# \[OLD\] There's a Spring in Your Step - A Seasonal MMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [March 20, 2023, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-theres-a-spring-in-your-step-a-seasonal-mmp/981398 "2023-03-20T06:27:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 20
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2023, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-theres-a-spring-in-your-step-a-seasonal-mmp/981398/381 "2023-03-27T00:18:03Z")
Take-out for dinner tonight. Mrs. L.A. had some crab rangoon and a Thai iced tea, and has orange chicken waiting for her. I had ‘yum beef’ (yum neua/Thai beef salad). It’s hit-or-miss on the spices. I always get ‘5-star’. Sometimes it’s 5-star, sometimes it’s ‘farang 5’ (more like 3-star). Tonight it was 5-star. That’s why they call it ‘Yum!’ 🙂 Nice sweat, and I can feel the endorphins. I have chicken satay waiting for me. ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2023, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-theres-a-spring-in-your-step-a-seasonal-mmp/981398/382 "2023-03-27T01:04:54Z")
> [@nelliebly](#): > > The spot on my knee that hurts can be covered by the tip of my finger. Does arthritis pain usually/often/sometimes affect an area that small? Pain circumscribed like that can also come from tears in one of the multitude of cartilages and ligaments in the knee. Those tears can be sneaky and happen with the simplest of stumbles or twists. They can be like a red hot Phillips screwdriver. I got incredible relief with cortisone shots into my worst knee. Took about a week to take effect but has lasted three years+. Now the other one is threatening red hot screwdriver demise. This part of getting old is not for sissies. Sometimes I’ll gasp when I ask it to move, much less bear weight. My nifty baby blue folding walker and leopard print cane were my best friends for months. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2023, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-theres-a-spring-in-your-step-a-seasonal-mmp/981398/383 "2023-03-27T02:54:30Z")
> [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > Evening all. Texas Roadhouse provided my main repast of the day, Hope you got something nice, ate lots of peanuts, and threw the slobber-encrusted shells at the annoying children in the adjacent booth! My main complaint about TR is the horrendous noise. It’s echo-y, they crank the C&W muzak to eleventy, and everybody is shouting, or in the kids’ case wailing, to be heard over everybody else shouting/wailing. Which is, in _toto_, vexatious to me. But for that it’s a decent basic US steak, potatoes, & beer joint where big is good and bigger is better. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2023, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-theres-a-spring-in-your-step-a-seasonal-mmp/981398/384 "2023-03-27T02:57:53Z")
> [@BippityBoppityBoo](#): > > My nifty baby blue folding walker and leopard print cane were my best friends for months. You left out “fetching”. Everything you do / wear / carry is “fetching”. Rowwr! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2023, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-theres-a-spring-in-your-step-a-seasonal-mmp/981398/385 "2023-03-27T04:11:45Z")
**{{cookie}}** Yay, Ripple getting the stiches out. "Night y’all. I’ll see you in the next one. ---
**Author:** ![JaneDoe42](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janedoe42/32/14104_2.png) [@JaneDoe42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JaneDoe42)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2023, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-theres-a-spring-in-your-step-a-seasonal-mmp/981398/386 "2023-03-27T05:24:56Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > IOW, the bigger and bolder the marketing speak trumpeting keto, carbs, or health, the less carb-friendly the product really is. I make cheese. Blessed are me! I make and sell vegan “cheese”. I have learned that commercially made vegan food usually means unhealthy. Today was a cooking day and the fermentation room is getting out of control. Hubs keeps buying new beer making stuff and just shoving the old stuff to the back of the shelves and now things are getting piled up on the floor. I’m sure that half of it could be binned up and put in the big shed, but he won’t do it and I can’t because I don’t really know what he needs to keep handy and what he keeps around as comfort items. I was able to move things around to hang my big drippy cream cheese balls and have proper ventilation but the feta is in front of the window which is suboptimal due to the changes in heat. > [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > How … how local to me _are_ you?!? Wouldn’t it be hysterical if she was one of your next door neighbors? It’s a very big and yet very small world out there. > [@FairyChatMom](#): > > Today’s plans include **FCD** taking Daughter