(Old) Imagine a world with no MMP!

Afternoon everyone. Good lord what a day. Had work today and the coffee shop was crazy busy. (Why do we always get the nuts…?) At least my sister and her boyfriend came by for a coffee, so I got to talk to them for a little bit, plus was treated to a McDonald’s lunch after my shift. Double quarter-pounder with cheese is my favourite.

She’s teaching 4-year-old preschool. She loves working with the littles. She’s been scrambling a lot to get everything ready, but things have started to fall into place thankfully.

IN France that is a Royal with cheese

Howdy Y’all! We deheathenated and then did the trainin’. The idea behind that is to get folks to understand that you don’t rush the readin’, speak in a clear voice and please talk into the mic. Folks got a chance to practice that today and will get to do so again over the next two to three months. OYKW did not hang around for that cause why would one want to if one doesn’t have to. I got back to the cave, had a sammich lunch and achieved nappage. We et sorta chef sallits for sup. The biiiiiig trash can has been hauled all the way down to the road for pickup tomorrow.

Nellie kiddies from all over the Diocese get together once a year to have a little acolyte trainin’ time and hang out. Some fun activities are planned as well. The chaperones get to deal with ragin’ hormones amongst the adolescents and sleep on the floor between the restrooms in an effort to calm the hormone fraught youth from canoodlin’ in said restrooms. The same goes for places like kitchens, classrooms and other spaces as the hormones are locked in a parish hall for the night. Sunday mornin’ features a hyuuuge Eucharist in which all the kiddies get to process around with church banners, do stuff durin’ the service and so forth. The chaperones sit in the back of the church and snooze.

We had a lovely family get-together today. Burgers and brats on the patio with Mrs. Nott, her niece, and the following: Mrs. Nott’s nephew & his wife, grand-nephew and his wife, and a great-grand-nephew. We ate, talked, got tired, and went home.

We’re off camping. For some reason, my wife really likes it but the kids are getting old enough they are happier doing instagram.

I really like living near the countryside, especially Hokkaido. We are out of town in 10 minutes and it’s hundreds of kilometers of mostly mountain lake and farmland.

There is a beautiful mountain Mt. Yotei that we go by on the way to places. I’m posting on my phone so I can’t do pictures well, but this may work.

Thank the gods that my kids do better away from home because getting ready with them is annoying as hell.

Unfortunately, it’s supposed to rain in the middle of the trip so we’ll see how it goes.

Doing the usual poke loin and Wisconsin Old Fashioned tonight, with a sweet N.O.T., with my yam spice mix. I did my cleaning(apartment and my YouTube watch list), and did 2 loads of laundry.

But was Charlie? :wink:

:champagne::birthday_cake::partying_face:HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!:partying_face::birthday_cake::champagne:

I’m with your kids. :wink: But enjoy while you can.

Also in petty sports news:
FCS No. 5 Incarnate Word has gotten some buzz as a national title contender. The Cardinals will get less of that now that they’ve lost at unranked Nicholls, 20-6.
:rofl: :100:

Happy cake day!

I’m glad you day was good. I’m assuming you were referring to food when you said brats, LOL!

I can just imagine all the hi-jinks all the hormones got up to when a chaperone risked closing the bathroom stall door for half a minute to pee.

You work retail. Nobody else has to put up with them, but “the customer is always right” while forgetting the second part “in matters of taste”.

It’s too late, she’s already in the house! I would have figured she’s have moved on by now, we are pretty boring people.

Don’t rub your eyes!

I hope it clears up easily, ain’t nobody got time for an eye infection!

Jolene expends a lot of calories keeping GG inline. BUT, I was wrong. I only thought the kibble came in 15 lb bags because that’s what it used to be a year ago. They go through 24 lbs of kibble a month. Plus gooshy fud twice a day, nightly treats and squeezy crack on a random basis.

Jolene is slender and I can feel GG’s backbone when I brush him. If I part his fur and rub his sides, I can count his ribs so I’m guessing he really is just fluffy.

This tells me that you have never had fresh tomato sauce. Its so much brighter tasting.

I liked their Fettuccini Alfredo but the servings were so big and that isn’t the sort of thing that reheats well.

So you have inspired me, tomorrow we are going to have shrimp scampi (extra garlic) with linguine noodles (just checked, we have some) and a nice green salad on the side. I will have a garlic knot, he will leave most of his noodles on his plate. Dessert will be the last of the tiramisu served with decaf and spiced rum.

The email attachments were not moving, so I got all grrrr and took my knife to a bunch of innocent tomatoes. Then I remembered that Print To drop-down and how it worked. Sometimes stabbing things focuses my mind nicely. So, thank you so much for the suggestion. Had I not had a case of tomatoes to take my mind and frustrations out on, I probably wouldn’t have figured it out.

Great minds and all :slight_smile:

Plus, now that I’m getting replies back from the needlework world, I can always just go back to their servers and get my patterns again.

Not to mention that I’m never going to do those patterns again, but I’m a stitcher and we do not like to part with our hoard.

I love corgi’s. When they run at you, they lay their ears back on their head to improve their aerodynamics so they look like fuzzy grinning land torpedoes.

I hope she listens to her doctor and actually pays attention to her restrictions. Medical folks tend to be the worse patients.

I do hope she recovers quickly and without a lot of bother and a pain.

Have you given in and started putting peanuts out for the squirrels?Have you bought some of these just to mock them? FIL had a complicated relationship with the squirrels, I highly suspect doing “battle” with them was his favorite thing to do. I bought him a horse head feeder and he laughed so much at them.

