# Helpme, Lady - or, a very typical MMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [November 1, 2010, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helpme-lady-or-a-very-typical-mmp/559060 "2010-11-01T05:50:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helpme-lady-or-a-very-typical-mmp/559060/121 "2010-11-04T08:22:34Z")
> [@Noone\_Special](#): > > I like my explanation better šŸ˜ƒ So her other cat should be e? Would the Cheshire Cat be an i, or an 1+i? ---
**Author:** ![Noone\_Special](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noone_special/32/2863_2.png) [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helpme-lady-or-a-very-typical-mmp/559060/122 "2010-11-04T08:34:28Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > So her other cat should be e? Would the Cheshire Cat be an i, or an 1+i? The cheshire cat could be 1/x\*. Yā€™know, a monotonously decreasing functionā€¦ (OK, not really monotonous, but definitely decreasing.) As for the rest, I dunno about cats, but the **tastiest** number in existence is Ļ€[sup]t[/sup] ā€œraising Pie to the Teaā€ ETA: \* For x \> 0 ---
**Author:** ![tarragon918](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d26b3c/32.png) [@tarragon918](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tarragon918)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helpme-lady-or-a-very-typical-mmp/559060/123 "2010-11-04T11:06:13Z")
Morning - up and caffeinating on a Thursday. And itā€™s one day closer to the weekend. **SpecialOne** , I know, itā€™s already your weekend! šŸ˜ƒ My dad is back at his senior center, in the infirmary; heā€™s recouperating still and sounded a bit weak last night, but he is definitely on the mend. Thanks again for all the prayers and good wishes! Hugs for all. šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helpme-lady-or-a-very-typical-mmp/559060/124 "2010-11-04T11:39:46Z")
Rainy morning. Lovely if you can stay in bed, mood destroying if youā€™re already a bit glum. Gotta shake this funk. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helpme-lady-or-a-very-typical-mmp/559060/125 "2010-11-04T11:43:25Z")
Good Morninā€™ Yā€™all! Up and caffienatinā€™ on a dreary, drizzly day AKA typical Fall south Jawja day. Not much else to say here. Happy Thursday Yā€™all! ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helpme-lady-or-a-very-typical-mmp/559060/126 "2010-11-04T11:59:56Z")
Up, caffeinated, off to irk. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helpme-lady-or-a-very-typical-mmp/559060/127 "2010-11-04T12:30:43Z")
Weā€™re done with the drizzle, so we gave it to yā€™all, **Swampy.** šŸ˜› Gonna be sunny and gorgeous here, with a high of 70Ā° - if a bit windy. We had a health fair yesterday. I got my free flu shot, as well as a free massage! and lots of swag. Happy Thursday! ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helpme-lady-or-a-very-typical-mmp/559060/128 "2010-11-04T13:05:34Z")
Drizzly and gloomy here too. It can rain and monsoon all it wants during the week. All I ask is for dry weekends. It was an odd past few days. They pumped me all full of anti-flu stuff on Thursday. (Yay for free preventive care!) On Friday night, I suddenly found myself unable to swallow. Trimming out the icky bits: My eyes and nose were bleeding. DH was alarmed and we went to the ER. By the time we got into triage, my BP was down to 190/160. Iā€™m OK now, but at the time, it was rather unpleasant. \ ---
**Author:** ![Noone\_Special](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noone_special/32/2863_2.png) [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helpme-lady-or-a-very-typical-mmp/559060/129 "2010-11-04T13:17:41Z")
Glad youā€™re OK! But > [@gotpasswords](#): > > By the time we got into triage, my BP was **down to 190/160**. ā€¦ does not computeā€¦ :eek: ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helpme-lady-or-a-very-typical-mmp/559060/130 "2010-11-04T13:42:21Z")
Grrā€¦on the phone for 30 minutes with the IT help desk for a simple password reset. 30 minutes later and I still donā€™t have my logon. If this is the way the day is going to be, Iā€™m going back to bed. StG ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helpme-lady-or-a-very-typical-mmp/559060/131 "2010-11-04T13:50:46Z")
