# A tired and uninspired MMP...
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tired-and-uninspired-mmp/509978
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Tags:** mmp
**Created:** [September 14, 2009, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tired-and-uninspired-mmp/509978 "2009-09-14T00:44:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2009, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tired-and-uninspired-mmp/509978/61 "2009-09-15T11:05:42Z")
Stoopid Bills.
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### Author:  [@Sticks\_and\_Scones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sticks_and_Scones)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2009, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tired-and-uninspired-mmp/509978/62 "2009-09-15T11:08:28Z")
Lucky me, I found one more Prilosec that I didn’t know I had. I’ll split it with you **doggio** , if you like. 🙂
And, for a different sort of announcement… (No, I don’t have another weight loss milestone, almost, but not yet.) Anyways, in addition to my weight I also keep track of my measurements and I have lost 10 inches off of my hips!!!
This could be considered somewhat ironic as I’m heading off to Giant Eagle soon and contemplating a donut for breakfast. :D:D:p
This afternoon I will begin again with the reconciling nightmare. I think I need a donut to help get me through that!
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### Author:  [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2009, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tired-and-uninspired-mmp/509978/63 "2009-09-15T11:17:16Z")
> [@Lissla\_Lissar](#):
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> Urgh. Nat was a awake on and off all night, and then sprained or fractured his ankle at about 11 this morning. Only available doctor’s appointment=middle of naptime.
:eek: any further input from the DR’s office? Hope it’s just a sprain!
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#):
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> Stoopid Bills.
As a N. England fan, all I will say is “:p”!
**Bobbio** – the way I was always told, “only those who do nothing never make mistakes.”
Busybusybusy…! :eek: [/driveby]
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### Author:  [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2009, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tired-and-uninspired-mmp/509978/64 "2009-09-15T11:32:28Z")
> [@Noone\_Special](#):
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> :eek: any further input from the DR’s office? Hope it’s just a sprain!
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> As a N. England fan, all I will say is “:p”!
Silly NE fan… 😛 is not even a word…
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### Author:  [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2009, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tired-and-uninspired-mmp/509978/65 "2009-09-15T12:03:17Z")
Up and off to work again.
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### Author:  [@tarragon918](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tarragon918)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2009, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tired-and-uninspired-mmp/509978/66 "2009-09-15T12:24:37Z")
Up and out so as to get into work early today, which I accomplished. Now I just gotta do the work!
Aww and gentle hugs for **Nat** plus a kiss on his boo-boo. I hope it’s just a sprain. Poor **LiLi** too. Calming vibes sent all around to the Lisslar household.
I am sipping herbal tea as well a ginger-ale this morning, hoping to keep my tummy settled. So far so good!
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### Author:  [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2009, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tired-and-uninspired-mmp/509978/67 "2009-09-15T12:53:36Z")
Blurf. Damned dogs and wife conspired to deprive me of my ugly sleep.
On court call again this week. Cop a plea or convict him in absentia. I’m tired of the subpoenas that go nowhere.
I got a little more info on the Darwin Award auditioner from the game warden last night. He’s still living, so far, but is on dialysis because his kidneys have failed from a combination of overall tissue damage and low blood pressure. He might still make it, but it’ll be long and tough.
The kicker: our genius is one of the guys in the county certified by the NC Department of Fish and Wildlife to teach hunter safety. :smack:
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### Author:  [@Tupug\_Anachi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tupug_Anachi)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2009, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tired-and-uninspired-mmp/509978/68 "2009-09-15T13:02:32Z")
Awwwwwww, poor **Nat**! I hope it is a sprain.
**pie** , good for you, girlfriend! Way to go!
Anybody got a good nic for **schnuckiputzi**? Anybody??? 😃
Today is payday. Yay!
Much work to do, too.
Tupug
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### Author:  [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2009, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tired-and-uninspired-mmp/509978/69 "2009-09-15T13:28:54Z")
Well, he still can’t stand up, and I hope the doctor gets back to us today. Sigh.
I was three days from graduation from college, living on the top floor of an Edwardian three-story house that belonged to a junk/antiques dealer. The sort of person whpo kept an extra couch and mirrors stacked on the stairs. I was standing around after class, shifting my weight from my right to left foot, and I went _down_. Crunch.
Dislocated, and then snapped back into place.
Mr. Lissar got to do all my packing and help me up and down all stairs and steep places. We have lots of pics of me on crutches.
I have to entertain a toddler who can’t walk. So far today, _Sharpe_, playing with straws, reading, snacks, and scribbing with pencils. It will be a long week/weeks. On the bright side, Quasi-Daughter’s back from Newfoundland (she buggered off on anothwer trip twelve days ago).
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### Author:  [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2009, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tired-and-uninspired-mmp/509978/70 "2009-09-15T13:38:03Z")
> [@Lissla\_Lissar](#):
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> On the bright side, Quasi-Daughter’s back from Newfoundland (she buggered off on anothwer trip twelve days ago).
Did she bring you a bottle of screech?
