Beer Can E.D. and The Mother Yeast, The MMP

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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:: singing - she does the tube sock boogie ::

Found out last night when Mr Rebo (and I) are taking vacation - The whole week of Labor Day plus a couple more after that. We’ll fly out Aug 31, and come back Sep 10. w00t! We’re going to Daytona Beach, Florida, where Mr Rebo is from. We haven’t been in two years, and last time we drove. That’s so exhausting! So this time we will fly.

Sign me up for the MMP on Sep 17, and I’ll regale you with tales from Flahrda, and pics, too! I’m excited! We didn’t take a vacation last year, since I was on treatment and didn’t feel like it.

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Good Morning Mumpers! I’m back to work today. Is it vacation time yet? I’m gonna do my vacation laundry. The TSA apparently inspected my dirty undies. I feel I should apologize, and bring them some Miller products.

MBG, you should send Uncle Jim in your place. He likes the great outdoors.

LOUNE, when you grow up and turn 21, you’ll understand the appeal of beer.

Haze, I’d raise a stink, and find a better job. No olives? :eek: I think I have the vapors and have to lie down for a bit.

McUNE, hope your cousin checks in soon.

Roo, that’s OK, great artists are always persecuted. :stuck_out_tongue: I have a Nat King Cole LP.

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G’morn!

Got to bed at a more respectable hour last night. I still woke up tired, but at least my brain doesn’t feel addled, and my morning caffeine fix ought to be able to work its magic. My cow-orker is nowhere to be found at the moment – most likely in the warehouse handling orders and stuff 'cos the two main folks in the back decided to take a vacation at the same time. We have to schedule our vacation times to avoid conflicts like this, but I guess they got a pass on it this year. Must be nice to be management. :smiley: He just reported in, and he told me he just killed a keyboard. By cleaning it. Because when the cleaning solution he sprayed on the paper towel wasn’t doing its job very well, he decided to spray directly on to the keyboard. :smack:

Of all people, he ought to know better than that. He’s not by any means a geek, but he’s familiar with computers at the very least – he has one at home he uses quite a bit – so for him to do this just baffles me. And these aren’t your normal $10 keyboards, these are terminal keyboards, with all those extra function keys and the RJ11-type (like a phone jack) connector and stuff, so getting a replacement isn’t just a matter of walking into our local mom 'n pop shop and picking one up. Hopefully the keyboard will resurrect itself once it has dried out.

I also dribbled coffee on my shirt. My nice, new, very white shirt. :smack: :smack: (It’s a European lid, okay? It’s like a sippy cup without the stem; they’re devious, but handy. And am I the only one that finds the term “sippy cup” absurd?) It’s just a little drop or two, but couple daubs of light brown are noticeable against a sea of white. Why didn’t I bring my Tide pen? I keep meaning to keep one in my work bag for precisely these situations. (They don’t work nearly as well as advertised, but they do work if you keep at it long enough and press in enough solution.)

And to all of you flinging earworms all over the places, listen up:

DO NOT MAKE ME BREAK OUT BOBBY McFERRIN.

I cannot stress this enough. I don’t want to have to go nuclear, but dammit, I’ve got the button and I’ve got the will. Please don’t make me exercise them.

HeffNroo -
Leslie Nielsen: “Nice beaver!”
Priscilla Presley: “Thank you! I just had it stuffed.”
(- The Naked Gun 2½)

Ontario has a fair number of holidays – 8 statutory holidays a year: New Year’s Day (Jan. 1st, duh), Good Friday (whenever between the third week of March and the third week of April), Victoria Day (the Monday that precedes May 25th, also known colloquially as “May 2-4 Weekend”), Canada Day (July 1st), Labour Day (first Monday in September), Thanksgiving (second Monday in October), and Christmas and Boxing day (Dec. 25th-26th, dug). And then there’s the debatable Simcoe day (first Monday in August), which is not statutory, and not everybody gets off, but is nevertheless traditional. This probably isn’t a whole lot different than the US in most places – you guys have quite a few celebratory days, though I’m only sure of a few of those that are statutory bank holidays.

