Bizarro World Ice Cream Truck…A Herald of Spring MMP

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffienatin’ here. I get free lunch at work today for some nonsense about bein’ a top producer and all. Fine by me. I wonder what “free lunch” will consist of. I live in fear that it will be ::shudder:: Chick Fil-A ::shudder:: since there’s one in front of the buildin’. No, I do not like Chick Fil-A.

MOOOOOOM there can be only one explanation for why your debit card was declined. You stole your own identity and have been caught! :stuck_out_tongue:

doggio be proud of Gordie. Who knows what could be lurkin’ in a pile of brush clippin’s!

BooFae make up your own private numberin’ system. It’ll make it a lot more entertainin’. :smiley:

Ok, need brekkies and more caffiene plus work purtification.

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Lastr night, Loki, Mr.-need-to-pee-5-times-a-night, went into full ‘attack the stranger at the door’ mode when the ice in my glass of water rattled. If only he had a brain to be damaged… :rolleyes:

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That’s why I get my news online. :smiley:

The meatballs (and the cream sauce, of course) were tres yummy. I’m keeping that recipe around. But eating small quantities 'cause it’s got to have 3 zillion calories per serving with all that cream.

I slept pretty well last night, but I’m still in a daze this morning. I can haz nap plz?

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I like Chick-Fil-A, but I do not like their clientele in this town. The last time I went the place was packed–packed!–with stay-at-home moms and their ill-mannered, no-indoor-voice chi’drens. And the line at the drive-in window is consistently wrapped around the block. Of course, I don’t usually want CFA until Sundays anyway. That’s human nature for you.

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Blurf. Another day, another losing Tim Horton’s coffee. Sigh.

Vundy, you are by far the most amusing irate customer I’ve ever had the pleasure of reading… and, for the record, I’ve had to read my fair share of complaints back in the day, so it’s not like you’re the only irate customer I’ve ever seen. :slight_smile:

swampus, please feel free to send your free lunch over this way if it doesn’t live up to your high standards. I’ll eat anything. :slight_smile: (our default free lunch is Swiss Chalet rotisserie chicken, because it’s across the street… I guess all telecoms are lazy ass bastages)

gotti, the T1i does look quite droolworthy, and the price is right. I wouldn’t even bother with the XS - it’s actually a step down from the XTi, despite being a newer model. Considering it’s only a couple of months before the T1i launch, I vote for waiting.

BTW, don’t bother with the 18-55 mm kit lens if they try to sell you on the package… it’s utter shite. My suggestion is to buy the body on its own, and buy a proper lens separately (I got a Canon 28-105 mm lens instead, which is a nice versatile walking-around lens because it ranges from wide-angle to zoom… and not much more expensive than the kit lens, either)

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Me, too! Me, too! This morning I woke up and my hair hurts. I sure will be glad when this hormone finally kicks in.

My “deluxe” meatball recipe requires ground veal and pork sausage along with the ground beef, parmesan cheese, bread crumbs, spices and eggs that make up the foundation recipe. I love me some baby cow.

That was hilarious, bobbio. One should never mess around with seriously sharp cheddar. It should make the saliva glands clench up and overflow. I love me some sharp cheddar.

My chihuahua, who is [Foghorn Leghorn]not raght in the haid[/FL] has been known to literally levitate to the front door if one of us makes an idle tapping noise somewhere else in house. Stoopit dawg.

ETA: My sister sent me this interesting tidbit.
Tupug

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It’s raining, and my joints are hurting again, too. The moron who runs my landlord’s residential properties is cashing rent checks 2 and 3 months late, causing me grief and overdrafts. I fear I will have to track him down and beat him with a clue by four.:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

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Oh, this is just too much. I have to go back to the tit squisher for another set of views plus an ultrasound. :stuck_out_tongue: :mad: :frowning: Now I remember why I hate going to the doctor.

Keep those appendages crossed please.

