{"id":29439,"date":"2026-01-02T11:44:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T17:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=29439"},"modified":"2026-01-02T11:44:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T17:44:23","slug":"frupdate-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/02\/frupdate-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Frupdate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a tip I picked up from a bartender at Earnestine &amp; Hazel&#8217;s: Order Deep Eddy lemon vodka mixed with Tito&#8217;s handmade vodka. It&#8217;s a lemon drop, but ALL vodka, rather than just part.<\/p>\n<p>How bout that college football action yesterday! I was NOT expecting Indiana to blow out Bama 38-3. I thought the Hoosiers would win a close 60-minute battle. As my friend Randy says, this&#8217;ll shut up all the doubters. IU&#8217;s run is clearly not a fluke.<\/p>\n<p>Nor was I expecting Ole Miss to git-r-done vs. Georgia. Lots of &#8220;Kiffin, who needs him?&#8221; signs.<\/p>\n<p>So we have Oregon vs. Indiana and Miami vs. Ole Miss in the semis. I&#8217;ll take Indiana and Miami to get to the championship game, with the &#8216;Canes pulling a huge upset.<\/p>\n<p>Today is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.checkiday.com\/11927a6829fbb9556ebc989c8faf4bc2\/swiss-cheese-day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Swiss Cheese Day<\/a>. Celebrate with a Huey burger topped with Swiss. So good!<\/p>\n<p>The L.A. Lakers host the Grizzlies tonight at 9:30. TV: FanDuel Sports<\/p>\n<p>The Liberty Bowl, 22 Navy vs. Cincinnati, is today at 3:30. TV: ESPN<\/p>\n<p>Considering making an investment in myself. I need to do some product research over the weekend and will have more to say about it after that.<\/p>\n<p>Gonna watch the Liberty Bowl at the Saucer. After that I&#8217;ll probably stay out all night. There are only 4 hours (E&amp;H close to Chess Club open) when I&#8217;ll have to wander around outside in the cold.<\/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>Here&#8217;s a tip I picked up from a bartender at Earnestine &amp; Hazel&#8217;s: Order Deep Eddy lemon vodka mixed with Tito&#8217;s handmade vodka. It&#8217;s a lemon drop, but ALL vodka, rather than just part. How bout that college football action yesterday! I was NOT expecting Indiana to blow out Bama 38-3. I thought the Hoosiers &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/02\/frupdate-26\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Frupdate&#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\/29439"}],"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=29439"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29442,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29439\/revisions\/29442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->