# (Old) Halfway through the month - Midway in the MMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [January 13, 2025, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-halfway-through-the-month-midway-in-the-mmp/1012910 "2025-01-13T11:40:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 378
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2025, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-halfway-through-the-month-midway-in-the-mmp/1012910/378 "2025-01-19T17:58:19Z")
It’s around 12 or 13 F here, and according to The Oracles, that’s as warm as it’s gonna be until … Wednesday. Guess who’s scheduled to work open-\>close on Tuesday? 🙃 Awoke with a serious hankering for a cuppa tea. It’s not even the warmth … somehow, sipping on soup made from oxidized dried leaves is just soul-soothing. So satisfying. Almost as satisfying as lying in a comfy cocoon of blankies … Unfortunately, as sweet and snuggly as Monkey is being, he adamantly _refuses_ to make me any damn tea, so { _sigh of woe_ } I think I shall hafta bestir myself soon. > [@JaneDoe42](#): > > figured everyone else had already heard. I had no idea till you mentioned it. So shove over on the “last to hear 'bout stuff” bench; we both live under the same rock. > [@Filbert](#): > > load of branches that need shredding/burning/taking to the dump/chopping up and keeping for when I get a woodburner Keeping your options open, I see. > [@scareyfaerie](#): > > get some food at a local Turkish restaurant There are many things I love about living in ~~the sticks~~ a small Midwestern 'Murrican town, but damn, did that post make me jealous. Guaranteed if I asked around here for good Turkish food, I’d get blank stares. “Turkey … food? Like, for Thanksgiving?” > [@SuntanLotion](#): > > I recall in January 1984 there were a few days below 0. > Don’t recall any outages. Memories of four decades in the past can get a bit rose-colored. > [@FairyChatMom](#): > > yelling “Dammit, dog, get out of there!!” and putting the feeder out of reach. Tobias was right there and he said “It’s not Dammit Dog, it’s Trevor!” He probably responds to both names. > [@dogbutler](#): > > Like a slightly stoned Medieval peasant. “Slightly”? Sir, I feel slighted. > [@dogbutler](#): > > > [@scareyfaerie](#): > > > > Biplav’s kettlebell > > That sounds like a weird medical syndrome. I snortle-laughed. > [@missred](#): > > If your Sonata is like my Elantra Modern poetry. > [@missred](#): > > I should have pulled a pair of jeans on over my jammy bottoms. { _blinks in confusion_ } Your jeans - and jammies - must fit very differently from mine. (Jammies = loose fitting, billowy, comfy. Jeans = make my ass look _good_. They don’t fit over much.) > [@Misnomer](#): > > I don’t follow football, but people around here are _freaking out_ about yesterday’s Commanders win! I don’t, either, but there’s gonna be some sad faces 'round the Mitten State today. (Probably hungover, too.) > [@Misnomer](#): > > One cool little detail: if you can see the tiny grey dome behind the cockpit, that’s the top of R2-D2’s head. 🙂 I love tiny details like that. There’s an oil painting of a hare from centuries ago, and if you look verrrrrry closely at its eye, where the light reflects … you can see a windowpane. > [@Misnomer](#): > > use the snowbanks on my patio to keep my Gatorade Zero and protein shakes cold…? 😁 Using outside snow as a “fridge” is a time-honored tradition. … so are possums, raccoons, bears, etc. helping themselves. 🙂 (Also random passers-by and transient thieves, depending on your 'hood.) > [@Misnomer](#): > > and a couple times a day I’d take her for a long drive: I’d drive around the area in giant loops, running the a/c and charging my phone, You brought back memories of the summer I worked the car line at the dispo. There was a series of hot days, and I waited on a customer with a cage in her passenger seat, and a pair of lovebirds enjoying the A/C. > [@SuntanLotion](#): > > I don’t care that I’m 64 I seem to recall Sir Paul McC. wrote a song about that … ? > [@SuntanLotion](#): > > And it was 40 that night. Bless your heart. > [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > About a minute later, all was right with the world I think I cashed in some good karma points for the day I “delivered” their pizza for them. * * * Okay, that damn cuppa Lipton bag tea just will NOT nuke itself (_fainting couch for the Brits is down the hall, first door on the left_) so I suppose jammy-pants and a vertical nature are in my future. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-halfway-through-the-month-midway-in-the-mmp/1012910)._