> [@gotpasswords](#): > > By the time we got into triage, my BP was down to 190/160. Did they give you nitroglycerin? You would have had a dilemma. Does your head explode from the bleeding stroke, or the headache the nitro causes? I had fun with my Physical Terrorist last night. First, I proposed marriage because of the relief I had after Mondayā€™s round. FTR, she is young, cute, and black. Second, I flat out told her about my impish sense of humor when she did my evaluation, and she is getting used to me. So, a different terrorist was working with a patient in the bed next to mine with the curtain drawn. She reached through blindly to plug something in, I yelled ā€œOuch!ā€, resoundingly startling terrorist #2 and causing mine to LOL. I am on a slow burn this morning. I have a regurlarly scheduled PCP appointment next week, and advance labs are required. I called the office Tuesday to check for the orders, and none were cut. The nurse said she would call them in. I fasted 12 hours last night, and showed up at the lab at 0700 for the vampires to do their thing. Guess what? No orders. No food, either, and I was waaaaay grouchy from beng hon-gu-ry. :grrrrrrr: ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Onimous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea5d25/32.png) [@Ann\_Onimous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Onimous)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helpme-lady-or-a-very-typical-mmp/559060/132 "2010-11-04T14:10:02Z")
> [@gotpasswords](#): > > On Friday night, I suddenly found myself unable to swallow. Trimming out the icky bits: My eyes and nose were bleeding. DH was alarmed and we went to the ER. By the time we got into triage, my BP was down to 190/160. Iā€™m sorry, butā€¦ DAMN. I donā€™t blame your DH for being alarmed! :eek: Good morning, everybody! Hubby came through his bone marrow biopsy just fine. They gave him happy drugs, and he slept through it. He was snoring when I came back in. This morning heā€™s still a little groggy, and just a little sore at the site, but doing really well. We go back next Friday, November 12th, for results. Since his appointmentā€™s at 3:15pm, Iā€™m trying to decide whether Iā€™m going to work 40 hours in 4 days next week or whether Iā€™ll come in for a little while on Friday. Theyā€™ve been really good to me here at work. I have the kid of job where I could work my own hours, so I can just tell them when I need off and they work around me. ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helpme-lady-or-a-very-typical-mmp/559060/133 "2010-11-04T14:32:33Z")
No nitro, no exploding head. Just blood trying to leak out of unusual places. It was a great built-in Halloween costume element - bright blood red eyes. Theyā€™re down to just heavily pink around the edges. ---
**Author:** ![Taters](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/taters/32/2845_2.png) [@Taters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taters)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helpme-lady-or-a-very-typical-mmp/559060/134 "2010-11-04T19:41:13Z")
> [@taxi78cab](#): > > **Taters** , youā€™re a data person so youā€™ll appreciate this - weā€™re transitioning to a new server, and itā€™s a bit different than what weā€™ve had before. One thing thatā€™s different is that itā€™s changing NULL values into blanks. OK, no problem, right? Except today a coworker was pulling a file to send to a vendor and had customers with blank last names. Yeahā€¦ NULL =\> blank thing doesnā€™t work so well for the Mr. and Mrs. Nulls of the world. Yes, there really are people with the last name of Null. Oops. > > It reminded us of this [xkcd](http://xkcd.com/327/). Too funny. Iā€™m just wishing the work day would hurry up and end already. Sheesh! Not motivated and Iā€™m not feeling real great either. Itā€™s low grade whatever it is, but Iā€™m slightly dizzy, I keep going hot , then cold, and my stomach is not doing great either. Whatever it is, I wish it would go away. Jeebus, **gotti.** That would have probably scared the everlivinā€™ shit out of me. My supervisor has asked for our support forms so she can write our yearly performance evaluations. I hate writing out my ā€œsignificant contributionsā€. I think itā€™s a crock of shit myself, but whatever, Iā€™ll have it to her by next week. Well, I suppose I should go forth and be productive. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Onimous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea5d25/32.png) [@Ann\_Onimous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Onimous)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helpme-lady-or-a-very-typical-mmp/559060/135 "2010-11-04T20:43:38Z")
> [@Taters](#): > > My supervisor has asked for our support forms so she can write our yearly performance evaluations. I hate writing out my ā€œsignificant contributionsā€. I think itā€™s a crock of shit myself, but whatever, Iā€™ll have it to her by next week. My company started doing this in August. Just in time for my yearly evaluation. I was one of the first that had to do this. I agree with your assessment, but it did confirm that my boss knows everything I do and she not only agreed with my assessment, she had everything written down already that I sent her. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helpme-lady-or-a-very-typical-mmp/559060/136 "2010-11-04T22:20:14Z")
