working out well&#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\/2143"}],"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=2143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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