# Live from Raleigh, It's the MMP! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [August 18, 2014, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-raleigh-its-the-mmp/695813 "2014-08-18T09:21:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**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:** [August 19, 2014, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-raleigh-its-the-mmp/695813/81 "2014-08-19T14:16:18Z")
Mawnin all and Happy Twosday, Have to get rolling and do a site survey Have a great day all **Jim** ---
**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:** [August 19, 2014, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-raleigh-its-the-mmp/695813/82 "2014-08-19T14:37:01Z")
Happy Toosday! I overslept today but since I don’t have much to do it doesn’t matter. Today is laundry day - oh joy and happiness. I need to order some groceries as well. It’s grey outside today. A high of 81 is predicted. Somebody closed my window while I was gone and I haven’t opened it. I should have last night, the air outside is cooler. Thirty one more days til closing. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2014, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-raleigh-its-the-mmp/695813/83 "2014-08-19T14:37:17Z")
> [@Sean\_Factotum](#): > > Are these two statements connected, as in your sister is up for the prize? Yes, sorry to be unclear. She and her buddy started a sweet jalapeno company several years ago. They’re fantastic and on a small scale restaurants and a few stores have kept her busy trying to keep up with demand. If this grocer picks them up too then they’re going to need to expand in a big way. They should find out today sometime. I’m really pleased for her no matter what happens. ---
**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:** [August 19, 2014, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-raleigh-its-the-mmp/695813/84 "2014-08-19T14:40:44Z")
\*\*flytrap \*\*- the bathroom was built for our daughter’s apartment and she chose the color. When she moved out, we reclaimed the basement for a workshop, but kept the bathroom. \*\*BBBobbio \*\*- we also had a [blue princess phone](http://s72.photobucket.com/user/fairychatmom/media/Remodel/GuestBathroom.jpg.html?sort=6&o=17) (on the back of the toilet in the pic) in the blue bathroom. We have since gotten rid of the blue fixtures and made a more conventional bathroom. Oh, and I sold the pink phone at my recent yard sale. 😃 ---
**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:** [August 19, 2014, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-raleigh-its-the-mmp/695813/85 "2014-08-19T14:58:22Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > Oh, and I sold the pink phone at my recent yard sale. 😃 Who would be fool enough to buy a pink… Er, that’s nice. 🙂 ---
**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:** [August 19, 2014, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-raleigh-its-the-mmp/695813/86 "2014-08-19T14:59:53Z")
Not only was it pink, it was a rotary dial phone - weighed a ton!! Probably worth lots more than the $5 I sold it for… ---
**Author:** ![2gigch1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/2gigch1/32/3313_2.png) [@2gigch1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2gigch1)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2014, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-raleigh-its-the-mmp/695813/87 "2014-08-19T15:21:22Z")
Good morning. So apparently the piggies are happy enough with their new environs, at least it appears so because the darker colored one Crys decided he wanted to hump his brother, who did not appear to share the sentiment. So from 4am to 8am there was squealing, chattering, running, colliding and all other sorts of mayhem, about 4 feet from my head. I did not sleep well, and what sleep I did get was full of rather strange dreams. I refused to yell at them, or otherwise try to stop it. I have to believe that they have dealt with this in the past, and as I am trying to establish the new happy home for them I didn’t want to frighten them or mess things up. On a positive note at least I now they’re happy, or one is anyway… ---
**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:** [August 19, 2014, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-raleigh-its-the-mmp/695813/88 "2014-08-19T15:55:52Z")
Finally Sah-son is being added to my insurance and even better I am getting better insurance at a lower cost. Now I have to get cleaned up, been trying to get a shower for hours and the phone keeps ringing and the SDMB keeps calling my name. Those little piggies are so cute. Almost makes me want to get one. Almost. Maybe after I move. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2014, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-raleigh-its-the-mmp/695813/89 "2014-08-19T16:00:15Z")
> [@VunderBob](#): > > She had a pink telephone at one time, too. I wanted my late FILs red phone but it was a rental and we had to return it. Although the temptation to just claim it was lost and pay for it was high. ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2014, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-raleigh-its-the-mmp/695813/90 "2014-08-19T16:30:32Z")
