{"id":24509,"date":"2021-01-16T06:55:10","date_gmt":"2021-01-16T12:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=24509"},"modified":"2021-01-16T06:55:10","modified_gmt":"2021-01-16T12:55:10","slug":"saturday-update-154","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/16\/saturday-update-154\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are now in the last 7 days of the Safer at Home order and Health Directive 16. Health department officials say all options are on the table for when the directive expires at 11:59 PM Friday &#8211; extending the restrictions, making some minor adjustments to them, or rolling them back in a sweeping way. However, this tweet from 117 Prime steakhouse is promising:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Mark your calendars! &#x2611;&#xfe0f; 117 Prime is opening back up on January 22nd and we can\u2019t wait! We\u2019ve missed bringing you delicious food &amp; wine, so the countdown is on! See you soon&#8230;&#8230;.. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/he95kIs3U2\">pic.twitter.com\/he95kIs3U2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 117 Prime (@117PrimeMem) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/117PrimeMem\/status\/1350230503912312834?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 15, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have this confirmed, but having observed many health directives come and go, it&#8217;s my theory that the restaurants have an &#8220;inside line&#8221; to the health department. Meaning, assuming current conditions remain largely unchanged, they&#8217;re given a rough idea in advance of what the health department intends to do. It gives them time to hire employees back and order inventory so they can hit the ground running.<\/p>\n<p>117 Prime setting a reopening date seems like a sign that the ridiculously stupid 25% capacity restriction on restaurants is going away.<\/p>\n<p>You know, a bartender friend of mine posted to Facebook that he received his W-2 yesterday. He made about 35% of what he would have reasonably expected to make at the start of 2020, but had 100% of the bills. That&#8217;s the situation our service industry folks have been in for 10 months now. A Shelby County grant of $1000 per worker is nice, but it in no way is fair compensation for what these folks have been put through. Enough is enough. It&#8217;s time to open up.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailymemphian.com\/section\/metro\/article\/19332\/memphis-man-charged-in-capitol-riots\">The owner of Primetime Movers has been charged in the Capitol riots.<\/a> This is not the only time recently he has been in trouble with the law &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scoopmemphis.com\/news\/2020\/11\/owner-of-primetime-movers-throws-wife-by-her-throat-in-front-of-their-daughters\/\">he was featured in Scoop Memphis<\/a> late last year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodmorningamerica.com\/food\/story\/order-girl-scout-cookies-online-year-grubhub-75199319?utm_source=morning_brew\">You can order Girl Scout Cookies to be delivered through GrubHub<\/a> for 2021. Even the Girl Scouts are pivoting to these pandemic times.<\/p>\n<p>Neat site I discovered yesterday: <a href=\"https:\/\/bennettfeely.com\/antiweather\/?utm_source=morning_brew\">Antiweather.<\/a> You choose your location and it gives you the weather at your location and the exact opposite location on Earth by latitude and longitude. Let&#8217;s give this a try. As of 5:56 AM Central Standard Time:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Memphis: Partly cloudy, 33 F<\/li>\n<li>Indian Ocean: Clear, 66 F<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Apparently, nearly the entire continental US corresponds to the Indian Ocean, confounding a goal many children have of digging a hole so deep that they end up in China. The only US location I could get to correspond to land was<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Honolulu: Clear, 74 F<\/li>\n<li>Ghanzi District, Botswana: Overcast, 84 F<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you liked the two stories above, I got them from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.morningbrew.com\/daily\/r?kid=b392e100\">Morning Brew<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.morningbrew.com\/sidekick\">Sidekick newsletter<\/a>, a &#8220;newsletter full of ideas&#8221; that&#8217;s emailed Monday and Thursday afternoons.<\/p>\n<p>The Memphis Grizzlies&#8217; game at Minnesota was postponed last night after Timerwolves&#8217; center <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/30719214\/minnesota-timberwolves-karl-anthony-towns-says-tested-positive-covid-19\">Karl-Anthony Towns tested positive for COVID-19<\/a>. KAT&#8217;s mother was one of the first in the U.S. to catch the virus and she passed away from complications last April. Get well soon, KAT, and we&#8217;ll see you on the court.<\/p>\n<p>Look for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.memphisflyer.com\/NewsBlog\/archives\/2021\/01\/15\/temporary-downtown-gallery-features-regional-artists\">a pop-up art gallery<\/a> at 55 S. Main for the next 6 months, featuring regional artists.\u00a0Cat &amp; Nick Pe\u00f1a are the current exhibitors, and they&#8217;ll do a live Zoom interview next Friday 6-7. It&#8217;s part of the DMC&#8217;s Open on Main project to keep storefronts on the pedestrian mall occupied and open for business. You can safely view the artwork from outside if you&#8217;re scared of COVID. The pop-up gallery is just steps away from Ben-Yay&#8217;s, so my suggestion would be to stop in for some gumbo and the signature beignets before or after you view the art.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a booklet that advises readers to remain 6 feet apart, to avoid shaking hands, and to send only one person from a household out to shop. What sets this booklet apart is that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/future\/article\/20210107-the-432-year-old-manual-on-social-distancing\">it was published in the 1580s<\/a>. One can imagine the 16x-great-grandmother of Dr. Haushalter at a Renaissance-era podium telling people how to stop spreading the plague.<\/p>\n<p>The Grizzlies host the Philadelphia 76ers tonight at 7. Catch the game on Fox Sports Southeast.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the news today. Not much going on this cold late-pandemic weekend. Back tomorrow.<\/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>We are now in the last 7 days of the Safer at Home order and Health Directive 16. Health department officials say all options are on the table for when the directive expires at 11:59 PM Friday &#8211; extending the restrictions, making some minor adjustments to them, or rolling them back in a sweeping way. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/16\/saturday-update-154\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Saturday 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\/24509"}],"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=24509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24510,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24509\/revisions\/24510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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