(Old, thankfully.) Just call it pee-pee ‘cause it’s all your’n MMP

[The_Stainless_Steel_Rat]

Morning all. Apologies for not posting last night in the previous thread, talked to brother and got my directions for Thanksgiving and Xmas, planned that, then between the Sunday NY Time crossword (actually solved it!) and some browsing, never made it back to the MMP. Mea culpa and I’ll try to do better.

Been fairly active this morning (once I got up around 8am). Did the hotel/rental car/flight things for Thanksgiving, looks like it will work out and stay within my planned budget for this month, so there is that. Then shopping and sammich and in about 30 minutes I’ll call the car repair place and they’d better have good news for me, or I will be very grumpy…and you don’t want to see me grumpy…(stolen from https://www.youtube.com/shorts/J6QB9HI1QCs)
After that I’ll need to return (I hope) the rental car, get mine back, and coach youth soccer this afternoon, then probably enjoy a Cheeseburger somewhere down the line for National Cheeseburger Day.

Flyboy,, love the picture, may have to copy it and send to my Brother, who worked 30 years for AB in St. Louis. And having lived for 4 years in a place that was 8-10 hours ahead of US time, I know what you mean. And neat about the raccoon-caller.

Pilot, hope the vampire didn’t bite to hard (glad it went well). And you have a flair in describing the morning’s beginnings that I do envy.

FCM, enjoy your knittin’; that dragon is something. And good luck with the binkie-separation task.

boo fae, very nice arrangement at that bar. And who knows, maybe the newbies will be better organized and mature this time (ahahahahahaha),

Cookie, hope the appointment went well, and remember, Listen to COOKIE!!

OK, nearly time to call and see if I’m going to be grumpy or just rushed. Take care and have a good week all.

[purplehorseshoe]

@FairyChatMom

from my childhood - shu-shu (don’t ask me - I have no idea.)

Don’t you have a Polish background? Cuz that’s exactly how you pronounce the Polish version of “pee pee.”

@FairyChatMom

I may even make some fingerless gloves - I called them texting mitts when I sold them at the little local store.

Nice marketing!

My mom made me some, and I love them. Working retail, they have the added benefit of allowing you to count cash.

@FairyChatMom

I am (probably) irrationally irritated by kids past toddlerdom who walk around with pacifiers in their mouths.

Think of them as “smokers in training” and it won’t seem so irrational anymore.

… aaaaand on that note, I gotta go pee.

[Chefguy]

The appointment went fine, but since I don’t really trust this person, I’ll take what she said with a grain of salt. Hit the bank and grocery without issue and made an appointment for tomorrow to get the oil changed in the family truckster; also a check to see why the low tire pressure light keeps coming on. Hopefully not a slow leak somewhere. Fire alarm system checks going on today, which is always fun.

[nelliebly]

Happy Moanday to all in Mumperland, although I guess this week we’re the Urine Nation.

I just got back from the cop shop. My friend and neighbor was sort-of accosted last night and wanted moral support while she filed an incident report. A guy ran up behind her from the little woods nearby and was about to strike when a witness yelled, and the guy ran back into the woods. She decided to file a report only because the guy might try it again with someone else. So that’s been MY morning. I’m now icing my knee. Will head to the gym later.

@FairyChatMom

Daughter has declared that Tobias no longer gets his bink except for naps or bedtime. Suits me fine - I’ve been trying to keep it away from him, semi-successfully. With luck, he’ll be completely weaned off it before he starts preschool in January.

Best of luck! For weeks after I put away my daughter’s binkies for the last time, she’d pop up with one in her mouth. I’d put that one away, and she’d appear with yet another. Turns out she’d been stashing 'em in hiding places all over the house. I like the way you and Tobias’s mom are handling this.

@Chefguy

The appointment went fine, but since I don’t really trust this person, I’ll take what she said with a grain of salt.

Are you going to leave us hanging?

[Chefguy]

@nelliebly

Are you going to leave us hanging?

She always gives useless commentary like “I think it’s going great!”, then parrots back to me what I’ve already suggested as the next step. It is healing well, but I’m not going to jump back into full PT any time soon.

