# (Old) It's Time For A New MMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [September 28, 2026, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-its-time-for-a-new-mmp/1033440 "2026-09-28T09:52:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 287
**Author:** ![Kitten\_Mitten](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b782af/32.png) [@Kitten\_Mitten](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kitten_Mitten)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2026, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-its-time-for-a-new-mmp/1033440/287 "2026-10-05T02:42:08Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > Fall at her house sounded like an ariel bombardment. BF and I walked through the woods today and BF was jumpy wondering what all the thunking sounds were. Well it was black walnuts falling. We were lucky that neither of us were hit. Didn’t see any deer today but then we went 2pm-ish and they were likely taking naps. > [@swampbear](#): > > I see the Spartans lost to Wisconsin Oh well. Only one team can win the game and the Badgers were a much better and bigger team on their OL and DL lines. And the Wisky QB was GREAT! He gained ~130 yds rushing himself. Did you happen to notice that “the other school” lost as well, to Minny 20-14 so the Gophers kept the Little Brown Jug. > [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > how soon does the Xmas stuff go up? 😉 I hope they wait until decorations are put up for, then taken down for El Dia de los Muertos. Love those masks! > [@dogbutler](#): > > Incarnate Word lost I’m sure you meant football but they also lost an exhibition 🏀 game to the Spartans Friday night. It was the start to the Izzone Campout. > [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > She looked at me with the concerned face of someone who’d been casually offered an envelope of anthrax, and whispered, “Do I need to download some .. app or something .. to my phone?” I’m simpatico with this woman. The Egg Bar wants me to download an ap; NOT gonna happen, I’ll just have my daughter do it…on her phone. Spot reminds me of what I witnessed on my drive to church this evening. There was a cat that looked very similar to Spot lying in the middle of the street right in front of where the children will walk across or be dropped off for middle school tomorrow morning. I drove on the other side of the street so I wouldn’t come close to it. Then I called the Police Dept, first the front desk who said that likely DPW will have to take care of picking it up then transferred me to Dispatch who said nobody from Animal Control is in and won’t be until tomorrow morning. Well, first this woman was asking me what the cross-streets were, said she had to have 2 cross-streets. For crying out loud, I told her the street it was on right in front of the middle school. You’re in blanking dispatch and you don’t know where this middle school is??? I wanted to say to her, ‘guess you’re really not from our city, are you’ but instead I mentioned that it wouldn’t be wise to leave the cat there so that a) it doesn’t get run over and squished and b) so none of the rugrats get traumatized tomorrow seeing kittycat lying there. I’m thinking of sending an email to the Mayor. > [@Die\_Capacitrix](#): > > black sesame seeds (bought by mistake), which looks rather Halloween-like and put that in the oven as the blueberry cake was out. Made lunch and am now chilling in the conservatory It was Mr. Black in the conservatory with the spatula. BF is hopefully closing on the house that her late husband’s late Mom owned. It’s been quite the ordeal for her. The proceeds are to be split between late husband’s twin brothers. So, she was frantic about getting all her expenditures for the house on a list so she could present it at the closing and get reimbursed. She finally asked if I could help, well first I asked if she’d go walk with me today and she replied that she would walk with me if I would help her do the accounting of all the $$$ she spent on repair supplies, contractual services, utilities and other. I replied “It’s a deal”. Told her to gather up all her receipts and relevant papers and come over. I had previously told her and reiterated that she needed to be reimbursed for her labor for all the work she did herself on that house. She was reluctant but was persuaded. She gestimated that she spent at least 40 hours per month for 7 months. Then we looked up the average range of rates for handymen and settled on $55/hr. She wanted to go with the low end of $50. Our printer, an HP, is out of ink so first Hubs installed some generic replacement cartridges that were for our model HP but HP won’t work if you don’t use their brand cartridges; he didn’t know that. So, after walking we stopped at Staples and I bought just a black cartridge. Got home, had Hubs install it and it wouldn’t work because all 3 color cartridges must be replaced as well. They are sold as a package but Staples was out of stock of the 4 cartridge packs which was $180. They only had the individual cartridges separately which were $80 for the black and $60 each for the yellow, red and blue. I would like to speak to Mr Hewlett and Mr Packard and tell them YUCK FOO! Luckily Staples took the singular black one back and credited my credit card. Now we have to find somewhere we can buy the 4 color cartridge pack or order them. What a blanking racket! And on that cheery note, I’m going to close for tonight because **Oopsy** ’s post reminded me that Downton Abbey is on right now. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-its-time-for-a-new-mmp/1033440)._