Wait, could it possibly be?
I’ve looked three times through the last day’s worth of threads and can’t find a new MMP, so I’m starting one! This is unprecedented and I’m unreasonably excited.
So what’s something rather mundane and pointless that you’ve never done before, or recently done for the first time?
First! It’s good to be juvenile!
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN 'Tis 73 Amurrkin out and partly cloudy with a predicted high of 88 with light rain showers predicted later in the day. Again, we shall see. Tonight is the postponed from last week men’s night over to the church house. We shall betake ourselves over early to do prep work as is our wont. That’s the big excitatement of the day.
I didn’t check back in yestiddy for reasons I am not sure of other than brain fart. Fr. Jim got a nice send off. We had one hyuuuuuuge Sunday brunch. That meant nappage pretty much as soon as we got back to da cave.
MOOOOOOM yikes on the ouchie and stitches! Hope you are not too stiff and sore this mornin’.
Wheelie conga rats on your very first start of the MMP!
Now I need more caffeine and to feed rumbly tummy. Then, onward into the day! Rah.
Happy Moanday Y’all!
I actually woke up before my alarm this morning, and so I’ve had a few extra minutes to enjoy my morning coffee and a bagel down in the hotel lobby, while Wordling and perusing the SDMB.
I am quite ready to get out of NYC and go home. On the other hand, the job is going well, and we’ll likely finish not early, not late, but right on time. It will be a satisfying one when we’re done. Five more nights!
Well, continuing yesterday’s drama - I’ve never had an injury that required stitches till yesterday. Mundane and painful rather than pointless… 
And definitely some pain this morning.
My left shoulder, where I got the tetanus shot, feels like someone punched me hard. The actual injury is sore now that the anesthesia has worn off. And as expected, there’s overall achiness. But all things considered, I’m doing OK. Unfortunately, I did jinx myself - I woke around 2:30 and couldn’t fall back to sleep, so long day ahead.
Not sure what’s in store today but we may go back to the boat to continue troubleshooting the electrical stuff. I also need to run to Food Lion for rye bread and dog food and maybe other stuff - I’ll wander the aisles a bit. Beyond that, who knows?
Happy Moanday!
Great title!
I could fill a thread with things I’ve not done.
I’m too afraid to ever ride on a motorcycle.
Up early, off to library and store to exchange a top for a larger size.
FCM, when I got a tetanus shot years ago, it really made me feel like crap the next day. I felt even worse than when I got a Shingrix. Hopefully the achiness and ickiness goes away soonest.
Good morning!
It’s 60F and cloudy. Cloudy skies will persist early today, switching to partly cloudy by the afternoon. Our daytime high will only be 77F. That’s the first time we’ve been below the mid-eighties or higher for weeks. I’ll take it!
I didn’t have a great night’s sleep and even went to bed early! I tossed and turned and finally fell asleep when the husband came to bed and woke me. I drifted off again, but by 2:00, I was awake again because of his tossing, turning, and scratching. I gave up any thoughts of sleep by 2:45, showered, and came downstairs.
My morning is chock full of meetings, including a dry run for a virtual job fair several western states are hosting.
I am gunning to take Thursday off. I have GOT to burn some leave. Even with taking every Friday starting in October (opposite my regular day off Friday), and Christmas week off, I still have use or lose to burn. Plus, I’ve got a metric buttload of comp and credit hours to burn up.
I am sure there must be something mundane or pointless that I’ve never tried, but it escapes me for now.
FCM, I hope those aches and pains fade away soonest. Somehow, the older we are, the more those falls hurt, cause damage, and take longer to recover. I am covered with bruises from I don’t know what. What I do know is they take forever to heal, as do all the cuts I somehow manage to get from bushes, plants, or whatever. This getting old shit ain’t for sissies. You are not sissy, so take it easy for a few days. The chores can wait. Let hospice folks do their job and take care of MiL.
Okay, time for the second cup of coffee. Everyone take care!
