Today is a personal holiday for me. Everyone should have personal holidays, days on which they celebrate the important milestones in their lives that arrive with the changing of the seasons.<\/p>\n
Yesterday after I made my blog post, I walked to the Union Mission and checked in for the night. My name got called to take a shower and I proceeded to the clothes closet desk. “Do you have any shorts that are size 34?” I asked.<\/p>\n
The attendant went to a shelf and pulled a pair of jean cutoff shorts. In the past I have refused to rock the jorts, but what the hell. I have no shame anymore. I rolled up the legs to hit right above the knee.<\/p>\n
So yeah, today is the first full day in shorts in 2026<\/strong>, a personal holiday for me. I’m gonna celebrate by staying out of the Mission and playing Saucer trivia tonight. I’m also gonna pet a dog named Grizzy.<\/p>\n Oh, by the way… guess what was for dinner last night at the Mission? Beef stew. As I typed about it yesterday, I imagined chewing the fat & gristle… I could smell it… I could taste it. It was a classic case of manifesting the very outcome I didn’t want. I need to stop doing that.<\/p>\n Today my energy is better and I’m imagining chewing, tasting, and smelling one of those new muffaletta pizzas at Memphis Chess Club.<\/p>\n From the Memphis Flyer: Food veterans Hugh Balthrop and David Lorrison have reimagined the menu at The Archives,<\/a> the bar inside Hotel Napoleon. Go get you some Elvis Overnight Oats for breakfast!<\/p>\n Good Fortune Co. will launch Mekong Sticky Rice Lager, a collab with Flyway Brewing, Friday at Trolley Night. 4 DJs. Free beer samples if you dance.<\/p>\n Two eastbound lanes will be closed on the I-40 bridge through Saturday for Mighty Lights repairs.<\/p>\n HUNGRY<\/a>, a movie about a raging hippo, hits theaters this week.<\/p>\n The Mama Jama is the burger of the week at Momma’s: smoked Gouda cheese, bacon jam, caramelized onions, and BBQ sauce.<\/p>\n In other Momma’s news, crawfish return this Saturday, noon til they run out. Live music on the patio by Skyler King and Roy Highland.<\/p>\n $12.99 lunch specials at Cordelia’s 11 AM- 2 PM this week:<\/p>\n The Blooms, Birds, & Brews event returns to Cordelia’s 11-3 Saturday with<\/p>\n RIP Oak Court Mall.<\/a><\/p>\n Memphis has a new concert venue on the river: Grind City Amp<\/a><\/p>\n Back tomorrow with more news. I may do a personal post this week too, possibly as soon as later today.<\/p>\n I gratefully accept tips:\u00a0<\/strong><\/em> Today is a personal holiday for me. Everyone should have personal holidays, days on which they celebrate the important milestones in their lives that arrive with the changing of the seasons. Yesterday after I made my blog post, I walked to the Union Mission and checked in for the night. My name got called to … Continue reading “Tuesday update”<\/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\/29841"}],"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=29841"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29843,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29841\/revisions\/29843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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