# (Old) White Out! The Official Start Of Summer MMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [May 26, 2025, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-white-out-the-official-start-of-summer-mmp/1018806 "2025-05-26T04:05:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 22
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2025, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-white-out-the-official-start-of-summer-mmp/1018806/22 "2025-05-26T14:56:43Z")
_Started Typing: 9:13 AM ET Clicked Reply: 10:56 AM ET_ Morning, all! It’s currently 59°F and rainy, but the showers should stop in another hour or so and the sun is supposed to come out around lunchtime. At some point it will be sunny and 73, which I’m looking forward to. I’ve been overweight for nearly my entire adult life, and have therefore never been one to wear white. I did own a pair of white shorts once, which I actually wore every now and then (with a long shirt); I think there was also a time when I decided that an oversized white button-down looked stylish when paired with jeans. I didn’t wear it very often, though, even though it probably looked fine. I have a “fat people don’t look good in white” mental block. 🙂 The [Lego typewriter](https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/typewriter-21327) was delivered early yesterday afternoon, and by last night I’d gotten through bag 5 of 11 (bags 1-3 in an afternoon build session, and bags 4-5 in another session after dinner). There’s a good chance I’ll finish it today, over 2-3 more build sessions. I don’t expect to have time to post tomorrow or Wednesday, but I’m hoping to share a photo of the finished set on Thursday. Next up will be the [Sherlock Holmes](https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/sherlock-holmes-book-nook-10351) and [Hogwarts Express](https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/book-nook-hogwarts-express-76450) book nooks, which should be here by this time next week! In news that will shock absolutely no one, I skipped the WorldPride concert last night: partly because I’d had something with too much sugar in the late afternoon and I was feeling a little blurfy, and partly in favor of playing with Lego. I have no plans today other than doing laundry, which I won’t start until the rain ends/sun comes out (I have to go outside to get to my laundry room). After this post I’ll likely read until lunchtime, watch a little TV while I eat something, then start the laundry before jumping into today’s first Lego-building session. A few catch-ups from the last MMP before diving into this week’s: > [@(Old) How would you start the MMP...?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-how-would-you-start-the-mmp/1018536/282): > > There was a discount to go for 15 months vice 12 so that’s what I did. Current lease began May '24 and ends Aug '25. I’ll probably do 15 again this time so next renewal will be Nov '26. Ahhh, gotcha. To me it seems odd that they’d offer an incentive for just three additional months (vs six), but whatever works for them. 🙂 > [@(Old) How would you start the MMP...?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-how-would-you-start-the-mmp/1018536/284): > > As I’ve slowly gotten older & raggedier I’ve tried to keep a running awareness of e.g. “I’m now 55; how were Mom & Dad & the grands doing when they were 55?”. I don’t do the health comparison thing – Mom’s was always crap, Dad’s has always been alright, and I never had much awareness of my grandparents’ health until they were older – but I do sometimes think about how old my brother and I were when my parents were whatever age I am now. In those terms, I’m a much younger 53 than they were: never married/no kids vs divorced for 10+ years with a 30-year-old and a 28-year-old. > [@(Old) How would you start the MMP...?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-how-would-you-start-the-mmp/1018536/303): > > snipping off the sharpies is much easier than washing the big mattress pad I’ve used deluxe waterproof mattress pads for the past 15 years (Bailey has never peed on the bed but used to sometimes puke there), and because I need them so infrequently I find it much easier to simply replace them vs washing them. I keep a backup in the spare bedroom, and when I need to use it I order another one. The cost is definitely worth the effort it would take to wash one, but if I needed more than one every year or so I could see the tradeoff being different. I actually _could_ remove the mattress pad at this point, because Bailey hasn’t been able to get up on the bed for quite a while, but whenever I think about doing so it feels wrong…I’ll wait until after she’s gone. > [@SuntanLotion](#): > > The title made me think of Michael Nesmith. I got that. 😃 (For those who didn’t: [his mom invented Liquid Paper](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Nesmith#Early_life).) > [@swampbear](#): > > It’s Memorial Day in ‘Murrika, but happy is not the word to use. Perhaps peaceful is appropriate. Oooo, I like that! > [@enipla](#): > > It’s white out alright. Two inches of snow. 😮 ! > [@peedin](#): > > Maybe beef stroganoff? OMG that sounds awesome. Suddenly my meatball Hot Pocket lunch plans feel less exciting. 😂 --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-white-out-the-official-start-of-summer-mmp/1018806)._