{"id":28432,"date":"2025-03-03T09:40:44","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T15:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=28432"},"modified":"2025-03-03T09:40:44","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T15:40:44","slug":"monday-update-mood-aggravated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/03\/monday-update-mood-aggravated\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday update (mood: aggravated)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GoDaddy is the Ticketmaster of web hosting.<\/p>\n<p>Remember how I said my hosting for this blog was set to renew in early March, and that I had the money to pay it in my Venmo account?<\/p>\n<p>Well, I thought I did. But GoDaddy didn&#8217;t tell me about additional taxes and fees that would be added on last-minute. My payment was declined. Venmo notified me that I was less than $10 short.<\/p>\n<p>My stress level was off the chart. It all worked out though &#8211; a friend stuck the difference in my Venmo account and I retried the transaction. It processed successfully. So y&#8217;all are stuck with this blog for another year.<\/p>\n<p>Heard a couple of rumors that I&#8217;ll share&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>One rumor is that the Downtown core is getting another chicken restaurant. This one, I&#8217;m told, won&#8217;t serve alcohol, although it will be in a location where alcohol was once served.<\/p>\n<p>Hmmm&#8230; with Crazy Coop and Wingman both recent additions to the area, I wonder if the dining scene is getting oversaturated with chicken.<\/p>\n<p>The other rumor is a caveat emptor for Downtown renters. Let&#8217;s say you pay $1700 a month for your place. You get a notice on your door saying your lease is due for renewal at the new rate of $1800. But you do some searching online and find that similar units in your building are being advertised for $1500. You go to the leasing office with this info, and they write you up a new lease for $1500.<\/p>\n<p>Vacancies are high right now and the core is a renters&#8217; market.<\/p>\n<p>The Trumpster will address a joint session of Congress Tuesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2025\/02\/21\/state-of-the-union-donald-trump\/79468193007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">but it&#8217;s technically not a State of the Union<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Today is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.checkiday.com\/5cfa3b4d4fe64738f93b7dbb739dbd0c\/national-moscow-mule-day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Moscow Mule Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>MemphisWeather.net has a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.memphisweather.net\/blog\/2025\/03\/02\/spring-severe-weather-threat-on-tuesday\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blog post<\/a> about Tuesday&#8217;s severe weather threat.<\/p>\n<p>7 PM sunsets! &#8230; Daylight Time starts Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/calvarymemphis.org\/learn\/lenten-preaching-series\/waffle-shop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Calvary Waffle Shop<\/a> opens for the Lenten season Wednesday. Read my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/23\/finally-i-visited-calvary-waffle-shop-friday-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 2024 Waffle Shop review<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it for now. Back tomorrow &#8211; and most of the next 365 days &#8211; with more news.<\/p>\n<p><em>It\u2019s free to read this blog, but I gratefully accept tips!\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\nVenmo:\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>GoDaddy is the Ticketmaster of web hosting. Remember how I said my hosting for this blog was set to renew in early March, and that I had the money to pay it in my Venmo account? Well, I thought I did. But GoDaddy didn&#8217;t tell me about additional taxes and fees that would be added &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/03\/monday-update-mood-aggravated\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Monday update (mood: aggravated)&#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\/28432"}],"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=28432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28433,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28432\/revisions\/28433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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