[FairyChatMom]

@LSLGuy

I hope it’s not evidence of my (not your) growing senility.

Of course not, sweetie. Isn’t it time for your prune juice??

@purplehorseshoe

Don’t you have a Polish background? Cuz that’s exactly how you pronounce the Polish version of “pee pee.”

That explains it, then. And yes, my paternal grandparents and my maternal grandparents emigrated in the early 1900s. Dad’s people were from Jeżowe. Not sure where Mom’s people came from. Mom tried to teach us Polish when we were kids, but we weren’t interested. Then when I wanted to learn, life interfered.

@purplehorseshoe

Think of them as “smokers in training” and it won’t seem so irrational anymore.

Exactly where my mind went!

I finished sewing eyes on the octopus I made last night. Now I’m making a blue crab - with blue yarn, of course! Back at it…

[LSLGuy]

@FairyChatMom

@LSLGuy

I hope it’s not evidence of my (not your) growing senility.

Of course not, sweetie. Isn’t it time for your prune juice??

This being the MMP for bathroom stories …

Post- my pot of diner coffee and an overdose of greasy ham & eggs this morning the resulting intestinal ructions were … vigorous. Had I had prune juice to boot we might have needed a complete bathroom remodel by the time the explosions died down. On a happy note I did lose 3 lbs!

[Bumbazine]

From last week’s MMP:

@LSLGuy

@Bumbazine: Hi fellow diabetic. Even ignoring cost & needles you’d be better off on Glipizide if it works for you. I’m one of the lucky folks whose innards get along w Metformin. works for me. Shame you’re not in that club. Cheap and easy is cheap and easy.

As to 'puters, …

I’d much rather buy a PC loaded with bloatware I can uninstall than a locked-down phone loaded with bloatware I can’t uninstall. I look at it as all those advertisers paying me $200+ (in reduced PC price) to spend 45 minutes deleting all their crap. That’s a decent hourly rate. Besides, I’m stickin’ it to their Man, and that’s worth a lot of mental satisfaction.

FWIW, I use Microsoft Defender as my AV/malware. Less intrusive than Avast and as good or better per 3rd party reviews.

My blood sugar was 111 this morning, and I had a grilled cheese sandwich late last night.
Yeah, I’m prolly ditching the Semaglutide. I should tell my PCP about that though. Docs usually get touchy when patients take some control over their care. I’m going to try keeping on good terms with this one.

As to 'puters:
I’m still finding bits and pieces of mcafee here and there. They insinuate themselves everywhere. Hopefully I’ve stamped them out now.
I had read that Defender was almost as good as Avast etc. and was tempted but my history with Microsquash software made me a bit conflicted about that. I may change my mind sometime later however.

Well, houseguest is gone and Wifey gets cranky if I spend too much time on the computer, so Ta-ta (I hope that’s not another name for Pee-Pee.)

[BippityBoppityBoo]

@Bumbazine

so Ta-ta (I hope that’s not another name for Pee-Pee.)

Not for pee-pee, but it is another name for something else.

And now I can’t figure out a genteel way to describe what ‘ta-tas’ mean. Maybe a raunchy teenaged boy in a locker room or Hugh Hefner will come along and help.

[Taters]

Bazumbas. Bosoms.

[purplehorseshoe]

@BippityBoppityBoo

now I can’t figure out a genteel way to describe what ‘ta-tas’ mean.

You just need the correct punctuation:

( . )( . )

… let’s see if Discourse lets me get away with this one.

[Johnny_L.A]

I just got a text from USPS saying they’re having trouble delivering my package. I didn’t open it, but I assume they wanted me to click on something. Eh, let them figure it out.

What I’d like to know is when did the USPS start using a telephone number with a Philippine country code?

[nelliebly]

We interrupt this program for the following news bulletin:

IT’S NATIONAL CHEESEBURGER DAY! To celebrate, Burger King will give you a FREE cheeseburger if you spend at least 1$. Wendy’s is selling its junior bacon cheeseburger for 1¢ as long as you buy something else from the menu. And McDonald’s is selling it’s double cheeseburger for 50¢, but only if you order through the app.

