{"id":3469,"date":"2009-04-09T17:45:23","date_gmt":"2009-04-09T22:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=3469"},"modified":"2009-04-09T17:45:23","modified_gmt":"2009-04-09T22:45:23","slug":"keeping-score","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/09\/keeping-score\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping score"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in December, I decided to keep count how often I visited Downtown Memphis bars and restaurants during the month, keeping score on a note board on the refrigerator.\u00a0 The results for the month of December were<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Flying Saucer &#8211; 37 visits<\/li>\n<li>Bardog Tavern &#8211; 12 visits<\/li>\n<li>Voodoo Room &#8211; 7 visits<\/li>\n<li>Majestic Grille &#8211; 4 visits<\/li>\n<li>Calhoun&#8217;s &#8211; 2 visits<\/li>\n<li>Automatic Slim&#8217;s &#8211; 2 visits<\/li>\n<li>Lots of other places &#8211; 1 visit each<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I never published those results because I was job hunting at the time, and I thought to myself, hmmm, that might not look too good to a potential employer.\u00a0 Although, quite a few of those Saucer visits (I&#8217;d say 6 to 10) were work visits &#8211; I either had the laptop there and was using their Wi-Fi to work on Web projects, or I was holding business meetings.\u00a0 The Silly Goose hadn&#8217;t opened yet, which is why it&#8217;s not on the list.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m keeping score again for the month of April.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s my number of visits for the first 8 days (haven&#8217;t been out yet today, the 9th):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Flying Saucer &#8211; 10 visits<\/li>\n<li>Silly Goose &#8211; 3 visits<\/li>\n<li>Bardog Tavern &#8211; 2 visits<\/li>\n<li>Paula &amp; Raiford&#8217;s Disco &#8211; 2 visits<\/li>\n<li>Voodoo Room &#8211; 2 visits<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Saucer is about to pick up visit 11, as I&#8217;ll drink a couple of Happy Hour Dos Equis Lagers there before I continue on to the Peabody party.\u00a0 Rain or not, it should be a fun night&#8230; I hope the rain stays away, though, for the benefit of those going to the Redbirds opener.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in December, I decided to keep count how often I visited Downtown Memphis bars and restaurants during the month, keeping score on a note board on the refrigerator.\u00a0 The results for the month of December were Flying Saucer &#8211; 37 visits Bardog Tavern &#8211; 12 visits Voodoo Room &#8211; 7 visits Majestic Grille &#8211; &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/09\/keeping-score\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Keeping score&#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\/3469"}],"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=3469"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3496,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3469\/revisions\/3496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3469"}],"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! -->