# I Suppose There Should Be A MMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [July 19, 2021, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-suppose-there-should-be-a-mmp/946811 "2021-07-19T11:15:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2021, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-suppose-there-should-be-a-mmp/946811/201 "2021-07-25T09:55:38Z")
Holy crap! I’m only 19 minutes behind **swampy** ’s first post of the day. This is waaaaaaaaaayyyyy too early in the morning. Gotta practice though, since tomorrow morning, I’ll be up ~0245. 😮 Caffeinating, breakfasting and have the usual Sunday chores slated for today. Stay safe and healthy y’all! ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2021, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-suppose-there-should-be-a-mmp/946811/202 "2021-07-25T10:31:33Z")
Up at stupid o’clock this morning, so I read stupid stuff via my tablet till **FCD** decided to get up, and I followed suit. My only plan today is to make the dress for my daughter. And water my veggies - I’ll do that first before it gets too hot. But mostly I’m not going to do much. I have had a pseudo-quesadilla for breakfast - a slice of provolone rolled in a tortilla then nukelated to melt the cheese. Caffeination continues, then I’ll shower and decide how to clothe myself. So, yeah, another exciting day… 😛 \color{indigo}{\text{Happy Sunday!!}} ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2021, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-suppose-there-should-be-a-mmp/946811/203 "2021-07-25T12:22:46Z")
All righty - I’m clean and clad. The kitchen has been tidied and the dishwasher is done. The squid that I made for my daughter and that Taz peed on has been laundered and it’s across the lines to dry. My veggies and planters on the deck have been watered. I clipped the dead heads from the hosta and some lilies in the back yard. I also hacked back some wisteria that was going crazy around the garden shed. And it’s not 8:30 yet!!! I’m exhausted!! 😫 ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2021, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-suppose-there-should-be-a-mmp/946811/204 "2021-07-25T12:23:30Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > I shall serve as non-cannibal Lector Heheheh. > [@FairyChatMom](#): > > I have had a pseudo-quesadilla for breakfast - a slice of provolone rolled in a tortilla then nukelated to melt the cheese. As a kid, I “invented” a similar snack: one (1) string cheese, peeled into a few strips, laid on a tortilla and nuked for 15-20 seconds. String cheese mozzarella melts _REALLY_ well. > [@nelliebly](#): > > Hope you’re doing OK, \color{purple}{\text{shoe}} shoe\color{purple}{\text{shoe}} . What’s the Feel-O-Meter on these days? Improving. (I like that phrase - the Feel-O-Meter!) Except for that whole “sleep” thing; that’s becoming a right proper bitch. Conked out for a few hours after dinner (yay! me eating solid fud!) but after I woke for my mid-night bio break … that was IT for sleep. I blame **Monkey** who started hassling **Nikki** then messing with my stuff, knocking things off shelves - at one point, at about 3:30 a.m. he was _literally trying to climb the curtains_ - the damn cat was utterly cracked out. I also blame the fact that it was 91% humidity. (!!) Well, I should probably do some productive things today - wish me luck! ETA awwwww ☹ all I did was change “blue” to “purple” in Nellie’s quote, mostly as an experiment to see how the coding works, and that borked it all up. My bad! ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2021, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-suppose-there-should-be-a-mmp/946811/205 "2021-07-25T12:41:20Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > ETA awwwww ☹ all I did was change “blue” to “purple” in Nellie’s quote, mostly as an experiment to see how the coding works, and that borked it all up. My bad! There should be a dollar sign before the first \ and after the last } Then it would work. The encoloration command is a \color{purple}{\text{pain in the patoot...}} Speaking of invented foods, some friends of mine (going back to college days, of course) would roll a hot dog and some cheese in a tortilla and nukelate it. Guess they didn’t like buns? ---
**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:** [July 25, 2021, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-suppose-there-should-be-a-mmp/946811/206 "2021-07-25T13:04:54Z")
Up, caffeinated, and sheveled. Off today, so cleaning, and perhaps a cat nap. Witth an actual cat. > [@swampbear](#): > > I shall serve as non-cannibal Lector If you turned into the other kind, it would eat at me. > [@missred](#): > > I’ll be up ~0245. \< laughs in 0100 \> > [@FairyChatMom](#): > > I clipped the dead heads from the hosta _Jerry Garcia dislikes this post_ > [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > I blame **Monkey** who started hassling **Nikki** then messing with my stuff, knocking things off shelves - at one point, at about 3:30 a.m. he was _literally trying to climb the curtains_ - the damn cat was utterly cracked out. So it was an overnight cat-tastrophe? ---
**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:** [July 25, 2021, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-suppose-there-should-be-a-mmp/946811/207 "2021-07-25T13:20:18Z")
Also, someone is snoring, drooling, and twitching on my leg. Alex is more active asleep than she is awake. ---
