{"id":2653,"date":"2008-10-12T14:42:45","date_gmt":"2008-10-12T19:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=2653"},"modified":"2008-10-12T14:42:45","modified_gmt":"2008-10-12T19:42:45","slug":"second-sun-update-branch-office-new-website-civic-center-plaza-tour-last-day-for-70-off-gift-certificates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/12\/second-sun-update-branch-office-new-website-civic-center-plaza-tour-last-day-for-70-off-gift-certificates\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Sun update: Branch office, new website, Civic Center Plaza tour, last day for 70% off gift certificates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sitting here at Bardog Tavern working on my laptop, mooching off someone&#8217;s unsecured wireless network nearby.\u00a0 Just getting the feeling of being here on a Sunday afternoon&#8230; ahhh.\u00a0 This is comfortable.\u00a0 I may start hanging out here on Sundays more.\u00a0 They tell me they&#8217;re going to start doing breakfast in the near future too.\u00a0 I&#8217;m getting a lot of work done, enough that I&#8217;m going to go ahead and start calling this place the Monroe Avenue Branch Office.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m now ready to unveil my latest website, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.savingconsumerstime.com\/\"><strong>Saving Consumers Time<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 This will be a site where I go out and find the best products and best values on Amazon and other well-respected retailers, and summarize the reviews I find.\u00a0 So far I&#8217;ve posted four reviews:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.savingconsumerstime.com\/2008\/10\/robotic-vacuum-cleaner-reviews-the-irobot-roomba-dirt-dog-and-scooba\/\">Robotic vacuum cleaners (these are a lot of fun, especially if you have a cat, and they do a great job)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.savingconsumerstime.com\/2008\/10\/best-outdoor-turkey-fryer-and-electric-turkey-fryer-products\/\">Turkey fryers.\u00a0 Thanksgiving&#8217;s coming up, and there&#8217;s nothing like a fried turkey injected with Cajun seasoning.\u00a0 Review includes oil-free and indoor options too.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.savingconsumerstime.com\/2008\/10\/compact-camera-reviews-super-zoom-cameras-including-panasonic-lumix-and-others\/\">Little cameras with big zoom.\u00a0 I love my 10x zoom Panasonic Lumix, so this was an easy review to write.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.savingconsumerstime.com\/2008\/10\/self-cleaning-shaver-systems-including-braun-8985-shaver-braun-8995-shaver\/\">Self-cleaning men&#8217;s shavers &#8211; shavers that come with a cleaning system for the ultimate in shaving hygiene.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I hope you find the new site useful.\u00a0 If there are any product categories in particular you&#8217;d like me to review, let me know.<\/p>\n<p>Last day for 70% off on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dpbolvw.net\/click-2269484-10422977\" target=\"_top\">Restaurant.com<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ftjcfx.com\/image-2269484-10422977\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/> gift certificates.\u00a0 As I explained Friday, many restaurants in the area (Circa, Stella, Majestic Grille, Big Foot, McEwen&#8217;s on Monroe, etc.) take them.\u00a0 They&#8217;re normally $25 face value (some restrictions apply) for $10, but with the 70% off sale they&#8217;re $25 face value for $3.\u00a0 Not bad.\u00a0 Sale ends at midnight (not sure which time zone, so really, sometime between 11 PM and 2 AM) tonight.\u00a0 Click the link through to their site, and use promo code SAVE to get the 70% discount.<\/p>\n<p>This Thursday, October 16 at lunchtime, historian Jimmy Ogle will host a tour of the Civic Center Plaza, and of the courthouses and churches in the area.\u00a0 This 45-minute walking tour begins at 11:45 AM.\u00a0 Meet at the clock tower in front of City Hall on the plaza.<\/p>\n<p>All right.\u00a0 Time for lunch at Bardog &#8211; I&#8217;m thinking about their deluxe grilled cheese sandwich today, with ham and bacon added.\u00a0 Sounds like a winner.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll see how it stacks up against the Majestic&#8217;s.\u00a0 Also, bartender Brittney (nice to have a bartender named Brittney who doesn&#8217;t suck) mentioned something about a Bloody Mary, and it sounds like I need to try one of those.\u00a0 Logging off for now&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sitting here at Bardog Tavern working on my laptop, mooching off someone&#8217;s unsecured wireless network nearby.\u00a0 Just getting the feeling of being here on a Sunday afternoon&#8230; ahhh.\u00a0 This is comfortable.\u00a0 I may start hanging out here on Sundays more.\u00a0 They tell me they&#8217;re going to start doing breakfast in the near future too.\u00a0 I&#8217;m &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/12\/second-sun-update-branch-office-new-website-civic-center-plaza-tour-last-day-for-70-off-gift-certificates\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Second Sun update: Branch office, new website, Civic Center Plaza tour, last day for 70% off gift certificates&#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\/2653"}],"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=2653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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