# (Old) I owe, I owe, so off to Mump I go - A Tax Season MMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [January 8, 2024, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-i-owe-i-owe-so-off-to-mump-i-go-a-tax-season-mmp/995761 "2024-01-08T06:39:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 80
**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:** [January 9, 2024, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-i-owe-i-owe-so-off-to-mump-i-go-a-tax-season-mmp/995761/80 "2024-01-09T17:09:45Z")
> [@JaneDoe42](#): > > It sounds like you are having a great time, I hope the rest of your trip is as entertaining. It’s definitely taking a turn towards life in the slow lane. Lazy mornings, afternoons of scenery, snacks, and _cervesa_, the chaotic fiesta of Latin nightlife just getting started, then early to bed in the silent lakeside darkness. Going home tomorrow. So wakeup, cleanup, breakfast, 2 hour car ride to airport, hang out a bit there then fly home. > [@JaneDoe42](#): > > > [@Wheelz](#): > > > > Which would probably add another day on the end, meaning - yep - another hotel night, which they didn’t want to do when I suggested we travel yesterday instead of today. > > They really should have listened to you. Not only is this going to add another expense on the end, it won’t look good to the client. We deal (I _dealt_ neener neener) with this all the time in the airline biz. Planning for high reliability includes a lot of traveling early that _usually_ proves to be unnecessary, but sometimes proves to have been vital. Some companies will pay that incremental premium frequently for higher reliability; most won’t. > [@JaneDoe42](#): > > I also learned that Hubs has never had a Scotch egg before and thinks they are really good and we should have them on a regular basis. This is after making a face when I suggested them, but whatever. Back in the 1970s when Guinness Stout was trying to break into the US market as a mainstream beer they had a famous ad campaign whose tagline was: > Guinness. I’ve never tried it and I don’t like it. Of course the ad contents were all examples of somebody tasting it against their better judgement and having a taste-gasmic epiphany about the wonders of Guinness. A lot of wisdom about human nature went into those ads. Hubs being a fine example thereof. > [@(Old) Happy New Year 2024 MMP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-happy-new-year-2024-mmp/995435/310): > > > [@(Old) Happy New Year 2024 MMP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-happy-new-year-2024-mmp/995435/310): > > > > The worst of it has been trying to sleep on my back, and wearing compression socks. > > Hubs has been having issues with compression socks also. Well, he can’t put them on or take them off so either our daughter or I or the nurse has to, and they are very difficult to put on and take off. ETA: I now see **Boo** has added her far greater expertise ahead of my belated comments. And **susan**. It takes a village. I’ve got some experience with the darn things. They should be effortful, not “very difficult”. At least for people of ordinary strength and agility. They’re easier to put on somebody else than on oneself. If they are too difficult, they may not be the right size or shape. They come in quite a variety of contours and gripping strengths. It takes a pro to size them correctly, and somebody honest enough to not sell you the wrong size they happen to have in stock. We went around this bush a couple times before finding a good store willing to measure right and order the correct thing. If anyone needs these, they _really_ need them to be right. > [@dogbutler](#): > > the dishwasher is organized, with each utensil style in it’s own slot in the silverware tray. One of the great advantages of silverware trays over silverware baskets is exactly this. I miss my old dishwasher with the silverware tray. You left out the part where the Daleks attack Roomie for committing that horror. > [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > One of the girls made chocolate covered strawberries, and whispered to me that it was her first time doing them. Coulda fooled me; they were great. > Absolutely stuffed myself with the promised pulled pork, No sign of eating reluctance there. Sounds like maybe you’ve got more of a cooking reluctance. Which is fully understandable given your life’s details. > [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > > [@Seanette](#): > > > > actually prefer to mix them so they don’t nest together. > > Same. When I had a dishwasher (_sob!_) I went out of my way to make sure spoons were separated as much as possible. One in each compartment to start off. The no-nesting worry applies to flatware _baskets_ which hold the items vertically and let them flop around. A flatware _tray_ like **Doggio** has and I had is a third very short rack typically above the ordinary glassware upper rack very close to the top of the dishwasher. Each item lays horizontally between little tines so they can’t flop around and bump into each other. Or nest. It’s like a little slide-out display case to show off your gunk-encrusted flatware. If you put all of one kind in one area, a simply scoop of the hand brings up all the salad forks or all the tablespoons or whatever. Super efficient to unload. It’s a far superior design. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-i-owe-i-owe-so-off-to-mump-i-go-a-tax-season-mmp/995761)._