to get a new battery for her car - it’s dead dead dead. Dare I ask how much FCD had to pay for the new battery or will I need the fainting couch? A friend recently had to pay almost 600 for a new battery for a bog standard pick-up truck, she said her hair turned white when she heard the news. > [@dogbutler](#): > > First thunderstorm of Spring! I got pretty excited when I saw a Turkey Buzzard eating a roadkill skunk (poor skunk) last week. Spring is finally here!!! I put the second hummer feeder out today because hubs reported seeing 8 flying pigs last night. Hubs doesn’t know how to count, there were at least 12 at the nightly tank up session. > [@FairyChatMom](#): > > It’s been a stressful few months. Give it a year, things will get better. FCD is a man and men our husbands’ ages don’t process grief the way women do. > [@TruePisces](#): > > The people at this church are the biggest hearted, truest embodiment of “Christianity” that I’ve ever met. I tend to judge Christians by their actions, not their words (Matthew 6.5) The homeless situation is out of control, it’s horrible. About a mile away from my home, a family is living in a dinky camp trailer on community center land. Squatting would be a better word, I guess, because they aren’t supposed to be there and it is undeveloped so no utilities are available. “Everyone” knows about them but nobody is willing to have them evicted because its obvious that one of them is working and the other one is taking care of the toddler. While there are folks in the community who take the family food and blankets, the main reason nobody has offered them a spot in their large yard is because then EVERYONE would get in trouble due to zoning laws. Oops, I’m getting all political, I’m sorry. The homeless problem has always been bad, but now it is just stinkin horrible and it breaks my heart. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2023, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-theres-a-spring-in-your-step-a-seasonal-mmp/981398/387 "2023-03-27T05:54:40Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > The problem seems to be that you left spaces between the double tildes (“double swung dashes”?) and the words. Duly noted. > [@swampbear](#): > > The biiiiiiiiiiiiig trash can has been hauled all the way down to the road for pickup tomorrow. Go Me! Me too! { _virtual high-five!_ } > [@LSLGuy](#): > > He’s almost my age and that crap is a lot harder on an old fart than on a young buck. Isn’t everything? > [@Chefguy](#): > > we now have Covid’s less-fun cousin Norovirus in the building Oh, ick (in so many senses of the word!) wash yo’ damn hands, like, forty bazillion times a day. > [@Chefguy](#): > > On a sadder note, yesterday would have been my son’s 47th birthday. Coincidental to that, I got a text/video of my grand-niece in a tear-filled account of her trials trying to stay sober. Jesus, that’s rough … and also rough. I am so sorry, my (virtual) friend. > [@Sahirrnee](#): > > Then there were the ones who put gravy _and_ syrup on top. I … I … I just can’t. I can’t even. > [@Sahirrnee](#): > > It was a very happy place, until it wasn’t there anymore. That kind of shit makes me sad. > [@dogbutler](#): > > > [@swampbear](#): > > > > needed a couple of prompts from the other usher when it was time to do stuff > > “USH, MAN, USH!!” That was hilarious. **swampy** did he _really_ say that? Nawww … > [@swampbear](#): > > A Sunday evenin’ Jawja fact for you; I love how, if you say “Georgia” the way **swampy** writes it, the word automatically comes out in a perfect Georgia accent. > [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > (yum neua/Thai beef salad). Oh, man, I haven’t had a good Thai beef salad since I moved to a tiny western Michigan town. It has many charms, but access to decent Thai food is, sadly, not one of them. When I got home tonight, Monkey a.k.a. Mr. Cabin Fever shot out the door when I opened it. He almost _never_ does that; he may howl and whine at the door, but he generally is good about being allowed out. Not tonight! Lucky for me - less so for him - it’s raining, and his furry butt stopped dead in his tracks before he even got two feet out. I shoo’ed him back in with a few choice words, but I expect he’ll (hopefully) remember why it’s not a good idea to just run out the door as soon as it’s opened, especially at 1 in the friggin’ morning. Alright, let’s see if I’m the last (wo)man standing in this MMP. Will look for y’all tomorrow; it’s my Blessed Day Off so you just _know_ Monkey’s gonna wake me up stoopit early. ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2023, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-theres-a-spring-in-your-step-a-seasonal-mmp/981398/388 "2023-03-27T07:01:23Z")
> [@dogbutler](#): > > First thunderstorm of Spring! Second thunderstorm of Spring! Up, caffeinated, and sheveled. Off to head out into it to go heave. > [@JaneDoe42](#): > > I got pretty excited when I saw a Turkey Buzzard eating a roadkill skunk (poor skunk) last week. Spring is finally here!!! That, and all of God’s little creatures fornicating out in the open. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2023, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-theres-a-spring-in-your-step-a-seasonal-mmp/981398/389 "2023-03-28T15:31:24Z")