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### Author:  [@taxi78cab](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/taxi78cab)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2009, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tired-and-uninspired-mmp/509978/71 "2009-09-15T14:13:03Z")
Aw, poor **Nat**! And poor **LiLi**! Good luck keeping a toddler entertained!
My former manager at old company had a bad kids-in-casts situation once. Her ~5- or 6-yo broke his arm the day she went into labor with her 3rd kid. So hubby had to divide his time in the hospital between kid and wife-in-labor. He made it to his wife just in time for the birth. Then the new baby had something or other wrong and had to be in a cast. So newborn and school-aged kid in casts. And then her ~3-yo daughter slammed the door on the cat’s tail. So a cast on the cat as well. As Mom would say, “If they didn’t have bad luck, they wouldn’t have any luck at all.”
Thanks **gt** for stopping by my knitting thread. Now I have too many ideas for what to do! I’m flipping back and forth between about 6 trying to decide which two I can make in the next couple months. Better to have too many than too few though!
Countdown to vacation has started here, and I’m running out of time to get everything done. We’re leaving Firday around 5:30, flying to Denver, spending Sat there, getting up Sunday morning and getting on the train to Salt Lake with the all-day train trip along the Rockies and then turning west onto the route of the transcontinental RR so should be a beautiful trip, Mon in SLC probably renting a car and driving out to the lake and salt flats, taking a late evening flight to Las Vegas and then having Tues-Thurs in Vegas, flying home Thurs late evening. Should be a great trip. But… I have to talk to the neighbor about cat sitting tonight. Tomorrow night’s going to be busy watching a focus group for work (don’t have to but it’s probably one of the few opportunities we’ll have as they don’t often do focus groups around here because it’s easier to get enough people in larger cities). Then sometime I have to do laundry, buy snacks, pack, etc. Fun fun. I’m going to need a vacation from vacation planning!
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### Author:  [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2009, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tired-and-uninspired-mmp/509978/72 "2009-09-15T14:29:15Z")
I am so dumb. Remember when TubaDiva changed the “threads per page” default? I got confused, and changed my “posts per page” settings. I set it to 40, because 50 was not an option.
I come in here and y’all are still talking about “first on page” - and I’m trying to figure out how you got to keep 50 posts per page! I think I even boasted about number of times being first! :smack: The “use forum default” option gives you 50 posts per page.
I almost posted in ATMB about it, all pissed off. But I know y’all won’t point and laugh at the dumbass in here. Right? 😉
I’m sorry for all the owies and sickies, especially baby Nat!
Busy at work. Don Juana is right by my side…
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### Author:  [@taxi78cab](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/taxi78cab)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2009, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tired-and-uninspired-mmp/509978/73 "2009-09-15T14:42:42Z")
So I’ve been looking at the aforementioned knitting patterns, and I found two that I really like. I was thinking I’d do the [sinful ribbed pattern](http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/sinful-ribbed-scarf) for the green scarf for myself and the [Montana scarf](http://www.loopknits.com/2008/10/09/montana-scarf/) in a similar tan color as in the linked picture for someone else. And then I looked more closely at both patterns and realized they’re exactly the same. :smack: Guess I really like that pattern!
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### Author:  [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2009, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tired-and-uninspired-mmp/509978/74 "2009-09-15T15:27:47Z")
Good wishes to **Nat** for a speedy recovery, preferably before **LiLi** ’s nerves are completely frayed.
> [@Mahna\_Mahna](#):
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> **Nava** , I think I’ve read the same manual. 🙂 I have one that reads “Unmask button: Reveals secured data. Using this button will log an audit.” Apparently, the secured data is so secured that we don’t get to find out in advance exactly what frakkin’ data it is.
Hey, whomever came up with that must be related to those guys which refused to give us (SAP Help Desk) permission to use Finance Display screens because, you know, it’s confidential data and stuff. So what if the users from Finance were asking questions about a screen we could not see, right? They were worried that we’d root out Og and Ogette knows what sort of highly confidential data through being able to use Display Asset. Impossible to give us the permission. One of my colleagues said “but we can see the data! It’s in the tables and we can see the tables! What we need to see is how is it organized in the screen, because I’m sure, sure, sure, that they’re not using the normal screen, because nobody in this company uses the normal screen ever!”
Boss: “Well yes but that data is confidential. You need special permission and they won’t grant it.”
Colleague: :smack::mad::smack::mad::smack::mad:
Me: “telling them that we can see salary tables wouldn’t be a good idea, now would it?”
A calmer colleague: “hah, they’d just take away our permission to see anything, we’d be able to see nothing, nothing! And when we got a ticket we’d be able to respond ‘will solve as soon as able.’ And it would be never. I like that idea!”
First colleague: “you, **Nava** , are eeeeevil. I liiiiike you when you’re eeeeeevil.”
