# (Old) Be-Laboring A Point- An End Of Summer MMP
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-be-laboring-a-point-an-end-of-summer-mmp/989574
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Tags:** mmp
**Created:** [September 4, 2023, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-be-laboring-a-point-an-end-of-summer-mmp/989574 "2023-09-04T04:03:02Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2023, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-be-laboring-a-point-an-end-of-summer-mmp/989574/181 "2023-09-07T21:16:05Z")
> [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#):
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> **Cookie** , I’ve been thinking about a Viking River Cruise for some time, but it is pretty pricey…maybe 2024 or 25 will be the year.
That was daunting in the past, but we have the means and certainly have the time. The only hangup is someone to stay with the cat.
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### Author:  [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2023, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-be-laboring-a-point-an-end-of-summer-mmp/989574/182 "2023-09-07T21:18:02Z")
Howdy Y’all! Mowage got accomplished this mornin’ and we had a nice rain this afternoon, so yay for all that. The rest of the day has been devoted to high sloth and general overall uselessness. Bein’ productive wears me out! Thus nappage was accomplished along with day drinkin’. Had a sammich and some chips a little while ago. I might soon need to think about second sup as I am feelin’ a bit peckish. I like the word peckish. It looks dirty but is not.
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### Author:  [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2023, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-be-laboring-a-point-an-end-of-summer-mmp/989574/183 "2023-09-07T21:43:09Z")
> [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#):
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> sweated 25 minutes in the sauna, so had to toss the t-shirt in the dryer,
I thought one was nekkid in the sauna?!?
> [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#):
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> **FCM** , hope phone is there when you get home.
It was delivered while I was still home and I ran to the mailbox as soon as I got the text. **FCD** just finished setting it up - he made it way more difficult than it needs to be. Now I just have to help BIL get his set up tomorrow. rah.
**FCD** didn’t want to eat supper so I made myself a tuna steak with green beans and onion. Now I’m ready for chillage.
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### Author:  [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2023, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-be-laboring-a-point-an-end-of-summer-mmp/989574/184 "2023-09-07T23:01:46Z")
**sari** , if you’re having trouble sitting up, you definitely need someone around. Your son’s sleep, while important, can be interrupted. I worry about you while he’s at irk.
**nellie** , having to deal with communications issues with medical providers sucks. Is your PT through the hospital or independent? In any case, I would let your medical provider (if they ever answer their !@#$ing phone) know that this particular PT outfit doesn’t deliver.
I messed around with scraps in the studio today, ordered some new dies that will be of interest to **JtC** and **shoe** that combine papercraft and thread work, did a second round at the dog park (had to put on pants again! 😛 ) and topped it off with a [stoner supper](https://cookout.com/menu/) (my choice was the cheddar burger, a chicken quesadilla and a chicken wrap that I’m saving for later). It’s been a fun day of sloth!
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### Author:  [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2023, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-be-laboring-a-point-an-end-of-summer-mmp/989574/185 "2023-09-07T23:51:51Z")
> [@dogbutler](#):
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> So Midnight was running late
For a second, I thought you got another pet.
> [@dogbutler](#):
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> I had a nice hot bowl of soup
Not gonna lie, last thing I want after getting _Exxon Valdez_ level of hot ‘n’ icky is a nice, hot bowl of soup.
And I say this a hyuuge aficionado of soup. Like, I’ve driven two hours round trip w no D.L. and bad plates, repeatedly, for good Vietnamese pho.
> [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#):
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> **Sari** , I’d listen to **nellie’s** advice.
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> **nellie** , I’d listen to **shoe’s** advice.
If **Sari** gave me advice, we could make a nice lil’ circle!
> [@missred](#):
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> ordered some new dies that will be of interest to **JtC** and **shoe** that combine papercraft and thread work
… oooohhhh?!?
How _does_ one combine the two?
> [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#):
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> Enjoy the short work day.
No shit. I was there barely four hours. Considering “Long Night” is ten hours, I feel like … did I even work today at all?
