(Old) Be-Labor-ing a Point. An End of (Meteorological) Summer MMP

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Morning, mumpers! It’s currently 13c/56f with a predicted high of 18c/64f, and rain showers. Weather app says “Rain is basically fucking tiny wet douchebags that fall from the fucking sky.” I can’t argue with that - we had a proper toad-soaker last night but it was good to see some decent rainfall, even if we didn’t get the promised thunderstorms.

They look fabulous! You are another of the very talented crafty mumpers.

Welcome to the MMP! I’m another one who prefers cooler temperatures. Luckily I’m across the Great Divide so we don’t get that much really hot weather.

metalmouse glad to hear you’re feeling better!

Cupcakes I hope whatever has been troubling you gets sorted soon. Feel free to come and vent!

Last night I ventured out in the rain to haul the biiiiiig recycling bin out for today’s collection. That happened, and the bin is now back in its rightful place by the other biiiiiiig rubbish bin. But, I have a new bin conundrum for you! The council has a new recycling plan for small electrical stuff and that includes used batteries.

The instruction is that used batteries should be in a clear plastic sandwich-type bag, tied off at the top, and placed on top of the recycling bin. This is because the bagged batteries go into a small hopper on the side of the dustcart rather than going in with the rest of the recyclables. Fair enough, I’ve disposed of batteries that way once before. So I put the biiiiiiig bin out and put the bag of batteries on top. That was about 10pm yesterday.

This morning, I logged into work and had a look out to see if the bins had been emptied. They hadn’t, but my bag of batteries was no longer on top. I grumbled, put my trainers on and plodded out to have a look. It wasn’t windy last night so no chance the bag had been blown onto the ground. I looked around the bin, nothing to be seen. I opened the bin in case some well-meaning person had walked past and put the bag inside the bin. Don’t want that happening because that would mean my bin wouldn’t get emptied…but no, there was no bag of batteries inside.

Someone has been past, and snaffled a bag of used batteries then? Why would you do that? In other news, the binmen looked in all the bins, couldn’t find anything untoward, and emptied them all.

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You’re lucky cause our guys dont even get out of the trucks anymore … some cameras record what dumps out of each bin so if you dump anything too bad you get a letter or two… or the new thing is if the cans too heavy … the claw lift won’t pick it up

but this is the AV and until the late 80s people still burned their trash in a pile somewhere so they don’t say too much unless its dangerous

sorry I cant get the post to work ts just these stakes you put I the yard that has stuff to kill ants …

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The former owners of this house had 13 (!!!) large plastic garbage cans, but they burned assorted refuse in the woods in back. We found food cans, light bulb bases, and even the remains of a window shade in one burn pile. Never did figure out why so many garbage cans. We kept 6, including the one on wheels, gave a couple to my mom, and took the rest to the dump (they were in pretty bad shape.) We’re still using the 6 (3 in the garage, one in the basement, 2 in the shop) but we’ve never burned. Yet another mystery about the odd couple who built this house.

Gloriously cool morning with a cool week in store. Dare I hope that a/c weather is done? I think I’ll be tearing out the last of my veggie plants today. Not sure what else will get done.

Daughter said the grands crashed hard last night - they had quite the weekend, but back to routine today. Ziva is glad the slobbery black Lab is gone, as am I. Trevor is too much dog at this stage of my life. So glad the house is calm again.

Happy Tuesday!

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Love reading all of your posts.

@purplehorseshoe I chuckled at your discarded smoke alarm relentlessly entertaining the neighborhood with its beeping.

@swampbear I am enjoying your meteorological standard of announcing the temperature in “Amurrkin” degrees.

I noticed a few military stories.

I am a US Navy vet with a year in Guantanamo Bay under my belt. I joined the Navy in 1981 after graduating college with a useless English degree from a private Catholic all female college. Many years later I collected an MSW from the University of Pittsburgh.

End of educational resume.

I am back to work today. I have one more year to put in at my agency. This can sometimes impact my ability to be online here lol.
But not always.

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Mornin’ all.

