# Live from Raleigh, It's The MMP! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [April 21, 2014, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-raleigh-its-the-mmp/686594 "2014-04-21T08:27:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**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:** [April 23, 2014, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-raleigh-its-the-mmp/686594/101 "2014-04-23T18:25:47Z")
A bidding war would be nice. You want in? 😃 Nice thing about these early sales - I have plenty of cash for change - or I will when I go to the credit union and break a couple of the $20s. Meanwhile, I don’t wanna do any more. I gotta, but I don’t wanna. Maybe I’ll do the dishes - that sorta counts. ---
**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:** [April 23, 2014, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-raleigh-its-the-mmp/686594/102 "2014-04-23T19:08:52Z")
Howdy from da cave! Finishin’ up some irkstuff from here bein’ as teh intartoobz started actin’ wonky at the orifice yet again. Speakin’ of irk from da cave that’s what I shall be doin’ on Moanday. Turns out Moanday is a state holiday for Jawja and since my orifice is a state office buildin’ it shall be closed. So I must needs telecommute on Moanday. Woe is me. Doin’ up the dishes always counts **MOOOOOOM**. Also, I do believe I have all the chain I need for now. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Capt\_Kirk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@Capt\_Kirk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt_Kirk)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-raleigh-its-the-mmp/686594/103 "2014-04-23T19:09:35Z")
Howdy Mumpers and Happy Humping Day I am off to Austin to work the Euphoria Music Festival, which is why I have not been posting much. I have been in email hell. The fest is EDM, Jam Bands and camping. I shall have stories of idjits. Cheers **Jim** ---
**Author:** ![Capt\_Kirk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@Capt\_Kirk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt_Kirk)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-raleigh-its-the-mmp/686594/104 "2014-04-23T19:12:12Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > Howdy from da cave! Finishin’ up some irkstuff from here bein’ as teh intartoobz started actin’ wonky at the orifice yet again. Speakin’ of irk from da cave that’s what I shall be doin’ on Moanday. Turns out Moanday is a state holiday for Jawja and since my orifice is a state office buildin’ it shall be closed. So I must needs telecommute on Moanday. Woe is me. > > Doin’ up the dishes always counts **MOOOOOOM**. Also, I do believe I have all the chain I need for now. 😃 Do have your SHARK removal chain? You might need it soon.:eek: **Jim** ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-raleigh-its-the-mmp/686594/105 "2014-04-23T20:19:44Z")
Day off today, so actually slept after DH left for school. A day without problem co-irker is always a good thing. He’s probably on thin ice at this point, even by the standards of a job training facility. He’s in his third department and has had/been major problems in each. I had thought he simply had an issue with women, especially in authority positions (he’s an immigrant from somewhere in Africa, so I suspect cultural aspects), but then found out from someone in an all-male department he was in that he was just about as much of a PITA there. I have GOT to figure out my kitchen. Appliances are making workspace impossible to obtain. The answer may be supplemental shelving in the entryway near the kitchen. ---
**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:** [April 23, 2014, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-raleigh-its-the-mmp/686594/106 "2014-04-23T20:55:42Z")
I’m grumpy I don’t know why I’m grumpy, I’m not hungry and I have chocolate Maybe I need a nap ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-raleigh-its-the-mmp/686594/107 "2014-04-23T20:56:22Z")
> [@Capt\_Kirk](#): > > Do have your SHARK removal chain? You might need it soon.:eek: > > **Jim** Did Nelson tell Pierre-Charles Villeneuve? Did Wellington tell Napoleon? Did Halsey tell Yamamoto? Did Captain Kirk open his pie-hole? :dubious: ---
**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:** [April 23, 2014, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-raleigh-its-the-mmp/686594/108 "2014-04-23T21:57:20Z")
> [@2gigch1](#): > > Everybody’s always late to your place… > > Back in December I emailed 3 Craiglist lawn folks to clean up a bunch of leaves for me. Two responded but I ultimately decided against it once I heard the prices. > > Last night, 4 months later, the third responds as if I had just sent the email. > … I was polite in my refusal of services. Some peoples is weird- when my parents were trying to sell a car a while back, they got a call from a guy trying to buy it several months after the ad went out. At 3am. He apparently got quite angry at my mother for ‘wasting his time’ because the car had, unsurprisingly, already gone. The mind boggles. ---
**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:** [April 23, 2014, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-raleigh-its-the-mmp/686594/109 "2014-04-23T22:06:45Z")
Mexican commestibles have been consumed. I had a beef enchilada and a cheese enchilada and OYKW had a beef quesadilla. We both had beans and rice. He’s at his place to deal with irkstuff poor thing. Since we both had refried beans, it’s probably best we ain’t in the same place. This way we spread out the toxic emissions. 😃 Have fun **Jim**! I feel the need to search teh intartoobz for a shark removal service. ---
