{"id":29281,"date":"2025-11-12T11:19:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T17:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=29281"},"modified":"2025-11-12T11:19:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T17:19:10","slug":"wednesday-update-316","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/12\/wednesday-update-316\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There will be a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/718067704055491\/?acontext=%7B%22ref%22%3A%2252%22%2C%22action_history%22%3A%22[%7B%5C%22surface%5C%22%3A%5C%22share_link%5C%22%2C%5C%22mechanism%5C%22%3A%5C%22share_link%5C%22%2C%5C%22extra_data%5C%22%3A%7B%5C%22invite_link_id%5C%22%3A1142543681327133%7D%7D]%22%7D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Loflin Yard Sale<\/a> Saturday, November 22. Artists and makers will be there selling their creations; it&#8217;ll be a great chance to shop local for the holidays. If the weather&#8217;s nice they&#8217;ll be on the promenade along Carolina; if it sucks, they&#8217;ll be in the Coach House.<\/p>\n<p>Today is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.checkiday.com\/010ff5401e1db7e990b6f6dc4a230a4f\/happy-hour-day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Happy Hour Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ericaqualy.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Memphis Zine Fest<\/a> happens Sunday at Havenhaus, 84 East G.E. Patterson Ave. Free, all ages, with a focus on self-published local authors, poets, artists, and comics.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s look at college football games of interest this week.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>South Carolina at 3 Texas A&amp;M, 11:00 AM, ESPN<\/li>\n<li>9 Notre Dame at 22 Pitt, 11:00 AM, ABC<\/li>\n<li>24 South Florida at Navy, 11:00 AM, ESPN2<\/li>\n<li>Arkansas at LSU, Battle for the Boot, 11:45 AM, SEC Network<\/li>\n<li>North Texas at UAB, 1:00 PM, ESPN+<\/li>\n<li>11 Oklahoma at 4 Alabama, 2:30 PM, ABC<\/li>\n<li>21 Iowa at 17 USC, 2:30 PM, Big Ten Network<\/li>\n<li>Appalachian State at James Madison, 2:30 PM, ESPN+<\/li>\n<li><strong>Memphis at East Carolina, 3:00 PM, ESPNU<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>New Mexico State at 23 Tennessee, 3:15 PM, SEC Network<\/li>\n<li>Florida at 7 Ole Miss, 6:00 PM, ESPN<\/li>\n<li>10 Texas at 5 Georgia, 6:30 PM, ABC<\/li>\n<li>Mississippi State at Missouri, 6:45 PM, SEC Network<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mark your calendars: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnews5.com\/2025\/11\/11\/memphis-grizzlies-gray-media-expand-simulcast-seven-games-free-over-the-air-television-six-markets\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">You&#8217;ll be able to watch 7 Grizzlies games for free<\/a> in November, December, and January on Action News 5.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not one of the free broadcasts, but the Grizzlies are in Boston to play the Celtics tonight at 6:30. TV: FanDuel Sports<\/p>\n<p>FOX 13 looks at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13memphis.com\/news\/100-year-old-veteran-of-3-wars-honored-during-veterans-day-parade-in-memphis\/article_732508b1-2fc8-4f4c-8c3b-3cd4e673093e.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">yesterday&#8217;s Veterans&#8217; Day parade<\/a> down Second.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nba\/news\/early-nba-all-star-picks-24-players-for-us-world-teams-in-new-round-robin-format\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new format<\/a> to the NBA All-Star Game this year and boy does it sound stupid.<\/p>\n<p>Choose901 is looking for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jobleads.com\/register\/us\/81\/e172d9266249441f11dbf52efeae04f33?jmId=985&amp;jobLocation=1415036289&amp;utm_source=ziprecruiter%7Cr-jb%7Cc-us&amp;utm_medium=job-external&amp;utm_campaign=jobs&amp;utm_content=jobmarket-id=985%7Clandingpage-id=n\/a%7Cjob-id=172d9266249441f11dbf52efeae04f33%7Cjob-workarea=04-02%7Cjob-hierarchy=5%7Cjob-salary-benchmark=2%7Cjob-industry=%7Cjob-location=memphis%7Cjobtitle=marketing-coordinator&amp;ccuid=66800000264\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">marketing coordinator<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span data-tt=\"{&quot;paragraphStyle&quot;:{&quot;alignment&quot;:4}}\">I was a lottery loser at Room in the Inn last night. About 18 men showed up and the church had 10 spots. My name didn\u2019t get drawn. So I headed back down Poplar to the Union Mission and paid $6 to get in. I missed dinner. And they had Gus\u2019s! BLAST IT ALL! Bellevue Baptist was the guest church for chapel and they sent their Welcome U band\/choir, which develops the next generation of church youth leaders. They were excellent! <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-tt=\"{&quot;paragraphStyle&quot;:{&quot;alignment&quot;:4}}\">I showered and found a mat on the floor \u2013 I got there too late to get a bed \u2013 and fell asleep and dreamed that I had a red \u201868 Cutlass. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Back tomorrow with more news.<\/p>\n<p><span data-tt=\"{&quot;paragraphStyle&quot;:{&quot;alignment&quot;:4,&quot;writingDirection&quot;:1}}\"><em><strong>I gratefully accept tips:\u00a0<\/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>There will be a Loflin Yard Sale Saturday, November 22. Artists and makers will be there selling their creations; it&#8217;ll be a great chance to shop local for the holidays. If the weather&#8217;s nice they&#8217;ll be on the promenade along Carolina; if it sucks, they&#8217;ll be in the Coach House. Today is Happy Hour Day. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/12\/wednesday-update-316\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wednesday 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\/29281"}],"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=29281"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29285,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29281\/revisions\/29285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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