We spent last night on Beale street in downtown Memphis, enjoying some drinks and some live blues, jazz, soul, and funk music. Our night was cut short when we got off the trolley at one point and stepped onto the sidewalk, where my clunky new shoes and mild inebriation caused me to roll my ankle pretty badly. It's still hurting a lot this morning and I'm going to try not to put any weight on it today. I'm pretty sure nothing's broken, though - it feels like a really bad sprain, and I'll probably be fine in a few days.
We had a great time yesterday. We went to Interstate Bar-B-Que for lunch, one of Memphis's temples of pork. Then we went to Sun Studio, where Elvis, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, B.B.King, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, and others recorded early in their careers in the 1950's. We made it just in time for the guided tour, which was a lot of fun. In between explaining the history of the studio and the exhibits displayed, the tour guide played a lot of music, including the first, unreleased recording of Elvis, and some songs from a few legendary blues musicians from the 50's. It was a great time.
Yesterday (Friday) we noticed a bizarre phenomenon with the hike in gas prices due to Hurricane Ike slamming into some Texas oil refineries. Gas prices were very low in Tennessee on Thursday - usually under $3.50/gal. On Friday, we saw an Exxon selling gas at $3.99/gal, right next to that a BP station selling gas at $3.44/gal. That's a difference in 55 cents a gallon, right next to each other! That particular BP was a day behind the other gas stations in raising their prices, but hey, the lines of cars vying for time at their pumps were almost out onto the street. Another gas station a mile down the road was selling for $4.19/gallon. That's two gas stations one mile apart, with a 75 cent difference in price per gallon!
-Wax
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