You can be honest, whiterabbit, it’s because of swampy, isn’t it? We try to get him to use his company manners, but he’s an incorrigible old fart. He’s mostly harmless. Weird, but harmless…
That’s never stopped anybody else before.
Naah. If I was put off by weird but harmless people, would I have been around the boards as long as I have?
In chat, it usually becomes “mnemo” (or sometimes “mnemos”), pronounced “n-eh-mo”. But “mosy” or M&M or whatever works too! The problem with just “mnem” is simply that at one time, there was another member named Mnementh, and the nickname got confusing if we were both in chat at the same time!
picunurse - I have a question about stained glass for you. In our apartment, there is a built-in buffet cabinet, and the doors have stained glass in them, rectangular panels, forming a cross with the colours. These doors were removed many years ago (judging by the number of bad paint layers) because one of the doors is damaged. The glass is fine, but the metal (?) holding it together is caved in along one of those seams. Also one of the crossbars is out of the wood.
We don’t own this apartment, but would love to get this window repaired and reinstall the doors (frankly, we’d love to strip them to bare wood and stain, but that amount of work is too much since we don’t own, so they’ll just get another coat of white). In your experience, would this be something difficult to repair, or costly?
Maybe a diagram could help? I could maybe get a pic online too…
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A is dented, maybe a 5-10 degree angle, and in some places the glass is totally off the metal stuff. The dent is basically from B to the top. B has the glass metal stuff, but behind it is also a crossbar, to hold it to the wood frame - I think that’s easy to fix. C has the crossing between-glass metal stuff cracked as well.
Oh bother, I don’t think that’s very helpful at all. One of these days, I’ll probably just haul it over to some shop and get a quote, but I figured your work was so beautiful, maybe you’d have some idea of what I could expect.
And since I went though all that trouble to try and draw that, I’m gonna post it anyways!
Thanks!
BTW - I slept today - about 4 hours, on and off. My cat cuddled next to me the whole time. It was sweet.
I like mosy, myself, and I apologize for not extending a welcome earlier. I could probably figure out a way to blame this on swampy, too, but I’ve had a long day, so let’s just call it a brain fart and be done with it. Welcome to the Clan of the Cool Kids!
Perhaps some explanation is in order. “Turkey” is a derisive word that some Faire folk use to describe patrons that are obviously there only because they found a two-for-one coupon in the newspaper, and they make no visible attempt to enjoy themselves and do little more than bitch about paying five bucks for a turkey leg and all the dust. If you had fun, you’re not a turkey. You just may have been oddly attired in your pants with superfluous pockets.
Oh, the origin of the term? “Where are the turkey legs?” is almost invariably the first thing they utter when they arrive.
Nope. No personal experience with it. Just desire, as my chiropractor only works Wednesday through Saturday now. My sciatica’s been fierce the past few days. Other desires I may have for it can’t be acted on as the thing’s out in the open. 
VWmom has posted a thread looking for a home for a tiny little black female kitten. I am in love! If I can figure out a way to get that kitten from wherever she is to here, the count in the cat suite is going up to 9. I am going to be in soooooooooo much trouble…
Something is wrong with my right ear. It hurts, and earaches rank right up there with toothaches in being pains that I just can’t bear. But this isn’t like a normal earache - it’s kind of under my ear - the area is swollen - and it hurts when I turn my head. Not having health insurance bites.
Ok, fellow Cool Kids, help me plot and plan and connive so I can get this kitten!
Hey now…I spend one day working too hard (and out of the office) and i come back to this? Rubber suits, brass bikins and kittens? All in one place?
Only in the MMP. 
Now, I relax. But sans beer. I need a day off from beer.
Later, if I get energetic, I’ll post some pictures I took in my bathroom this weekend.
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Explanation: The downstairs bathroom here, or what I am told is called the “powder room”, is the only room in the house I am allowed to decorate all by myself. Thusly, it has a moneky theme. Stuffed monkeys, monket statues, monkey towels, even a monkey liquid soap dispenser.
And me, blessed with neighbors who never, ever leave the poor monkeys posed the way they were when they entered the room.
Poor monkeys. I especially pity the poor guy with the plastic part of the soap dispenser, um…behind him.
I need a monkey spell-check…
So, what you’re telling us, MBG, is that you wash your hands with monkey poo.
Just checking.
[sub]Yes, Mental Hospital? I have a winner for you right here …[/sub]
Wish I could help you - a coworker had an adorable kitty she was trying to place, and I brought home pictures and pointed out to **FCD ** that Miss Brandy needs a friend, but he didn’t seem to agree. Poor kitty… <sigh>
Hope you have better luck!
