Just my luck I forgot the sunscreen.

I may be alone in this, but my favorite outdoor seating at a picnic table -- especially in warm weather -- is one directly in the sun just feet away from shade but within spitting distance of a dumpster.

No shade for the tables on the other side, either, sans dumpster access. Last week you could have fried a fresh organic egg on them. Today it wasn't as bad.

Does anyone have information about the food truck that's been parking at the Farmers Market on Wednesdays? Just curious.

Why food trucks are there, or they aren't.

Beginning in May of 2014, after food service was discontinued, I thought it would be a fine idea to shift Bank Street Brewhouse to a destination tap room mode by working with food trucks. It quickly became evident that New Albany had none. Two years later, this hasn't changed.

This article provides several potential reasons why, but the gist of it to me is that if a food truck exists to go where the consumers are, we have too few places where the consumers are. We don't have a large urban employer. Downtown already is served by bricks and mortar ... and we're not the most technologically proficient metro neighborhood.

It's not a bad/good equation. It simply isn't, yet.

Why Food Trucks Locate Where They Do: Five big takeaways from a unique new study, by Richard Florida and Aria Bendix (City Lab)

But what do food trucks actually mean for urban economies? What impact do they have on local restaurants, food industries, and our choices as consumers?

Here are the bullet points.

• 1. Twitter is a big factor in food truck location.
• 2. The connection between food trucks and digital technology is greater in big, dense cities.
• 3. When it comes to location, variety matters a lot.
• 4. Food truck location is spiky.
• 5. Food trucks cause households to spend more money on eating out.

Stephen "Taco Steve" Powell, his taco cart, and downtown New Albany.

Meet Taco Steve of Powell's Pigs & Cows.

You may know him as Stephen Powell, formerly of NABC, and now a taco entrepreneur in downtown New Albany.

This is Stephen's Taco Cart, which he's setting up on the corner by Hugh E. Bir's on Fridays and Saturdays starting at 6 p.m., past midnight -- or until he runs out of food.

Stephen gets his smoked pork and chicken from Shawn Pitts, operator of Shawn's Southern BBQ on State Street.

The tacos look like this ...

 ... and Ed Needham is a satisfied customer.

On Tuesdays through the favorable weather season, Stephen will be setting up by Comfy Cow on Market Street between 11:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. Credit and debit cards are accepted, and he's been known to produce vegetarian black bean tacos.

Most of you know Stephen from his decades of bar service, so now you can visit him for all your taco needs.