Hey, y’all. We were in Portugal for 10 days. Nice place! Good weather! New country! We wouldn’t take vacations so close together but we had expiring flights that had been cancelled during COVID. ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2023, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-theres-a-spring-in-your-step-a-seasonal-mmp/981398/390 "2023-03-28T15:39:21Z")
Sweet! Oh, we’re [over here now. 🙂](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-as-good-a-new-monday-mmp-as-possible/981700/54) ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2023, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-theres-a-spring-in-your-step-a-seasonal-mmp/981398/391 "2023-03-28T15:45:23Z")
D’oh. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2023, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-theres-a-spring-in-your-step-a-seasonal-mmp/981398/392 "2023-03-28T16:52:51Z")
We lived there for two years when we were posted to the Embassy. Travelled the entire country on our time off. I understand that they’ve spruced Lisbon up since then and that the restaurants have gotten better. My favorite trip was driving up along the Douro River valley where all the vineyards were in fall colors and the grapes ripe for picking. Took this photo of an old goat herder: [[Album] Imgur: The magic of the Internet ![](https://i.imgur.com/bFpBscM.jpeg?fb "Imgur: The magic of the Internet") ](https://imgur.com/a/5erRrvH) ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2023, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-theres-a-spring-in-your-step-a-seasonal-mmp/981398/393 "2023-03-28T17:03:30Z")
They appear to be in a scaling-up process. The restaurants were pretty good, though we weren’t going for traditional Portuguese cuisine as it fits neither of our diets well. We had a good time, mostly while walking uphill. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2023, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-theres-a-spring-in-your-step-a-seasonal-mmp/981398/394 "2023-03-28T17:25:40Z")
Well, Portuguese cuisine is an acquired taste that I never acquired. Salted cod is disgusting, and didn’t like caldo verde either. Don’t get me started on that mess called _cozido_. I came close to barfing. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2023, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-theres-a-spring-in-your-step-a-seasonal-mmp/981398/395 "2023-03-28T17:27:37Z")
My lovely wife can’t eat gluten or dairy and rifht now I can’t eat anything with a lot of oil. Found some terrific non-local cuisine, though. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2023, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-theres-a-spring-in-your-step-a-seasonal-mmp/981398/396 "2023-03-29T00:45:47Z")
Made it to Anaheim. Funeral tomorrow, then head back north Thursday morning. [Wi.Fi](http://Wi.Fi) at the hotel is a mite spotty. ETA: I’m at Denny’s for some dinner, trying to post from my iPhone. Without my glasses. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2023, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-theres-a-spring-in-your-step-a-seasonal-mmp/981398/397 "2023-03-29T02:20:38Z")
TL2ETA: A 750 ml bottle of Maker’s Mark is $33 down here, including sales tax. Much cheaper than in Washington. (WA The liquor itself is more expensive, then there’s a stiff ‘spirit tax’, and _then_ there’s sales tax.) ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2023, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-theres-a-spring-in-your-step-a-seasonal-mmp/981398/398 "2023-03-29T05:42:26Z")
: waves from Lancaster: you should find a place fins a place called “the hat” puts most places to shame … ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2023, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-theres-a-spring-in-your-step-a-seasonal-mmp/981398/399 "2023-03-29T12:55:08Z")
Greater LA is Mecca for awesome burger stands. The Hat is a great one. Too late now, Johnny’s probably nearing Bakersfield by now ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2023, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-theres-a-spring-in-your-step-a-seasonal-mmp/981398/400 "2023-03-29T13:36:33Z")
Well, the weather’s good for a funeral. It’s raining. Too bad for all of those people who are here to go to Disneyland. I guess I’ll put some zapatos on and walk over for som eggs and sausage. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-theres-a-spring-in-your-step-a-seasonal-mmp/981398.md?page=19) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-theres-a-spring-in-your-step-a-seasonal-mmp/981398.md?page=21)