**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:** [April 23, 2014, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-raleigh-its-the-mmp/686594/110 "2014-04-23T22:28:32Z")
Gonna grab a quick shower, then commence to crocheting. _ **MWAH!!** _ ---
**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:** [April 23, 2014, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-raleigh-its-the-mmp/686594/111 "2014-04-23T22:31:53Z")
> [@dogbutler](#): > > [Doctor Sigmund Fraud]Zis zignifies you need to get a **Sah-cat** ven you get to ze new house. Zat vill be 5 cents, please[/Doctor Sigmund Fraud]😃 Do you mind if it’s wooden? Will the Sah-cat catch the Sah-ghost? I don’t know what Sah-dog would do with a cat. I don’t think he has ever seen one, at least not up close and personal. The only cigars around here are the ones in the butter compartment of the frdige. I want to move. I’m getting anxious, I haven’t heard a thing about the termite repairs or how that is going to play out. The HFH are supposed to be leaving May 4 for a vacation, I can’t wait for that. With any luck my mother will still be at her bf’s daughter’s house and it will be just me and Sah-son. The hounds will still be here, my niece will come over to take care of them. ---
**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:** [April 23, 2014, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-raleigh-its-the-mmp/686594/112 "2014-04-23T22:35:22Z")
I actually slept last night, but I’m still tired. And cold. Damn this hobbit-hole of mine! I’m not doing well in the writing contest polls this week. [I is sad.](https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/3985126656/h84B4BB0A/) So I shall fritter the night away to keep from angsting about it. This is shaping up to be a seriously weird week. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-raleigh-its-the-mmp/686594/113 "2014-04-23T22:40:58Z")
> [@SpazCat](#): > > [I is sad.](https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/3985126656/h84B4BB0A/) Poor baby! ---
**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:** [April 23, 2014, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-raleigh-its-the-mmp/686594/114 "2014-04-23T22:48:54Z")
I like you **Spaz** ---
**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:** [April 23, 2014, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-raleigh-its-the-mmp/686594/115 "2014-04-23T23:03:12Z")
I like you too **Spaz**. I don’t, however, like my sinuses right now. Takin’ some Benadryl[sup]TM[/sup] and goin’ down for the night. Nitey Nite Y’all! ---
**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:** [April 23, 2014, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-raleigh-its-the-mmp/686594/116 "2014-04-23T23:44:03Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > I like you too **Spaz**. > > I don’t, however, like my sinuses right now. Takin’ some Benadryl[sup]TM[/sup] and goin’ down for the night. > > Nitey Nite Y’all! My sinuses just laugh at drugs now. Even Claritin doesn’t work for me. So I went with the neti pot. Nuke them from orbit and all that. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-raleigh-its-the-mmp/686594/117 "2014-04-24T00:51:41Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > Mexican \*\*commestibles \*\*have been consumed. I had a beef enchilada and a cheese enchilada and OYKW had a beef quesadilla. We both had beans and rice. He’s at his place to deal with irkstuff poor thing. Since we both had refried beans, it’s probably best we ain’t in the same place. This way we spread out the toxic emissions. 😃 > > Have fun **Jim**! > > I feel the need to search teh intartoobz for a shark removal service. I read that word as combustibles; probably has the same result in the ‘end’. 😛 Do not worry **Swampy** , we has only achieved VFR shark slinging so far; still issues with IFR. You can be all [Bob Marley-like](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYi5aW1GdUU). ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-raleigh-its-the-mmp/686594/118 "2014-04-24T00:54:14Z")
More kitchen shelving has been obtained and installed (well, it’s in the entryway near the kitchen, which does kind of mess up placement of trash can and recycle bin, but options are limited in this apartment). I think it’s shaping up to be helpful. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-raleigh-its-the-mmp/686594/119 "2014-04-24T01:41:17Z")
> [@Spiderman](#): > > Do not worry **Swampy** , we has only achieved VFR shark slinging so far; still issues with IFR. > [@Admiral Halsey](#): > > Yamamoto, Old Pal. We only have three P-38s after you, probably nothing to worry about on your little trip Thursday. Moses and Aaron on a stick. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Sticks\_and\_Scones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sticks_and_scones/32/16951_2.png) [@Sticks\_and\_Scones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sticks_and_Scones)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-raleigh-its-the-mmp/686594/120 "2014-04-24T02:41:56Z")
Skim, skim, skim Two interviews down today. One more to go tomorrow afternoon. I want a job soon, this is exhausting. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-raleigh-its-the-mmp/686594.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-raleigh-its-the-mmp/686594.md?page=7)