I think all are limit: 1.

[Johnny_L.A]

Huh. By coincidence, I just had a cheeseburger. (6 ounces beef, 2 thin slices of American cheese (actual cheese, not ‘cheese product’), mayonnaise, and Dijon mustard on low-carb mutli-grain heels).

[peedin]

I lurve cheezboigers but I had a filet mignon sandwich for lunch….

[purplehorseshoe]

Well, as it’s usually “work time” I have finally gotten my lazy ass in gear.

Having spent most of the morning farting around in bed, I thought there was something wrong with me … am I sick? But around 2-ish (when my "get going alarm would’ve gone off) I suddenly felt the urge to get the fuck up and accomplish at least a bare minimum.

Trash bin been has been retrieved. An Amazon purchase has been suitably shelved, and the box both broken down and tossed to re-start the Great Suburban Trash Cycle ™ along with some minor household trash.

Laundry is spinning. I put dish detergent on a grease stain (there was a chicken-wing-related mishap when I was working fryers) so things will hopefully be SUPER clean.
The pants are favorites - they have pockets! (Technically they’re PJs, but I still wear 'em to work…) They are also tie-dye so even if the stain doesn’t come out, it will hopefully be less visible.

@nelliebly

We interrupt this program for the following news bulletin:

Thanks for the heads-up!

As I am lazy, impatient, and cranky, I will avoid the lines.
But I did wanna treat myself to a lil’ something, so methinks either my usual sushi, or my usual at the fried-everything shack (a thigh & roll … last time I marched right back in and bought 3 more rolls, forgot how good they are) or possibly both. One to counteract the other.

To clarify: the rolls are the one thing on the menu that isn’t fried. Literally everything else … including smelt, which I’d never tried before!

[swampbear]

Howdy Y’all! We celebrated National Cheezburger Day by goin’ to BK and gettin’ two regular cheeseburgers and two small fries and bringin’ 'em back to da cave to eat. This was followed by nappage. Shortly we shall head over to the church house.

Laterz!

[Chefguy]

I’m giving the finger to the cheeseburger cartel and having orange chicken for dinner. Take that, you beef pushers!

[BippityBoppityBoo]

@purplehorseshoe

@BippityBoppityBoo

now I can’t figure out a genteel way to describe what ‘ta-tas’ mean.

You just need the correct punctuation:

( . )( . )

… let’s see if Discourse lets me get away with this one.

Only Monday and already you’ve won the thread trophy for the week!

[Bumbazine]

@purplehorseshoe

@BippityBoppityBoo

now I can’t figure out a genteel way to describe what ‘ta-tas’ mean.

You just need the correct punctuation:

( . )( . )

… let’s see if Discourse lets me get away with this one.

Thank you for those explanations, especially the graphic one.

I’m a little annoyed just now, as I have just discovered that Microsquash has not, As I previously believed, figured out that, yes, computer users DO want to put their data files on their D drives.
Win 11 sticks all your ‘documents’, ‘pictures’, and ‘music’ into folders on your C drive thusly:
C:Users\username\OneDrive\Documents, or Pictures, or Music, completely ignoring the (relatively) gigantic D drive this 'puter came with.
What the bloody Hell did they think I was gonna put out there?

It’s all so that the user will use their OneDrive scheme, which they will prolly want to charge us for, if they don’t already. I don’t know as I’ve so far managed to ignore it.

Oh well. Makes me wanna learn Linux. I’ve always used Windoze 'cause that’s always been what my employers used, and thus it was easier for me, and they’d give it to me. And sometimes they’d give me other free software to run on my home 'puter.
I no longer have that excuse, and now I just have to admit that I’m basically lazy and don’t want to take the trouble to learn something else. I did have a Mac (given to me) once but found it just as frustrating as Windoze, but for different reasons. I suspect that if I did learn some variation of Linux it’d annoy me too.
le sigh. There are ways around it, for now.