Whose name is on the lease?
c-bear, when **roommate ** moved in, were there any stipulations made in front of witnesses about his responsibilities? Because it sure sounds like he is taking BIG advantage of you and your friendship. If anyone did that to me, the friendship would be over, and I wouldn’t be concerned about hurting his feelings. You need to lay down the law and be firm - Tell him to move into the frat house, since that is obviously how he wants to live anyway. And that if he wants to stay, make him sign a paper that very clearly spells out his responsibilities, get it notarized, and the first time there is an infraction, kick his butt to the curb. If he doesn’t to sign it, then he has to go. Also, bill him for the bug spray and cleaning supplies.
you steam the soybeans and then express the liquid …
i don’t buy milk anymore, because it never gets finished. rarely a problem, but one weekend i wanted to make pancakes for the new b/f and there was no milk ! he wouldn’t let me run to the store, so i had to improvise.
i used half melted butter and half water, and, my, were those some tasty pancakes. i may do that on purpose next time !
Back from the dog park. Just Maggie and Kane the uber rottweiler. Maggie stared into space while Kane marked every vertical surface, and whizzed in a drinking bucket(there’s a little bit of Kane in all of us). I’m eating a bowl of Wheaties with fruit and skim milk.
Mika, you shouldn’t nag the poor boy like that. 
Ellen, glad the plague is over. And only a few more months till cold/flu season.
rosie, the heatwave won’t last forever. It’s supposed to be a chilly 89 here on Saturday.
Taters, I did see your post in the last MMP.
bonkey dear, it’s simple. Just tell horrible roommate that things aren’t working out and he has to move out…no hard feelings…and give him a week before you shift his belongings to the front lawn and change the locks. That is all.
The dairy industry just sells real milk with the soy milk label, because, as everyone knows, soy beans are not lactacting animals. It’s just one of your standard-issue conspiracies, nothing to be alarmed about.
donkey Bag all his stuff. Put it on the front porch. Change the locks. Do this when all of your other roommates are home, so that he sees that he is now truly unwelcome. And do it sooner, not later.
donkeybear am I to assume that rotten roommate’s name is not on the lease? Cause if it ain’t, then give him two weeks to find a place (cause you’re nice dammit!). If it is, then there probably ain’t much you can do.
I hate to rain on the “kick-out-the-slob-roomie” parade, but BonkyDear needs to find out first if he’s in one of those states with the stupid laws about having to evict someone if they’ve been in a place for more than so many (usually 30) days, regardles of lack of family tie or lease.
Capriciously showing them to the curb could get legally and financially ugly real fast…
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I have - get this - a NEW 'PUTER at work. YAY! It’s a shiny blue and silver color and it has Windows XP and it has 1 GB of RAM where the last one only had 130 MB of RAM. Now I can run simulations to my heart’s content. 
It’s VBob’s birthday?
HAPPY BIRTHDAY VUNDERBOB!!!
Today I get to exercise again. Fun times. But first it’s time to exercise my wits - and yours - with a brand new pun! Heeeeere we go:
Yeah, I had no idea the MMP would be about amounts of milk when I wrote this last night. I’m just that good. 
donkeybear, bad roomies suck. But you’ll get through it - you’ve got pluck. Soon that jerk will be out of luck. [/Dr. Seuss]
I came here thinking this was going to be about Hood vs. Garelick Farms. I thought maybe they’d outfitted their blimps with guns or something.
IFIRC, all three of us are on the lease. I’m listed as “primary,” or some other such bologna, which basically means that if we’re late on the rent, I think that they call me first.
I’ll ask AG at lunch about the leasey thing. I used to be able to call him at lunch, but now he’s helping out with summer band rehearsals for the high school, and I don’t know how that would work.
Hey! Isn’t it **Bobbio’s ** birthday today?
Here goes, creaky voice and all:
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That was a great OP Sean. I do not drink milk. Milk is blechy! I cook with milk, and when I have the occasional bowl of cereal, I of course use milk. But to drink it?! Blech and double blech!
The kids and the hubby drink milk. I only buy skim because the doctor told me years ago to put them all on skim. Now the kids can’t stand whole milk. They call it chunky milk. At any rate, the 17 mm of liquid left in the bottom is rarely a problem.
cb, I’m sorry to hear about your roommate woes. Talk to a landlord-tenant association and see what your options are. If his name is on the lease, I’m afraid you won’t have many. Even if his name is NOT on the lease, you may be required to give him a certain amount of time to vacate if he’s lived there more than 30 days.
…AAAAAAnd on preview I see some of you snuck in here and sang to Bobbio before I could hit submit. Dangit.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BOBBIO!! YOU LOOK MAHVELOUS!!!
Morning all. And what a crazy one it’s been! I used to have one Monday morning report to do. Now suddenly I have 4 and I only sorta know how to do the 3 new ones. Ugh. So it’s a little crazy. Plus there are 5 zillion other things that have gotten dumped on my desk recently. ::sigh:: We really really need to hire another person for our department. (They’re trying but no good candidates yet. Yuck. Anyone know a database type person who needs a job in the Twin Cities are??)
Milk… I guess we’re the oddballs around here. I’m from dairy country and KeithT’s from Wisconsin (albiet the city!) so we looooove milk. I buy the “twin packs” - two gallons hooked together - which we can drink in just about 2 weeks. On top of that we go through cheese like crazy, and there’s usually yogurt floating around too. We loves our dairy products.
This weekend involved some serious relaxation. I was dead tired on Saturday and the only time I ventured outside the apartment was to get a massage. KeithT went to the gym for his first personal training session (we got 2 free sessions with membership). So that meant he was beat on Sunday. So we weren’t very exciting this weekend. Oh well. We ate well though. Ginger-apricot pork loin on Friday, Kabobi (a local soon-to-be chain Greek/Middle Eastern type place of the Noodles/Chipotle/Panera type) on Saturday, and homemade spaghetti sauce on Sunday. Good food. Oh and a yummy Asian salad kind of thing for lunch yesterday. It’s good having two cooks in the house.
The heat here has been awful, but at least we have A/C and a pool outside. We’ve either been sitting inside where it’s comfortable or out in the water. This is not what I was warned about when I decided to move to Minnesota! Where’s all the cold weather that everyone said I’d be facing??
Happy belated birthday swampy!! Glad you had a good time with your family. Good luck with all the work stuff today.
Gotta get back to the big pile of work on my desk! Or maybe I’ll go to lunch and see if the pile disappears while I’m gone!
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I’ve been on a Boynton kick lately
Happy Birthday Bobbio!!!
Happy Birthday Bobbio!
Well, seems I’m remiss here.
Happy birthdays to both VunderBob and swampbear.
There was this woman who lived somewhere in the NorthEast US that posted here. Maybe she can be tempted to move to, um, wait a minute :: furiously searches past MMPs ::
Nevermind.
And the internet radio station I listen to, which broadcasts from San Diego (Hi scout!) just played REM’s version of “King of the Road”. That’s the song that Peter Buck said, if there was any justice in the world, Roger Miller should be able to sue them for.