Just a reminder that the Red Rooster’s “Girls’ Night Out” is tonight from 6 to 9 PM.\u00a0 Girls only during those hours, with drink specials, food, and prize giveaways.\u00a0 Ladies, if you’re looking for somewhere to go with your best friends tonight after work, this would be a good spot.\u00a0 Guys will be admitted after 9.<\/p>\n
A big win for the Handling-Panhandling<\/a> forum and the CCC’s Downtown Safety Task Force:\u00a0 Over the past year we’ve repeatedly posted about one particular parking scammer who pretends that he works on the Premier lot at Main and Beale, as well as other locations around Downtown.\u00a0 Well, yesterday the CCC safety director informed me that the owner of the lot swore out an Authorization of Agency against the scammer, not only for the Main\/Beale lot but for 5 other Premier Parking lots Downtown.\u00a0 If a police officer catches him on any of those lots in the future, he will now go straight to jail for criminal trespass.\u00a0 The Downtown security patrol will carry copies of the Authorization of Agency on them at all times, so if they see him on the lots, all they have to do is make a phone call and he gets a ride to 201 Poplar.\u00a0 This guy is most certainly not homeless, is usually well-dressed with neatly pressed clothes, often the same colors as the actual lot attendants.\u00a0 Maybe he’ll finally move on now.<\/p>\n Note for people planning holiday\/Christmas parties:\u00a0 If at all possible, make sure everyone knows about them at least a week in advance.\u00a0 If you announce a party 3-4 days before it happens, a lot of the guests are already going to be committed elsewhere this time of year.\u00a0 That said, if I have any parties on the 18th to attend that I haven’t been told about, please let me know by the end of the day.\u00a0 Otherwise I’m going to accept a very interesting invitation that arrived in my e-mail Inbox this morning.\u00a0 (Edit:<\/strong> Just checked Facebook Events and remembered that’s the night of a very large, can’t-miss private party elsewhere in Downtown.)<\/p>\n Fun night last night!\u00a0 Mpact Memphis’<\/a> holiday party was at a private residence on Mud Island, and it was a lot of fun.\u00a0 It really drew upon the group’s diversity.\u00a0 There were a variety of dishes, all prepared by members, which are the kind of dishes they prepare for their own holiday celebrations.\u00a0 There was also a discussion of Christmas traditions observed by Mpact members, and several charities and nonprofits presented opportunities to donate in someone’s name as alternatives to traditional gift-giving.\u00a0 I’ll say it once again to my friends who were active with me in Mpact in 2002-04:\u00a0 It’s fun again.\u00a0 Time to come back and give it another try.\u00a0 I hear they’re planning a beer tasting in early ’09.\u00a0 Hmmm may have to show up for that one.<\/p>\n As the party wound down, my friend Sam asked me, “Hey, do you want to go to the Saucer?”\u00a0 Do fish like water?\u00a0 So I drove back to the Downtown core and headed up there.\u00a0 We hung out for a couple of hours, and I filled him in a lot of details like how I became part of the Sunday brunch crew, how my group of friends all got to know each other, etc.\u00a0 Sam took off about 11, and I hung out at the bar for a little while, then my friend Kacy saw me and said to come join her group.<\/p>\n After a little while, someone suggested a venue change to Bardog.\u00a0 I’m always up for Bardog, so I said I’d meet them there.\u00a0 They took a cab from Saucer to Bardog, a 3-block trip.\u00a0 Geez.\u00a0 I refused to take part in the cab ride and walked there to meet them.<\/p>\n We ended up sitting in the corner booth near the kitchen.\u00a0 Kacy and her date had been to Felicia Suzanne’s for dinner and raved about it.\u00a0 “The service was impeccable,” she told me.\u00a0 “We had 5 people waiting on us.\u00a0 I’ve eaten there maybe 30 times and the food is always so consistently good.”<\/p>\n I tried to get some of the Bud Light and Miller Lite drinkers at the table to upgrade to PBR, but didn’t have much luck.\u00a0 They left about 1:30 and I moved to the bar, where some of the Saucer waitresses had come for a drink after their shift ended.\u00a0 One more PBR and I was home as the clock struck 2.<\/p>\n 7 hours’ sleep and I was in front of the computer at 9 AM this morning, ready to get started on the personal finance software I plan to unveil in early January.\u00a0 The program is just so brilliant.\u00a0 I can’t wait to get it out there.<\/p>\n In summary, life is good.\u00a0 I’ll probably be out somewhere tonight, not sure where.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Just a reminder that the Red Rooster’s “Girls’ Night Out” is tonight from 6 to 9 PM.\u00a0 Girls only during those hours, with drink specials, food, and prize giveaways.\u00a0 Ladies, if you’re looking for somewhere to go with your best friends tonight after work, this would be a good spot.\u00a0 Guys will be admitted after … Continue reading “Thur update: Girls’ Night at Rooster reminder, parking scammer, Wed night 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