{"id":26840,"date":"2023-07-19T08:44:10","date_gmt":"2023-07-19T13:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=26840"},"modified":"2023-07-19T08:44:10","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T13:44:10","slug":"wednesday-update-240","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/19\/wednesday-update-240\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How about those storms last night!!! Friends of mine who live on Mud Island lost power. When I came home to my apartment near Madison and Main, my microwave read 88:88 (meaning it had briefly lost power) but my bedroom clock showed the correct time (meaning it hadn&#8217;t). Weird.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Expect lots of signals to be inoperable this morning due to power loss and damage. You&#8217;ll need extra time to get to work if traveling through areas with storm damage. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/memstorm?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#memstorm<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/upOjwgrP8f\">https:\/\/t.co\/upOjwgrP8f<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MemphisWeather.net (@memphisweather1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/memphisweather1\/status\/1681631554559262720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 19, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>If you think the weather sucks here, though, check out the 3-day forecast for Phoenix:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Today: Sunny 117\/91<\/li>\n<li>Thursday: Sunny 118\/91<\/li>\n<li>Friday: Partly cloudy 118\/93<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Downtown Neighborhood Association has announced its monthly meeting for July. It&#8217;ll be Tuesday the 25th from 5:30-7:30 PM at the Cossitt Library (northwest corner of Front and Monroe).\u00a0 Brian Lyles, the GM of the library, will be this month&#8217;s speaker, and everyone will get a tour.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to that, one lucky attendee will win a gift certificate to Dos Hermanos, the library&#8217;s cafe.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not the only DNA event coming up at the Cossitt, though. Come there this Thursday, July 20 at 7:30 PM for a free screening of <em>Ghostbusters<\/em> on the patio. Picnic baskets are welcome, but please, no glass.<\/p>\n<p>The Blind Bear has announced its specials for this week:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Broccoli cheese soup<\/li>\n<li>Sun-dried tomato chicken &amp; gnocchi<\/li>\n<li>Boozy Oreo ice cream sandwich<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>NBA commissioner Adam Silver named Seattle and Las Vegas as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nba\/news\/adam-silver-sets-potential-timeline-for-nba-expansion-names-two-cities-that-could-get-teams\/?fbclid=IwAR1nF-SUQUpT_prM_MysDfUoGPrueNP1TjKO7rMyaA0GKmGhArlCbmsrR5Y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">possible expansion cities<\/a>. If that happens, could Memphis move to the Eastern Conference?<\/p>\n<p>Today is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.checkiday.com\/66a84309c4ff249dbd15dac678af9334\/stick-out-your-tongue-day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stick Out Your Tongue Day<\/a>. Between that and the broccoli cheese soup special at Blind Bear, my friend Butt Slut #1 is having a good day.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.checkiday.com\/5debc34c28e354059b587d2bf18c45c6\/national-hot-dog-day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Hot Dog Day<\/a>. Recommendations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Double Dog at Dyer&#8217;s<\/li>\n<li>The Memphis Style Dog (topped with cheddar cheese, pulled pork, BBQ sauce) at Max&#8217;s Sports Bar<\/li>\n<li>Montreal Pool Room Steamies at Kooky Canuck<\/li>\n<li>The Daily Dog at Bardog Tavern<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Lucky 7 Brass Band headlines the Peabody rooftop party this Thursday. 6-10 PM, $15 to get in, $30 to go VIP. This week&#8217;s eats in the VIP section: Mediterranean chicken kabobs, lamb meatballs, and red pepper hummus with pita. Sign up to enter a drawing to win dinner for two at Chez Philippe or Maker&#8217;s Mark beach swag. The DJ will announce the winners at about 8 PM.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/573777798304413\/?acontext=%7B%22event_action_history%22%3A[%7B%22mechanism%22%3A%22discovery_this_week_tab%22%2C%22surface%22%3A%22bookmark%22%7D]%2C%22ref_notif_type%22%3Anull%7D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8217;90s trivia<\/a> tonight at 6:30 at Grind City Brewing.<\/p>\n<p>High-energy honky tonk rock band from Nashville <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/648859290625169\/?acontext=%7B%22event_action_history%22%3A[%7B%22mechanism%22%3A%22discovery_this_week_tab%22%2C%22surface%22%3A%22bookmark%22%7D]%2C%22ref_notif_type%22%3Anull%7D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Royal Hounds<\/a> plays Blues City Cafe Friday at 8.<\/p>\n<p>The DM&#8217;s Memphis Tigers Basketball Insider has <a href=\"https:\/\/dailymemphian.com\/section\/sportsmemphis-tigers-basketball\/article\/37357\/memphis-tigers-basketball-insider-closer-look-status-deandre-williams-ncaa-eligibility-case\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a closer look<\/a> at the case for one more year of eligibility for power forward DeAndre Williams.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fifa.com\/fifaplus\/en\/tournaments\/womens\/womensworldcup\/australia-new-zealand2023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FIFA Women&#8217;s World Cup<\/a> starts tomorrow. Group stage for USA:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>USA vs. Vietnam, Friday, July 21, 8 PM, FOX<\/li>\n<li>USA vs. Netherlands, Wednesday, July 26, 8 PM, FOX<\/li>\n<li>Portugal vs. USA, Tuesday, August 1, 2 AM, FOX<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s it for now. Reminder: I have a 10 AM job interview tomorrow, so tomorrow&#8217;s blog post will likely be short, late, or nonexistent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How about those storms last night!!! Friends of mine who live on Mud Island lost power. When I came home to my apartment near Madison and Main, my microwave read 88:88 (meaning it had briefly lost power) but my bedroom clock showed the correct time (meaning it hadn&#8217;t). Weird. Expect lots of signals to be &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/19\/wednesday-update-240\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wednesday 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\/26840"}],"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=26840"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26843,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26840\/revisions\/26843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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