{"id":29552,"date":"2026-02-04T10:30:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T16:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=29552"},"modified":"2026-02-04T10:30:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T16:30:06","slug":"wednesday-update-326","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/04\/wednesday-update-326\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I ALMOST made it through the winter storm of &#8217;26 without incident.<\/p>\n<p>After 11 days of successfully walking around Downtown, yesterday my feet managed to find one of the few remaining patches of black ice on N. Fourth Street and down I went. Some kind people helped me up. I was not hurt.<\/p>\n<p>Beale Street Bears&#8217; Abbas Bokhari <a href=\"https:\/\/bealestreetbears.com\/grizzlies-trading-jaren-jackson-jr-turns-fear-into-unavoidable-reality\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reacts to the Jaren Jackson, Jr. trade<\/a>. Bleacher Report <a href=\"https:\/\/bleacherreport.com\/articles\/25386415-grading-blockbuster-jaren-jackson-jr-trade-between-memphis-grizzlies-and-utah-jazz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">graded the trade a D+<\/a> for Memphis and a B+ for Utah.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/shorts\/hDty8cQgEbs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Grizzly (not basketball) cam<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Consider jetting out of work early this afternoon to catch the 5 PM Peabody duck march, for this is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.checkiday.com\/1215e1a7165988a210edba075ee42154\/national-quacker-day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Quacker Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Loflin Yard is having a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/2097787547701168\/?acontext=%7B%22source%22%3A%2229%22%2C%22ref_notif_type%22%3A%22event_profile_plus_create%22%2C%22action_history%22%3A%22null%22%7D&amp;notif_id=1770142719000000&amp;notif_t=event_profile_plus_create&amp;ref=notif\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">watch party<\/a> for that football game on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Momma&#8217;s burger of the week is a mushroom Swiss burger with crispy bacon, sauteed onions, and Momma&#8217;s mayo.<\/p>\n<p>The Grizz are on the road until the All-Star break. Tonight: at Sacramento, 9:00. TV: FanDuel Sports<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/02\/03\/nx-s1-5689901\/2026-winter-olympics-preview?utm_campaign=mb&amp;utm_medium=newsletter&amp;utm_source=morning_brew\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Winter Olympics storylines<\/a> to keep an eye on<\/p>\n<p>Friday night, February 6, South Main Sounds will host a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1516010956328081\/?acontext=%7B%22source%22%3A%2229%22%2C%22ref_notif_type%22%3A%22plan_user_invited%22%2C%22action_history%22%3A%22null%22%7D&amp;notif_id=1770158803367757&amp;notif_t=plan_user_invited&amp;ref=notif\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">qualifying event<\/a> for Tennessee Songwriters Week. Then on Saturday, Alexis Jade, Josh Green and Carter Wenger will bring <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1185900310324985\/?acontext=%7B%22source%22%3A%2229%22%2C%22ref_notif_type%22%3A%22plan_user_invited%22%2C%22action_history%22%3A%22null%22%7D&amp;notif_id=1770158738367788&amp;notif_t=plan_user_invited&amp;ref=notif\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Outlaw Country<\/a> to South Main Sounds.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/playabowls.com\/location\/memphis-the-edge-district-tn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Playa Bowls<\/a> will have its grand opening in The Edge Saturday at 11 AM. First 50 get a free bowl and T-shirt.<\/p>\n<p>Just in time for the big game, Memphis Made has $20 specials on select cases of beer in its taproom all week.<\/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>Well, I ALMOST made it through the winter storm of &#8217;26 without incident. After 11 days of successfully walking around Downtown, yesterday my feet managed to find one of the few remaining patches of black ice on N. Fourth Street and down I went. Some kind people helped me up. I was not hurt. Beale &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/04\/wednesday-update-326\/\" 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\/29552"}],"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=29552"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29557,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29552\/revisions\/29557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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