MMP- Out of control

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Yeah, I was wondering why you offered up a clean-shaven guy as the “scruffy” example.

I can’t really describe scruffy, but know it when I see it. I saw some earlier - a bike messenger went past, and between the somewhat untrimmed reddish beard and black Carhartts, I was all “Mmmmm! Lunch!”

Deadly slow week here at work. I’ve finished off tomorrow’s work now, so I have no idea what I’ll do tomorrow. Probably Friday’s work, which will leave nothing to do on Friday. Is that making any sense? I’ve got a headache the size of Cleveland so it’s not making sense to me.

I’d been hemming and hawing over what sort of saw to buy for my floor project as every major home improvement project requires at least one new tool purchase. It’s written right here in the Guy Rules. <scribble, scribble> See, it’s right there!

For my new floor, the new tool is a “compound slide miter” saw. Locally, it’d cost me something like $580 plus $50 or so in tax, but through Amazon, it’s $420, no tax, and comes with rebates in the form of about $240 woth of free cordless drills. Kinda odd, and I’d much prefer $240 in money off the price, but one’s free at time of purchase from A, and the other is a mail-in dealie from the manufacturer. I don’t need these, so I plan on tossing them to the whims of eBay and get whatever I can for them.

The real fun is the shipping - they offered up three months of their “Prime” service as a free trial, so for four bucks, I’m having the saw shipped by overnight UPS. You can’t even ship a saw blade for that price normally, and this saw weighs in at about 65 pounds.

Looks like the overnight UPS costs about $120 - somebody’s losing $116 somewhere on this. UPS isn’t going out of business any time soon, and neither is Amazon. I guess that $120 is the “chump” rate - just like “rack rate” is at a hotel.

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My first scruffy guy was Anil Kapoor.
Then the second was Kevin Kline.
Both men who have shadows and mustaches, but still fairly well-groomed. that’s about all the scruffy I can take.
My first neat look was supposed to be Ralph Fiennes, and the other Pierce Brosnan as Bond.

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Hey, I haven’t seen cb this week! Where is he?

(I’ve had sporadic internet access, so things have been a bit weird.)

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A bit weird is pretty normal actually. Come back and tell us about your Christmas loot and stuff donkeybear.

Dinner was wunnerful last night. I got ooohs and ahhhs over my jambalaya and ACBG got ooohs and ahhhs over his cheesecake. Everybody got waaay full tummies to boot.

Now I move on to the next one. Friday night is a friends get together at the swampcave. We’ll be serving salad, grilled chicken, company smashed taters (but N.O.T.) and cheesecake. Should be yum. Then Saturday night I start preparing for the big New Year’s dinner which, incidentally, is also ACBG’s bday bash cause his birfday is January 2nd. We’re both off on the second and what he wants to do is lay around like a big 'ol slug all day which sounds good to me too. I’ll prolly talk him into going out to lunch, so as I can spoil him some. Maybe I’ll even make him waffles and bacon for breakfast. Those are his fav-o-rite things to eat for breakfast and I happen to make real good waffles. We’ve already both agreed on no gifts and such on each other’s bday, Christmas, etc. because we can use the money to go somewhere’s later which we both like better anyways. There is talk of a cruise next fall.

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You can tell that a holiday has happened when the MMP is only 2 pages long on Thursday. Its still short enough that I was able to read from the OP to chaoticbear’s post during my few free minutes. I’m sure the MMP will get back to its usual length next year.

Beautiful dress, Lissla.

Rifty, those are some weighty book titles. I read some unusual things now and then, but I don’t think I’ve ever picked up any of those just to pass the time. Of course, now that I have the titles to go by, I may pick up one of them eventually just to broaden my mind a bit.

Remotes in our household:
TV - 6 (2 used regularly, 3 of which I know what tv they control)
Tivo - 2 (1 used daily)
VCR - 4 (1 used regularly)
DVD - 3 (2 used regularly)
Stereo - 2 (1 used regularly)
Computer Sound Card - 3 (never used, but cool to think my computers have remotes)
Lights/Ceiling Fans - 2 (both used daily)
Robotic Toy - 1 (used rarely and mostly to scare the cats)
Chair Massager - 1 (used rarely as I sit in my desk chair more than the one with the massager)
Car remotes - 4 (2 used regularly, the other 2 are spares for both cars)
Car Stereo - 1 (use never. what is the point in a remote to something I have to be in the car to use anyway?)

Total remotes - 29

Total remotes actually used regularly - 11

In case I don’t get back in here before the end of the week, I hope everyone has a safe and Happy New Year. I’ll be hosting my annual New Years Eve party on Saturday and trying to recover on Sunday. I’m thinking Knock You Naked Margaritas are just the thing to toast in the new year with. :smiley:

-Belz (wondering if I can get a remote controlled margarita maker)

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My goodness! I can’t, for the life of me, stop worrying that we are gonna turn into whimpy rubbery weiners with big giant thumbs what with all the remotes we have for everything!

