# (Old) Be-Laboring A Point- An End Of Summer MMP **URL:** \ **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:** 1\ **Showing post:** 312
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> [@LSLGuy](#): > > The end of an era. The start of a new chapter. Welcome to retirement, it is wonderful. > [@Sahirrnee](#): > > I fell asleep halfway through this post and will be putting the last load in the washer before I go to bed. “Oh, no thank you Barky Mom, it’s just fine. I can do it, no problem.” Oh, yeah, you are so lucky you aren’t a rl friend of mine, I’d be throwing a full on toddler tantrum at this point. (Well, except for the throwing myself on the floor part, I don’t bounce nearly as well as I used to.) > [@Sahirrnee](#): > > This is how Rayleigh sleeps. > [@dogbutler](#): > > Gordie used to sleep like that Silly pups! > [@teelabrown](#): > > Today we’ll rake up a buttload of moldy old bark chips from a planter bed in the front yard, and replace them with new chips. Do you get a lot of wind? If so, do the chips blow around? I’ve been thinking about having a load spread in our front yard but we have big winds. > [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > Sore this morning since I forgot my cap during soccer yesterday, Oh, I grumble at hubs when he does that, skin cancer is a thing! > [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > We sat outside watching the stars come out, and sharing a smoke while **Monkey** rambled nearby … t’was nice. That sounds very nice and I’m glad you managed to get a “me” day in. You deserve it. > [@Baker](#): > > I really like our interim pastor. Go you and church! You should be very proud. I think I’m a little in love with your interim pastor. In a totally platonic way of course! So, disaster almost struck today. Last year, I made reservations in Waco for next April as well reservations for the half way points in the drive because I’m going to drive different routes. Today I got an email that the hotel had been sold to new owners who had totally upgraded the entire property. As a result, they were still willing to honor my reservations at a new, much higher rate. Bastids. Of course I wasn’t going to pay them more money and not know if they were going to jack the rates up even more when I got there, so I cancelled and then had to fight with them because their new rules were no refunds. Happily I keep conformation emails in a trip folder so we went back and forth over that until they realized that if they don’t refund my money, I’d do a charge back which would cost them more so they said they did a charge back. We will be watching for it and if it doesn’t show up in three days we will be contacting our credit union. There were no more rooms anywhere in Waco so I bit the bullet and made reservations in Dallas. (Pray for me) The limited available rooms in downtown started at five and a half a night, but I was able to find a room at the Embassy Suites in Dallas Park that I can somewhat afford. ( **shoe** , please tell me if I’m in a horrible area, I can still cancel, but I would need to act fast because things are selling out.) It is a suite which means I will have a spare pull out couch in the sitting room if anyone suddenly realizes that they really want to see the eclipse and everything is sold out. I would be uncomfortable offering this to a stranger, but while Mumpers are a strange bunch, for the most part, you are mostly harmless. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-be-laboring-a-point-an-end-of-summer-mmp/989574)._