This is, indeed, good advice as I happen to be wearing the same pair of pants that I was last year when it fell out of the pocket. AND the only bathroom I can find around here is for elementary school girls, so the stalls are teeny tiny.
I think french fries in French is pommes frites. This is one of the few Phrases from Foreign Lands I know.
Noon, your inappropriate penguin joke reminded me of an inappropriate duck joke. I’m not sure if I should tell it, because it is a shade inappropriate.
I have a black bucket with a white handle that I use when I’m cleaning up Stately Agony Aunt Manor. Yesterday I left it sitting on the floor in front of the bathroom door and every time I passed it I thought it was Peter, my tuxedo kitty that I had for 16 years before he died a couple of years ago. I ended up moving it to the top of the dehumidifier so it didn’t freak me out too much.
Happy birthday GT!
Wow, thanks for the birthday wishes everyone!
Sorry you’ve been having such a rough & tumble couple of years, Ashes. Hope things keep loking up. In any case, don’t be a stranger.
Had a birthday dinner at Local Best Friend’s yesterday. LBF’s hubby’s birthday was this wwek and her stepson’s was last week, so we celebrated all 3 and then played Sequence for quite a while. It was fun.
Am getting ready to get some work done outside in preparation for finishing a few paint-related tasks before shutting that down for the winter. Loks like today and tomorrow are preety much it. Lots to do. Fun! Brother and niece are taking me out to dinner later.
Hugs.
GT
Yeah Spaz anything inappropriate is greatly frowned upon in the MMP. 
I did go back to bed for a little while. Now I am all refreshed and ready to face the challenges of the day. Ok, so no real challenges are ahead but still…
Howdy from the church house. I’m here and have been through workin’ out the setup for tonight’s doin’s. Had one minor run in with YP over why it is not a good idea to set up a fire pit in the memorial garden. The area is, a. to small and 3. personally I do not want to set the columbarium or labyrinth on fire. Thus, we have settled on a nice area away from all that.
This place makes creepy noises when one is all alone. :eek:
Yay for the church mortgage burning, Swampy! That has got to feel good 
Plus, marshmallows!
Yay for** GT** birthday; happy birthday! I hope it’s a good one
Sticky, stay away from the toilets today, lol! And have a good show
Doggio, here’s to hoping the wind changes for you soon, lol
Ok, so a part of tonight’s doin’s will involve hot chawklit. I spied a bottle of kahlua (sp?) in the kitchen just now. Hmm I thinks, adulterated hot chawklit!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY gt!!!
I desperately need the guidance of the Mumpers.
Yesterday one of my friends/classmates invited me to a facebook group entitled XXXXXXXXXX Survival Group. It’s filled with people from the class we share. I expected that it would be a place for asking for help, group studying, bitching, etc.
In this class, the professor invites the students to submit questions for her to use on the quizzes.
Apparently, the point of this group is for students to share the questions they sent to the professor (along with the answers, of course). Now, there’s no guarantee that a submitted question will be chosen.
I have an unhappy feeling about this. I have never used any kind of social networking for school before this semester so I’m not aware of what’s cheating and what isn’t but for some reason this feels like cheating to me.
One could say that these students are being creative by coming up with fake quiz questions to help their classmates prepare for the quiz. But, the fact that they are being submitted for actual quiz consideration is what makes me feel like a boundary has been crossed.
I have a couple choices here:
- I can stay in the group and try to convince myself it’s not cheating (I don’t see this working).
- I can drop out of the group and pretend I don’t know it exists.
- I can drop out of the group and tell my professor about it’s existence and let her make the call about whether or not it’s cheating.
I’m really curious to know what you smarties think about the situation.
The key thing here is that I’d rather fail than have anything to do with cheating of any kind but I’m also very conflict-phobic.
ShortDrum if I understand this right, there’s no guarantee which questions will be on the test, so I would see this as a study aid. I mean you have to study all the information to ensure you know all the material and to me that’s no different from studyin’ the materials presented in class, from the textbook etc. I wouldn’t have a problem with this personally.
Soon I get to light fire and pour oil in pots to get hot. I am so excitated!
Finally! I’s here!!!
Today started with lying about in bed in a slug-like fashion, followed by showering, dressing, going to Leonardtown for breakfast, then to Michael’s for some cork sheet, then home to finish glazing my pottery. I have a full kiln and in a couple of hours, I’ll start firing. The Santa Penguin was looking good, and as long as he doesn’t die a horrible death in the kiln, I’ll post pics before he goes to the store.
I’d made a hand turkey but I dropped him when I was loading the kiln, dagnabbit. 
