# A May 30 MMP
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-may-30-mmp/965341
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Tags:** mmp
**Created:** [May 30, 2022, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-may-30-mmp/965341 "2022-05-30T06:43:37Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2022, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-may-30-mmp/965341/181 "2022-06-04T14:02:02Z")
Morning all. Got my usual 8 hours of sleepage last night so hopefully the day will go well. Rain is done and temperature is supposed to be about 85F, so may get out sand enjoy the day.
Have to perform a burial of sorts today. I have a recessed front door, and a bird (don’t know what type, small) built a nest overhead on a beam there. Since I get very few visitors I let here be, and about a week ago I could see chicks in the nest! I was going to watch them without disturbing them, but about three days ago they stopped appearing, I found one dead on on the sidewalk under the nest and Momma hasn’t been seen for days. So something went wrong and now I need to clean up the site. At least I can find a use for my old snow shovel…
**FCM** , will think about chocolate, but afraid it would never make it to the post office with me…
**JtC** , poor old GG; hope he gets over the Bunny phobia.
> [@scareyfaerie](#):
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> **metalmouse** we entrusted our lives to Aer Lingus in a small prop plane operated by their regional service, Emerald. It was a pleasant enough flight with a bonus cup of tea.
Cool. One of these days I’ll tell you about my flights in Africa on small prop planes…
OK, been long enough since medication (one of my pills insists I take it on an empty stomach) so need to forage for some edibles. All y’all take care.
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### Author:  [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2022, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-may-30-mmp/965341/182 "2022-06-04T14:37:32Z")
The davits are off the boat and in the truck. The aft cabin is wiped down as is the aft head. I vacuumed the main cabin and now I’m chilling, waiting for my daughter and the grands.
It’s a gorgeous day here, as you can see on my FB.
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### Author:  [@Taters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taters)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2022, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-may-30-mmp/965341/183 "2022-06-04T14:38:52Z")
Good morning everyone.
I was in and out of the licensing place in less than five minutes yesterday. After that, I took a trip to the nursery, bought a few plants, and ended up with a bonus free tomato plant that already has 'maters on it. I have no idea what kind of tomato it is, so I guess I’ll be surprised.
After that, I went to Target to pick up some items and watched with consternation as some guy opened many of the men’s deodorants and sniffed them. There were four of us watching with WTF looks. After that, I picked up lunch and headed home. I was back at the house by noon. I didn’t get much of anything done outside because it rained all day.
Right now the sun is peeking out, but it’s wet outside and the rain moves back in my 8:00 am this morning. Stupid rain.
Sounds like a predator bird or a cat got to your little birdy friends, **Metal Mouse.** That’s too bad. I don’t know what happened to my little junco nest, but it’s gone. It could well have been the neighbors’ cats that think they are welcome in my backyard. They are not and I wish people could keep their cats contained. I don’t hate cats, I’ve had some in the past, but I didn’t let them wander.
I actually got to fly a small plane for a few minutes many eons ago when I was dating a guy who had a pilot license. It was a couple of minutes. He rented a plane and we flew all over the South Puget Sound area, landing at the different airstrips located around here and even eating breakfast at one of them. It was a really cool date and thing to do.
No real plans for today. I’ll take the day as it comes.
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### Author:  [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2022, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-may-30-mmp/965341/184 "2022-06-04T14:50:42Z")
Good morning, everyone! It got juuuust warm enough in the house last night that I turned the AC back on (I need a cold room for sleeping), but it’s currently 72°F and partly sunny with a light breeze, so the windows are open once more. Aaaaaahhh! Today and tomorrow should both be quite nice.
Earlier I payed my bills, which was fairly depressing due to the unexpected large emergency vet bill _and_ an unexpected, even larger medical bill for myself (yes, I looked into it before paying). Don’t get me wrong: I know that I’m lucky to be able to pay without going into debt or going completely broke – those days weren’t that long ago, and I keenly remember what it was like – but it still stung to see my savings account suddenly depleted by nearly 70%. I’m just whinin’.
Next up today is my NAACP committee meeting, which starts at 11am. I kind of hate having a two-hour weekend Zoom meeting after a week of Zoom/Teams meetings, but such is life. At least the committee meetings are only once a month, and I mostly look forward to them. 🙂 I actually have an item on the agenda today: I’ll be sharing a draft of a handout/flyer that I made. Our branch is going to have a table at a local Baptist church’s Juneteenth celebration, and in addition to generally helping staff the table I thought it might be good to have handouts about my committee. Today I’ll run the idea/design past the committee chair and any other members who attend, then I’ll send it to the branch’s president and communications chair to get their approval.
