{"id":29348,"date":"2025-12-04T11:14:46","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T17:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=29348"},"modified":"2025-12-04T11:14:46","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T17:14:46","slug":"thursday-update-368","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/04\/thursday-update-368\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_0134-scaled.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-29350\" src=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_0134.jpeg?resize=426%2C500\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_0134-scaled.jpeg?resize=426%2C500 426w, http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_0134-scaled.jpeg?resize=256%2C300 256w, http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_0134-scaled.jpeg?resize=1309%2C1536 1309w, http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_0134-scaled.jpeg?resize=1745%2C2048 1745w, http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_0134-scaled.jpeg?resize=1200%2C1409 1200w, http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_0134-scaled.jpeg?w=1680 1680w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 426px) 85vw, 426px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Peppermint cake at the Memphis Chess Club<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Looking for a warm, cozy place to work or chill? Try the mezzanine of the Memphis Chess Club. Heat rises. When it&#8217;s 70 in the main dining area, it&#8217;s about 76 up there.<\/p>\n<p>The latest CBS Sports <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-football\/bowls\/predictions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bowl projections<\/a> have Memphis vs. Arkansas State in the Birmingham Bowl Monday, December 29. For the Liberty Bowl in Memphis on January 2, they project TCU vs. Tulane.<\/p>\n<p>Today is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.checkiday.com\/349e7b433a73aab06b386df5e98a17cb\/national-cookie-day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Cookie Day<\/a>. Makeda&#8217;s at 301 Jefferson, Cookie Plug and Butteriffic on Second, and Insomnia Cookies on Beale Street would be my recommendations to celebrate.<\/p>\n<p>Get 20% off food now through Sunday at the following restaurants when you show your St. Jude race registration, bib, or medal.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bardog, 73 Monroe<\/li>\n<li>Aldo&#8217;s Pizza Pies, 100 S. Main<\/li>\n<li>Slider Inn, Mulberry at Talbot<\/li>\n<li>Momma&#8217;s, E.H. Crump Blvd. at Kentucky<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wreg.com\/news\/local\/steve-cropper-stax-records-guitar-legend-dies-at-84\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RIP Steve Cropper<\/a> of Booker T &amp; the MGs.<\/p>\n<p>Back tomorrow with a Frupdate.<\/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>Peppermint cake at the Memphis Chess Club Looking for a warm, cozy place to work or chill? Try the mezzanine of the Memphis Chess Club. Heat rises. When it&#8217;s 70 in the main dining area, it&#8217;s about 76 up there. The latest CBS Sports bowl projections have Memphis vs. Arkansas State in the Birmingham Bowl &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/04\/thursday-update-368\/\" 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\/29348"}],"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=29348"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29351,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29348\/revisions\/29351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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