The sister that is living with Mom and her daughter borrowed Mom’s car to go on a weed run (to Oregon, weed is illegal in Idaho) and then broke down. They didn’t want to tell Mom and upset her so sister called me instead. I didn’t answer. My phone did the voice to text thing with the message so I didn’t even have to bother listening to her. The only reason I haven’t blocked them is because they will call me when Mom’s gone.

Oh, and SenWife doesn’t normally drive so she likes practicing driving on these trips.

It’s so much more relaxing when I’m driving.

Evening all. The late night final will be an early edition, several hours in the gym has worn me down enough that bedtime looks good, plus I do my best puzzle-solving work there. Got next week’s schedule and meals more or less written down and things are pretty much where they are supposed to be.

And onto the final scrolling of the week…

FCM, my next mowage will be sometime this week, grass got a bunch of water Saturday so I expect it to grow fast.

Cookie, I really should look into digitizing pictures; I have family stuff nearly a century old just sitting around aging.

nellie, sounds like once word-of-mouth starts operating you won’t lack for doggie jobs.

red, trust the BBQ was good.

52, enjoy the cool weather; we’re supposed to be down into the 80’s for the high the next week or so, which is cool for around these parts.

God Bod, on a day when the customers are truly terrible, go read the website Not Always Right and I bet you’ll get some laughs from it. And a double Quarter Pounder with Cheese sounds good for my Moanday Hamburger run… And glad she can handle 4 year olds, i would be out of my mind in 2 hours flat.

swampy, nothing like a busybody adult to come between teenage hormones… :grin: :wink:

Sensei, lovely scenery, I do have to get to Japan someday in my travels (a couple plane changes in Narita don’t count in my book).

doggio, IIRC your in N. Carolina; why the interest in a tackleball team in San Antonio, Texas?

JtC, it isn’t the taste, it’s just one of those things I never tried because I knew i would not like it and the habits of youth have lasted me 60+ years. Enjoy your inspired dinner. And sister is an idiot.

Remind me never to irritate you severely…

And that wraps up my week. A little more browsing, several Spider Solitare games and then off to bed to do batter with the crossword, the Acrostic, and the Ken-Ken. Catch y’all tomorrow on the next MMP.

Why am I picturing a host the size of a dinner plate?

Happy birthday knotty!

Oy! I’m stuffed. BIL did chicken legs, poke chops and sausage over applewood. Sis made vinegar slaw, a cracker and cheese tray and a veggie tray. They sent me home a plate that will be two meals.

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Not my work, but I do have the pattern.

Edgar the Overly Aggress Squirrel is entertaining enough withouth the extra feeder. I had the bird feeder on a stake, but he bent it. Now it sits on a cinder black, and if I let it run out of seed, he throws it off the block. And he enjoys the regular field.

Because every year until last year N.C. State, no matter how good wasn’t on TV for the 2nd week of the season, but Incarnate Word was. Hence the irrational hatred.

I’ve been to France twice, but wouldn’t have gone to McD’s even if I’d seen one. We always stopped for “smashed sandwiches” at one of the kiosks across from the main gate at the Toulon navy base. During my first visit to Japan a bunch of us took a bus up to Tokyo. Four or five of us split off from the main herd and found a really nice Indian restaurant for supper; when we got back together with the others to head back to Yokosuka they said they had eaten at McD’s. SMH.

Didn’t get over to have a close look at Fuji whilst in Japan, but it’s in the background of a couple pictures I took at Enoshima. The mountain itself is lost in the haze, but the snowcap is visible, seemingly just floating in the sky.

Whatever that might mean…

For you, for her, or both?

I read somewhere that the original quote was “The customer is always right in his own mind”. He might actually be quite wrong, but you’ll have to convince him.


Had to go get my head examined last night. Why are MRIs so blasted loud?

Tonight’s supper was a bit of leftover steak on an asiago bagel. Breakfast tomorrow will be my first bowl of Strawberry Cinnamon Toast Crunch. It’s a good-sized box, so I hope it’s something I like. :slight_smile:

Back when I lived in Hawaii, McD’s made good noodles and rice balls.

Rod Steiger is in an episode of Columbo from 1995 that we’re watching now. I recalled the time I met Rod Steiger in the mid-’90s at Adray’s (a former electronics store) in West L.A.

Can’t remember if I tried McD’s at Pearl. The one time I do remember going for American-style fast food was in Thailand – we were halfway from the boat (which was anchored out) to the beach when I spotted the big A&W sign right across the street. Went straight there after we checked into a hotel. Haven’t seen an A&W since then, though I know there was one somewhere on the east side of Oʻahu when I was there.

I had the three large, skewered, blackened shrimp from my wife’s leftover fettuccine (no pasta or sauce), and blackened rockfish that I’d made with Cajun seasoning that I made a lot of and put up in the cupboard. I also had ‘tartar sauce’ made with mayonnaise, sweet pickle relish, and dill. There’s still one more piece of rockfish left. The Spousal Unit only wanted Lay’s potato chips.

I got my first first taste of seriously good Hunan food in Nice, France.

I’ve lived in a couple of places in Tokyo and Yokohama that Fuji could be seen on a clear day. It’s really beautiful.

Hokkaido has a lot of these type of mountains that are active or dominant volcanos. I’m used to the mountain ranges of Utah and not to this pop up things.

For both of us. She gets really nervous driving but knows she needs to practice.