And two out of three is fine (Ha! You thought I was going to make a Meatloaf reference) so long as it is understood that I’m not actually accepting the blame, but am only holding it gingerly and with a look of discomfort, like being asked to hold a woman’s purse while she steps into a store or something. (This simile void for anyone that thinks a “murse” is an acceptable fashion statement, which I suppose includes the entire SoHo area)

Doggy - “Vapors” huh? Just make sure you put the cap back on the glue. :smiley:

LOUNE - PUT YOUR TROUSERS BACK ON! I’d rather not be thinking about your bum garrote, much less assaulted by it. Oh, and hope everyone checks in okay. That collapse was pretty scary stuff.

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Skipping out of the office for a mid-day appointment with a hand surgeon, about the possibility of removing a pesky bone spur from one of my fingers.

TTFN; back after lunchtime.

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Morning mumpers.

I’m off to a slow, lazy start this morning. I’m showered, dressed, and ready to go, but I don’t really know how I did it on time. I even managed to brew myself a cup of coffee. I have about five minutes to choke it down and get on down to work. I get to go in early this morning and work late. Hurrah.

I want to become more of a morning person. Not necessarily GOOD MORNING SUNSHINE kind of morning person, but just… able to function.

That, I think, will require more coffee.

All right, Seattle, look out, Shasta’s about to get on the roads. Stay inside and lock up your animals.

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Morning, all. I won’t say “good” because last night my hard drive went kaput. As in thud, bonk, pow, I QUIT. It just will not even spin up. As in dead, dead, deader than the proverbial doornail. With ALL my huge rush job still on it…I’d finished up one day of this big meeting, but hadn’t emailed it off yet. :smack:

So I then had to go on a hunt for my disks that came with the computer. Which I clearly remembered taking out of the huge pointless Dell box when I moved up here two years ago and putting somewhere else for safekeeping. I hunted in my office. I dug in closets. I went up in the attic and spent half an hour going through everything up there looking for my disks. It was HOT up there. I got all dirty and dusty and sweaty, and found all kinds of other stuff I’ve been looking for, but not my disks. Including some gorgeous blue wool yarn I’d purchased in Ireland some years back and had completely forgotten about, enough to knit Lapin Blanc a nice warm sweater for Idaho. But have I mentioned that it was HOT up in the attic? And dusty and dirty?

Papa Tigs of course had gone through everything he could do to get it going, but needed a boot disk to go farther, so I kept hunting. Went back through everything I’d gone through…and on the 47th look, discovered the disks sitting in a nice clearly labeled manila envelope RIGHT next to my desk.

:smack: :smack: :smack: :smack: :smack:

Unfortunately, that didn’t do any good, either. So this morning Papa Tigs tried to get a techie from work conferenced in on the phone and of course no one was available…so I called a local guy, who’s coming out this afternoon. And I had the fun job of calling the reporting firm and telling them they ain’t getting their work on Friday.

Good news is I really only need to pull the files from a couple programs off the old drive, even if it is permanently dead; and one way or another, I WILL be up and running again before the day is out. Even if it means replacing the hard drive completely. I can reload everything else; I do have the original program disks.

But still…why do bad things always happen at the worst possible time? :smack: :smack: :smack:

So I’m on Papa Tigs’ computer this morning. I’ll go back and read through, but right now I’m just seriously pissed off. For some strange reason.

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Good morning my lovelies! I’m in somewhat of a better mood today because the janitor FINALLY came and fixed stuff. So that’s one down. 5,683 million things left to do.

McUne, I hope all of your relatives check in okay!

ETA: OUCH, MamaTigs, I’m so sorry to hear that. Computers always go insane at the WORST POSSIBLE TIME, I swear.

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Thanks God it’s THuuuuursdaaaaay!

Hey, it’s one advantage of being part-time :stuck_out_tongue:

Mind you, right now the way my inbox looks I’d need to work the whole freaking weekend to really put everything in order, but if They want me here 3 days/week I’m not going to work 7.

gt, yes, the Oldsters are back at their place, and have been informed that unless one of them is in the ER, there won’t be no visits from my mother until at least September (when The Nephew will have started kindergarten). My aunt lives closer but, apart from being a worthy daughter of her father (which, among other things, means we have to keep them separated) - her husband was just diagnosed with colon cancer :frowning: One of Grandma’s boutades was saying “oh, bah, that’s just fine” when she heard that my uncle’s surgery won’t take place until September (endoscopic, it’s only one lobe). Hearing about it, I exclaimed “how clear it is that it’s not her ass! If it was, she’d be calling hellfire and damnation on the whole medical profession!” Mom said “you know, that’s the exact same reaction everybody’s having.”

