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I went to a real restaurant last weekend…. and I am shy about blogging about it. Of course I am not a food blogger. I don’t take a camera to dinner with me… by real restaurant I mean it was not fast food, it was not a chain… there were not chips and salsa on the table. I had forgotten how good the food at the Polaris Grill is.

I have been to the Polaris Grill a number of times, just not lately. I’d forgot that Polaris Grille was a “55 Restaurant” The only one that is left? I had forgot about the 55 Salad until I saw the menu… I had a filet… it was good but my taste buds were singing “Same Old Lang Syne” for that 55 Salad…. and still are.

I believe I was only at 55 on the Boulevard once or twice… same for the 55 at Crosswoods. Four of us at the business dinner at Polaris Grill last Saturday night had gone to the 55 on the Boulevard about ten years ago…

The address of the Polaris Grill is 1835 Polaris Parkway, Columbus Ohio 43240. Sitting on the exit ramp from 71 north you are right in front of the Polaris Grill so it has to be off of Pulsar Place or Orion off Polaris Parkway… doesn’t it? Going through that area so often but not going to the restaurant in maybe four or five years we knew it was there but where? There is a sign for the Polaris Grill just south of the Steak and Shake… they also have a Polaris Parkway address… I don’t get it. Map for Polaris Grill.

It’s on the Columbus Social Media Cafe …

“Here’s the Top 10 list from Nielsen Media Research:

1. Austin, TX (15% of adults going on the Web to read or contribute to a blog in the past 30 days)
2. Portland, OR (14%)
3. San Francisco Bay Area (13%)
4. Seattle (13%)
5. Honolulu
6. San Diego
7. Dallas-Fort Worth, TX
8. Columbus, OH
9. Nashville, TN
10. Colorado Springs, CO”

I thought for sure I had written about Columbus making an international list last summer… but I can’t find it… on ColumbusBestBlog.com there was a world cities list of top blogging cities and Columbus was on that list.

If I recall it correctly took a snapshot of one day. The question mark comes from a Pittsburgh bloggers amazement to see Columbus on a list like this… Columbus?

I believe today, December 22, 2007 is the Winter Solstice.  I think the  Winter Solstice is at 6:08 PM to be exact…. I think the Winter Solstice has to do with the change of season, and time and the skies above.

Happy Winter Solstice and whichever winter holidays you celebrate.

Central Ohio schools in the news…

Columbus Schools - “Novel idea or ’slap in face’? Plan to eliminate middle school gets mixed reception”

Powell - High School Project Spawns Internet Frenzy from WOSU Radio

Worthington Schools - “School officials puzzled by dip in state ranking”

“red is the lowest ranking a district can earn on the new “value-added” rating system reported by the Ohio Department of Education last week.

Worthington was the only school district in Franklin County to be slapped with a red label. It says that the students in grades four through eight are, in general, not learning at the rate expected by the state.”

Columbus Dispatch on the new Ohio Department of Education Ratings “School ratings get richer with new data”

Ohio Department of Education

Information about some Central Ohio schools:

Central Ohio Public Schools

Central Ohio Private Schools