{"id":7660,"date":"2010-08-29T09:06:12","date_gmt":"2010-08-29T14:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=7660"},"modified":"2010-08-29T09:14:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-29T14:14:00","slug":"sometimes-you-gotta-go-with-the-flow-and-let-plans-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/29\/sometimes-you-gotta-go-with-the-flow-and-let-plans-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes, you gotta go with the flow and let plans change…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saturday in the early afternoon, my day was just starting.\u00a0 I’d started the transition of my hair from Elvis black back toward its usual color, having dyed it dark brown.\u00a0 My plan was to clean the apartment as I played single-table Sit’n’Go tournaments on PokerStars.\u00a0 Having heard that a crap-ass cider was the Fire Sale, I saw no need to go out before about 7 PM.<\/p>\n

Then the phone rang.\u00a0 It was my friend Clay.\u00a0 “You should come over in about an hour,” he told me.\u00a0 “Air Traffic Mike is bringing steaks over.\u00a0 We’re going to grill out.”<\/p>\n

Steaks?\u00a0 So much for cleaning and playing poker.\u00a0 I got dressed and headed down there, stopping to buy a six-pack of Sierra Nevada Tumbler at Frank’s Deli.\u00a0 (It was really good, by the way.\u00a0 It’s their seasonal fall ale.)<\/p>\n

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Air Traffic Mike holding one of the huge porterhouse steaks he brought over.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The steaks marinating, plus a couple of veal rib chops.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Appetizer of cheese and bread<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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John D and Otto trying in vain to light the gas grill on the rooftop of 420 S. Front. Eventually we gave up and oven-broiled the steaks.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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View looking north from the rooftop<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Tomato and feta salad<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Steaks are ready!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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meat meat meat<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After eating, we hung out and watched TV for a while.\u00a0 It was the first time I’ve watched “House, M.D.” and I have to admit it was a pretty good show.\u00a0 Meanwhile, I was keeping up with the Ptolemy Poker Run on Twitter, and they had reached their third stop of the day, the Flying Saucer.\u00a0 One of them shouted “Is Paul Ryburn alive?” on Foursquare when they didn’t find me there.<\/p>\n

After I saw them checking in at their fourth stop, I walked up to the Saucer, and had a good evening hanging out with friends.\u00a0 Just a nice, chilled-out Saturday night.\u00a0 I hung on long enough to catch FreeWorld’s first set, then went home to get a full night’s sleep, which will be much needed because…<\/p>\n

Today is the alley party at Bardog Tavern!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Should be a fun time.\u00a0 I’m getting a full charge on the camera battery as I type this.\u00a0 Will probably wear the battery all the way down and have to resort to my iPhone as a backup camera.\u00a0 I’ll probably start the day with brunch at the Majestic, then do an hour or so at the Saucer, then head over to Bardog around 1.\u00a0 Hope to see you there – this is a can’t miss party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Saturday in the early afternoon, my day was just starting.\u00a0 I’d started the transition of my hair from Elvis black back toward its usual color, having dyed it dark brown.\u00a0 My plan was to clean the apartment as I played single-table Sit’n’Go tournaments on PokerStars.\u00a0 Having heard that a crap-ass cider was the Fire Sale, … Continue reading “Sometimes, you gotta go with the flow and let plans change…”<\/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\/7660"}],"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=7660"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7670,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7660\/revisions\/7670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}