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Just got a call from Ma and my cousin is fine. Got an email a while ago and my friend is fine too. She was actually home when that happened, her dad takes that bridge daily, was going to leave about 5 minutes to 6 which would have meant that he would have been on the bridge when it collapsed. He decided to go close his eyes for half an hour before leaving work…and he never does that…so everyone is present and accounted for now. So very thankful. Keeping everyone else in prayer though, this is just crazy.

Work is going today. Very SLOWLY. The only program that is working today is IE. Email keeps going up and down, and the other programs that I spend all day in keep going up and down. Gotta love server problems. Thankfully it’s a really quiet day though and not like yesterday.

In other news, I have officially been married 4 years today!! WOW, I can’t believe time has gone by so fast, doesn’t even seem like it. Hubby and I were talking today that we still act like newlyweds and said that we are still considered newlyweds. I told him that “title” was gone after the first year. So MMPers what do you consider a newlywed?

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A few months… I know “the first year is key” (heck, I’ve heard that so many times I think it has its own neuronal pathway in my brain) but really, with so many people living together for years before doing the paperwork I’m hard pressed to think of someone who’s been sharing bed and table for 3+ years as “newlywed” - no matter how fresh the ink is.

Being in love or loving your spouse is a different matter from being “newlywed”. To me, “newlywed” has both the connotation of dewy-eyed and of all those little adjustments you have to go through during the first months of living together.

Glad to hear you’re all all right, McUNE

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Just a quickie to tell taxi how glad I am that she and keith are okay cause I thought of her immediately when I heard about the bridge last night.

drae, congrats on the new job!!!

magic, pool is moving along. Yesterday all the rebar went in and much of the plumbing. Next is electric and then inspection. Pouring should be after that. Today might be for nought though since it’s raining.

Off to do some work.

Tupug

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Thanks for thinking of us everyone. I’m kinda bummed because as everyone here at work is talking about how they spent all night responding to phone calls/emails/texts from friends and family around the country, no one contacted us to see if we were ok. We did both call our parents right away so they knew we were fine, but no IRL friends called us. Isn’t anyone out there worried about us? :frowning: Anyway, nice to know the Dopers/Mumpers care. Thanks guys.

Congrats on the job, Drae!! Good to have an update from you.

Taters, I wanted to comment about something you said earlier in the week about work, but now I’ve totally forgotten what it was. But I was thinking of you.

Good luck with the job/pay situation, haze. That sucks!

Off to muck with the forecast more. I left yesterday thinking it was done, but found out this morning that someone gave me wrong input numbers. So my output tied their input, but it was still wrong. I can’t get out of forecast hell!!

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Happy Anniversary, McUne. May you and the mister have many more.

I suddenly realized that I’m going to be away from my desk all of next week, and so I have a bunch of crap to clear up in 1-1/2 days. Including some kind of problem with work and material charged to government credit cards. Apparently, a vast majority of them have been cut off until the new funding bill is authorized by Congress. Which means I have to figure out which contracts I have are affected and how to get paid for them now (instead of waiting until we ship/complete the work - the normal method of billiing these.) :: shakes fist at the US Congress ::

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I’m glad I decided to go back and reread the past couple days cause I missed this Kevbo. I assume “mama yeast” is used for all brewing. As to the headaches, who knows. Could be the way Miller brews its beer is just enough to trigger some kind of allergic reaction for ya. For me, I have to be careful about using certain household cleaners cause they can trigger the same thing. Then again, I don’t work in brewing (I’m in production, I produce the beer :smiley: ) so I’m not real familiar with the brewing process though I’m hoping they’ll clue me in on some of the process.

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO THE MCUNES!!!

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Well, all is once again quiet on the home front. HRH is asleep for the night and hubby is now en route to Dubai. He tried to get out of it, but his boss had a dummy-spit (threw all the toys out of his pram!) and told Rashid he HAD to go! Pbbbtthhhhhhh! :stuck_out_tongue:

Mork, threat duly noted - don’t worry, be happy! ::snerk::

MamaTigs, bummer on the 'pooter situation!

Okay, off to have me a glass of Chateau de Cardboard and watch some teev.

