{"id":24494,"date":"2021-01-10T04:16:07","date_gmt":"2021-01-10T10:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=24494"},"modified":"2021-01-10T04:16:07","modified_gmt":"2021-01-10T10:16:07","slug":"sunday-update-97","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/10\/sunday-update-97\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jennifer Biggs of the DM reports that <a href=\"https:\/\/dailymemphian.com\/section\/foodnews-and-features\/article\/19201\/reports-of-mollys-death-are-greatly-exaggerated\">rumors of Molly&#8217;s La Casita&#8217;s demise are premature<\/a>. Molly&#8217;s closed on January 6 as a money-saving measure, but the closure is not permanent. They&#8217;re just waiting out COVID, and they&#8217;re understandably tired.<\/p>\n<p>From CNN: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/01\/09\/politics\/mike-pence-25th-amendment\/index.html\">Pence has not ruled out 25th Amendment<\/a>, source says. DO IT MIKE! DO IT DO IT! &#8220;Former Acting President&#8221; would look awfully strong on the resume should you decide to run in 2024. Also, how cool would it be to have &#8220;Mother&#8221; as First Lady for a week? Trump and Pence have not spoken since Wednesday&#8217;s breach of the Capitol and insiders say &#8220;Pence is finally getting a glimpse of Trump&#8217;s vindictiveness.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a link to James Aycock <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/firstresponses\/status\/1347997996647112709\">COVID week-in-review<\/a> summary. The main point is that there is not near enough testing and that those who are around other people frequently should get tested once a week. I would be happy to do that if it was free and I did not have to cross A.W. Willis, B.B. King, or G.E. Patterson to do so. Given the concentration of people who live (and work) down here, I think that is a totally reasonable request.<\/p>\n<p>The Shelby County Health Department has announced that <a href=\"https:\/\/dailymemphian.com\/section\/metro\/article\/19199\/coronavirus-shelby-county-covid-update-january-9\">all vaccine appointments for January have been filled<\/a>. You snooze, you lose.<\/p>\n<p>There is a 20% chance of snow flurries Monday morning OMG OMG OMG MUST GET TO KROGER MILK AND BREAD BREAD AND MILK MILK AND BREAD<\/p>\n<p>Momma&#8217;s at Crump and Kentucky hosts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/690218158332303\/\">Ballistic Bingo<\/a> this afternoon at 2. What&#8217;s Ballistic Bingo? Let&#8217;s check their Facebook description.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This isn&#8217;t the nursing home game you&#8217;re used to &#8211;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, damn, the people who sit at the corner table at Max&#8217;s Sports Bar were going to walk down, but you just lost them &#8211;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>think fun twists like trash-can basketball, picture drawing, trivia questions, and more! Details at the official site below. Tag your friends to join!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.challengeentertainment.com\/the-games\/ballistic-bingo\/\">https:\/\/www.challengeentertainment.com\/&#8230;\/ballistic-bingo\/ <\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From WMC: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmcactionnews5.com\/2021\/01\/08\/homeless-fear-shelters-because-covid-\/\">Homeless fear shelters because of COVID-19<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Saw this on Twitter yesterday:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">In this day in 1493, Christopher Columbus mistook three manatees for mermaids. They&#8217;re &#8220;not half as beautiful as they are painted,&#8221; he noted.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zxQ44ThHyF\">https:\/\/t.co\/zxQ44ThHyF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mental Floss (@mental_floss) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mental_floss\/status\/1348009180263837696?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 9, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>(Insert Red Forman &#8220;DUMBASS&#8221; graphic here)<\/p>\n<p>Since it&#8217;s a slow day news-wise, I thought I&#8217;d share with you how I&#8217;ve been doing writing professionally on Medium. This is a chart of my activity in the past 30 days:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/stats01102021.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-24495\" src=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/stats01102021.jpg?resize=500%2C140\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/stats01102021.jpg?resize=500%2C140 500w, http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/stats01102021.jpg?resize=300%2C84 300w, http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/stats01102021.jpg?w=964 964w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The dots represent the days on which I posted. Last Saturday (January 2) I had ideas to do one post a day through Wednesday, January 6. Yesterday (January 9) I did another count and found I had ideas to do one post a day through Thursday, January 21. I am turning into an idea machine on there and am starting to get rewarded in terms of views, reads, and claps. I&#8217;m pretty excited!<\/p>\n<p>Time to hit Publish on here and go work on some of those Medium posts. Back tomorrow with more news.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/cdnjs.buymeacoffee.com\/1.0.0\/button.prod.min.js\" data-name=\"bmc-button\" data-slug=\"paulryburn\" data-color=\"#FF813F\" data-emoji=\"\" data-font=\"Arial\" data-text=\"Buy me a coffee\" data-outline-color=\"#000\" data-font-color=\"#fff\" data-coffee-color=\"#fd0\" ><\/script><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jennifer Biggs of the DM reports that rumors of Molly&#8217;s La Casita&#8217;s demise are premature. Molly&#8217;s closed on January 6 as a money-saving measure, but the closure is not permanent. They&#8217;re just waiting out COVID, and they&#8217;re understandably tired. From CNN: Pence has not ruled out 25th Amendment, source says. DO IT MIKE! DO IT &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/10\/sunday-update-97\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sunday update&#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\/24494"}],"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=24494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24496,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24494\/revisions\/24496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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