Whew - finally a chance to sit down. I had ā€œtrainingā€ today that turned out to be a total waste. The software kept crashing, so we watched the instructor click stuff on his laptop which was projected on the front screens. Real educationalā€¦ :rolleyes: At least it ended early. I ran by Food Lion on the way home and crab legs were on sale, as were baking N.O.T., so thatā€™s what we had for supper. Muy yum! It was a ten pound sack of N.O.T. for $3, so tomorrow, Iā€™m going to bake 'em all up and make twice-baked for the freezer. I called the GEICO guys again - itā€™s been since Monday and no one has told me anything about my car. I called the body shop and the nice lady there said theyā€™d done the preliminary assessment and tomorrow, I should get the full estimate of when and how much from the adjuster. But overall, Iā€™m not impressed with GEICO. I may shop around after this is over. Iā€™m getting rid of my rental car on Saturday, and Iā€™ll ride in with my daughter till my car is ready. I donā€™t know why I didnā€™t think of this in the first place. Her school is right down the road from the main gate of the base, so sheā€™ll go to school, then Iā€™ll go to work, and after, Iā€™ll go pick her up. I told her Iā€™d buy gas as long as she drove me. Lots cheaper than paying for a rental. Glad the week is almost over. And next weekend will be extra long - we get Veteranā€™s Day off, and Iā€™m taking the Friday after also. So 4 days in a row! YAY! Thatā€™s one thing I like about this time of year - lots of federal holidays. šŸ˜ƒ ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Onimous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea5d25/32.png) [@Ann\_Onimous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Onimous)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helpme-lady-or-a-very-typical-mmp/559060/137 "2010-11-04T22:38:27Z")
Man. Now I want some **N.O.T.** ---
**Author:** ![Taters](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/taters/32/2845_2.png) [@Taters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taters)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helpme-lady-or-a-very-typical-mmp/559060/138 "2010-11-04T23:17:53Z")
> [@Ann\_Onimous](#): > > My company started doing this in August. Just in time for my yearly evaluation. I was one of the first that had to do this. I agree with your assessment, but it did confirm that my boss knows everything I do and she not only agreed with my assessment, she had everything written down already that I sent her. I work for the gummint, and this is the way itā€™s always been done, at least for people in my grade level. The stupid thing is that most every product I created is on our shared drive, under my name, and/or I cc the supervisor the emails and attachments. So, I find it stupid to have to write out what Iā€™ve done. But, thatā€™s just me.:rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![ems](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@ems](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ems)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helpme-lady-or-a-very-typical-mmp/559060/139 "2010-11-04T23:30:55Z")
Made it home last night and crshed for 11 hours and I am still tired. I am home for a few days though which is good and I have had a productive day as well. Glad Dad is doing better **herbs** I have not been grocery shopping in weeks so **mr ems** has been living out of the freezer so I will be compiling a list tonight for a massive shop tomorrow. Tonights supper is baked chickend with onion & mushroom sauce and roast butternut squash. My early Christmas present has just arrived - I am now the proud owner of a Kindle! ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helpme-lady-or-a-very-typical-mmp/559060/140 "2010-11-05T00:25:26Z")
Iā€™ve heard whisperings about why Work Friend was fired and it sounds like a load of manure to me. My gossip connection decided to take a 3-day weekend, so I may have to wait until he comes in tomorrow and hopefully I can hide in a corner with him to find out the details. In good news, itā€™s getting cold tonight. The S-word has been bandied about by them as talks about weather. The tourists are getting nervous. **rosie** ā€™s sig to all! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helpme-lady-or-a-very-typical-mmp/559060.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helpme-lady-or-a-very-typical-mmp/559060.md?page=8)