(I did express to the event organizer that I was aware of/not sure about the optics of a white person sitting behind an NAACP table on Juneteenth, but she said not to worry about it. So I won’t. I have a long history of being an ally to the LGBTQ+ community, but I started my NAACP work during the pandemic so I’m new to the “in public” side of it – and being white is a lot more noticeable than being straight! 😉 )
I’m still on the fence about going out tonight…that might be a game-time decision.
> [@Taters](#):
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> I actually got to fly a small plane for a few minutes many eons ago when I was dating a guy who had a pilot license.
Me, too! Only I wasn’t dating the pilot; he was a co-worker/friend, and was getting hours for his flight instructor certification. Like you, it was just for a couple of minutes – long enough for him to take a picture of me concentrating very hard (our lives were in my hands!!). These were taken in 1996, I think.
[ ](https://i.ibb.co/tzscLG6/1996-ish-Flying.jpg)
The plane, with my co-worker doing a pre-flight check:
[ ](https://i.ibb.co/CvVJRYb/1996-ish-Plane.jpg)
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2022, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-may-30-mmp/965341/185 "2022-06-04T15:26:25Z")
Actually, your right hand should be on the throttle. 😉
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### Author:  [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2022, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-may-30-mmp/965341/186 "2022-06-04T15:28:14Z")
> [@Misnomer](#):
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> (our lives were in my hands!!)
My Dad had a pilots license when I was a kid. When I was about 10, he took me up and let me work the controls for a bit.
I _know_ Dad wasn’t stupid enough to put his life in a 10-year-old’s hands! There’s very little you can do to screw up while flying in open air, and if you do, the real pilot has plenty of time to recover.
My wife’s sister fosters kittens, and we went over last night to see the latest batch. They are the _cutest_ ones she’s had yet!! Three 7-week-old brothers, and they are very loving and social. One of them took a liking to me for some reason and was glued to me the whole hole time. SIL said he looked all
Over the house for me after we left. Oh my god. Kitten therapy is the best cure for a crazy world!
I’ll post some pictures later; no time now, gotta get to irk.
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### Author:  [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2022, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-may-30-mmp/965341/187 "2022-06-04T16:19:04Z")
I hope you feel better soon **Nettie**. The reading room gets old fast. 😕
> [@dogbutler](#):
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> “made” Although, if I were dismembered, marinated in shallots and wine, breaded with spices and cheese and baked, I would be quite cross. 😉 🐔
So long as it’s not like “mad cow”
**BooFae** One of the many things I like about the Dope is hearing about everyone’s adventures. Have a grand time wandering and at the show. 🙂
**Swampy** May I ask what Couch Chikin AKA Chikin Divan is?
> [@missred](#):
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> I need to be in Shelbyville at 11 for a Marketplace deal,
I just mentally visited the Simpsons. 🤪
Sorry to hear about the chicks **Metal Mouse**. Good on you for letting them stay in the first place. We had porch chicks this year too. Their disappearance was also mysterious, unfortunately.
**Wheelie** I envy your kitten time. 🐈
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Today I need to fill out a long questionnaire my back doctor asked me to do before Tuesday’s procedure. I will also be taking another run at our master house buying spreadsheet. It’s just a double-check out of an abundance of caution.
Akiko continues to be obsessed with food. She is developing amazing abilities to acquire food containers left “out of her reach”. Yesterday I caught her trying to get a pan cooling on the back of the stove. This is bad. I really hope we can wean her off of the steroids.
I’m dragging this morning and shall search for more coffee.
Happy Saturday!
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### Author:  [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2022, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-may-30-mmp/965341/188 "2022-06-04T19:04:10Z")
I got my single engine land pilot’s license on my 21st b-day (01/23/1975.) Then I got my instrument rating some months later. Then in Oct of 1978, roughly 4 hours short of getting my commercial license, I quit flying - I grounded myself due to some life issues, planning to resume flying eventually.
I never did. I had about 275 total hours. Sometimes I miss it, but I couldn’t afford it these days. So now we have a boat. 🚢
😁
Daughter took the grands swimming. We’re all chilling on the boat at the moment. Home soon.
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### Author:  [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2022, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-may-30-mmp/965341/189 "2022-06-04T19:14:34Z")
> [@Wheelz](#):
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> I’ll post some pictures later; no time now, gotta get to irk.
I’ll be waiting.
And don’t forget **JtC** -you don’t want to get on her _or_ her bunny slipper’s wrong side.
