Aww heck Soapy the OP has been known to get off topic in the OP. We’re madcap that way! 
Thanks. I risked further baldness trying to figure it out.
Home. Had a lovely day… puttered around for most of the morning, then went to join a couple of girlfriends for brunch and knitting class.
I’m a slow-ass knitter. I’ve got a looooong ways to go before my next class in two weeks, so hopefully I’ll get faster over time… I still have to think very hard about where the yarn and the needles are supposed to go with each stitch, which is a pain seeing as I’m working on a project that’s ~130 stitches per row. Oy.
Also, I’ve consumed four large coffees over the course of the day. Now taking bets on how long it’ll take me to fall asleep tonight. 
PS - Guess who’s Blog of the Day on Foodista today? 
I hate redoing my system.
I had all the components to give my computer a complete overhaul, but wanted to wait 'til Windows 7 came out, ‘cos there was no point in replacing the motherboard and stuff if I was going to have to reinstall the OS anyway. So now I’m doing that. Right now just copying everything from 4 hard drives (spanning 2TB) on to 2 new drives (spanning 2.5TB) which is taking for-freakin’-ever. And that’s on top of having to reinstall everything, copy old preferences and settings, and all sorts of other crap. Then I have to build my wife’s new system out of the parts of the old one. And I have to make a shelf for an audio box, plus two more for the rear speakers for our home theatre. I don’t think I’m going to be anywhere near done tonight.
The wife and I went shopping today, just mainly to pick up a few things. She went into one of the stores at the mall and saw their large selection of used Blu-Rays … and walked out with 12 of 'em. This is why I prefer shopping alone. Oh, and one of the movies wouldn’t play, so I’ll have to exchange it for something tomorrow.
We did get the kitties a new cubby duplex though. Y’know, one of those fabric-covered affairs with holes to crawl into and carpeting for them to curl up in. So far they’ve sniffed around it but none have decided it would be a good place to nap. Hopefully they’ll take to it.
Laundry tonight, too.
Cold is still there. Mostly a cough but it’s persistent and won’t completely go away – although it’s been better today. I think this ought to satisfy my cold quota for the next year or two given the severity of this one. It had better. I ain’t puttin’ up with this crap again anytime soon.
Magiver - Welcome to the MMP! Pull up a seat, chill, grab a beerverage of your choice, chat awhile. There’s no topic, no pressure, and no Funyuns. (We’re out.) Well, one rule. FairyChatMon expects chocolate.
Mooooom Steam 'em. Helps separate them if they’re stuck together in the package. I just wrap 'em in paper towels, get a spray gun, wet the towels down, and nuke 'em for about a minute or so. Works great, except for the ones that have fused together. I find Old El Paso shells seem to be pretty good though; I almost never get stuck ones.
But now I’m hungry for quesadillas. Or maybe burritos. Something Mexican anyway.
I did not know one could knit with one’s ass. Personally I am impressed with an ass knittin’ project that involves 130 stitches per row. I can understand how that could be a PITTA!
What? It amused me!
**Mork **- thanks for the suggestion - I’ll try it out with the rest of the package. Four have become one mega-tortilla.
We had to run to WalMart. I was just > < that much short of yarn to finish daughter’s afghan. Luckily, it’s a no-dye-lot product, so the color will work fine. And I’m now going to have most of a skein of green for whatever other project I choose. So yay for that.
Off to knit. Welcome, Mag! Yes, the only rule here is that you must send me chocolate love offerings. Frankly, everyone has been slacking off with regards to this rule, and I’m suffering from Chocolate Withdrawal. We are not amused…
See one and all in the next MMP! MWAH!!
Thank you.
So, is anyone up for the next MMP?
Somehow, I always sin against sloth every weekend. I was more sinful than usual today as it was, although I did manage 2, count 'em, 2 naps for the day.
I:
-finished the bathroom woodwork;
-did not enough tidying in Outer Manland;
-vacuumed the interior of the Foomobile;
-shampooed carpets in 2 rooms. That has my ire, 'cuz some of it was a redo of yesterday to clean up new puppy shit;
-did 2 loads of laundry;
-a load of dishes;
-and I’m just now settling down after doing the week’s lunch cooking.
