Some of you have observed that I’ve been in a weird mood for the past several days. And indeed, something was going on that I hadn’t talked about on here. I’d received several notices from GoDaddy that my domain was about to expire over the weekend, and that an attempt would be made to auto-renew.<\/p>\n
Except, it would attempt to hit a bank account that had been closed for having a negative balance for too long. And the auto-pay would fail. And I’d lose paulryburn.com, a domain I’ve owned for 26 years. And people would no longer be able to find my blog.<\/p>\n
Let’s get on to the news and then return to this story…<\/p>\n
Congratulations to Penny’s Memphis Tigers on an excellent 81-75 win over 21 Texas A&M in College Station yesterday! Now can Memphis please be ranked in the AP Top 25?<\/p>\n
Sugar Grits is looking for hosts, servers, and line cooks. Apply here.<\/a><\/p>\n StyleBlueprint recently profiled<\/a> Blind Bear owner Jeannette Lay.<\/p>\n Congratulations to Memphis Made Brewing Co. on their expansion into Missouri. Bommarito Wines & Spirits, based in St. Louis, will distribute Memphis Made beer throughout the state.<\/p>\n Kyrie Irving has been ruled out<\/a> by the Dallas Mavericks for tonight’s game against the Memphis Grizzlies. That will allow Memphis to focus a little more on shutting down the team’s other superstar, Luka Doncic.<\/p>\n For those of you who hate those stupid Bird e-scooters as much as I do: Bird the company behind the scooters, the fastest startup company to ever reach a valuation of $1 billion, is now worth 0.7% of that amount and has been delisted by the New York Stock Exchange. (Source: Morning Brew e-newsletter)<\/p>\n Thursday is Free Shipping Day<\/a> with more than 1000 retailers participating and offering delivery by Christmas.<\/p>\n Christmas with CoroRio<\/a> comes to the Cannon Center this Saturday.<\/p>\n Eight & Sand Lounge in Central Station Hotel will be closed for a private event Friday afternoon\/evening.<\/p>\n Today’s specials at Bardog:<\/p>\n I haven’t written anything professionally on Medium.com in over a year. But my stuff is still on there. So paid members of that site can still read it – and when they do, I get royalties. Due to my inactivity on the platform, my days of 3- and 4-figure royalties are gone… but they’re not zero.<\/p>\n For November, I earned $22.74.<\/p>\n Medium disbursed royalties this past weekend using a payment system you may have heard of called Stripe.<\/p>\n In other payment news this past weekend, as I mentioned at the top of this blog, is that GoDaddy attempted to charge me $21.00 to renew my paulryburn.com domain.<\/p>\n One thing I forgot to mention, though – a bank account on file is actually the SECOND place GoDaddy looks for payment. It first looks for a PayPal account. I have one of those, so GoDaddy found it.<\/p>\n PayPal owns Stripe.<\/p>\n So it found my $22.74 balance from my Medium disbursement. And it SUCCESSFULLY ran a charge of $21.00 and renewed my domain! paulryburn.com is mine for another year!<\/p>\n It’s not the last problem of this type I will face – my blog’s hosting will attempt to renew on March 2, and it’s a much larger amount – but for now I haven’t lost my voice. I haven’t lost my little corner of the Internet.<\/p>\n Someone – my Higher Self, God, All That Is, however you choose to think of it – was watching out for me this past weekend.<\/p>\n I got 99 problems, but a domain name ain’t one. Back tomorrow with more news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Some of you have observed that I’ve been in a weird mood for the past several days. And indeed, something was going on that I hadn’t talked about on here. I’d received several notices from GoDaddy that my domain was about to expire over the weekend, and that an attempt would be made to auto-renew. … Continue reading “Monday update”<\/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\/27366"}],"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=27366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27367,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27366\/revisions\/27367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n