{"id":29868,"date":"2026-04-28T11:52:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T16:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=29868"},"modified":"2026-04-28T11:52:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T16:52:35","slug":"tuesday-update-368","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/28\/tuesday-update-368\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got a nice surprise this morning! About 7 I was sitting in Court Square, on my phone prepping today&#8217;s blog topics for all you fine folks. A man rolled up to me and asked, &#8220;Are you hungry?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Indeed I was!<\/p>\n<p>He handed me an individual-sized spinach quiche, a protein donut, and a banana. It was a marvelous breakfast and the quiche was PIPING HOT to the point that I could barely pick it up with my fingers. Thank you, sir!<\/p>\n<p>Not everyone has had such good dining luck this week. I heard that two women got in a fight yesterday at the Downtown soup kitchen, causing organizers to shut it down prematurely and leave about 40-50 people in line hungry. That&#8217;s a common experience for the homeless, one or two people who can&#8217;t act right ruining a good thing for everybody.<\/p>\n<p>I am so GRATEFUL I make enough in tips from this blog to never have to deal with soup kitchens. To anyone who has ever made a donation via one of the accounts in these posts&#8217; footer, THANK YOU.<\/p>\n<p>Max&#8217;s Sports Bar is starting a board games &amp; beers night every Monday. BTW, congrats to their staff on 2nd in the grape stomp at Wine Race.<\/p>\n<p>Those Birds in red are back in town, hosting Indianapolis tonight for a 6:45 game.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/shalayogamemphis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shala Yoga<\/a> has opened in Harbor Town.<\/p>\n<p>Ground elk is now available at Cordelia&#8217;s for a limited time. $10.99\/lb.<\/p>\n<p>Downtown Nutrition now has Butterfly Breeze &#8211; the taste is sweet berry up front, with a citrus twist on the back end of each sip.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/choose901.com\/jobs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">St. Jude has several job openings<\/a> &#8211; barista, part-time station chef, floor finisher, and environmental services attendant.<\/p>\n<p><em>Happy Gilmore<\/em> will be the free Wednesday movie this week at Slider Inn Downtown. 7 PM.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/downtownmemphis.com\/do\/cream-a-bodega-pop-up-experience\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">C.R.E.A.M., a bodega pop-up experience,<\/a> comes to The Pinch Thursday-Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>MemphisWeather.net says to expect strong storms to move in from east AR after 3 this afternoon and last into the early evening. This will not stop me from playing one-hit wonders &amp; music legends trivia tonight at the Saucer.<\/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>I got a nice surprise this morning! About 7 I was sitting in Court Square, on my phone prepping today&#8217;s blog topics for all you fine folks. A man rolled up to me and asked, &#8220;Are you hungry?&#8221; Indeed I was! He handed me an individual-sized spinach quiche, a protein donut, and a banana. It &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/28\/tuesday-update-368\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tuesday 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\/29868"}],"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=29868"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29870,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29868\/revisions\/29870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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