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### Author:  [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2022, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-may-30-mmp/965341/190 "2022-06-04T19:18:35Z")
Okay, as previously promised - Kitten Pictures! (With cameos by myself and **Mrs W** )
**\>\>\>CAUTION: EXCESSIVE CUTENESS AHEAD!!!\<\<\<**
[ ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/195486993@N02/52121828596/)
[ ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/195486993@N02/52122072449/)
[ ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/195486993@N02/52122330615/)
[ ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/195486993@N02/52122330800/)
[ ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/195486993@N02/52122072384/)
[ ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/195486993@N02/52120796142/)
[ ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/195486993@N02/52120796147/)
[ ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/195486993@N02/52121860888/)
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### Author:  [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2022, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-may-30-mmp/965341/191 "2022-06-04T19:23:40Z")
Thank you!. The darker orange little guy would have had to come home with me.
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### Author:  [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2022, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-may-30-mmp/965341/192 "2022-06-04T19:29:16Z")
Well, I quit. Literally walked off in the middle of my shift.
I texted one of the guys I was working with to apologize, and he said he _and three other people_ quit thirty minutes after I did.
If that’s true, that’s amazing.
Word gets around fast, I already heard from another guy who’s been fired from here, offering me a (better paying) job.
Again, if true, then amaze-balls.
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### Author:  [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2022, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-may-30-mmp/965341/193 "2022-06-04T19:30:24Z")
> [@BippityBoppityBoo](#):
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> The darker orange little guy would have had to come home with me.
He’s the one who decided to cozy up to me the whole evening. I would claim him in a minute, but we have two little girls who would be less than thrilled with the prospect.
These three will have no trouble getting adopted though, which is kind of the whole point.
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### Author:  [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2022, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-may-30-mmp/965341/194 "2022-06-04T19:32:49Z")
**Shoe** , sorry-not-sorry your gig didn’t work out. Sounds like it worked as a stepping stone to something much better!
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### Author:  [@peedin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peedin)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2022, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-may-30-mmp/965341/195 "2022-06-04T19:33:07Z")
Watching the concert at Buckingham Palace. On teevee, not at the actual palace. Queen rocked and so far everyone else is lame. Why was Sir Paul not invited.
I like day drinking while on vacation. I had a large rum and Diet Coke at 3pm.
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### Author:  [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2022, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-may-30-mmp/965341/196 "2022-06-04T20:38:49Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#):
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> Well, I quit. Literally walked off in the middle of my shift.
> I texted one of the guys I was working with to apologize, and he said he _and three other people_ quit thirty minutes after I did.
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> If that’s true, that’s amazing.
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> Word gets around fast, I already heard from another guy who’s been fired from here, offering me a (better paying) job.
Hugs! I’m sorry the job sucked so hard and I’m glad you’re out of it. I hope you land in a better place. We miss you!
> [@peedin](#):
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> I like day drinking while on vacation.
It is definitely one of the highlights.
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### Author:  [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2022, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-may-30-mmp/965341/197 "2022-06-04T20:51:43Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#):
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> I hope you feel better soon **Nettie**. The reading room gets old fast. 😕
It does. Still not back to “normal” today, either.
Buddy pulled a good one. I went (back) to bed after Buddy left around 8:30. DH was up by then, and told me when I got up that Buddy had come back in. DH did not remember the cat’s departure and wondered if he was hiding somewhere. I shook the treat jar, and here came Allie running into the kitchen from the living room.
And Buddy emerged from a kitchen cabinet. Totally calm. “Oh, hi. You wanted me? You wanted to give me treats?”
A Home Despot run for catproofing for the cabinets has become necessary, apparently. Nosing around is one thing, hiding in there for hours and potentially getting himself in a bad situation (e.g. heavy stuff outside that door and he can’t get out if he needs to) is another. OK, yeah, we’d definitely hear him if he had gotten himself into a situation that upset him, but still…
> [@Wheelz](#):
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> Okay, as previously promised - Kitten Pictures!
SQUEE!!! The one without white on the chin looks to me like baby Buddy!
> [@purplehorseshoe](#):
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> Well, I quit. Literally walked off in the middle of my shift.
> I texted one of the guys I was working with to apologize, and he said he _and three other people_ quit thirty minutes after I did.
May I ask what set that off, and are you OK?
Another cat moment: DH went to pick Allie up to hug her (it’s apparently National Hug Your Cat Day), and she protested. Buddy jumped out of my arms and went running to check on her.
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### Author:  [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2022, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-may-30-mmp/965341/198 "2022-06-04T20:58:45Z")
So… has Buddy moved in yet?
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### Author:  [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2022, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-may-30-mmp/965341/199 "2022-06-04T20:59:15Z")
I’m starting to think he’s considering doing so. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2022, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-may-30-mmp/965341/200 "2022-06-04T20:59:43Z")
It certainly seems that way. 🙂
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