It’s 60F, dark and cloudy outside. By afternoon, it’ll be partly cloudy, and our expected temperature is 75 degrees F. Yesterday was deliciously cloudy and very comfortable. I had all the windows open.

We dragged our garbage and full recycle bin to the curb last night. The recycle bin is very full since my husband spaced on taking both it and the garbage down the week I was at my son’s place. While the trash is emptied weekly, the recycle and yard waste bins are emptied on alternate weeks. We can’t put glass in our recycle bins.

Yesterday, I completed nothing besides some bonus laundry and some tiny chores. What?
I was practicing being an RDOS. No, I just felt lazy. However, I will head to the vet around 8:00 a.m. today to pick up the pups’ meds. I may or may not stop at Home Depot for those bags of gravel. I won’t know until I open my work email this morning. The SD and the Deputy are gone this week, and I’m their designated POC if the higher-ups in New Orleans or D.C. need anything. I doubt they will, and I’ll have my work phone with me anyway.

I need some more coffee. I hope you all have a trouble-free day.

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Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN I was a slugabed until after seven a.m. Imagine! ‘Tis 75 Amurrkin out and partly N.O.S. with a predicted high of 86 (BRR!) and partly N.O.S. for the day. We shall shake things up a bit today. Instead of laundry today, we shall procure provisions at the Pubic Sto’ and then I shall make a run to Sam;s as we are in need of such things as tp (we have ONLY two twenty-four packs! :astonished:) paper towels and napkins. Also, since MetalMouse mentioned Jack’s, I now have a gnawin’ and a cravin’, so I shall pick us up a Jack’s N.O.L. on my way back to da cave from Sam’s The rest of the day shall be spent in sloth and other RDOS inactivities as I will need to recuperate from all the mornin’s activities.

Now I need more caffeine and to feed rumbly tummy. Then, bother of bothers, I suppose I must needs purtify and don attire acceptable for bein’ amongst the great unwashed. I take solace in the fact that tomorrow I will not have to do so.

Happy Tuesday Y’all!

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I enlisted in '73 and got out in '84 when I realized that I sucked as an officer - I just couldn’t play the political games. So I went to work for the Navy for the next 26 years, retired, then did a few short term gigs for contractors supporting the Navy till I finally retired for reals at the end of 2019. My spousal unit did a tour at Gitmo in '81-;82 time frame - OMG - might you know him?? Message me if you want to figure it out.

How strange… one would think it would be the easiest thing to recycle. At our convenience center, all recycling is dumped into a single compactor - I truly hope they do recycle it and don’t just haul it to the landfill…

For some reason, this morning MIL is obsessed with David Jeremiah - she keeps asking Alexa about him. No clue what triggered that. For those who don’t know, he’s an Evangelical author, as I just learned from Google.

I finally finished cleaning up after last night’s dinner. I removed the leaf from the table and tossed the tablecloth down the stairs to be washer. The dishwasher is emptied and I’ve started refilling it. FCD has headed to the boatyard to check on progress. I may wait for him to get home before attacking the veggie patch. I suppose I could be productive by sorting the mess on my desk. Maybe. Must cogitate on the matter.

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I do know who David Jeremiah is!
When I woke a bit ago, it was 48 degrees. Eek. And our building doesn’t turn the heat on til October.
Sweatpants are great.
Off to grocery store, library and who knows.
No rain in sight.
Hope you all are okay today.

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Good morning all. A nice morning (68F) now, but heading to the mid-80’s later today. Nothing much on the agenda, will try to get some gym time and coach soccer this afternoon, should do some house-irk but I can do a marvelous job of ignoring it, so we’ll see.

Ellecram, now we need to get you a Mumper Name (why? TRADITION!!!). Ellecram roughly translates to “Shestuff” which is a bit risque, so “Ellie” or “Gitmo” might be possible options. What do all the other MMP’ers think? (Don’t get stuck on mine, it’s a morning brain with no caffeine so not necessarily good options).

Shoe, I have become pretty good at sitting around, of course having a desk job for over 30 years helped train me, but even I need to get out now and then. And the beeping detector in the trash is hilarious (maybe not for you and your neighbors, though…).

