# Ho Ho Ho - The Christmas MMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [December 25, 2006, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ho-ho-ho-the-christmas-mmp/385522 "2006-12-25T12:22:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 14
**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:** [December 29, 2006, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ho-ho-ho-the-christmas-mmp/385522/261 "2006-12-29T21:06:55Z")
**Taters** I expect you to be mournful all day Tuesday. After all, young lady, that’s why you’re off. At the very minimum you should wear a black sweatshirt. Speaking of mournfulness (it’s a word), I was watching President Ford’s umm… arrival at the church a little bit ago. The brass band played [O God Our Help In Ages Past](http://www.oremus.org/hymnal/o/o196.html) and it sounded so pretty yet mournful. Steaks, baked **N.O.T.** and salad for supper tonight. YUM! Perhaps a soak in the hot tub accompanied by a cold beerverage or three is also in order. I got more “welcoming” to take care of tonight. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2006, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ho-ho-ho-the-christmas-mmp/385522/262 "2006-12-29T21:18:35Z")
Ya know-all this technology.Bah. I’ve been trying to send audio files via email for the past two hours-I have no idea if they got to where they’re supposed to. Watched HELP with #2 son. His take on it? Very silly and funny. Off to UNdecorate a bit. Or maybe a nap… ---
**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:** [December 29, 2006, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ho-ho-ho-the-christmas-mmp/385522/263 "2006-12-29T21:18:36Z")
[QUOTE=anyrose] I don’t have to envy you - it’s what I’ve been doing all damn day. [/QUOTE] Yeah? Each of my databases have 86,000 records with 30 something fields. No lie. First I have to do a FTP transfer, then I need to name the damn fields, then I need to break out by healthcare delivery code, then I need to do some outer joins so I can check who’s been disenrolled or who, um…well…died. Not fun. Blech…I’m not very far, because, well, I don’t feel like doing it. So, I’m doing other piddly stuff. This is not productive, but some stuff is getting done. I have been told I can home 59 minutes early today. Three freakin’ thirty can’t get here soon enough! **swampy,** I will be respectfully mournful on Tuesday. You know, I was all of about eleven or twelve when he was our Prez. ---
**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:** [December 29, 2006, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ho-ho-ho-the-christmas-mmp/385522/264 "2006-12-29T21:30:17Z")
back home busy weekend missing pronouns. It was a very slow day today, I hope we don’t have to cut hours on Saturday. NYE I will be watching the Canes crush the Flyers, then stay for the party afterwards. It will be a nice change from going to bed 30 seconds after the ball drops. **rigs** , When it snows, I am the only one at work. Dollar tree really needs those $30.34 in sales. :dubious: **MBG** , you need a new spell checker. It keeps changing “Packers crush the Bears( **N.O.S.** )” 🙂 Time for more hockey, it’s [Duck](http://www.carolinahurricanes.com/) season! Yeah mopheads! Boo PITA traffic! **Drae** , that sounds fun, too bad I am eight hours away. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2006, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ho-ho-ho-the-christmas-mmp/385522/265 "2006-12-29T21:33:11Z")
\*\*Taters \*\* - I hope you’re using Access and the bump feature - it goes much faster. Unfortunately, my db’s have to be viewed manually because Access overwrites duplicates without alerting you to their existance ---
**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:** [December 29, 2006, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ho-ho-ho-the-christmas-mmp/385522/266 "2006-12-29T21:40:28Z")
[QUOTE=anyrose] \*\*Taters \*\* - I hope you’re using Access and the bump feature - it goes much faster. Unfortunately, my db’s have to be viewed manually because Access overwrites duplicates without alerting you to their existance [/QUOTE] Yep, I have to use Access. Excel will only give me 65,000 lines. What is the “bump” you speak of? ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2006, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ho-ho-ho-the-christmas-mmp/385522/267 "2006-12-29T21:43:18Z")
[QUOTE=Taters] Yep, I have to use Access. Excel will only give me 65,000 lines. What is the “bump” you speak of? [/QUOTE] If you have 2 db’s, you can compare one to the other and hit a function key and access will do all the work - but I have no clue how to do that - the supervisors handle that stuff ---
**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:** [December 29, 2006, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ho-ho-ho-the-christmas-mmp/385522/268 "2006-12-29T21:50:51Z")
Hmmm, perhaps they’ve got a macro set up that does an automatic outer join? I dunno, I muddle through and have learned a lot lately. It’s been a couple few months since I’ve done this though. So, I need to make sure the fields I’m comparing are named appropriately. If if it’s all set up correctly, it should automatically do it for me. However, I have to do a bunch of scut work before I can do that. Ah well, if that’s what the boss wants me to do, then that’s what I’ll do. This day is d-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-ging a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-ss. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Tiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Mama\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Tiger)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2006, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ho-ho-ho-the-christmas-mmp/385522/269 "2006-12-29T22:50:43Z")
If I could ever get him online, **Taters** , Papa Tigs could probably how to tell you how to do all that. But he truly doesn’t “get” forums. For a guy who helped build the internet, he’s remarkably resistant to its more recent features – forums, blogs, anything beyond email or looking stuff up/ordering stuff off web pages. At least he’s not a total Luddite like my former boss’s boyfriend is. He’s working for the same firm I work for now, and to my shock he not only refuses to have a cell phone or a computer, but he won’t even have a cordless telephone in his house! And he’s so proud of being called a Luddite. It’s hilarious that he’s dating a woman who lives by her BlackBerry, computer, etc. – she and I used to sit ten feet apart but almost never actually talk out loud, we’d just email back and forth. People are strange. ---