I have no plans for New Years. I will probably go to bed early and then wake up when the dogs start barking because all the fireworks make the neighborhood sound like urban guerilla warfare.

I DO have tomorrow and Monday off though so that’s jake.

donkeybear, yes, come back and tell us what’s been happening.

gotti, clean shaven guys cross over into “slightly scruffy” when they have a tad of five o’clock shadow, or slightly long hair, or just a little look that says “I don’t care all THAT much how I look.” See what I mean?

Tupug

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I’m with you on that. I was thinking about this the other day and came to the conclusion that with the exception of 1996 (which was one week after my 21st birthday) all my New Yearses have been decidedly disappointing. I never do anything special on New Years’ that I couldn’t do any regular Saturday night, so why bother when everywhere is crowded and the roads are full of drunk idiots?

I came up with a brilliant plan to go to Maine and surprise all my friends, and then was informed that the family gathering had been moved from the 26th to the 30th, and my parents would be in the area for the weekend, as well as my brother and his family, who I haven’t seen in eight months. So I have decided to spend the weekend packing and cleaning and taking long breaks on the couch. I think I prefer it my way.

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Hmph. All this rhubarb over clean/scruffy. It’s quite simple really - I like my women quite clean shaven, thank you. :smiley:

Still feeling decidedly unmotivated. Bah. I’ll get going eventually.

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For the first time in years I’m not hosting a New Year’s Eve event. I’m going to a friend’s house for New Year’s Eve. She lives clear on the other side of town, actually another town, so we’ll be staying the night there. She is going to make a Spanish breakfast on New Year’s Day.

It should be fun. There is talk of serving Blow Jobs at the party. Climb up from the gutter folks, those are drinks. I don’t know if I’ll be drinking any of those though.

Well, I better do some work. I don’t wanna be here. It’s dead quiet.

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That reminds me, I have to run down to North Carolina and pick up some noisemakers for this weekend. We’ve got a huge backyard, and it would be a shame to let it go to waste.

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Hmm, rubbery weiners…

What?

I like my men scruffy. Longish hair, 3 day beard, old t-shirt and jeans. Oh, baby!

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BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

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Where? My kid is coming in today, and is supposed to go to Nag’s Head tomorrow with some buds to go 4-wheeling. I might send some bucks with him to get us a stash of our own…

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We can buy those sparkler type fireworks in Jawja now. I like walkin’ by the big displays during occasions for fireworks. They promise all this stuff that will make a big bang but all they do is make a noise that sounds like a match being struck then this sound like fwup before they fizzle out.

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But with all that, they must be showered–and the t-shirt and jeans can’t be dirty (I mean grimey notbeenwashedindays dirty). I mean, I have some standards…

Rifty likes his women clean shaven?

Let’s me right out, then.

D & R’s

I hafta work both NY eve and NY day.
Yes, I plan on whining about it until it’s over.
What’s that? I’ve been suspended from the Dope until '06?
Now, that’s odd…

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Ya know guys, it doesn’t matter a whit what they say they want, what they do go for when push comes to shove won’t make a lick of sense.

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Smoke and mirrors, sweetheart, smoke and mirrors.

What guy can resist a challenge?

:wink:

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Hi Everybody! Here’s a few random comments on this here thread:

We have 6 remotes in the house, which is evidently an embarrassingly small number. I’d better go buy some more toys. Or at least remotes.

I was the kid who acted as the remote for the tv. We lived way out in the boonies, so we had the direction-changer for the roof antenna too. For some reason, my father refused to label it, so we had to remember that NNW was for CBS, East was for NBC, and so on. I guess that was to build character or something. I remember when FOX started broadcasting, and we suddenly got 5 channels!! Whooooooo hoooooo!!

Christmas was good. I got lots of stuff, and the wife and I have officially had our first married Christmas. (awwwww) I bought her a fancy new camera, which she loves. We took about 30,000 pictures of the cats with it.

Nice job on the dress, Lissla. My wife used to work in a wedding dress shop, so I’ve heard all about how hard those things are to make. She didn’t make her own for the wedding, but she did basically rebuild her mother’s dress (which was a big pain, but came out looking fantastic.)

Hope everybody is having a safe and happy Holiday.

Hi Rue! Hi Rue!

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If he’s going to Nags Head, he’ll see stands and small stores selling them for the first couple of miles after crossing the border. At least, that’s the way it was lasst year when I went down to Kitty Hawk to see some friends play at Kelley’s. I plan on heading down Saturday. Less than an hour round trip from out in Deep Creek (Chesapeake’s Hooterville. The Hickory area is Bugtussle.)

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Somebody please help me!
Roundboy and Mandy the Martian are discussing the Nick and Jessica break-up in the cubicle right next to me.
I swear that tomorrow I’m bringing my brand new chain saw to work.