I am woman, hear my scores

WEATHER: Probably an 8.5 day. If it were a little cooler we’d be approaching ten, as the sun is shining, the humidity isn’t too bad and it’s definitely a pool day.

ELMO’S DINER (in Carrboro): One of my favorites, as the prices are pretty decent and the menu has a ton of options, a lot of which are pretty healthy. After normally getting the omelette made with egg whites, spinach, feta and tomato I decided to mix it up and go with eggs and chocolate chip pancakes. Food Quality=9 for me, 8 for Drew. Overall satisfaction= 6. The waitress was really sweet but a little slow. The food was awesome, but I ate too much trying to prove to the waitress that I could actually eat everything I ordered (after she expressed some doubt) and this definitely knocked down overall satisfaction.

MURPHY’S BREATH (the Puggle pup): 2. It’s at the point where I’m avoiding him so I don’t have to smell it. I wonder what toothpaste would actually be strong enough to tackle it at this point…

BRINGING THE FANNY PACK BACK: 10. Check it out. I found one for only $25. I’m totally bringing it back.

POTENTIAL OF WORKING AT VERTICAL EDGE: 8. Absolutely pumped about the idea of picking up extra shifts at the climbing gym… would get to be around climbing/great climbers more often, teach technique classes, attend free technique/lead climbing classes, free climbing, pro-deals and more climbing all give it a ton of appeal. Only things keeping it from a 10 are low pay (which luckily isn’t a big deal since that’s not why I’m doing it) and possibly having some limits on weekend travel since I’d be picking up shifts. Overall=AWESOME.

End of August

As we debut this site with our first day of rating ever, it only seems appropriate that we are also closing out the month of August. Perhaps the logic in that only deserves a 4… on any note. The ratings for today…

CHAMPS: Headed to dinner tonight with Katie, Jesse and Tori to Champs at Southpoint. While the Buffalo Chicken sandwich I got definitely deserves an 8 (anything with grilled chicken and blue cheese is already starting at beyond a 5), the service was totally disappointing. I’m tempted to give it a 2, but am going to employ generosity of spirit here and give it a 3. Our server seemed totally out of it and took about 15 minutes to get Jesse his beer, and it seemed to take forever between filling up our drinks. Overall she just seemed super out of it, and while my serving experience usually causes me to be forgiving, when the restaurant isn’t busy and you’re still crap I’m forced to rate below a 5. The food was great though

Headed out after dinner to Franklin Street despite some serious exhaustion from the night before. Turned out to be worth it and here are just some of our ratings…
SERVICE: At Bub’s we were ignored for at least 15 minutes after arriving, despite only about 10 people in the bar. As a result the bartender earned a 3. I probably shouldn’t be smiling in the picture… live and learn.

So despite pretty bad service to start out with, at least they have an awesome juke box and some entertaining games. We ended up playing shuffleboard (?) which I’ve never played before but picked up pretty quickly.  You can kinda see that down here with my awesome 8 shot.  Still somehow lost though… weird how that works.

Overall I would say we rated Bub’s a 7, as you can see here.

The jukebox and games were AWESOME. The playlist we created of 15 solid songs definitely earned an 8.5 (although I think we might have assigned it a ten last night). To give some context, to at least three of the songs (including Peaches) had multiple people in the bar dancing and singing. Definitely some credit earned for that. However, not all the songs had that effect. If they had it would have been a definite 10. In my world it was a ten though…

We then headed to He’s Not Here, where we witnessed some serious brilliantness (if that’s not already a word it definitely needs to become one). First Paul slipped off a stair and nearly fell in the pretty muddy dirt. Not more than five minutes later while we were rating everything in sight, we witnessed someone else fall down the exact same step! Only difference is that he somehow managed to rescue his beer as he was falling! Clearly in our world that earns a 9 for bar falls. Only thing keeping him from a 10 is the fact that he didn’t actually manage to drink the beer while he was falling. However we talked it over with him after, and I think next time he might be able to rock out a 10.

Rating removed due to ethical conflicts.

Until tomorrow, we’re just living for the tens.