# (Old) Firin' up the grill in the MMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [May 29, 2023, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-firin-up-the-grill-in-the-mmp/984734 "2023-05-29T10:23:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 227
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2023, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-firin-up-the-grill-in-the-mmp/984734/227 "2023-06-03T12:57:55Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > Kidlets are gone. The quiet is just sooooooooo… The enthusiasm of massed pre-schoolers is one of the happiest noises on Earth. The silence afterwards is one of the _other_ happiest noises on Earth. It’s amazing how much energy it costs a gray hair just standing still amidst the chaos. What’s up with that? > [@Sahirrnee](#): > > House breaking has been achieved! > My son was so upset, but I told him to give them a few more days and it will be good. Those two sentences don’t seem to go together. But congrats on pupper housebreaking, whether still in-progress or complete. I bet all the hijinks are adorable. I expect neither of you are taking any pictures. Naah, who’d do something like take pictures of cute puppers? 🙂 > [@Sahirrnee](#): > > The flames were 3-4 feet high. I think he may be burning cardboard or something in it, there is a lot of smoke and it smells awful. Depending on where you live, that may be illegal. If it stinks, it may be hazardous waste. Not sure how much you want to involve officialdom, but in at least some jurisdictions they can be real bulldogs about driving problem neighbors out of town. > [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > **Pilot** , I will root for a calm hurricane season for you and other Florida Mumpers, but I suspect it may be a bad one. Hard to say. The present long range guestimates are pretty neutral. They readily admit that at this time of year their skill isn’t so great: [https://www.noaa.gov/news-release/2023-atlantic-hurricane-season-outlook](https://www.noaa.gov/news-release/2023-atlantic-hurricane-season-outlook) > [@JaneDoe42](#): > > As a retired person, I sure do like weather more than I did when I had to go out in it. Now I can sit around in my PJs, drinking coffee and watching the kids across the street try to get their cars out to the road so they can go to work while thinking “sucks to be them”. Tis wonderful. When I lived in snow country with frequent ice storms (~10-30 years ago) I just loved the days I was office-irking from home but nearly nobody else could. Or the weekdays I wasn’t flying and was just at home w a brandy, a wonderful woman, and a fireplace. “Neener neener!” was one of my favorite refrains. I may be polite in public, but I’m a jerk on the inside. 😉 > [@JaneDoe42](#): > > The pattern mistakes are really annoying. The designer is much better than this and when one pays a couple of hundred dollars for a pattern, expecting it to be right shouldn’t be unreasonable. I hope you’ve communicating back to the author. In private if not as feedback on their sales site. My late first wife was a big-time knitter and screwed-up patterns would really light her fire. She mostly worked from pro published books and her own raw knowledge, rarely from cottage industry homebrew patterns, but when she found problems she was not shy about sharing her findings with the author. In a helpful way, not a scornful one. Anyone who can home-brew up a complete multi-pattern cable-knit sweater by eye with nary a note is a force to be reckoned with. Gosh, I miss who she used to be. > [@JaneDoe42](#): > > Dad used to like potted meat, so when he came to visit, I would stock up with spam and canned samich meats that he liked. When I was a kid Mom frequently made us sandwiches using canned Underwood Deviled Ham. Which I’ve seen sitting on the store shelves for the intervening 50 years. Usually while buying the canned tuna I actually eat. Haven’t eaten any UDH since Mom stopped making my lunch for school. Earlier this year I noticed the stuff again, and it was on sale. So I bought 2 cans on a lark. Made up the can roughly as I’d recalled Mom doing, mayo, a bit of onion salt, etc. Just. Barely. Edible. It wasn’t tasty, it wasn’t nostalgic, it didn’t _feel_ nutritious; best I could tell it wasn’t really even food. There is very little food so awful I’ll throw it away. The second can of Underwood Deviled Ham went out unopened. Gosh knows how badly they’ve encheapened and enshittified the recipe over 50 years vs. my vague nostalgic memories. But the end result is not fit for man, nor probably for beast. Great story about Dad. Every celebration of life should have a bunch of laughter. > [@JaneDoe42](#): > > > [@Sahirrnee](#): > > > > My son and I are going to have to have a Looooong talk. > > I agree that something needs to happen. He is a grown