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### Author:  [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2023, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-be-laboring-a-point-an-end-of-summer-mmp/989574/186 "2023-09-08T01:31:18Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#):
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> > [@missred](#):
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> > ordered some new dies that will be of interest to **JtC** and **shoe** that combine papercraft and thread work
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> … oooohhhh?!?
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> How _does_ one combine the two?
Basically, portions of the dies have piercings to do embroidery or cross stitch on. [This](https://img.kwcdn.com/product/Fancyalgo/VirtualModelMatting/19053be4bc7182abea7ba43f5d7c919f.jpg?imageView2/2/w/800/q/70/format/webp) is one of them. I’ll have to use 120# cardstock with them, but I think they’ll be fun.
Wrapped up this evening’s studio play and am relaxing with a little reddish dog in my arms. See y’all tomorrow!
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### Author:  [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2023, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-be-laboring-a-point-an-end-of-summer-mmp/989574/187 "2023-09-08T01:36:03Z")
I managed to forget my phone at the office when I left. At least I can be confident that it is safe, it’s just a nuisance to not have it. Google’s Find My Device is very useful.
Working for a public housing agency has its pluses and minuses. Big minus today was calling people who haven’t paid their rent yet and the rather entitled “that deadline is an easily ignorable suggestion” or the “I shouldn’t have to pay a cent toward the roof over my head” attitudes get tiresome.
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### Author:  [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2023, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-be-laboring-a-point-an-end-of-summer-mmp/989574/188 "2023-09-08T01:54:05Z")
> [@Seanette](#):
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> I managed to forget my phone at the office when I left. At least I can be confident that it is safe, it’s just a nuisance to not have it.
It’s really amazing how out of touch I feel if my computer isn’t working. This didn’t happen before the time we had them.
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### Author:  [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2023, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-be-laboring-a-point-an-end-of-summer-mmp/989574/189 "2023-09-08T02:00:48Z")
I’m not thrilled by having to deal with radio DJs to have music on the way home (didn’t have any CDs handy).
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### Author:  [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2023, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-be-laboring-a-point-an-end-of-summer-mmp/989574/190 "2023-09-08T02:04:49Z")
If you did have CD’s just don’t plug them in while driving.
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### Author:  [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2023, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-be-laboring-a-point-an-end-of-summer-mmp/989574/191 "2023-09-08T02:15:20Z")
I’d pull over for that kind of maneuver, don’t worry. When I start a trip, the goal is to get there without myself or anyone else being injured because of me, and ideally by the time I need to be there.
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### Author:  [@JaneDoe42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JaneDoe42)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2023, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-be-laboring-a-point-an-end-of-summer-mmp/989574/192 "2023-09-08T02:41:32Z")
> [@Sahirrnee](#):
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> I had trouble sitting up again, and I didn’t want to call for my son to help me because he has to irk tonight and I don’t want to interrupt his sleep.
I agree with everyone else, this is not sustainable. If you can’t depend on SarSon to help you, you really do need to find someone to come and help until you recover. When FIL was in his end days, we were able to get a home health aide to come in a couple of times a day to give FIL the care we couldn’t. It wasn’t horrible pricey and we were able to specify a male nurse because FIL didn’t want a woman seeing him naked.
> [@Sahirrnee](#):
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> I do think my body is saying ‘enough, I need some rest’.
We’ve been telling you this for a while, please listen to us.
> [@purplehorseshoe](#):
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> Your cat’s a bigger pothead than you are - you know that, right?
Are you saying I need to cut down on his nip?
I’ve had smart cats in the past and Imma thinking that the not so smart ones are much easier 🙂
> [@purplehorseshoe](#):
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> I don’t care outside of nosy scintillating gossip, but … okay, yeah, I’m _dying_ to know what happened.
I’d guess that them being forced to pay back stolen tips was just the tip of the iceberg. If you are lucky, the GM might end up behind bars for a while cause embezzling is still a crime.
> [@missred](#):
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> ordered some new dies that will be of interest to **JtC** and **shoe** that combine papercraft and thread work,
Ohhhhhh, those look addicting!
