# MMP - Bright & Early, Front & Center **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [January 16, 2006, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-bright-early-front-center/340207 "2006-01-16T09:56:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spatial_Rift_47)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-bright-early-front-center/340207/161 "2006-01-18T14:20:51Z")
Goodness, I totally forgot yesterday to say that I was very impressed with your sewing, **Mika**! That sarong looks wonderful, and the drawstring bag could be very useful. The pillow … well, it’s cute. 🙂 You win a cookie. **rigs** , let’s just say that the google fu is strong with me. ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-bright-early-front-center/340207/162 "2006-01-18T14:26:08Z")
We have a phone now (yay), but the internet doesn’t seem to be working (boo). I don’t know what the hell is wrong. Of course, I only spent a few minutes because I couldn’t bring myself to care too much when I was so hungry. And then I had to watch TV so I never got back to it. But I’ll make my friend Robyn come over and fix it. She does that kind of thing for a living. How can I have gotten at least eight hours’ sleep and still be so _tired_?? ---
**Author:** ![Tupug\_Anachi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@Tupug\_Anachi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tupug_Anachi)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-bright-early-front-center/340207/163 "2006-01-18T14:27:29Z")
> [@Spatial Rift 47](#): > > **Tupug** , [like this?](http://www.rotten.com/library/sex/vagina-dentata/) (WARNING: Not work safe. Not sanity safe either. You’re better off just not clicking on it.) > > **rigs** - cover charge for Target? Did I miss a memo? I thought Target was just a store where you go and buy stuff. And get to work on your application young lady! **rifty** , I am going to take your advice and just not go there. I am out of brain bleach at the moment. See, the cover charge for Target is the amount you can’t get out of there without spending. Normally, it’s about $60 but must be much higher in **drae’s** neck of the woods. Loverly sewing **mika**! I must get my machine fixed. I find sewing therapeutic plus I need some curtains for the Master bedroom and guest room. They’s easy. Just buy some flat sheets you like, spllit em up the center, run a seam along the cut side, fold over the top and run another seam for a curtain rod _et, voila! les curtains!_😃 Wood, floors, not so much. Good job, **gotti** **welby** , Mr. Anachi is very handy but has finally decided it’s worth paying somebody to do the really tough jobs that would leave him sore and hobbling for days. I have a cold. ☹ I am not happy. I should have contracted every possible rhinovirus known to man by now. This must be a mutation. 😛 Tupug ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-bright-early-front-center/340207/164 "2006-01-18T14:34:38Z")
Thanks, everyone! I’m finding it really is fun, although yesterday after swampy said it, I managed to scratch myself on the needle. gotpasswords, nice floor, but I’m likin’ the dog, too. 🙂 And thanks for the cookie, **Spat** (I like this nickname - it sounds like something gooey hitting the floor)! Yum! ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-bright-early-front-center/340207/165 "2006-01-18T14:37:56Z")
I love the sarong, **Mika**. I’d wear sarongs if I could get away with them. Or knew how to make them stay where they’re supposed to. Sudden nakedness in public has never been one of my favorite ways to spend the day–despite how often it’s happened to me. ---
**Author:** ![Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spatial_Rift_47)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-bright-early-front-center/340207/166 "2006-01-18T14:40:59Z")
You’re quite welcome, **Mika**. As for the nickname bit, well, thanks, I think. How often is that exactly, **Drae**? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-bright-early-front-center/340207/167 "2006-01-18T14:48:33Z")
> [@Spatial Rift 47](#): > > How often is that exactly, **Drae**? 😛 I spent several years as part of a _Rocky Horror_ cast, sweetie, there is _always_ accidental nudity. Sometimes corsets just plain fall down, and you don’t notice until you realize the audience is paying a great deal more attention, and you’re feeling a bit of a breeze. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-bright-early-front-center/340207/168 "2006-01-18T15:25:11Z")
Very nice, **mika**! Welcome to the wide world of sewing! ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-bright-early-front-center/340207/169 "2006-01-18T15:56:13Z")
