# (Old) Winter Solstice MMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [December 18, 2023, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-winter-solstice-mmp/994757 "2023-12-18T05:22:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 11
**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:** [December 18, 2023, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-winter-solstice-mmp/994757/11 "2023-12-18T13:33:12Z")
Mornin’ all. Up right at dawn, semi-sheveled, out, and now working through breakfast at the deli. Golf next. Now about an hour post-sunrise it’s a brisk 58/14 on the way to 73/23 under absolutely cloudless clear skies with sharp sun. Been almost 2 weeks since last golf; time can get away so easily. In my defense, many of those days or overnights were rainy. From last night: > [@It is getting cold in the MMP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-getting-cold-in-the-mmp/994405/298): > > Both of you have been working really hard on time sensitive things. Now that things have quieted down to a quiet roar, maybe both of you should take a few days to do as close to nothing as possible. You both deserve some down time after the last couple of months and burnout really is a thing. This was aimed at **sari** but is such an excellent comment so close to the end of the thread I had to quote it afresh so @Sahirrnee will see it. **Jane** is very wise. > [@It is getting cold in the MMP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-getting-cold-in-the-mmp/994405/298): > > I usually avoid speaking bad of someone’s Special Other, but boo on her! I appreciate the spirit of reticence, but I agree w you. Big picture, she was a dedicated and skillful Mom, but both admittedly and quite evidently not a natural Mom. Unlike her Daughter. If there’s an activity she put up for the kid’s sake, whether it was a zoo or a parade or a whatever, she is _sooo_ over that now. And especially if they did it repeatedly. OTOH, my late first wife and I never had kids, so to keep ourselves young, we acted like kids. And could “borrow from afar” the random kids we saw at the zoo or parades or whatever. So we loved going to at least some kid-friendly events. The purely kid-centric ones were usually a bit much even for us. Yet another way our quite disparate histories set us up going in different directions when we happened to cross paths. IMO parades, like baseball, are an entertainment from the past which helps us feel the slow pace and calm mindframe that was normal for our grandparents and before. Nostalgia for bygone Olden Tymes and all that. There’s also a lot to be said for amateur homebrew fun in all its forms. Very different from paid professional entertainment. Yaay **Nettie** for improvement, slow though it may be! Just keep drip, drip, drippin’ along into the future of full health. **Cupcakes** that Greek pizza sounds awesome. > [@It is getting cold in the MMP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-getting-cold-in-the-mmp/994405/305): > > Low maintenance, for sure (“did I brush my hair today? No?” _swipes damp hands over head_ “There. Presentable.”) Were you watching me get semi-sheveled this morning? It’s actually a tradeoff where I am now. I could go back to airline issue and have nil hair management issues, or keep it lots more full as I would prefer. But … since my hair is real fine and straight, and I’m outside a lot, that means lots of glue & fiddling or an hour later I look like Doc Brown from _Back to the Future_ on a bender. 'Tis a dilemma for sure. > [@It is getting cold in the MMP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-getting-cold-in-the-mmp/994405/305): > > Now I’m nursing my grumpiness, and putting a pot pie in the oven. I’m going to bet after a shift like that, the pie was not the only pot of the evening. And well-deserved it was. Sorry you had sucky irk. And from this morning: **Doggio** I suppose it’s about like this: > Grievances, I’ve had a few > But then again, too few to mention > I did what I had to do > And saw it through without exemption Although at this very moment I’m highly aggrieved about a triviality: I’m in a too-small deli full of shrieking Xmas muzak (ref **JTC** I asked for it to be turned down and that lasted about 3 songs) _plus_ now three separate pairs of New Yorkers are convivially shouting at each other from 3 feet apart. As are the two college-age chicks behind the counter with their piercing woman-child voices. I took out my hearing aids and it barely reduced the din. I’d be sitting outside instead, but it’s cold out there. Waah! As to Festivus and mid-winter in general, my favorite bumper sticker (that I’ve mentioned recently somewhere) says “Put the Saturn back in Saturnalia”. Works for me. **FCM** , yeah, you’ve got a lot on your mind. And have had for a long time. And will have for the next month-ish. You get a pass. Welcome back **Yanker**. Enjoy that drive of solitude. TX has a lot of that. Happy slice-o-cake day!1!! My 20th was a few months ago. Where did the time go? And now, off to escape the deli din of iniquity and whack some balls in the chilly unremitting sunshine. Cheers all. Happy Moanday to all!!! --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-winter-solstice-mmp/994757)._