Morning all. Up early today for some reason, still clouded over and a 50% chance of rain today (70% chance tomorrow), so it’s only 71F outside but heading to about 85F later. This is 4-S day (shop-sammich-swim-sauna) and may work in a couple of other things.
Something I’ve wanted to do but haven’t yet is ride a zip line, I have had the opportunity to do so, just never the time and place merging well enough to do it…one of these days. Nothing recently new, last year I used Uber for the first time and found it useful, but that’s about it.
Wheelie, glad the job is going good. Are you downtown or in one of the outer environs of the Big Apple?
FCM, had a few stitches when I busted up my elbow and then some last month for the biopsy, but nothing quite as extensive as yours. Hope you make it though the day without too much discomfort…and going back to the boat this fast…think I agree with Taters and you need to take a day or two off. But you know you best.
Taters, I used to have the same issue, near the end of my career I got nearly 5 weeks of ‘use or lose’ leave every year (was already at the maximum carry-over) and the last three months or so of the year was figuring out how to use it up. I;m sure it’ll work out.
OK, onward into the week!
Right in Midtown Manhattan. The hotel is between the Chrysler Building and Grand Central Station. The building we’re working in is at the opposite side of GCS, about a three-minute walk.
Morning all. Getting ready for a week of minor tasks, mostly planning and reservations for upcoming trips (note: RDOS folk don’t take “vacations”, as we’re on a permanent one – we take “trips”). Heading out soon for a 10 day fishing trip with Lucy (dog). Spending all of October visiting the western national parks, and need to solidify those reservations this week. Not sure what to do in September, but I’ll think of something. 
Last week the dogs caught a possum, and were taking turns carrying it around the yard. Eventually it decided playing dead wasn’t working and made a run for it – Lucy caught it and drug it around the yard by its tail, while the other dog helped by barking at it. We eventually rescued the poor animal, which was unhurt but covered in dog slobber. I loaded it in the truck bed and relocated it by the shoreline a few miles away. It hasn’t returned, so Operation Possum Drop was a success I guess.
The big computer meltdown last week had zero effect on us, but threatened some of the kids’ travels. But all is back to normal now. I wonder how much time was wasted globally as IT folk waited for each user to finish their tale of woe (before finally moving aside so they could fix it). IME, any fix that takes place at an actual user’s desk must be prefaced by a soliloquy regarding how dire the effects are on them personally. It must really have sucked for IT workers last week.
Oh well, off to a week of packing, PT, and working the Intertubes/Phone to get a buncha reservations made. Not a bad way to spend a week, yanno?
Hope everyone has a good week!
As it happens, FCD decided his back hurts too much, so he’s gone to the boat to get a few things he can work on at home. So I won’t be going there today.
MIL just got up, so she’s ready for the hospice nurse and aide. She’s been sleeping 16-18 hours a day - not atypical for someone approaching the end of life, according to what I’ve read. She intends to talk to the nurse about it. She also wants to know if it’s OK to get her ears pierced.
I’ve got an appt on Aug 2 for stitch removal. Huzzah! So between now and then I need it to heal.
Daughter and I will drive up to see my mom in Sept on one of her Firdays off. I haven’t seen her since Christmas and at her age, every visit could be my last, hence the plan. Other than that, another day in Paradise.
Go for it, MIL! Hell, get a tramp stamp while you’re at it.
Buddy is very devoted lap velcro today, but still isn’t that interested in helping us sleep. Allie’s still really grumpy about him, more than is usual. She’d been pretty much ignoring him, but is now back to hissing at him for being visible to her.
Damn straight, you’re only young once and she will never be any younger than she is today.
One of the issues regarding getting old is that it gets harder and harder to find new things to do cause if it looks like fun, I’ve probably already done it. Or I’m too old to start now. If I bounced better, I’d really like to try a wing suit.
I hope you aren’t too sore today FCM. Be nice to yourself for a few days, your body will thank you.
