(Old) Prepping for a visit in the MMP

Howdy Y’all! We deheathenated and got stoner food to take back to da cave for consumption. I had a brief nap and then went back for the Sunday afternoon group. This was the fourth group session today and we are really hittin’ our stride and have come together well as a group. I have been home for a while but needed some chill and stoopid teevee time. Also, the biiiiiig trash can has been hauled all the way down to the road for pickup tomorrow. This is your reminder shoe.

I have read all, but am short on retention right now, so yays, boos, hugs, trouts, chitlins and how you doin’s all around, as needed.

That must be a fascinating job!

He’s welcome to come on by. I’ll even provide the broom.

Hell, I got some water 'round here if he wants to do that “wine” trick again.

Cuz we could totally tell.

I misread that as “almost 350 every day” and nearly choked.

Sometimes I think about the whole “explaining humans to visiting aliens” scenario. So much of what we do is automatic, instinctive, “human nature” that we take for granted … and yet, despite all our destruction, violence, neglect, greed … we also like looking at bees, and flowers, and bonus points for a combo that involves fuzzy butts.

And some of us keep tiny wolves and/or semi-feral felines inside our homes.

Humans are so friggin’ weird man.

Holy cats, I got home with almost an hour of (dwindling) daylight left. I’d planned on a coupla stops on the way home, but screw it, soon it will be dark before I even go out for lunch break, let alone getting home.

Monkey gets some outside time, and it’s a gorgeous evening with a gentle float-y breeze and just the perfect amount of coolness.

Cat person here … what is a “pup cup”?

We keep Milk-Bonez by the drive-thru window, and occasionally, if a dog is exceptionally cute (or picky) and we’re not super-slammed busy, well, maybe, a piece of ham might be in order?

Concur - pretty, but elusive.

This made me smile.

“In MY day, we had nine planets.”

Floozy!

Jumping spiders are the puppies of the arachnid kingdom.

Goes double for the peacock ones, which just had to be all extra with their fancy-ass mating dance.

It’s amazing how smart “lesser” creatures can be.

… guessing the grasshopper problem was lessened?

Gracias, señor!

Usually a small cup of whipped cream. Our friend’s cafe puts a dog biscuit in it. The ice cream place adds a wee bit of vanilla ice cream and a kidde cone.

That sort of thing.

I knew it was either that or Green Hills. :slight_smile: When I first landed in Nashville in 1995, my apartment was over in the Hillwood neighborhood and GH was the first mall I experienced there. At the time, it was the yuppiest mall I’d been to. Then I found CS.

shoe, in places that have whipped cream on hand, a pup cup is a small cup of whipped cream, sometimes with a mini milk bone as a bonus. Chicken places will often offer a nugget or tender, a BBQ place used to offer a condiment cup of smoked turkey and the stoner place used to give condiment cups of peanut butter. I generally refer to all of these as pup cups. It just tickles me that places are nice enough to offer him a treat.

All of which was happening within walking distance of Percival Lowell’s final resting place. (He was the guy who found Pluto, some skool kid named it after the God of the Underworld.) He was laid to rest in a stained glass mausoleum close to the telescope he used for his ultimate discovery. (the stained glass depicted the stars from when he died, the poor man will spend eternity looking at unmoving stars)

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Everyone I know who had had joint replacements has told me at least once that they wished they hadn’t waited as long as they had to get the surgery. The younger you are, the faster you will recover.
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Same for me. I lost track of the patients who told me that, there were so many.
Just like with Jane, the secret to success, a quick return to activity and less pain is to all the PT exercises every day from day one.Not sexy but that’s the secret.

Late Week Late Night final here. Outside of some gym time (those Buttermilk pancakes really add the calories) today has been a pretty much do-nothing day, a couple sammiches for the evening repast and next week’s planning is pretty much done, so just need to get tired enough to head off to bed. Got a lot of catching up to do and I do want to try and finish by 10pm so I can work on my NY TImes puzzles some more before shuteye.

FCM, Peter O’Toole’s response when the lady finds him using the facilties in the Women’s Room and tells him “This is for women only” is still one of my favorite lines of all time “So is this, ma’am, but occasionally I have to run a little water through it”
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Mollie Chloé is one pampered pooch.

JtC, I concur, Phoenix is one city that you don’t need any excess heat for the building. And take care of yourself. Been to the Lowell Observatory, I remember the walk up to it, they had these little markers showing how far the planets were from the Sun using a scaled distance and it was an eye-opener.

Flyboy, managing to catch and release a moth caught by a cat is a rather remarkable feat all it’s own. Hope at least you have a good night’s sleep to rest. And I rode a ferry on Lake Erie this July just because it was there and went to a couple places I haven’t been. Would have enjoyed the Plover.

Oopsie, I never liked working Sundays, but I concur, it does have the benefit that you can focus on something without other issues interrupting (unless you have kids/dogs…).

Bright Tree, no nap today. One of the reasons is that I usually go to the gym somewhere between 1-4pm which is prime nappage time, so my body has adjusted and it’s harder to do…but I do get my 7-8 hours every night. Hope the car has nothing seriously wrong with it.

Lily, rooting for your book in the contest.

Mollie, I’ve been either small town or suburb all my life, never lived ‘rural’ and probably too late to change now, but I must admit, it does sound peaceful.

red, take care. And I drive past Cool Springs Mall every time I head north on I65, but haven’t been inside it in decades.

I like the stories about the spiders, but they still get Hulk-smashed if they are in my house…sorry about that, but my tolerance is better but not that much better.

MG, sounds like a good summer, and I remember IGA supermarkets from my youth.

AHem…IIRC, it was Clyde Tombaugh who first located Pluto (Lowell speculated about it, but it was Tombaugh who did the observations that confirmed it {takes off pedantic hat).

And that’s all, folks. Off to puzzle land, followed closely by sleepage, so catch y’all tomorrow on the next MMP.

Used to be, in the golden days, but I guess b.c. of rising food costs, fuel/electricity etc. TPTB have severely cracked down on O.T.

Like, it’s a whole THING now at work.

Used to be, someone called out - someone covered their shift - NBD.

Now it’s a whole hostage negotiation, with management involved, and who-has-what-hours-before 40-still-available, and it’s just .. a total PITA … with lots of “whelp, we’re just gonna be short tonight” while the rest of us scramble to take up the slack, and customers go, “Geez, what’s TAKING so long?!?” while the line stacks up.

This is not a “nOboDy WaNtS To WoRk” situation.


I have an absolutely thermonuclear hot chickie pot pie just outta the oven, a cat wandering around in his glow jacket, and the last of the frogs saying “pippit!” at me.

We take our comfort where we can get them.

Well poop. I ran a load of laundry today, unfortunately I tossed my kindle on top of the basket, for reading later in the day, while taking it downstairs and chucked the whole thing into the washer. The kindle is now frozen showing the last page I read.

shoe We have that same problem with overtime. Typically one exhibits person is on weekends, but sometime things come up. If’n that person has to call out, its a whole thing.

Up, caffeinated, and sheveled. Off to heave. It’s 64 degrees Ferret Height(17.778 Centipedes). It’s all first day of school for traditional calendar schools.

Brown is weirder. If Hazmat Jack is the assigned Hazmat person, they lean on him to leave after 5 hours, but if he’s just assisting another person who’s assigned, he can stay longer. :face_with_raised_eyebrow:

I had a baby roly poly in the bathroom, I had to take him(Her? I dunno, I’m not sexing isopods at 0Dark30) outside.

:grimacing:

There’s a new MMP for you to derail!