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### Author:  [@Mahna\_Mahna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahna_Mahna)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2009, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tired-and-uninspired-mmp/509978/75 "2009-09-15T17:37:41Z")
Poor Gnat. Not being able to run around and do stuff is definitely no fun at all for an active little tyke like him… he must be utterly miserable. Hope the doc gets back to you soon, **LiLi**.
Also, I’m quite jealous of QD. I think Newfoundland is the bee’s knees - I spent a few weeks out there for a deployment in 2007, and my only complaint was the fact that I was working so much that I didn’t see much of St John’s beyond my hotel and the call centre… still, it was a wonderful place full of wonderful folks.
**Nava** , ain’t security profiles grand? 🙂 Of course, I’m the one sitting on the other side explaining that I know that they have a million and one reasons why they’d love to see admin screens and manipulate system configuration or tables contents, but a certain Mssrs Sarbanes and Oxley think otherwise. Thankfully, most people back down when I start trotting out words like Audit and Compliance, lest they invoke the wrath of SOX.
Speaking of which, I spent all friggin’ morning sounding like a three year old child - one of my groups wants profiles that let them do everything short of God, so my 2.5 hr long conference call consisted of:
Muppet: Why?
Them: Because.
M: That’s not an answer.
T: Yes it is.
M: No it’s not. Let’s try again. WHY?
T: Because I said so.
M: _head-desky_
Where’s the hair-tearing-out smiley when you need him? :rolleyes:
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### Author:  [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2009, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tired-and-uninspired-mmp/509978/76 "2009-09-15T18:12:34Z")
Arg! SOX! Don’t mention that name to me! :mad: grrrr
Once a week I have to interrupt the flow of my work to cull files, from folders the SOX team has access to, into one folder so everything “is right there for them”
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### Author:  [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2009, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tired-and-uninspired-mmp/509978/77 "2009-09-15T18:46:45Z")
[QUOTE=Nava]
Me: “telling them that we can see salary tables wouldn’t be a good idea, now would it?”
A calmer colleague: “hah, they’d just take away our permission to see anything, we’d be able to see nothing, nothing! And when we got a ticket we’d be able to respond ‘will solve as soon as able.’ And it would be never. I like that idea!”
First colleague: “you, **Nava** , are eeeeevil. I liiiiike you when you’re eeeeeevil.”
[/QUOTE]
I have to remember this concept, since I do have access to the HR data feed. A couple years ago, I was the sane voice of reason to question why we needed to see a person’s full file including home address and SSN just to see if they’re an active FTE or not.
select fte\_status from hr\_emps where emplid= is all we needed for our support application. But I can still hop onto the database and run select \* from hr\_emps all day long if I wanted to.
You know what’s really hard to clean up? Spilled liquid soap. What do you clean it with? Dirt? More soap?
Something else that’s challenging to mop up is fabric softener. (And yes, I know that a good antidote to too much soap is fabric softener.)
Last night, DH managed to drop a brand new bottle of softener near the front door while bringing in the groceries. The cap shattered when it hit the tile. Which flew farther? Pieces of the cap or softener? Yup - the softener. The soundtrack was something like “Ooop…crack!..shit!..glubb”
After sucking it all up with the carpet cleaner, we now have a fluffy soft living room carpet and the piano is finally cling-free.
Best part is the whole house now smells like fluffy bunny rabbits in a flowery spring breeze. :smack:
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### Author:  [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2009, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tired-and-uninspired-mmp/509978/78 "2009-09-15T18:58:25Z")
The only solution I see for Nat is to drink heavily. And no overdosing the toddler!
I’m back from CPR and I passed with 100%. They’ve changed CPR so many times that it’s actually harder now for me–I have too many old algorithms jostling in my head. I’m supposed to be working on the nurse’s presentation. I just had lunch and a nap sounds real good about now… Laundry in the washer; dishwasher going.
And my nose is scratchy and I’ve been sneezing… Uh-oh…
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### Author:  [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2009, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tired-and-uninspired-mmp/509978/79 "2009-09-15T20:58:26Z")
Since I’m essentially talking to myself, I’ll just say that I have most of the pieces of my presentation, I just need to spend time this weekend and assemble them all. I didn’t nap, but I am to wash my hair now.
The rest of this week is insane with parent nights at both schools, work downtown W and F and at my RN job on Th. Bah.
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### Author:  [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2009, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tired-and-uninspired-mmp/509978/80 "2009-09-15T21:04:27Z")
I was amazed to see that the Amish farmers are still harvesting corn. Today is SIL’s b-day and he asked for tuna steaks, corn on the cob, and 'maters. So I stopped at the market, not expecting the corn. But I got some, so yay! He also wanted cheesecake, but the only cheesecake I make is the jello instant kind, so I bought one of those cheesecake sampler things. Supper will be good. But late. He doesn’t get off work till 6, so it may be 6:30 before he’s here. I hate eating later - it messes up my whole evening. Oh well…
Work was meh. I’m ready for the weekend.
\*\*FCD \*\*is watching the Wild Wild West movie - what a travesty that is! I loved the series, but the movie was a disgrace.
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