The cat introductions are going apace. Currently Bella is exploring the house and GG is in my room with me.
He’s a little nervous, the last little cat he lived with used to yell at him and pull his hair. I think they are doing just fine, Hubs is fussing.
The only plans for the day are to do a jungle return. That usually only takes 10 minutes but if I plan it right I can go to Captain D’s for a lobsta roll and then to Dairy Delight for a strawberry shortcake as long as I’m going that way. (It only takes one extra left turn to change my route to include them.)
We took the zip line at Out of Africa in AZ. They made a lot of noise about how “risky” it was to be zipping over the lion compound but TBH, it wasn’t at all. We were at least 30 ft overhead, none of the animals even blinked at us.
Afternoon, mumpers! It’s currently 21c/69f with a predicted high of 22c/71f, and partly cloudy. Weather app says “Yet another fucking shitty day”. It’s not that bad, it was grey and drizzly earlier and now it’s sunny. There are grey clouds about but we haven’t had any rain although it does feel like there should be a thunderstorm coming.
I missed the end of last week’s MMP and the start of this one as I’ve been away from home. We travelled down to Kent on Friday morning and went to the Maid of Stone festival all weekend. Saw some excellent bands, drank beer in the sun, met friends and did a lot of hugging and chatting. Stayed with an old school friend and her husband so a very pleasant and entertaining weekend was had all round.
This morning we set off on the journey home via the worst roads in the entire country (M20, M25, M1 and M6). We made it all the way up here, just one exit before the one we needed on the M6 when some idiot trucker decided to try squishing us as he pulled out to overtake something without looking properly. Fortunately a quick evasive manoeuvre saved us Back home to disgruntled fuzzbutts…
JtC I saw the pics of Bella, she looks gorgeous, I hope she and GG become friends!
In other news, the woman who planned to abandon Molly and Watson has changed her mind and wants to keep them. I had a message from Little Paws saying they would no longer need an emergency home, but that they wouldn’t be at all surprised if the idiot woman changed her mind again and wanted rid of them.
As to the OP, I recently paid a road toll charge online. Very mundane although not entirely pointless as paying it avoids a hefty fine for not doing so. This particular location (Dartford Tunnel) used to have tollbooths where you just chucked the appropriate coinage in the bin and the barriers opened. Now you just drive though, ANPR grabs your details and you pay online using your car’s reg number as evidence. The system told me I had made 1 crossing and required a payment of £2.50 which has now been done.
Time for a cuppa and I think I deserve to put my feet up for a bit now!
I, too, had a lobster roll for dinner last night, while doing something mundane I hadn’t done before, which was visiting Granville Island in Vancouver, BC. Fun area with galleries and restaurants, plus lots of gulls and cormorants.
Woke up, fell out of bed, dragged a comb across my head. Made sausage, biscuits and scrambled eggs. Managed to stumble down to exercise, which I skipped on Friday. Hoo-boy, skipping a day will make you pay.
Eldest son is going to come by after work tomorrow, which will be nice. Haven’t seen him in awhile. Dawter will visit on Saturday. She works for a company that handles call-outs for system issues for businesses, and they got slammed by that SNAFU a few days ago. Spent her whole weekend on the phone dealing with people in panic mode. But she racked up some good OT and PTO.
The rest of the week should be fairly quiet unless the wife gets a wild hair about going somewhere.
The start time said 0345, but the first bag didn’t come until 0400. Which was fine, since I was alone in the dumping station. Then Deb and some other girl relived me, so I could go do the Mez. Which was not chaotic for once. But I looked over at the 300 Table at 0345, and it was 100% full, the belt was backed up to Secondary, and there was nobody there working it 
And no PT Sup. But the FT Sup covering in yanked a couple of people over to start things. Then when I was done, I had to clean up the Slide. Which was full of missorts needing re-scanning. And after that I had to grab a cart since nobody runs missorts anymore. Then the Sup walks up
Sup: “Wht’s that?”
