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Ptolemics

Opera Week

Started off the week Tuesday going to a Ptolemy dinner party hosted by the fabulous Johnny Kolb who greated everyone wearing a top hat and a cane. (or maybe that was the devil at faust). Fixed some of the best lamb chops I’ve encountered. Tender almost filet like, with a very light lamb flavor that complimented but did not overwhelm the senses. Accompanying were a lovely Portobello mushroom sautee reduced with wine as well as straight corn on the cob. Later for dessert a exemplary potatoe gratin was served. I found Johnny’s omitting the béchamel to be enlightened.
Went to a Bravo Memphis event at the Orpheum that featured a reception with some awfully good food and a dress rehearsal of Faust. I thought the portrayal of the Devil as a dapper pimp dressed black man showed poor cultural relations in a city like Memphis. I was also thinking my OFB would have made a much more imposing devil being taller and craftyish.
That night also featured working the door at ground zero at the on location Memphis international film festival afterparty. The film festival will be going on at Ridgeway 4 for the weekend for those still interested. Arriving ontime I found that non of the festival organizers were there. So I ordered a hamburger that was quite solid. The service everyone agreed was complacent and everything took awhile and one woman stormed out and was briefly about to castigate me for the poor service before realizing that working the door didn’t equate to working for the establishment.

Also going on that night were 2 mpact events I missed (curiously the only night with mpact stuff that week) and an exhibition at the brook.

Tried mosa again for lunch it’s a good place with generous portions especially the chicken on the chicken katsu salad.

Tried the gyro place café med. The original gyro was quite full of meat and good. The steaming of the pita created an okay tasting but quite durable shell. To be completely first rate they really would’ve had to have grilled the pita bread.

Are we done?

I'm wondering if the technological innovation of the human race as reached a long term lower slop of a plateau. I remember discussions that Moore's law (a thesis about computing power) would never be violated and that's come to pass.

The one major development that may make things continue on a path of social development based on increasing per capita energy expenditure would be effective fusion technology, which seems feasibly on the long term (ie 2050+) horizon.

Other than that I think that most advances would appear to be incremental with advances in materials and computing being more a matter of degrees than really effecting social structure.

Margaritaville

Everyone needs to watch the South Park Margaritaville episode. I think its a masterpiece of economic theory. The solution really is a simple " we need more money" at least to fix the current problem. Along with regulation of credit to clamp down on inflationary effect.

Pirate Week!

Was reassured that the US can still take down pirates under a Democratic administration, but maybe they'll punish the troops for doing their duty.

Was thinking of starting a political career, was thinking of all the opportunities likely to open up for republicans politicians over the next several decades. Time to start establishing credentials.

Went to a consolidation conversation with Mayor AC Wharton hosted on short notice by the MPACT memphis Civic Engagement Committee and the MPACT head the lovely gwyn fisher.

Also, tried some interesting places the past couple of weeks. Tried Lou's Pie in the Sky Pizza in midtown with was awfully nice and had a great regular crust. Also tried the salad at Ubee's which was great.

Went to Petra out by Borders and had a yummy sampler platter. The pita was nice and light. The gyro meat was plentiful and the baba ganouj was a syrian version with more coarsely ground eggplant that really rocked. Overall a really good place, but beware the prices are stiff for the entrees.

Sick Week

Joining the throngs of sick week fans. Last week I was pretty down most of the week.

I did manage towards the end of the week to make it to the mpact outlet at the tower room which was a really swanky business like atmosphere place. Still was a little coughy so couldn't really enjoy it to the fullest extent. Shelby farms, wolf river conservancy and other park outdoorsy organizations gave interesting little speechs.

Broke up into small groups to ask each other introductory questions which were what were your favorite breakfast questions, pet peeve, and an unusual fact about you no one would guess. The group leader was serendipitously the ice queen who picked ck's coffee shop in Germantown for be willing to display unusual health code interpretations proudly (thinking outside the box for criteria- I like it!), women who say sense of humor is what they're looking for, and that her hobby is shooting off her assault rifle collection. (Too bad my bestest buddy studly attorney is taken, taking his assault rifles and guns and going out into the country with him is a great saturday morning).

Friday did the aforementioned legal lines.

Sunday went to the celtic crossing. Was amazed at the poorness of the service on a fairly sparse sunday, when the place is packed I've always noticed how great the service is by comparison.

Finally ordered and got a steak and onion boxy which was billed as an Irish Burrito and was a very good flavor but had some of the toughest steak I've ever encountered.

Other than that seemed to have mainly just worked on taxes.

Legal Line Laughs

Some Tips for the General Public that I realized aren't Common Knowledge from a 30 minute phone answering sessions to listen to people and give them the impression lawyers are caring people. (We are but the inability to work miracles makes pro bono pr necessary.)

1. Yes, you can call your state legislator and try to change a law!
2. When someone cheats you, you have to sue them to force them to give back the money.
3. That presumes they have some money to force to give back to you.
4. Expect the other side to lie in court.
5. By the way from experience judges are really really bad at spotting liars. (they really really need to move the witness to be in front of the judge. )

Things I learned-
Fake hair really hurts to take off.
Tattooing leads to complications on all sorts of levels, especially if children are involved.
People need someone to listen, but they really appreciate it when a lawyer does it!

MPACT Week

Thanks to Mpact my social / networking calender was jam packed this week. Tuesday there was a pretty full happy hour at on the borders. Fortunately I ordered margaritas when I came in cause they took thirty minutes to arrive. It was really crowded though which shocked me given the rainy dreary outside.

We had to sit down which made it a not so happy hour and made mingling weird. Did have a nice conversation with a fedex person( they're everywhere!) and a finance professor S something from U of M. (nice lady) .

Wednesday I did something I believe. Honestly don't remember right now what it was everything is starting to meld together.

Thursday started off with a brief visit to Sole raw bar where Daily grill used to be. The Amaretto Sour was stiff and the appetizer shrimp lollipop and beef tenderloin bite were both quite good though the oysters didn't seem plump. Then went to India Palace with the Mpact Memphis dinner tour where I tried Lamb Botti which was good but the lamb was kinda tough. Afterwards went home and woke up to find everything would be going back to normal.

Next friday went to the corner bar for the mpact memphis happy hour. A really cool bar, that the ice queen goddess destroyer of dreams of mpact volunteer(but amazingly charming person based on our one conversation when she deigned to talk to me and I found myself divulging sensitive information without delay(mb she's part witch? I wonder if she'd do a dunk test)) ) commented was really good for a breakup in a very authoritative manner. The buffett bbq potato skins were quite good and when the leaving and will be missed Frank something (did stuff before my time ) cut the cakes I was very impressed with the Peabody's pastry skills with a very austrian chocolate moose cake.

Next trolley tour. Was tamer than normal but different. Beignet Cafe was sorta open!! giving out free samples in anticipation of a full opening in two weeks. The beignets needed a bit more thickness but looked like once they get some practice down we'll have a place on par with cafe du monde in Memphis. The only question will be how many of the most fabulous people in memphis will hang out there.

Also had a hot dog at the south main cookout at which everything had turned cold after this little old lady took ten minutes making herself a hamburger.

Also toured the fabulous Machine Shop Condos which are an incredible value and I wish I had gotten one instead of my place. Had really good appetizers there. If you are interested in getting a place downtown feel free to call me at 901-255-2740 to explore these and other options or visit www.mymemphisrealestateagent.com

At the end noticed these girls in the window trying out a live art project or maybe trying to sell their friend for beer money. I wasn't sure.