Nice posts about the Renn Faires! Also great to see pics of some of the MMP denizens. 
As to my code problem (if some kindly mod could fix that, I’d be most appreciative, btw), I plead distraction…yeah, that’s right, distraction. I was trying very hard to ensure that I spelled Mnemosyne’s name correctly. (Ye gods… I hope I haven’t done it again!) So I vote for M&M as a nick.
Birthday is actually 54, but I’m officially sticking with 39 … that’s my story. Along with Jack Benny, apparently.
Goodness, you guys were naughty, naughty, naughty today! Thanks for the giggles.
Even though I went home at my appointed time, the work day seemed very long. The new boss finally got to have a sit-down with me and see what I do for a living. Unfortunately, my job, goals, etc are a moving target, so although I have some daily things I do, others have gone by they wayside as we’ve come up with better products or worked with other sections for reporting tools. When one tool or report goes away, I create another one and run it by the the powers that be. Unfortunately, since we were in a state of flux for awhile, I wasn’t able to create some new products that I’ve had in mind. I was hoping that once I’d cleared the previous projects he’d given me, I could get started on these and run them by him. Looks like it won’t happen for a bit of time, now. I fear he thinks I don’t have nearly enough to do. I do have plenty to do. I’ve been given some new projects based on our conversation today. Sigh…
One of them involves building a database for another section within my division. It’s not really my job to do this. My job is to PULL data, analyize it, and come up with solutions or explanations for issues we might be having. I don’t think he’s really read my position description. However, if he wants to pay me to build databases and dummy proof them, so be it. I’m not going to whine, unless it starts interfering with the other stuff I do. Even then, I won’t whine, but I’ll certainly point out what it is I’m REALLY supposed to be doing in a forthright, matter of fact manner.
I’m going to have to start dinner. I’m not really hungry, but I’m sure the rest of the family is. Frankly, I don’t really have the energy to cook, but I’ll have to come up with something.
Hi ever’body! I’m in class this week so I can’t check in all the time. 
I haven’t even caught up with what everyone’s said. Hope your weekends were good!
Anyway, here are the pix from the State Fair a couple weeks ago.
And here’s a new joke from KeithT:
What do you call two street bums gettin’ it on?
A couple of hobosexuals.
ALERT!
Non-child safe pictures to follow…and several that I thought I took, I guess I didn’t. Anyway, here’s a sampling of my neighbors and their [del]perversion [/del] humor:
It started innocently enough . That would be Curious George playing the bottom. For some reason, George got the worst of it all weekend. Probably not all so curious anymore, I think.
Later, George made something of a comeback? , but Mr See No Evil was, um…seeing no evil.
Later, Mr’s Speak and Hear No Evil gave the thinking monkey something to ponder.
Believe it or not, the Kid is the one that came up with the idea of leaving a disposable camera and photo album in the room, to memorialize the various monkey perversions. Sometimes I shed a tear at how proud she’s made me… :eek:
absolutely - and you look an awful lot like my SIL
By the way, Mosy and whiterabbit – folks, what will we nickname her? – since no one else has mentioned it, the price of admission to the MMP is a gift of chocolate to FCM. Just ship it through the disk drive.
Hi, everyone! I spent a couple hours on the phone talking to the guy I’m going out with. We discussed the break-up of his marriage and how some of the Mom-type ladies at his workplace call him “Weasley.”
Tired tired tired.
Neat pottery stories and pics. I really like the idea of having a demo in your booth, FCM. I’m sure it made it much more interesting for everyone.
Welcome mosy and snowy bunny (trying out a nickname, there; not sure if I like it though)!
I am, of course [sub]not[/sub] appalled at any juvenility that has occurred today.
Spats, you should definitely ask about notes. Chances are, someone in the older group got notes from previous grad students as well. We shared notes all over the place in grad school. Sometimes it’s helpful to see someone else’s take on a subject. Also, some people are just better notetakers than others. Probably depends on how cohesive a department you have, though.
Read through this earlier, then went off to pic up some prints I had made for my mom, came back and started browsing through reunion pics that someone sent me a link to; made my own album with labels while I was deciding what I wanted prints of.
Off to bed. Hi to everyone I missed.
GT
I AM A HAPPY MAN!!! I got my seat selection for my hockey season tickets. Look for me here. 
MBG, I had a monkey like that at my last job. I used to spank him on the sales floor.
Tara, comgrats on you 15th anniversay of your 39th birthday!