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*++*+ [COLOR=LemonChiffon]Happy Anniversary, McUnes! +*++*[/COLOR]

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Hey Dotty!! ~waving~ and ~bouncing~ Good morning!!
I’m glad you can join me in the snoopy dance. :::snoopy dance:::

When you first mentioned the song, I was thinking. . .oh no, I must be reeeaaaallly old because I have no idea what you’re talking about. But then I watched the youtube and was wondering why all the people in it looked like they were from Mars. . . or the 70’s. And then it started to dawn on me that this was a really old song. . . and thank goodness I didn’t know it.

But thanks for singing that lullaby to me last night. I slept well and didn’t dream of the snake. But I hope I’m not going to hear the same song every night, am I?

ME, I have another snake story also. I told this somewhere else on the SDMB. . .don’t remember where. One day, in my garage, I was smelling a bad smell (you can see where this is going). And I couldn’t find anything that would cause the smell. But as I raised my garage door, I saw something hanging from the hinge on the bottom corner. You got it. Dead snake. . .being pulverized by the garage door. Ewwww!!!

LOUNE, don’t forget about thumpers and lumpers and sump pumpers (I guess).
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doggio**, I agreed that I should not have insulted you for taking the picture. But now it’s great art? I can only go so far with you, buddy. :stuck_out_tongue:
You have an LP?! You must be old! Or is this like an ancient relic that you purchased?

Mork, glad you got some sleep last night. Why are you wearing a white shirt? That’s where the whole thing went wrong.

Relax, dude. Don’t worry, be. . . . what?

I thought I was safe with the beaver reference since the genders didn’t work. I should have known. Nothing in the Mump is safe.

You’re right, I’ll stay in the US. We evidently have 10 bank holidays a year. It appears we’re more laid-back than Canadians. Who knew?

A meatloaf reference? You’re old too. Is the holding purse look the same look as when you’re called upon to buy feminine hygiene products for your wife?

Mamatigs, sorry for your pissed offedness. I hope it goes away. Please don’t turn it this way, though. doggio is already upset with me.
It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood and I’m off. Be good today!

ETA: Dotty beat me to the ear worm. Drat!

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Well, the pesky bone spur is really a cyst, which makes surgery a little easier in my mind, but the sawbones said it wasn’t.

I’m looking at same-day surgery towards the end of the month or first of September. I need to have it done before VWife gets her first knee job.

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Thanks all for the anniversary wishes!! :slight_smile:

Well the work programs seem to working better, at least email. So that’s a good thing.

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Sorry about the cyst, BBBobbio. I hope the surgery is easy and you recover completely before VunderWife’s bionicization. 'Cause it’s better to have only one person incapacitated at a time, and even though it’s “just” a hand, that’s just about as incapacitating as anything I can think of! Is it your primary hand? I hope not.

Boo! Hiss! to your cheapskake employers, Haze. Them’s definitely slave wages! Tell them to pay you decently, darn it!

I’m glad you’re okay, Taxi. Papa Tigs has a bunch of relatives in the M/SP area (and in fact is flying out tomorrow to a family reunion there), but as far as we know everyone’s okay. Most of them are in St. Paul, too. But he’s been over that bridge a million times.

We can’t avoid bridges in our area, either – just to run to AAA and the credit union this morning, we had to two sizeable rivers twice each. It really makes you think, doesn’t it? I’m not bridge-phobic but my sister is ever since she was an exchange student in Costa Rica, where the only way in and out of town was by a bridge that was washed out several times a year, including during the year she was there, so we’re wondering now if we’ll ever get her on another bridge again! Considering she lives in Seattle, chances are good she can’t avoid them completely no matter how much she tries.

Not to worry, Heff, I’m only pissed off at my 'puter, not people. But hey, at least I should be getting a bit of a vacation from work, right? Ha! It is to laugh. I’ve been cleaning up my office so the "puter guy doesn’t see what a mess it usually is! Lapin Blanc and I just ran a couple errands, and now I’m going to eat something and wait for the guy to show up. He said he’d be here midafternoon, and I do believe he’ll be reasonably on time. I went with a local guy rather than something like the Geek Squad; here’s hoping he knows his stuff. You pays your money, you takes your chances, I guess.

The good news is that since Lapin Blanc just got herself a nice shiny new laptop to take with her to Potatoland, after the 'puter guy looks at mine, if he can’t fix it on the spot and has to take it back to his shop I can steal her CPU and plug it in in my office. I won’t have my work already done, but I can at least pick up where I left off and keep going so that when I get the rest of the stuff I’ll be in good shape.

But right now I’m going to put my feet up and eat something and then read or knit. I think I deserve it!