> [@Seanette](#):
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> Working for a public housing agency has its pluses and minuses.
I’ll bet it’s like being a food stamp worker. Many people are really grateful for the help, but the entitled ones sometimes make you wish you could slap people through the phone.
So, I had promised NF that I would take some eggs and surplus produce to her place while she was gone but suddenly my upbringing slapped me on the back of the head and I got really uncomfortable with the idea of visiting a friend’s husband while she wasn’t home so I asked hubs to come with me.
NF’s husband is a delightful person and I enjoy his company, but what would the neighbors say about a younger woman visiting while his wife was gone? Appearances matter!
Yes, super silly I know, but strange things stick.
So I went to my private TC class and then hubs and I went to the egg lady’s place and picked up a dozen freshly laid eggs and delivered eggs, produce and fudge to NF’s hub. While Hubs and NF Hubs were talking car stuff, I picked up a big bag of deadfall peaches while the crows said many bad words at me. NF Hubs had the picker on a pole thing out for us, but I disappointed him by only picking a bag of the low hanging ripe stuff.
After I got home, I took the deadfall peaches to another chicken owner along with some nice eating peaches. He insisted I take a dozen eggs without giving him money because I gave him food for his girls. He did this last time I got eggs from him which kinda bothers me because it is pretty obvious that he could use the money. I’m going to make Hubs start getting eggs from him in the winter because guys talk differently to each other than they do to women.
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### Author:  [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2023, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-be-laboring-a-point-an-end-of-summer-mmp/989574/193 "2023-09-08T03:17:42Z")
I’m really sorry I sounded preachy there. It’s just that’s how my father was killed. A guy looked down to plug in a CD and his truck hit my dad on his motorcycle.
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### Author:  [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2023, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-be-laboring-a-point-an-end-of-summer-mmp/989574/194 "2023-09-08T03:24:08Z")
I wasn’t at all offended. You were absolutely correct, and I’m sorry if I sounded at all displeased with you. My intent was to reassure you that I would be following your quite good advice.
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### Author:  [@nelliebly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nelliebly)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2023, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-be-laboring-a-point-an-end-of-summer-mmp/989574/195 "2023-09-08T04:55:26Z")
I think I’m going to have to go to the ortho clinic tomorrow. There’s a patch of red at the bottom of the incision that’s been growing all day and is now pretty big. I didn’t say anything when I called them because I don’t have any oozing and don’t have a fever, and besides, it wan’t that large. It’s still itchy, and now there are little dots that look like goosebumps farther up. Hives, maybe. It’s probably nothing serious, but I guess it should be seen. If I can’t reach anyone, I’ll go to the walk-in clinic.
Trying to decide if I should wrap it again tonight. I’m thinking not. Also trying not to feel defeated.
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### Author:  [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2023, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-be-laboring-a-point-an-end-of-summer-mmp/989574/196 "2023-09-08T05:39:07Z")
That sounds serious. Let us know what happens.
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### Author:  [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2023, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-be-laboring-a-point-an-end-of-summer-mmp/989574/197 "2023-09-08T06:36:48Z")
Up, caffeinated, and sheveled. Off to heave. I need to buy a lime after work.
> [@JaneDoe42](#):
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> I’ve had smart cats in the past and Imma thinking that the not so smart ones are much easier
Yep.
> [@purplehorseshoe](#):
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> For a second, I thought you got another pet.
At some point.
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### Author:  [@scareyfaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scareyfaerie)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2023, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-be-laboring-a-point-an-end-of-summer-mmp/989574/198 "2023-09-08T07:42:09Z")
Morning, mumpers! It’s a balmy 19c/66f with a predicted high of 28c/82f, and cloudy. Weather app is bored with constancy now, and asks “Do we talk about the fucking weather because we have nothing else in fucking common?” Well, yes, perhaps.