**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:** [July 25, 2021, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-suppose-there-should-be-a-mmp/946811/208 "2021-07-25T14:06:09Z")
Good morning! I stayed in bed too late because I kept waking up throughout the night and was tired. However, I am showered and have “out in public” clothes on so I can drop Polar off at the vet. I have to leave in about 45 minutes or so to do that. My original plan was to drop him off at 7:00, but I received an appointment confirmation asking me to drop him between 8:00 and 8:30 which kind of borked my plans up a bit, but it’s not the end of the world. After that, I need to finish tidying the house and water my posies. Yesterday, after mowing and watering the lawn, watering the posies, and some other chores, I went and got my hair done-did. After that appointment, I went to Costco to pick up paper towels, toilet paper, and diet coke. Three hundred dollars later I came out of the store with a myriad of other stuff. Well, I should get to gettin’. ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2021, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-suppose-there-should-be-a-mmp/946811/209 "2021-07-25T15:17:24Z")
Y’all have me feeling downright lazy: I didn’t roll out of bed until 8:30-8:45am. 😃 In my defense, though, I stayed out with my friends later than expected – we decided to stay for the second set – and didn’t get home until around midnight. It was a great night! It was an outdoor venue and it did pour rain for the first hour we were there, but we were able to start at a covered table and then move to a table in front of the stage before the first set started. The music was terrific, and the beef enchiladas did not disappoint. I was able to snag a lemon cupcake for dessert – the very last cupcake they had – and it was the perfect finishing touch. Staying out borked up my medication schedule, though: these friends hardly ever want to stay for the second set, so I didn’t bring any meds with me. We’re doing it again next Saturday (same venue), and next time I’ll be prepared! An unexpected bonus from last night is that I took my friend’s leftover pizza home, so I have lunch and dinner already figured out for today. 🙂 I just sort-of-watched another pre-surgery online module: “Alcohol after Bariatric Surgery” (basically: don’t do it). Same lady with the vaguely annoying accent, but today’s video was shorter. It was the last behavior module, and now I’m sort-of-watching the lone nutrition module (“Online Grocery Store Tour & Food Label Guide”). After this, I’ll be done with all of the online requirements! And, I can take the next week and a half “off” from pre-op stuff: my next appointment isn’t until 8/4. I have a _bunch_ of appointments in August, though. > [@FairyChatMom](#): > > I have had a pseudo-quesadilla for breakfast - a slice of provolone rolled in a tortilla then nukelated to melt the cheese. > [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > As a kid, I “invented” a similar snack: one (1) string cheese, peeled into a few strips, laid on a tortilla and nuked for 15-20 seconds. > > String cheese mozzarella melts _REALLY_ well. OMG what a great idea!! ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2021, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-suppose-there-should-be-a-mmp/946811/210 "2021-07-25T15:33:12Z")
I ‘invented’ something similar. I heat a little oil in a frying pan and put a tortilla in the pan. Then I put cheese (and jalapeños, and maybe some meat if we have any) on the tortilla and fold it in half and cook it on both sides until the cheese melts. I need to think of a name for it. ---
**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:** [July 25, 2021, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-suppose-there-should-be-a-mmp/946811/211 "2021-07-25T15:45:51Z")
Alex Catt: \< gracelessly crashes into Gordie while leaping onto table \> Gordie: \< growls in a vaguely irritated manner \> Alex Catt: \< looks at me \> “Father the loudbeast insulted me” ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2021, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-suppose-there-should-be-a-mmp/946811/212 "2021-07-25T15:49:57Z")
Pretty sure that’s an actual honest-to-og quesadilla (as opposed to the bastardized versions she and I nuke up) plus you DIRTY A PAN, how decadent. > [@Taters](#): > > … went to Costco to pick up paper towels, toilet paper, and diet coke. Three hundred dollars later … Oh, ain’t that how it always goes? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2021, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-suppose-there-should-be-a-mmp/946811/213 "2021-07-25T16:21:29Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > Pretty sure that’s an actual honest-to-og quesadilla 😛 😉 > [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > plus you DIRTY A PAN If I used cast iron, I just wipe it so as to slowly build up the carbon layer. ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2021, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-suppose-there-should-be-a-mmp/946811/214 "2021-07-25T16:29:56Z")
Yeah, **Johnny\_L.A** , that’s waaaayyyy too much like actual cooking. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2021, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-suppose-there-should-be-a-mmp/946811/215 "2021-07-25T16:43:41Z")
> [@missred](#): > > since tomorrow morning, I’ll be up ~0245. 😮 \color{red}{\text{Red}} Eep! That’s wicked early. It’s going to be stupid hot today. The family dinner shall be tonight, come hell or high water, because my mom is starting to make sad noises about never seeing the grandkids. I’ve caught up on all of my favorite tv shows, so I might actually clean something today. Not much on the agenda, all in all. Happy Sunday all. ---
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2021, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-suppose-there-should-be-a-mmp/946811/216 "2021-07-25T17:01:06Z")