Sari, have had posts disappear on me, mostly I just hit the wrong key and the wrong time and…gone, gone, gone. We’ll leave the light on for you.

JtC, never been on the Bowfin but have explored several WWII subs like it and I am impressed that you could find the space to be makin’ whoopee anywhere in there.

Related? :wink: :laughing:

boo fae, I guess someone figured that they could find some use for the used batteries, or try to sell them to someone as fresh. Tis’ a mystery.

Taters, may your day be undisturbed by bosses. And my recycle folks don’t take glass either…thought that was odd when the rules came out, but it’s their call.

And time to break fast, so all y’all have a good day.

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That’s so he doesn’t get everyone confused with my UK degrees :slight_smile:

As for a mumper name, yours read backwards is another name which is shared with a famous French pianist, who was part of Les Six. So… Six!

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The heat kicked on this morning! My thermostat is set for heat at 70 and a/c at 76. Obviously It cooled down a lot overnight, thank you Lord. A week ago today was the hottest day ever.

My plans for today are to buy Ursala Kitteh a new litter box, and get my car washed. Neither may happen since I feel a sick headache coming on.

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OK great! Six it is.

Yes my screen name is my real name spelled backwards. I did not know about the French pianist. New knowledge acquired.

I am going to Ireland in a couple weeks and I need to reacquaint myself with Celsius conversions.
Get the math molecules shuffling in my brain.

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Welcome, six!

We just came home from the vet. They gave Annie a cortisone shot and she’s already much less itchy.

When my mom is ready, the three of us hoomans will set out to find a suitable chair for me, possibly a lift chair, and some other furniture to match for them. Our current couch is sad and saggy and very difficult for me to ascend from.

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Glass is relatively heavy, and fragile, plus the shards can cause terrible injuries.

Comparatively, steel, aluminum etc. is a lot easier to deal with.

That’s pretty much three of the same thing, isn’t it?
Just different flavors of bleached, compressed tree pulp.

Add kleenex for the win!

Learned a new word today.

Next time I’m contemplating tacos for lunch deep in thought at work and someone asks, “What’s wrong?!” (I have a serious case of RBF) I shall reply, “I am cogitating!”

… they’ll probably think I’m crapping my pants.

Enjoy your journey into the great unknown!

Hold my beer.

Just kidding.

(Only cuz I don’t like beer.)

I’m good with Ellie, if we’re casting votes.

Usually seems to happen organically on its own, though.

She always strikes me as an efficient woman with a can-do attitude.

This would make a nifty pillow embroidery.

Bonus points for keeping it at the office, or in view of Zoom meetings.

I was told there would be no math.

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There is always math.

I am good as long as there is no linear algebra and differential equations and trigonometry and all sorts of advanced x3+y3+z3=k gibberish.

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Hey there shipmate! I’m a retired Seabee of 23 years. I was always proud of the fact that I avoided both Gitmo and Diego Garcia. Never meant to be a lifer; it just turned out that way, for better or worse (I think better).

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Tuesday was a Monday. I started on Irregs, which wasn’t bad. But then Deb and I got sent over the 300 slide to fix the usual disaster
FT Sup: “dogbutler, do you almost have this wrapped up?”
Me, as PT Sups bring waves of work Sorcerer’s Apprentice style: “Uh…maybe?”
But then it was running rescans back and forth through the building. I did my Aldi run after work, then came home. Juding by the noise outside, either they are trimming the bushes, or mosquito the sixe of Air Force One is flying outside.

68 ferret height = 20 centipedes

We have a compactor instead of bins, so I have to drag the trash down there, and defenstrate it into the Big Yellow Masher

Taters, hope you have a boss free day. Or at least the emails stay emails, and not turn into meetings.

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Yes GTMO and Diego Garcia were the worst duty stations to pull.
Glad you had lifelong success.

I eventually ended up in child welfare as my life’s work.

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Which is often the same job as being a Chief Petty Officer.

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Especially when the child is a brand new butterbar!

I was a mustang so that don’t count!