First day on the new job went well.\u00a0 At lunch I drove around the airport\/Whitehaven area and located the nearest Walgreens, ATM, etc.\u00a0 Discovered that there’s a Popeye’s Chicken within striking distance of the office!\u00a0 Nice!\u00a0 Also, there’s a Domino’s literally next door.\u00a0 I hear their oven-baked sandwiches are pretty awesome.\u00a0 Looks like I’ll be trying them soon.<\/p>\n
It’s SO nice to have my own office rather than a cubicle.\u00a0 This week it looks like I’ll be investigating ways to use the JQuery<\/a> Javascript library to snazz up a website.\u00a0 I started to get into JQuery right before I got laid off the old job and saw all kinds of potential for it.<\/p>\n The FedExForum is being transformed for the NCAA South Regional men’s championships this weekend.\u00a0 There’s a story on Fox 13<\/a> about the work being done.\u00a0 According to the FedExForum’s Facebook page, #2 seed Oklahoma tips off vs. #3 Syracuse at 6:27 PM Friday night, followed by #1 North Carolina vs. #4 Gonzaga.\u00a0 So you’ll have plenty of time to get home from work and to the FedExForum (or your favorite bar, if you prefer to watch games there) in time for the games.\u00a0 Friday’s winners meet in a Sunday afternoon game for a trip to the Final Four.<\/p>\n I’ve already picked my watch location for Thursday night’s 8:37 PM Memphis Tigers vs. Missouri Tigers game.\u00a0 This time I’ll be at the Flying Saucer.\u00a0 My reasoning is that people from out of town will be arriving for Friday’s games, and will be out for a night of fun before their teams take the court.\u00a0 I want to be where the action is.<\/p>\n And it’s a BIG bar with plenty of good seating… last night I heard my friend Mikey advise people to take off work early to get to Calhoun’s in plenty of time to get good seating for the Tiger game.\u00a0 The 8:37 PM Tiger game, you know, which starts more than 3 hours after most people get off work.\u00a0 That kind of thing is exactly why I don’t watch Tigers tournament games at Calhoun’s.\u00a0 Too crowded.\u00a0 Great bar otherwise but simply too crowded.<\/p>\n Doesn’t it seem like every time a TV commercial mentions a discount these days, they have to refer to it as a “bailout” or a “stimulus?”\u00a0 Those are becoming the most overused terms of 2009.<\/p>\n Here’s a Commercal Appeal article on the economic impact to Memphis of this week’s NCAA South Regional<\/a>.<\/p>\n Don’t forget that Friday night is Trolley Tour in the South Main district.\u00a0 Looks like it may rain, but if the rain stays away, it should be a perfect night for walking from gallery to gallery, with a predicted high of 75.<\/p>\n Off to work… the usual trivia night tonight at 7.\u00a0 Maybe a stop at Bardog Tavern for their $3 pint night after that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" First day on the new job went well.\u00a0 At lunch I drove around the airport\/Whitehaven area and located the nearest Walgreens, ATM, etc.\u00a0 Discovered that there’s a Popeye’s Chicken within striking distance of the office!\u00a0 Nice!\u00a0 Also, there’s a Domino’s literally next door.\u00a0 I hear their oven-baked sandwiches are pretty awesome.\u00a0 Looks like I’ll be … 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\/3419"}],"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=3419"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3421,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3419\/revisions\/3421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}