(Old) It's the heat AND the humidity in the MMP!

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Oh no, we are not doing that again! We might live in redneck land, but got so many neighbor complaints because ain’t nobody wants a cannon pointed at their house, despite the barrel being filled with concrete, potting soil and plants.

Goes off to check bank account.

Hmmm, it’s just a gun barrel to make one of his now banned guns legal again. He can’t shoot it, so did he want to make it legal so he could sell it? Probably not. It’s going to suck when he dies and I have to deal with the arsenal.

TC friend and I are going to the dispensary tomorrow. She’s been going to the one in Prescott Valley and doesn’t like it for the same reasons I don’t like it. It is always full and rushed and everyone is in a hurry and rude about it. My dispensary is not as long as we go during the week.

I’m racking my brain to remember who told us about Birdmoss mystery boxes, but this month’s box is strawberry oriented and Mom likes strawberry trinkets, so I ordered a box to be sent to Mom’s house for us to open while I’m there. She sounded pretty happy to be getting a mystery box of trinkets that she could pack back into my car if she didn’t want to keep them around. (She is pretty clear about not wanting more stuff, so it is really hard for me to buy things for her.) So thanks to whoever it was who told me about them, I’m always looking for things to entertain her and make her smile.

Mom, I only learned about my newly developed allergy to penicillium a year or so ago. Despite taking it with no issues all of my life, suddenly I can’t anymore. My rash made my lower legs look like I had put them in too hot water for too long, but it didn’t itch. The infection I was taking the penicillium for also didn’t get any better, so I figured that there was a problem and called my doctor who gave me something else that worked. The real bitch is remembering that now I have a drug allergy that has to be discussed along with all the other medical shit.

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Sorry, I really was in a hurry. Showed up about two minutes late; good thing it wasn’t later, since my G.M. (who’s fussed at me about tardiness in the past) was in today, covering for someone.

Y’all are sweet.

Okay, bragging time!!!

The “thing” was learning to run the ovens. We have four, and they run HOT I think they’re set to 500F but I could be wrong. (Note to self: ask.)

I’ve had baby steps - handling one single pizza at a time, when we’re slow as shit and I have literally nothing else to do - but to handle five pizzas at once on a Saturday night was amazing.

And I volunteered! I don’t know where the courage came from, but I straight up asked, nearly begged, my manager to let me do it … I was having a good mental health day and had even stuck on the fancy lashes.

So not only did I run the ovens and cooked all the pizzas for about an hour last night, but I looked goooood doin’ it.

It ain’t easy! They stick to the pans; they get air bubbles in the crust that have to be carefully popped (sometimes they “spit” a lovely steam/sauce mix, usually directly into your face, like some demon camel from hell) and some have to be cooked longer, or shorter, according to individual customer requests.

Then I popped back over to the fryers - a comfort zone for me - and was hit with an order for FOUR dinners, two for fried chicken, two for perch, each with double fried sides (so two double orders of fries, and two doubles of onion rings) which meant suddenly I was running all five baskets at once (couldn’t find the 6th to save my life) and I realized … I can run those fryers like nobody’s business.

A year anna half ago, when I started at Dickeys? I was terrified of those damn fryers. But I got good at them, and eventually even ran the block (where they chop meat - it’s a bit advanced and, frankly, the guys tended to take possession of that station) and now I can run a massive fryer order with no problem, without even gettin’ stressed.

So, hell yeah! I wanna learn to get better at the ovens!

I did get to run them again tonight for about half an hour or so - very pointedly, in front of my G.M., so she could see that I was learning new things an’ all that stuff - once we quieted down.

… cuz, Dopers, we got the biggest order I’ve ever SEEN tonight!!
Eighteen large pizzas, and THIRTY fryer orders. Ten orders of a dozen wings, and ten each (half lb. apiece) of cheese cubes & cheese sticks. Over $650 total. :open_mouth:

Plus, yanno, all the other orders that kept pouring in, in the meantime.

I thought the poor guy who rolls our dough was gonna have a heart attack, trying to keep up with everything we needed. (Ours are rolled, not tossed/spun. shrug) It was all any of us could do to keep up with anything for a while.

My manager had told me yesterday she’d have me on the ovens again tonight, but wisely kept me next to her on the line (“sauce’n’cheese, sauce’n’cheese”) until that massive friggin’ dinner rush was over.
She whispered, "I know I said I’d have you on the ovens today, but … " and I was just, like, “Aw, hell naw, idda lost my mind!”

But I’ll run them again Tuesday (tomorrow’s our collective Blessed Day Off) and hopefully will get some of the skills I’m learning dialed into muscle memory.
For now, I’m slow & awkward … just like the newbies are on the fryers.

But they’ll learn, and so will I.

(And hopefully, not drop a hot pizza directly onto my foot.)

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Hey! Congratulations!

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Thanks. I’m genuinely proud of myself. Slowly, slowly, some semblance of self-confidence is creeping back.

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Up, caffeinated, and sheveled. Off to heave. It’s gonna be all the volume from all the places that were closed last week, but it’s gonna be Monday staffing. Dear God.

Yay!

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we used to have @nava bouncing through Europe but she finally moved into the house she bought and became busy and@filbert is somewhere in Scotland doing college type stuff

i a friend of my brothers was born and raised here but his dad got a job in Washington so they were moving up there after school (5th grade) ended but he and his mom stayed here for the rest of the school year …he went up for a couple of days for spring break and said " It was 40 degrees … i was all bundled up like an Eskimo and still couldn’t get warm and everyone else was in a t-shirt and shorts …" i wonder how long he lived there …

BBq went great still have some stuff from it … the bombing of dresden (av version )is tapering off after a month and it was supposed to cool off again but hadn’t exactly done it yet but its supposed to be 105/110 by wed so well lsee so ill probably makeone LAST POST HERE BEFORE THE NEW ONE bleh sowwies …

welp ill try to finish the mmp tomorrow lol remember when you could read a weeks worth of posts in like 20 minutes ? right now I’m on 109 of 45

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Holding onto the grass What a great description. I’ll have to file that away.

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i hope your mum likes it. i found the box delightful.

i def. getting a new box for the cats. the one i get now… did not wow me, althought the cats liked the toy and box.

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Never mind. Posting in the new thread.

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Hi!

I’ve been lurking here for quite a while but haven’t posted yet. I plan to though as you are an entertaining lot.
:slightly_smiling_face:

How do you find the next mmp thread? It seems to have been hit or miss for me…

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It starts each week with the first person to make the new thread. We wait until Monday morning. Folks on the east coast get up earlier than, say, those in the west, so most often it will be an easterner who starts it. Just get up really early on Monday and see if one has been started, if not you can wait, or start it yourself.

Welcome to the Dope! I’ve been here a long time, being a 99’er, but we always need new blood…uh, posters.

This is last week’s thread, try and look for the new one. I’ll see if I can transfer my post there.

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Welcome to the Dope, and congrats on delurking. :slight_smile:

Here’s how I find the new MMP thread each week:

I go to the Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share (MPSIMS) category, then look for the latest thread with the ‘MMP’ ending. We mods try to label the prior thread as (Old), but it sometimes takes a few hours (day?).

Hope this helps!

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Thank you!

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I don’t know about “new” blood. I’m 64. :slightly_smiling_face:

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64 eh? You probably (slightly) lower the average age in the MMP. I’m 64 for now. Most of our regulars are retired, although there’s a couple of 40-somethings and one person in college.