up, he needs to be responsible for getting himself home after work. There are many options if he doesn’t want to drive, he can pay a co-worker to bring him home, he can pay for Uber or something like that or he can just wear a reflective vest and walk. Not much to add, except to 3rd (or is it 6th?) the motion. I don’t know the deep history of how this got this way, nor what limitations your son has from Fate, through no fault of you or he. Every aging parent of a less-than-highly-capable semi-dependent child gets to the place where the inviolate facts of chronology and human lifespan can no longer be denied. The sooner you start grasping this painful nettle the better the end state will be for him after you can no longer be his crutch, and instead he needs to be yours. Until the all too soon time a bit later when you’re beyond needing or helping. It’s an act of love for both of you to work on this joint journey _before_ it’s a crisis. After a crisis it’ll be too late and you both will suffer more than was necessary. This journey of many miles begins with a single step. You both must make the journey, like it or not, so IMO now is a good time to start stepping. Best of luck and {{hugs}} to you both. > [@dogbutler](#): > > Well, I plan on being immortal till I die. 😉 > [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > **doggio** , I always tell people I plan to live forever or die in the attempt. Agree w that sentiment. And **FCM** ’s suggestion about being immoral too. I don’t much mind the idea of dying as long as it’s not today. I’ll think the same tomorrow. 🙂 It’s the potential decrepitude that harshes my mellow. See also > [@At what point would YOU want to pull the plug on YOURSELF?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-what-point-would-you-want-to-pull-the-plug-on-yourself/984475): > > Inspired by [this thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moving-to-a-new-state-when-you-retire-great-or-selfish/984299/79). I will notify the mods to ensure this does not violate board restrictions against discussing suicide. To avoid that, I’ll ask that people discuss their opinions when they reach an older age - let’s say older than 60, and they experience significant mental and/or physical decline. So I am NOT asking for people’s views on ostensibly healthy younger people just wishing to commit suicide. I have often expressed my desire to not exist after I get to a point that I no long… > [@FairyChatMom](#): > > Does anyone know if you can remove the FireTV software from a smart TV? I have no clue, but a search on google and on YouTube with the model number of your TV will often answer these sorts of questions. You’ll also find that doing this troubleshooting in the morning, not late at night after a full day of kidlets & boat repairs will produce better results. It’s almost like the techno-gremlins come out at night whereas the Good Fairies of techno-magic are solar-powered. Don’t ask me how many late night failure sessions it took for me to learn this truism. But pretty much everybody in IT lives by it. > [@scareyfaerie](#): > > You will all be pleased to know that although I didn’t have a private carriage on the train journey home, it was largely uneventful. … > I did have to wait half an hour for the mainline service that usually runs all the way up to Glasgow, but today was terminating at my home station so that was a bonus Most excellent. My usual experience when the train service is truncated is that it ends a couple stops short of home. Oh bother. > [@LH75](#): > > I think of her with every Mexican beer I drink… That’s beautiful. I think I’ll toast Sister Mary Corona with every Mexican beer from now on too. 😁 As to me: Been up about 3 hours now, mostly on the balcony. Coffee went down nicely. Congestion unfortunately remains unabated. A pretty warm & sunny day out there with some showers over the sparkly ocean. Welcome to June. I did make not-coffee this morning and also yesterday (or was it the day before?) Caught both SNAFUs early before any real harm was done or mess needed clean-up. But still. Of course the underlying cause was thinking about something unrelated, mostly the Dope. Sigh. Her Ladyship is now up & sheveling. She was maybe feeling a bit ill last night and is maybe a little more ill this morning. Or maybe not; too early to tell. Same symptoms as me. She is one of those people who’s not really awake until after an hour reading in bed then another hour upright. Then finally all cylinders are firing. So right now her early returns are ambiguous. Me? I’m a light switch. I shall post this, then shevel, then co-feeding shall be next. She has a lunch date w a gaggle of sorority pals and is so far inclined to go. We shall see how her health shakes out. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-firin-up-the-grill-in-the-mmp/984734)._