Me: “Missorts needing to be run.”
Sup: “Wha..?”
Me: “It happens every Monday.”
Sup: < eyes widen and panics sets in as it dawns on him this is his circus, and those are his monkeys >
Me: “I got a cart for 'em.”
Sup: < heaves sigh of relief >
So I ran back and forth across the building twice, dropping off stuff at the right place, and clerking missorts and orphan packages. I ran some letters to the early AM spot, and saw that none of the re wrapped stuff from Saturday had been run. So more back and forth. So my stuff got out, but there was a metric buttload that didn’t. But that’s above my pay grade. But hours is good, especially since I go on vacation in 2 weeks. God help these people.
Congratulate you on your 1st MMP!
So you’ve given up, and now are trying to outFCD FCD?
First time I did it was when I met late Mumper Ruble
It nuked a few Brown locations, but not us. Mainly because I don’t think Crowdstrike pushed out the update on the Sumerian cuneiform tablets that our system uses.
I was slightly wondering if I had another uti so went to the dr.
Turns out I don’t but my bp was 180/100.
I had forgotten to take my amlodipine this morning.
Scared me. They waited, then took it again and it was 150/80.
I am now thinking its time to quit the Prempro ( hormones).
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OMG I made the top 20 (posts in a new MMP)! I think that’s my “never done this before” thing! 
Bailey decided that I should be tired today. It began with a middle-of-the-night wakeup, when something made her start barking at ~2:45am. That’s unusual enough that I put my glasses on and went to check on her (she was fine). Luckily I was able to fall back asleep pretty quickly, but then she started barking again right before 7am…shortly before my alarm was set to go off. *sigh* I got out of bed to discover that she’d had big accidents in the living room (probably right after the 3am barking session). I’d just gotten all of that cleaned up and the laundry started – I use washable waterproof pads in the LR at night for just this reason – when she started puking: over the course of ~90 minutes, she threw up 4-5 times. Just bile, no blood, but the poor doggy was clearly not feeling well! Every time I heard “that” sound I had to rush to clean it up, because some of it landed on hardwood flooring. So, I was doing that while also logging into work and getting my work day started. Her belly seemed to finally settle down around 11am, and she actually ate a little breakfast (which I’d set out before the pukefest began). I’m keeping an ear out for sounds of any further issues, but at the moment she is sleeping and I’m on top of the cleanup. 
I’m finally able to take this break for lunch and Mumping, but the morning was a bit nuts: all of the doggy stuff aside, at work there were two different staffing issues that needed immediate attention (one of which resulted in a call from our customer) plus a proposal status meeting, and I had to scramble to send out requests for the additional proposal info I need by COB. The work I did both yesterday and Saturday got me almost as far as I can go without this info, and also helped me zero in on exactly what to ask for. So it was worthwhile time in that regard, but man I’d just gotten my weekends back (after quitting my volunteer gig at the end of June)! 
I do still have some other writing to do on the section, though, and will need to get back at it pretty soon. I’m expecting to need to work this evening to incorporate all of the info I’ll (hopefully) have by COB. My deadline is midnight. Between that and the lack of sleep last night, tomorrow could be interesting. Heh.
Wouldn’t it be “Viner”? 
O. M. G. 
Both at my company and my customer the fix was able to be provided remotely, but had to be done individually (something about info specific to a given computer). People were on hold with various help desks for hours. So not only am I sure that support techs lost plenty of time to tales of woe, the wait times for those affected were super wasteful (if unavoidable).
One of the major roads in my area is a toll road: the booths used to have human staff in addition to the ability to read transmitters – called EZPass devices – in your car (which you fund online), but after the pandemic they got rid of the people. Now there are signs at the booths saying “No EZPass? No problem, we’ll bill you!” I imagine it’s the same technology. I wonder if there is some kind of fee added if someone gets billed that way, though.
Thanks for the earworm…