{"id":28231,"date":"2024-10-24T10:50:01","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T15:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=28231"},"modified":"2024-10-24T10:50:01","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T15:50:01","slug":"thursday-update-321","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/24\/thursday-update-321\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the second-to-last Wednesday for chicken curry as the Majestic Grille&#8217;s soup special. Come November, chili returns on Wednesdays.<\/p>\n<p>A new convenience store, Sandra&#8217;s Sundries, is going to open on Adams between Front and Main in the northwest corner of the Claridge House. A sign in their window indicates they intend to carry beer.<\/p>\n<p>College football games of interest Saturday:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>12 Notre Dame at 24 Navy, 11:00 AM, ABC<\/li>\n<li>Oklahoma at 18 Ole Miss, 11:00 AM, ESPN<\/li>\n<li><strong>Charlotte at Memphis, 11:00 AM, ESPNU<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Arkansas at Mississippi State, 11:45 AM, SEC Network<\/li>\n<li>20 Illinois at 1 Oregon, 2:30 PM, CBS<\/li>\n<li>21 Missouri at 15 Alabama, 2:30 PM, ABC<\/li>\n<li>5 Texas at 25 Vanderbilt, 3:15 PM, SEC Network<\/li>\n<li>Troy at Arkansas State, 6:00 PM, ESPN+<\/li>\n<li>8 LSU at 14 Texas A&amp;M, 6:30 PM, ABC<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I walked all the way to the newly-reopened Zinnie&#8217;s Tuesday night and loved it. It was not busy\/crowded at all and such a nice change of pace from the Downtown bars.<\/p>\n<p>I got to chat with bartender Ashley and found out they&#8217;re still figuring out the menu. I told her how my mom and grandmother drove over in the summer of &#8217;95 and we ate at Zinnie&#8217;s East. Ashley said if she could find a copy of that menu, she might consider bringing an item or two back from it.<\/p>\n<p>For those of you who are Blind Bear alumni, the fabulous Maddie is working at Zinnie&#8217;s four nights a week. Tuesday was not one of them though.<\/p>\n<p>I wish I could put Zinnie&#8217;s in my regular rotation of places to visit, but it&#8217;s so far away. I was wheezing and having to stop to lean against lamp posts on my walk back Downtown.<\/p>\n<p>One other thing I like about Zinnie&#8217;s: They close at a HARD THREE every night. Not, &#8220;Well, we tell people we close at 3, but if there&#8217;s not a lot of people in here at 2:05 we might decide to close early.&#8221; I HATE IT when bars do that.<\/p>\n<p>Downtown construction site managers: Suggestion for you based on some things I&#8217;ve seen. If your project location is a block from a bar, you might wanna subject your workers to a random Breathalyzer. Heavy machinery and being fucked up don&#8217;t go together. Just sayin&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Grizzlies 126, Utah 124 last night. Ja and Des each dropped 20+, which is to be expected, but so did Santi Aldama. Next up: Friday at Houston.<\/p>\n<p>Back as soon as I can be.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>It\u2019s free to read this blog, but I gratefully accept tips!\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<\/strong>Venmo:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/account.venmo.com\/u\/Paul-Ryburn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">@Paul-Ryburn<\/a>\u00a0(8113 if it asks for digits)<br \/>\nCash App: $PaulRyburn1<br \/>\nZelle: paul@paulryburn.com<br \/>\nApple Pay: paul.ryburn@gmail.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the second-to-last Wednesday for chicken curry as the Majestic Grille&#8217;s soup special. Come November, chili returns on Wednesdays. A new convenience store, Sandra&#8217;s Sundries, is going to open on Adams between Front and Main in the northwest corner of the Claridge House. A sign in their window indicates they intend to carry beer. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/24\/thursday-update-321\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Thursday 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\/28231"}],"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=28231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28232,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28231\/revisions\/28232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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