Hi, hi, hi! I’m late to the party. I already forgot who made my Texas Caviar, but Whoever You Are (and I’m sorry I forgot!), I’m glady you enjoyed it. Not much going on with me. It snowed here last night, just a dusting. But it looks pretty. Pore lil Baby Cherry is sickie, so I am home with him today. ☹ Doesn’t look like more than a cold. I am impressed with all the sewing MMP’ers. I’m not a sewer (ha!) … sew~er, make that … but I like good stitchin’ when I see it. **News Flash** I am on a diet. The Zone Diet. Hubby and I are doing it together. There is all together too much meat eating in it for me to like it much, but just poking around trying to get rid of The Horrible 30 Pounds of Babyweight I’ve been dragging around for 16 months :eek: just wasn’t enough. I miss my old wardrobe. I’m sick of Zee Beeg Butt. So Zone Dieting I go. Wish me luck!! ---
**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:** [January 18, 2006, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-bright-early-front-center/340207/170 "2006-01-18T16:14:37Z")
Zone diet? How does that work **EC**? Is it like how they board airplanes? How long do you have to wait if your diet is in Zone 7? Speaking of boarding airplanes, it’s really funny at our local teeny airport. The tickets always have a zone number for boarding on them, yet all the planes are those Canadair Regional Jets that seat a whopping 60 people. I keep wanting them to board us by zones, though I can board ahead of others because I am a Delta Medallion member and they let us go first for some reason. The flights out of Albeeny are Comair flights. They used to be ASA but now it’s Comair. Like I care cause the only place they take me is Etlanner, though there is a rumor that soon we will be able to fly directly to Cincinnati and maybe Milwaukee because of the P&G and Miller Brewery plants here. I’m through [del]torturing[/del] testing. Now I need to go back and score stuff and interpret it and write up a boring report to send to the funding source that’s paying me to do all this. I’ll do that later today. Right now, I need to do some other stuff plus I don’t feel like scoring and interpreting right now cause my sinuses sorta kinda hurt. I see **Rue** chimed in during the night but didn’t have any projectile animal stuff to share. ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-bright-early-front-center/340207/171 "2006-01-18T16:20:36Z")
It was me with the Texas Caviar! It’s my lunch all this week, so I’m still enjoying it. I’m tired this morning. Must get more coffee, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Bumbazine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbazine/32/362_2.png) [@Bumbazine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbazine)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-bright-early-front-center/340207/172 "2006-01-18T16:21:00Z")
I’m in the Pacific zone myself. Does that mean iffen I visit, say, the Mountain zone I don’t get to eat there? So **Drae** usta get suddenly naked during the _Rocky Horror Picture Show_? I always wondered why that show was so popular. Got a 9am meeting and I haven’t even showered yet. Back later. ---
**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:** [January 18, 2006, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-bright-early-front-center/340207/173 "2006-01-18T16:36:36Z")
Ya know, just once, just ONCE, I’d like to come in here full of happy go lucky good cheer. I was gone yesterday but came in to an e-mail that has sent me _right_ to pissed-off-beyond-all belief land. I have a monthly report that generally takes almost two weeks to pull together. It is due Friday. This report deals with data for LAST MONTH. This report is a huge pain in the ass, AND, since it’s inception, we’ve been telling them, that at a minimum, we should be reporting data from TWO months ago. In other words, report November referral data in January. NOW, FREAKIN’ NOW, they decide this is what they’re going to do. TWO G-D days before the report is due! My suspense hasn’t changed, but the criteria has, A-FREAKIN’ AGAIN! [SIZE=7]\*\*ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGHHHHHHHHH![/\*\*SIZE] What rarified air are they breathing at HQ that makes them feel we can pull this out of our asses at this late date?! Wait, you say. You should ALREADY have this data as you reported it last month. Not really, the database changes as things are added. So, last month, let’s say I reported 576 prime referrals for November. As of this morning, by running the same criteria (healthcare delivery code, dates from 1-30 Nov, etc), I now come up with 619 referrals. I also have several other data sources I must go to, one of which takes me several days to sort and clean-up. Okay, enough with the whining. I only feel slightly better. I’m going to be all sunshine and light, lalalalalalalalala! Yeah, right. ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-bright-early-front-center/340207/174 "2006-01-18T16:55:34Z")