Oh boy oh boy oh boy! Lucky me! I get to go to a one-hour open season insurance meeting just to say, like I do every year, “Retired Military. Tricare. Can I go now?” ---
**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:** [August 19, 2014, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-raleigh-its-the-mmp/695813/91 "2014-08-19T17:19:10Z")
**Sean** you are the envy of us all. Really. The jealousy is just overwhelmin’! The only thing I get to do is an hour long conference stuff. Why can’t I get cool stuff like **Sean**! Harrumph! **MOOOOOOM** since he seems to be harrassin’ you right now, want we should send **flytrap** on ahead to appease the volcano gods? 😃 Ok, gotta do a pit stop and psych myself up to [del]listen about stuff I already know and didn’t care about anyway[/del] learn new and excitatin’ things. ---
**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:** [August 19, 2014, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-raleigh-its-the-mmp/695813/92 "2014-08-19T17:30:56Z")
Blurf! It’s back to irk today and how. ---
**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:** [August 19, 2014, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-raleigh-its-the-mmp/695813/93 "2014-08-19T17:41:19Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > **MOOOOOOM** since he seems to be harrassin’ you right now, want we should send **flytrap** on ahead to appease the volcano gods? 😃 I’d like to help out, but as I recall what I know of Volcano God Appeasement, virginity is a requirement. :rolleyes: ---
**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:** [August 19, 2014, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-raleigh-its-the-mmp/695813/94 "2014-08-19T17:49:35Z")
[Aug 17](http://s72.photobucket.com/user/fairychatmom/media/DSCN0345_zps3d498bc1.jpg.html?sort=3&o=1) [Aug 19](http://s72.photobucket.com/user/fairychatmom/media/DSCN0347_zpsd0473f50.jpg.html?sort=3&o=0) You can see the dents in the carpet from the aquarium base. We’s tahred!! ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2014, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-raleigh-its-the-mmp/695813/95 "2014-08-19T18:09:04Z")
[QUOTE=FairyChatMom] …we also had a [blue princess phone](http://s72.photobucket.com/user/fairychatmom/media/Remodel/GuestBathroom.jpg.html?sort=6&o=17) (on the back of the toilet in the pic) in the blue bathroom. [/QUOTE] That’s actually a Trimline phone. [Princess: It’s little! It’s lovely! It lights!](http://www.telephonearchive.com/phones/we/we_princess.html) ---
**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:** [August 19, 2014, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-raleigh-its-the-mmp/695813/96 "2014-08-19T18:13:15Z")
\*Whatever \*- it was still a phone connected to a jack IN THE BATHROOM!!! :eek: When I was a kid, we had your basic desk phone in Mom & Dad’s bedroom and your basic wall phone in the kitchen. I know for a little while, we even were on a party line. It was a HUGE deal when we went from dial to touch-tone! And that’s my little trip down memory lane. 😃 ---
**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:** [August 19, 2014, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-raleigh-its-the-mmp/695813/97 "2014-08-19T18:44:53Z")
Today, while driving back from pickin’ a (free!) wax melter up from someone so’s I can finally try batik properly, I passed a tow truck. On the back, properly tied on and secured with all the straps, was one of [these](https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTJrz2Jmt0LH_dZNYtnkZuqju4-BawwYR0JJVxbWip58OtyDZWX). This made me quite happy. Sadly, I was driving, so I couldn’t get a photo. ---
**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:** [August 19, 2014, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-raleigh-its-the-mmp/695813/98 "2014-08-19T21:20:19Z")
I’s hongree but my sweetie doesn’t want to eat till 6. He’s installing the new stereo and speakers on his bike. But I’ve got everything pretty much ready to go - ham steak, twice baked N.O.T.s, Amish 'maters, and pineapple bits. And ice cream for dessert later. ---
**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:** [August 19, 2014, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-raleigh-its-the-mmp/695813/99 "2014-08-19T21:22:55Z")
Now that there’s a piany in the livin’ room I foresee **MOOOOOOM** , FCD, Higgs, Taz, and Ziva all sittin’ around it singin’ show tunes. A real family picture! 😃 Dindin has been ingested, leftovers from Sunday. OYKW is at his place now dealin’ with paperirk from irk. I complain about paperirk, but compared to the stuff he deals with, mine ain’t nuttin’. Poor thing. ---
**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:** [August 19, 2014, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-raleigh-its-the-mmp/695813/100 "2014-08-19T22:33:48Z")
We had a yummy supper. \*\*FCD \*\*did the dishes and I took the trash out - we so domestical!! 😃 Later, we’ll have ice cream. Yum. Higgs is gnawin’ on the ham bone - it’s as quite as she’s been all day. I opened the keyboard cover to see if we’d get kittehs on the keys. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-raleigh-its-the-mmp/695813.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-raleigh-its-the-mmp/695813.md?page=6)