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[QUOTE=swampbear]
I wonder what “free lunch” will consist of. I live in fear that it will be ::shudder:: Chick Fil-A ::shudder:: since there’s one in front of the buildin’. No, I do not like Chick Fil-A.
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And what’s wrong with free food? Yeah, I know… Back before we got publicly flogged for every nickel spent on anything even resembling employee appreciation, we’d have food brought in now and then. Usually it was tex-mess food from Cucina Cilantro or sandwiches from Beansprouts Brothers. Generally, I’d say hello to whatever manager arranged it, take a bag of chips or a cookie, then slink off to find lunch elsewhere.

So, my advice is to do a quick glad-hand with the appropriate people, then find real food. And pray that it’s not a “working lunch”!

[QUOTE=Mahna Mahna]
gotti, the T1i does look quite droolworthy, and the price is right. I wouldn’t even bother with the XS - it’s actually a step down from the XTi, despite being a newer model. Considering it’s only a couple of months before the T1i launch, I vote for waiting.

BTW, don’t bother with the 18-55 mm kit lens if they try to sell you on the package.. it’s utter shite. My suggestion is to buy the body on its own, and buy a proper lens separately (I got a Canon 28-105 mm lens instead, which is a nice versatile walking-around lens because it ranges from wide-angle to zoom… and not much more expensive than the kit lens, either)
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Amazingly enough, I was thinking similar thoughts. How often do I want a wide - to - normal lens? More often, I’m looking for an 80 for portraits or a mild tele. (Sorry, I still have a 35mm brain, and I know that 55mm or so on a typical dSLR is roughly the same as an 80mm on film.)

To this day, I still regret having to ditch my collection of Minolta glass - the crown jewel was a 50mm f 1.4. That lens could just about see in the dark. Unfortunately, I could not, and I was murdering film and paper before some kind soul at the darkroom looked at my work and recognized that I had some pretty bad astigmatism and that autofocus lenses might be a better choice for me.

Meanwhile… there’s a box of donwannas on my desk that I haven’t opened yet, and something here stinks. Think someone snuck in “air freshener” but it’s horrid.

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gotti, may I recommend this lens, then? It’s a 60mm/2.8, so it still falls far short of your crown jewel, but it’s still absolutely fabulous for both portrait work and macros. It’s wicked fast, with nice sharp detailing… gorgeous bokeh, too. Love it love it love it.

Oh, and another thing about Canon lenses that you may or may not know - there are actually two kinds. The ones labelled “EF-S” are custom-designed for the Canon dSLR sensors, which means that if you buy a 50mm EF-S lens, it will behave in exactly the same way a traditional 50mm lens does on a 35mm camera. The catch is that you can’t use an EF-S on a 35mm sensor camera, which limits you options down the road should you choose to upgrade to something else (or if Canon decides to upgrade their entire dSLR line to a 35mm sensor).

OK, enough geeking for today. :slight_smile: Time to grab some N.O.L.

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Gingerly peeks in

So this is an MMP. I’m still stuck on the ice-cream trucks. My favorite tune is Fur Elise. Least favorite, but catchiest: Do Your Ears Hang Low? (Do they wobble to and fro/ Can you tie 'em in a knot/ Can you tie 'em in a bow/ Can you throw them o’er your shoulder like a continental soldier (WTF)/ Do your ears? Hang? Low?)

Also, crangerine sounds delicious. Tangerines are basically small, tangy oranges. The last time I made cranberry orange muffins, I forgot to add sugar. It was awfulness slightly mediated by dipping the muffins in sugared tea. All bread products taste good dipped in tea.

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Welcome! Come on in!

Yes, this is the craziness that is the MMP.

And you’re first on page four! That means you owe everyone chocolate, especially FCM.

:smiley:

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Yes. Chocolate. Chocolate is good.
Afternoon, everyone. Welcome, Inchini.

For the third time this week, Nat’s woken up really early and fussed/cried for an hour before conking again. I understand this is pretty common. I am not loving it, but if there’s a pattern it’s more tolerable than if it were changing every day. Sigh.

Went out north and east to a big, stupidly cheap Chinese/filipino supermarket this morning. I’m going to saute and freeze about ten pounds of red and yellow peppers. I think we’ll have chicken and corn and pepper salad tonight.

Pugs, appendages crossed.

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Did someone say chocolate?

