I just took a walk around Downtown, and realized that today is the first day of the annual COGIC convention.\u00a0 That means that Downtowners have additional dining options for lunch:\u00a0 Every year several food vendors set up shop at the corner of Main and Exchange to serve the COGIC crowd.\u00a0 Most of these vendors sell soul food.\u00a0 I’ve walked up there the past couple of years for lunch, and it’s GOOD.\u00a0 The vendors don’t care whether you’re a COGIC member or not, at least not from what I’ve experienced; if you have money, they’re happy to sell you food.\u00a0 With sunny weather and temps in the 70s at least through Wednesday, why not walk or trolley up there and give them a try?\u00a0 It’s something different than the usual Downtown lunch spots, and you can find park benches nearby on the Civic Center Plaza where you can sit and eat.<\/p>\n
The COGIC convention has also made me realize, it’s time to bring back The Window Game.\u00a0 This is something we created last year, where we count what we see from the Flying Saucer’s windows in various categories:\u00a0 bums, cars going the wrong way down Second, cars turning left from other than the left lane, appearances by Downtown homeless person Scratchy, police cars, etc.\u00a0 You can also invent your own custom categories (in the spring and summer I add a “tube top” category).\u00a0 It’s a lot of fun to sit there and drink and play the game.<\/p>\n
The Window Game: COGIC version is even more fun, because we add COGIC courtesy cars and vans as a new category, and also sequined hats.\u00a0 Last year we ran out of room on the scorecard counting those.\u00a0 This year I think I’ll print up some full-page scorecards so there’s plenty of room.<\/p>\n
Since I can make my own schedule these days, I’m going to back up my arrival time at Pint Nite to 4:30, so I have a better chance of getting a window seat.<\/p>\n
More to come this afternoon:\u00a0 I just learned that one of those really cool new enivronmentally-friendly houses in Uptown is for rent.\u00a0 Details to be posted in a couple of hours, after I get some work done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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