> [@Sean Factotum](#): > > You might have to just bite the bullet and try to do a lot of the work yourself. (Yeah, I know, easier said than done.) Water heaters _should_ be a piece of cake. I’ve installed gas appliances (cookers and clothes dryers) and even replaced a furnace once, so I’m not afraid of gas. On the furnace, the inspector even commented that it was unusual for a DIY-er to use the proper yellow teflon tape for gas lines. 🆒 Problem with this heater is that it’s been caged in by stupid plumbers. Whoever replaces it will have to cut and re-assemble a soldered-together copper drain line running vertically in front of it and lift the heater about 6" to clear a gas line that’s running side to side in front of it. It’s just going to be a physical pain in the ass, and the labor cost for Sears is probably not much more than the chiropractor bills to fix my back after wrestling the thing out and its replacement back into that screwball space. The galling part is the [del]usury tax[/del] permit. I pay the county $56 to say “I’ve replaced the water heater” AFAIK, they don’t do a site inspection or even give me a sticker or anything to put on it. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-bright-early-front-center/340207/175 "2006-01-18T17:00:18Z")
> [@Ellen Cherry](#): > > Hi, hi, hi! I’m late to the party. I already forgot who made my Texas Caviar, but Whoever You Are (and I’m sorry I forgot!), I’m glady you enjoyed it. I made it, too. My only gripe was that I made way too much, and wound up tossing about half during my weekly fridge cleaning. The eaten half was [Monty Burns]Excellent[/Monty Burns]. Good luck zoning. The only difference between that and Atkins is the marketing… ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-bright-early-front-center/340207/176 "2006-01-18T17:04:12Z")
> [@gotpasswords](#): > > Water heaters _should_ be a piece of cake. I’ve installed gas appliances (cookers and clothes dryers) and even replaced a furnace once, so I’m not afraid of gas. On the furnace, the inspector even commented that it was unusual for a DIY-er to use the proper yellow teflon tape for gas lines. 🆒 > > Problem with this heater is that it’s been caged in by stupid plumbers. Whoever replaces it will have to cut and re-assemble a soldered-together copper drain line running vertically in front of it and lift the heater about 6" to clear a gas line that’s running side to side in front of it. It’s just going to be a physical pain in the ass, and the labor cost for Sears is probably not much more than the chiropractor bills to fix my back after wrestling the thing out and its replacement back into that screwball space. The galling part is the [del]usury tax[/del] permit. I pay the county $56 to say “I’ve replaced the water heater” AFAIK, they don’t do a site inspection or even give me a sticker or anything to put on it. Then why even pay the tax? Rip out the old one, replace it with a piece of pipe, and DIY demand heaters in the bathroom and kitchen. No one will know the difference. Well, except for the electrician that runs the 220V… ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-bright-early-front-center/340207/177 "2006-01-18T17:06:57Z")
[QUOTE=Bumbazine] So **Drae** usta get suddenly naked during the _Rocky Horror Picture Show_? I always wondered why that show was so popular. [QUOTE] Easy there, **Bumba**. You don’t want another heart attack… ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-bright-early-front-center/340207/178 "2006-01-18T17:09:05Z")
> [@VunderBob](#): > > Easy there, **Bumba**. You don’t want another heart attack… As much as it pains me to say it, I’m not exactly heart-attack-inducing material. Unless you like chubby pale chicks. 😉 ---
**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:** [January 18, 2006, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-bright-early-front-center/340207/179 "2006-01-18T17:09:46Z")
**gotti** I understand what you’re saying now. I thought you were a DIY-er, and then you posted the pics on the hardwood floor (not something I wanted to handle myself - didn’t have the tools, and the price seemed right at the time). Mandy the Martian is gushing about how great _American Idol_ was last night. I told her it was proven that you lose IQ points every time you watch it, and can never get them back. I don’t care if she still watches it, I just hope she shuts up about it when I’m around. ---
**Author:** ![Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spatial_Rift_47)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-bright-early-front-center/340207/180 "2006-01-18T17:13:49Z")
Ouch, **Taters**. That’s harsh. Good luck with that. **Drae** , if you were still doing shows, I’d totally go see them. 🙂 And now, I’m off to lunch. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-bright-early-front-center/340207.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-bright-early-front-center/340207.md?page=10)