Happy Sunday! It’s a cloudy 89 degrees outside. I’m glad I’m inside. I feel like I can breathe again. Have so much to do but feel like I am in a good place now. The appraiser is coming tomorrow, and I have been upset about a few things that need fixing. My lawn guy came by, mowed the lawn, checked a few of the things and said not to worry about them because they are not something an appraiser is going to care about. He’s in the business so he would know. He loves my house anyway and says he’d buy it in a heartbeat if it wasn’t within the city limits. I guess when you live in a house you see all the flaws that other people don’t notice. Met the neighbor’s new puppy. He wanted out for a black female and came home with a male that is so light he is almost white. Very cute and cuddly, Ripple and Echo approve. The neighbors are moving next week and that is not happy news for me. However, I had a shit ton of plastic containers that I wanted to get rid of and they were happy to take them off my hands. I also had a bed frame that they took off my hands. I am in full ‘Swedish Death Cleaning’ mode. I’m not planning on kicking off any time soon, but when I do, I don’t want my son to have to deal with a shit ton of crap. Read all, retained nothing, and I need to get back to irk. I have stuff pulled out everywhere waiting to be put back where it belongs. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2021, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-suppose-there-should-be-a-mmp/946811/217 "2021-07-25T17:02:25Z")
I wound up inadvertently making an ersatz pho for lunch, and then cracked myself up at the culture mis-mash that phrase represents. Heated up some (homemade, thankyouverymuch!) chicken broth, but … hmm… it needed _something_ so I added green onions. Meh, not potent enough. Maggi seasoning! Pow! As I was putting that back into the pantry, I spied the bag of teensy tiny alphabet noodles. OK, that’ll add starch. Oh, I have 2/3 onion in the fridge! Add thinly sliced red onion - to round out the green, yanno - and as I’m putting that back, I see the weird freeze-dried cilantro I got on a lark a while ago. Well, now - besides mung bean sprouts, which are fine but I can take or leave - I basically have, sorta, pho. Yum. (Beats driving an hour each way to Grand Rapids for the real thing, at least at the moment.) > **[Ersatz good](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ersatz_good)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > An ersatz good (German: \[ɛɐ̯ˈzats\]) is a substitute good, especially one that is considered inferior to the good it replaces. It has particular connotations of wartime usage. > Ersatz is a German word literally meaning substitute or replacement. Although it is used as an adjective in English, it is a noun in German. In German orthography noun phrases formed are usually represented as a single word, forming compound nouns such as Ersatzteile ("spare... ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2021, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-suppose-there-should-be-a-mmp/946811/218 "2021-07-25T17:19:20Z")
We decided Salsa’s should make lunch for us - got there just as they opened. As we were leaving, **FCD** was talking about how his knees were hurting, so we had to go for medicinal ice cream cones. 😃 Now we’re home and I’m going to get back to my crocheting (nope, no preggo dress yet today.) I was watching something on Netflix about myths - pretty interesting stuff. So back at it. ---
**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2021, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-suppose-there-should-be-a-mmp/946811/219 "2021-07-25T18:19:40Z")
Evenin’ all. Another day of socialling- in the 15 days since moving here, I think I have spoken more in person to real 3d people than in the previous 6 months. I’m all talked out. I still have not ordered a new laptop- I can upend my life more or less on a whim because I fancy doing something new, but I can’t order a takeaway without staring at menus for at least 20 minutes dithering. It looks like buying a new computer is where my indecision peaks… I now really kind of need it for Friday though, so a choice must be made today. ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2021, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-suppose-there-should-be-a-mmp/946811/220 "2021-07-25T19:01:06Z")
> [@Sahirrnee](#): > > a male that is so light he is almost white. I wonder how his coloring might evolve. 🙂 Bailey was nearly all black as a puppy, but quickly became mostly brown with some black at her temples and a black “saddle” (and a white chest and paws). I didn’t know that dogs could change so much from puppy to adult — and I didn’t expect the changes to continue when she got older! Not just the gray that’s crept into her face: the black has gradually lessened, and she’s nearly all brown now. She does still have some black on her back, and on the tip of her tail. The latter amuses me: it looks like someone dipped her tail in some paint. > [@FairyChatMom](#): > > we had to go for medicinal ice cream cones. 😃 I’ve been having medicinal popsicles whenever I soak/change the bandage on my toe. 😁 > [@Filbert](#): > > I can upend my life more or less on a whim because I fancy doing something new, but I can’t order a takeaway without staring at menus for at least 20 minutes dithering. Yeah, it seems counterintuitive but sometimes big decisions are easier to make than little ones. I sympathize with the takeaway part! The laptop wouldn’t be an issue for me, though, because I have a bit of a gadget problem and love configuring/buying new toys. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-suppose-there-should-be-a-mmp/946811.md?page=10) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-suppose-there-should-be-a-mmp/946811.md?page=12)