Speaking of penguins and nativity scenes, I was thinking about doing an all-penguin nativity, with an egg in the manger, of course. But I worry about people being offended by it… So we shall see. I do intend to do a penguin chess set, altho I’m not looking forward to making all the pawns - I hate mass-production. Maybe I can make a mold so they’ll be easier to churn out.
And just guess who’s driving to Silver Spring to look at pug puppies. G’wan, guess!! :rolleyes: Yeah, Mr. No-More-Dogs-Ever-Ever-Ever and his daughter. Guess it’s a good thing we got $200 today for selling our old fireplace insert. Taz will be delighted, but Ziva will NOT be happy!
I had hoped to de-leaf the back yard today, but glazing took longer than I’d expected, and it’s already getting shadowy - sunset is about an hour away. So I guess I’ll do the yard tomorrow.
And that’s pretty much all for now. More knitting tonight.
Oh, yeah - HAPPY GT DAY!!!
And I hope the rest of you had a nice Saturday. As for you fungi haters - Good! More for ME!!! 
Well, it appears we have a pug… what a surprise… :rolleyes:
Thanks GT and Happy Buuuurfdaaaay!
Ooh FCM! Pugs are the best-- a party in a fur suit. Wait; that doesn’t sound right. Oh well, you know what I mean. They’re totally fun. Why yes I have a pug, her name is Sweet Pea and she heartily endorses the Pug in Every Home initiative.
Skettie for dinner. I kinda wanted stroganof but then I’m not doing the cooking. Gah! Forgot to get bread. Y’know there should be an app that reads the register and reminds you if you forget anything on your list. Maybe another app could make disapproving sounds if you buy junk food, too.
Fire Good! Fish Good! Beer Good! Bear has fun! Good!
Good gad, man, calm down!
You’re gonna bust something!
Hay Y’all!
Ever have one of those times when you screw up soooooooo bad, you’re ready to hand in your badge/put on sack cloth and ashes/commit sepukku? Yeah, that was me earlier today.
My desktop machine has been running Ubuntu for a couple of years now. I even took a class in it. Trouble is, none of what I mastered in that class actually stuck, and while I was taking it, I fiddled all over with my system, adding things like Edubuntu and Medibuntu to play with. Then, I moved, and I didn’t see my desktop for months. When I got it back, the power supply started to die, and I managed to nick the VGA cable, so it was really only this morning when it would actually reliably boot.
All excited am I, because I can finally upgrade to 12.04, which is the latest long term support version.
Except it won’t. There are 3rd party packages interfering with it.
And what does genius phouka do? Start deleting 3rd party software without any research.. In less than 15 minutes, I managed to fubar my system soooooo bad, I was fairly sure I had lost nearly two years of documents, music, and pictures. (Backup? What’s a backup?) I spent the last three hours creating a boot drive, trying to plow through the file structure and find some way to convince it that I actually owned the files I wanted to look at.
Seriously, I am ready to cry.
But, in doing my research (Official phouka motto: better late than never), I realize I can install the latest Ubuntu on a separate partition without wiping my existing user profile and accompanying date files. It’s a long shot, but if it doesn’t work, I’m no worse off than I was.
I clean the litter boxes while it installs, because, well, I deserve it.
Boot. Stumble through the file partitions and . . . there are all my beautiful, precious files - upwards of $1000 of iTunes, several family photo albums scanned in that are back in California, short stories, novels, artwork, bookmarks, pretty much everything I’ve touched on a computer in the last five to ten years. A lot of it I could have scrounged back together, but it would have been painful, time consuming, and expensive. Some of it would have been impossible. And there it is.
Guess who now has her lovely Ubuntu system set to back up regularly to her new cloud acount? Guess who’s syncing every device she owns? Guess who is never ever going to mess with her file structure like that again?
Yep, me.
Holy cow, I need a drink.
Moooom, you know the rules!! 
Shortdrum, are you SURE that the questions you submit will be considered for tests YOU take? Teachers often have a hard time changing up questions term by term; perhaps yours is compiling a nice little…pile..of them to use in future classes?
Just went to feed my mouses, and one of them wasn’t in the sleeping box. I eventually found her down the back of the den, dead.
She’d been overgrooming for the last few weeks, and looking pretty moth eaten but I’d been treating her and she seemed to be recovering, her fur was starting to regrow. Yesterday, she didn’t seem to want to get up, but there was food left (they’re lazy if they don’t feel the need to rush for breakfast), so I didn’t think much of it… The hazards of short lived pets.
R.I.P. Tilly mouse. You were a good mouse. <'O~
{{{Filbert}}}
MY INTERNET’S WORKING AGAIN?
WTF?
Let’s see how long this lasts!