Errrr… I mean, welcome to the MMP, Ichini. If you stick around, we promise to figure out a Sooper-Secret-Mumper-Name for you. :slight_smile:

So it turns out that I need to write up some personal objectives for this year’s performance review. Anyone feel like doing them for me? I hate hate hate doing self-reviews, but it’s a million times worse when someone asks me to figure out what I’ll be reviewed on. Urk.

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The mystery is solved!! My debit/check card wasn’t activated. Even tho last Friday, I called to activate it and was told it was already activated. Even tho I used it 2 or 3 times over the weekend. For some stoopit reason, someone decided to deactivate it. But it’s been reactivated, so all is good. Stoopit credit union.

Supper tonight is hot dogs and beans. Which means class should be musical… :wink: I’ve got 4 of my own underglazes to use in class, so I should be able to finish up my first project.

It’s rainy, but tomorrow, it’s supposed to be nicer. Rain all weekend, so I can veg and knit and stuff. Yay!

Welcome, Ichini!! No rush with the chocolate love offerings. Any time in the next 10 minutes or so will be fine… :smiley:

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in spite of the yucky weather today (it’s not really raining - more of a steady mist) I
a) took the car in for a tune up and oil change
b) picked up my meds
c) got my hair done
d) spoke to my financial advisor about setting up an annuity
e) sent my tax stuff to my accountant
Boy am I tired ::conck:: ssnnnnnnnnnnnnnxx

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Muppet, we did our self reviews about a month ago, and I don’t want to have anything to do with any of that for another 11 months. Sorry, you’re on your own!

Motivation’s still a bit lacking here in my little cube today. I think that’s part of the problem with working really really hard for a couple weeks: when it’s over, you don’t feel like working hard at all for a couple days. Or more.

Even though we just had pasta last night, I think tonight’s dinner will be pumpkin and sausage pasta 'cause 1) it’s really good, 2) it calls for fresh sage which I have leftover from last night’s pasta, and 3) it also uses cream, which I have left from last night’s pasta. Now, the downside is that it’s two nights with pasta with cream sauce. But that’s the upside too. :stuck_out_tongue:

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Appendages crossed for you, Pugs and thinking good thoughts as well. :slight_smile:

And welcome Inchini!

So very glad that tomorrow is FIRDAY! Today has been a bit chilly and very wet, but we need the rain, so all is good. It’s hard on the arthritic joints, though. :smack:

Yay for Thursday evening! :slight_smile:

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Howdy Y’all! It’s my Firday but I’m workin’ tomorrow, so it’s kinda not. Oh well, I get money for bein’ there so I guess it’s all good.

Puggy appropriate/inappropriate appendages crossed.

Welcome Inchy! As a rule, any mention of a recipe must include said recipe for inclusion in the Mumper recipe blog. It’s in the bylaws which, though unwritten and subject to change on anybody’s whim, must be strictly adhered to. Or not.

“Free” lunch was surprisingly good. It was lasagna, sallit and breadsticks from the really good Eyetalian place. Plus, today was ice cream sundae day because we did good at sump’n or other last Firday. Well, they did good cause I wasn’t there. Not that that stopped me from scarfin’ down a sundae. :smiley:

Ol’ y’all know who hs taken off for the wilds of West Alabammy to visit family over the weekend so I’s a bachelor. Since I’ll only have one day to myself the whole time I guess I won’t get into a whole lot of trouble.

I’m thinkin’ I should eat sump’n dindin like but I am still full from free lunch and sundae.

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Did not get Strawberry Cake recipe today because my patience was sorely tried. Will try again on Tuesday.

Patience was tried because some know-it-all bitch in Archivin’ Work took it upon herself to move my post-it notes. The post-it notes that gave me the names and dimensions of the falling-apart ledgers I needed to make boxes for. Fortunately there were only two of them so it didn’t take long to sort out. Then she had the brass balls to come by my cubby later and breezily announce “I moved those post-its off that archival material.” Bitch, those post-its were on their second or third re-use, there wasn’t much glue left on them. PLUS they were freaking leather-bound books so the Horrible Unarchival Sticky Notes weren’t going to do much damage if any!

pant pant

At least my boss understood. She doesn’t care. I think I shall cultivate a pet brown recluse to live in my cubby and guard my stuff when I’m not there. I’ll name her Frieda.