{"id":28728,"date":"2025-06-02T08:26:29","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T13:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=28728"},"modified":"2025-06-02T08:26:29","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T13:26:29","slug":"monday-update-266","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/02\/monday-update-266\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People have been asking what I think of the new barstools at Bardog. I\u2019ll give you my honest review, now that I\u2019ve had the weekend to try them out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_0040-1-scaled.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-28731\" src=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_0040-1.jpeg?resize=375%2C500\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_0040-1-scaled.jpeg?resize=375%2C500 375w, http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_0040-1-scaled.jpeg?resize=225%2C300 225w, http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_0040-1-scaled.jpeg?resize=1152%2C1536 1152w, http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_0040-1-scaled.jpeg?resize=1536%2C2048 1536w, http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_0040-1-scaled.jpeg?resize=1200%2C1600 1200w, http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_0040-1-scaled.jpeg?w=1920 1920w, http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_0040-1-scaled.jpeg?w=1680 1680w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 375px) 85vw, 375px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>First of all, I like the tricolor red, tan, and black scheme. It adds personality to the place. Aldo has said that Bardog is not a dive bar, and the new seats reinforce that.<\/p>\n<p>They have more padding than the old seats, which is good for sitting. They sit about an inch higher than the old stools, making it easier to reach your food on that high bar.<\/p>\n<p>My one criticism of the new stools is that there\u2019s too many of them. They are so close to each other, wedged in so tight that I can\u2019t easily swivel out to make a run to the bathroom or to stand up to grab my wallet out of my back pocket. Removing a stool or two to give the remainder of the stools \u201croom to breathe,\u201d so to speak, would help.<\/p>\n<p>May I make a suggestion for a day for you to come try the new stools for yourself? Saturday, June 7 is the <a href=\"https:\/\/events.midsouthpride.org\/event\/mid-south-pride-fest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pride parade<\/a> on Beale Street. Bardog is always a huge spot for pre-gaming that day. It\u2019s always one of the most fun days of the year up there. Come support your LGBTQ friends and try the new red, black, and tan stools.<\/p>\n<p>I met some people from the <a href=\"https:\/\/department.va.gov\/veteran-sports\/national-veterans-golden-age-games\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Veterans&#8217; Golden Age Games<\/a> this weekend. We are fortunate to have such a wonderful event in town.<\/p>\n<p>I have some things to do today so I&#8217;m gonna cut this one short.<\/p>\n<p><span data-tt=\"{&quot;paragraphStyle&quot;:{&quot;alignment&quot;:4,&quot;writingDirection&quot;:1}}\"><em><strong>I gratefully accept tips:<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<\/span>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>People have been asking what I think of the new barstools at Bardog. I\u2019ll give you my honest review, now that I\u2019ve had the weekend to try them out. First of all, I like the tricolor red, tan, and black scheme. It adds personality to the place. Aldo has said that Bardog is not a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/02\/monday-update-266\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Monday 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\/28728"}],"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=28728"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28732,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28728\/revisions\/28732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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