I think I’ll take another nap before going to bed. Penance, after all.
no, I think it’s going to be a race between you and me agin - but I’m tired so you win.
I’m pretty sure you volunteered, swampy. ::looks innocent::
Welcome, Magiver. You should also know that there are a whole lot of nicknames here; many of them don’t actually bear any resemblance to the original user names.
Yay, Muppet for being blog of the day. 
(That stuffed eggplant sounds yummy, btw)
I’ve bookmarked Foodista for later.
Well, I’ve made it through about one million coupons and other assorted newspaper.
Need to get up extra early in the morning. I suspect I’ll be having long workdays all week. Ick.
Gotta try to fall asleep.
Guess I’ll knit or something for a bit…
See all of you in the next MMP.
GT
swampus, that’s a slow ass-knitter, not a slow-ass knitter. The hyphen makes all the difference. 
Apparently, all that coffee I consumed has exited my system already. I is sleeeeeeeepy. (Yes, I know… famous last words, which means I’ll be up all night)
Mindy, a word re: your kitty condo. Cats being the perverse creatures that they are, there’s a good chance they won’t ever use the condo… or that they’ll use it for something altogether different than what it was intended for. Ours use their fancy-dancy scratching post as a cat bed, and use the living room chair as a scratching post. See? Perverse.
I have to be awake in less than 4 hours. It kind makes going to bed at all seem somewhat pointless.
Sleep is for the weak!
Steaming should help there. And if not, you can always cut them into strips and use them in a taco salad.
That’s sort of what we’re afraid of. One has demonstrated an affinity for sitting on top of the kitty condo, but apart from thoroughly investigating the insides (and inexplicably getting the floor slightly wet) neither she, nor any of the others, have deigned to spend any quality time in there yet. Perhaps it’s just not roomy enough. But then again, our fat one has managed to squeeze himself into a shoebox that was entirely too small for him – and then fall asleep with his head resting on a corner. They are indeed perverse creatures. Kind of like babies, I guess; you’ll spend $100 on a shiny, noisy, fascinating new toy for your toddler and he’ll spend the bulk of his time playing with the box.
Well, having completed all of the annoying drive copying, it’s off to bed with me.
You’d think that the two stratas in the oven, baking since about 3:45 would smell good right now. Ugh. Not when you’re the one who had to put them in the oven. :rolleyes: I need a nap.
FCM, I think there’s a difference between what rosie faced (she got plastered willingly, after all - she merely didn’t know she’d be the only one doing so) and what FCD was subject to; he hadn’t intended to drink.
Those times when someone has been wanting to make me drunk, they were already berrrrrryy, v-v-v-veeeeery dr’nk, so I was able to escape. It’s still been frequent enough to make me dread going to dinner with that specific personality type (it’s always a specific kind of bully). Sadly, I’ve run into the specific kind of person in too many jobs, never met one at school.
I’m not opening the next MMP. Too lazy. So there.
Welcome, Magiver.
Apropos of nothing, last Thursday I didn’t have any early classes and for some reason I’d been sleeping “in Morse:” now I can’t stand the bed, now I’m drooping, rinse and repeat. 8am found me in bed and there was a loud knock at the door. I jump out of bed, wobble the two yards to the door and open it before my brain has had time to wonder wth’s going on. It was one of the maintenance guys, with an order to change the lightbulb in a bedside lamp (but in another room).
I never would have expected building maintenance to handle changing a 60W bulb in a bedside lamp… either I’m too handy, or my dorm-mates are just too lazy-ass useless for words!
A friend of TVMan’s works as a university maintenance man in Pennsylvania. They charge students $65 to unplug a toilet. I’ll bet that light bulb replacements wouldn’t be free either.
Note: GilaMonster has taken the breakfast. I think I’m done whining for the day.
The university may have a policy on students attempting their own “repairs”, too. Changing lightbulbs comes under that because the unis don’t want grow lights and black lights in the dorm rooms. If not, I got nothing else…