**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:** [December 29, 2006, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ho-ho-ho-the-christmas-mmp/385522/270 "2006-12-29T23:35:40Z")
[QUOTE=VunderBob] Jus’ so you femme MMPers can swoon: Da Rugrat[sup]tm[/sup] and I watched PoTC: DMC last night. Johnny Depp didn’t do a thing for either of us. Keira Knightly was in serious need of a bitch-slapping, too. [/QUOTE] I was sadly disappointed in this movie, but like a dummy, instead of renting it first, I bought it. So I’m stuck with it. ☹ Maybe the non-movie tracks will be worth the price? **MamaTigs** , no prob. And you’re both welcome to come by and check out my studio any time, with sufficient warning, assuming we’re not doing anything else… Did I include enough disclaimers? I had a nice mid-day visit with \*\*GingeroftheNorth \*\* and **BibKitty** , enroute to picking up Bernie. It made up for Clayworks Supply being closed today. So I guess I’ll hafta buy my stuff next weekend. In fact, since I’m now free on Saturday, I think I’ll pick up my pots, go to Clayworks, then take my mom to lunch for her birthday one day early. So that’s that. Yay! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Blue-Sighted\_Shadow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecae2f/32.png) [@The\_Blue-Sighted\_Shadow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Blue-Sighted_Shadow)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2006, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ho-ho-ho-the-christmas-mmp/385522/271 "2006-12-29T23:53:29Z")
New Girl and I had a pleasant lunch out. Lunch came to $64, but between the 2 of us, we only had to put down $10 Amurkin. The maitre’d told me I had VIP status (I always use [OpenTable](http://opentable.com) to book restaurant reservations). No wonder everyone wants me to book their tables for them! I’ve been using OpenTable since it was a wee thing, with a handful of restaurants around the San Francisco Bay. New Girl is concerned, because when she started, she was sure she was a take-charge, intelligent, organized admin, and now, not so much. I didn’t know what to tell her. After all, I have [this](http://despair.com/sacrifice1.html) on my desk. And one of [these](http://calendar.despair.com/), too, for 2007. ---
**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:** [December 30, 2006, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ho-ho-ho-the-christmas-mmp/385522/272 "2006-12-30T00:17:57Z")
**Jah** I lurve [despair.com](http://despair.com). That is so cool you have those! That cracks me up! 😃 **Taters** you, you, you, _whippersnapper_! I grad-yoo-a-ted from college in 1976. Yep. I is a bicentennial kolledge gra-joo-et! I have a letter from President Ford congratuating me for being a member of the bicentennial grad-yoo-a-tion class of 1976. OG! I am soooooo old! The only comfort I get is knowing that I am **six months and six days** _younger_ that that old broad **FCM** \* But she’ll get to pick out her room at the home first, so she does have that ---
**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:** [December 30, 2006, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ho-ho-ho-the-christmas-mmp/385522/273 "2006-12-30T00:30:56Z")
[QUOTE=Taters] I have been informed that I am not considered mission essential for Tuesday, so I have an extra paid day off. I’m not complaining. [/QUOTE] We both got Tues off also - and I was so looking forward to going back… OK, maybe not… ---
**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:** [December 30, 2006, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ho-ho-ho-the-christmas-mmp/385522/274 "2006-12-30T00:38:17Z")
[QUOTE=swampbear] The only comfort I get is knowing that I am **six months and six days** _younger_ that that old broad **FCM** [/QUOTE] That may be, but let’s see who has more gray hair. :dubious: Who looks like an old fart? I rest my case! 😛 ---
**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:** [December 30, 2006, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ho-ho-ho-the-christmas-mmp/385522/275 "2006-12-30T00:40:36Z")
[QUOTE=FairyChatMom] That may be, but let’s see who has more gray hair. :dubious: Who looks like an old fart? I rest my case! 😛 [/QUOTE] Well sure, spokesperson for Lady Clairol… 😛 ---
**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:** [December 30, 2006, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ho-ho-ho-the-christmas-mmp/385522/276 "2006-12-30T00:44:31Z")
Pfffft - do you really think I’d pick \*this \* color if I was coloring my hair? Darlin’, it is what it is. How gay can you possibly be if you can’t recognize non-dyed hair! sheesh… 😛 ---
**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:** [December 30, 2006, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ho-ho-ho-the-christmas-mmp/385522/277 "2006-12-30T00:50:39Z")
[QUOTE=FairyChatMom] Pfffft - do you really think I’d pick \*this \* color if I was coloring my hair? Darlin’, it is what it is. How gay can you possibly be if you can’t recognize non-dyed hair! sheesh… 😛 [/QUOTE] I never claimed you had _taste_. 😛 ---
**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:** [December 30, 2006, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ho-ho-ho-the-christmas-mmp/385522/278 "2006-12-30T01:03:19Z")
Has anyone ever told you you’re insufferable when you get some?? ---
**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:** [December 30, 2006, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ho-ho-ho-the-christmas-mmp/385522/279 "2006-12-30T01:05:48Z")
[QUOTE=FairyChatMom] Has anyone ever told you you’re insufferable when you get some?? [/QUOTE] What’s yer point? 😛 ---
**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:** [December 30, 2006, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ho-ho-ho-the-christmas-mmp/385522/280 "2006-12-30T01:07:46Z")
Speaking of gettin’ some, time for a hot tub soak and beddy bye. Nite Y’all! 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ho-ho-ho-the-christmas-mmp/385522.md?page=13) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ho-ho-ho-the-christmas-mmp/385522.md?page=15)