**nellie** let us know how you get on with the clinic, hope they can reassure you that your knee is in good shape! Also, Famous Potatoes are from Essex so they’re definitely ours rather than yours 🙂
**Sari** did you have a better night? I agree with the advice that you should have someone around, and SarSon needs to be more aware of your health issues and the potential problems it carries.
**Moooom** glad to hear the phone was where it was expected to be.
**Seanette** it’s ridiculous how cut off we feel without a phone now, I remember getting my first cell phone and wondering why I really needed one. Now we can’t seem to function without one!
I’m at irk, it’s hot, windows are open and fans are blowing but it’s still stuffy in here. Fortunately I get to finish early today as I’m off to an event in Wigan tonight so I need to get home, get changed, sort cats out and be on a train by 6.30pm! Fun times!!
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### Author:  [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2023, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-be-laboring-a-point-an-end-of-summer-mmp/989574/199 "2023-09-08T10:01:19Z")
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. _YAWN_ ‘Tis 67 Amurrkin out and clear with a predicted high of 91 and mostly N.O.S. for the day. I shall take care of various duties over to the church house this mornin’. OYKW shall accompany me and then we will be bears who brunch at Newk’s. Beyond that high sloth and general uselessness shall rule the day. The search committee has a zoom meetin’ with the Canon of Weaponry at six p.m. I like the fact that I can do that from da cave.
Now I need more caffeine and to feed rumbly tummy. Then, alas and alack, I suppose I must needs purtify and don attire appropriate for bein’ amongst the great unwashed. How I suffer for the public!
Happy Firday Y’all!
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### Author:  [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2023, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-be-laboring-a-point-an-end-of-summer-mmp/989574/200 "2023-09-08T11:05:53Z")
> [@JaneDoe42](#):
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> what would the neighbors say about a younger woman visiting while his wife was gone?
OMG - that’s the mindset in these trashy Regency romance novels I’ve been reading. Single ladies must have chaperones when they’re with non-family men, because they might be _\< gasp \>_ compromised!!!
When I was in college, I was friends with a couple - he was a classmate and they were more or less newlyweds. The wife hurt her leg badly in a karate class and was hospitalized for several days. My friend hated going home to an empty apartment, so he’d come to my place to study, but we’d end up sitting around solving all the world’s problems. At least we did until he said people were starting to talk.
As he put it “If there were 100 men left in the world, I’d be the 101st to cheat on my wife.” And anyone who knew him knew this to be truth. But gossips will gossip… And further, while he was a good friend, there’s no way on God’s green earth I’d date him, much less get nekkid in a pile!! 😮
> [@scareyfaerie](#):
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> it’s ridiculous how cut off we feel without a phone now,
I got my first little Nokia reluctantly because **FCD** insisted I should have it for emergencies. It mostly lived in my car since I wasn’t allowed to take it into work (classified facility.) Then I stuck with cheapie flip phones for a while, tho I never had an emergency. Then I caved and got a smart phone, and while I’m not one of those people who are always bent over it, I take lots of pics of the grands, and I do like that if we’re out to eat and something weird comes up in conversation, I can pull out The Google. And I figured out that texting really is a great way to communicate non-urgent matters. And if I happen to leave home sans phone, I worry what I’ll do if I have an accident… 🤣
**FCD** finally got his phone set up to his satisfaction, and he did a factory reset on the old one before passing it on to his brother. We’ll go over there today to install the new SIM card and get BIL’s account set up. Then **FCD** will show his brother how the smart phone works, as he transitions from his old flip phone. This is the brother with mental/emotional issues, so it’ll be trying for my sweetie, but BIL does OK with basic technology, so here’s hoping.
Last night, we were in severe T-storm warning (or watch - I don’t recall which) and the sky got weird for a bit. There was a yellowish glow to the light and the sky had gray and dark blue areas, plus we heard lots of rumbles. Then, nothing… Dammit. We need rain badly. On the plus side, I’d forgotten to put the plastic cover over the firewood, so there’s that. I will cover it today, since we might get rain tonight. Maybe.
And so the day begins. Happy Firday!!
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