# (Old) Wrapping up Feb in the MMP

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**Created:** [February 24, 2025, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-wrapping-up-feb-in-the-mmp/1014729 "2025-02-24T12:03:52Z")\
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Started Typing: 4:07 PM ET  
Clicked Reply: 4:30 PM ET

Happy Doperversary, **Metal Mouse**! 🍰

Welp, I completely spaced about it being Monday and there being a new thread and I posted in the old MMP a little while ago! 🤦‍♀️ I’ve never done that before. I think being off work two days last week plus being away the weekend before this one has really messed up my sense of what day of the week it is. I’m not even sure what day I _think_ it is! 😂 And this month is only 2 days “short,” but it’s messing with my head that Saturday will be March already. At least we’re in for an early Spring over the next few days (highs in the low 60s).

Here’s the little Lego dog sled set that I assembled yesterday:

[https://i.ibb.co/chv3bjZc/Dog-Sled.jpg](https://i.ibb.co/chv3bjZc/Dog-Sled.jpg)

Cute, right? 🙂 I’ll keep it displayed until I need the space; then it will be stripped for parts.

(If you can’t make out the label on the front of the sled, it says “BRICKS 'N BREWS FEB 2025.” Bricks ‘n Brews is the name of my friends’ side business.)

Some leftovers from last week’s thread before diving into the current one:

> [@(Old) Make Me Proud! In the MMP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-make-me-proud-in-the-mmp/1014414/320):
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> I fear this will happen to my daughter - she’s not been on the job for a year yet, so pretty low on the totem pole…

If there are other people doing the same job with the same skills at the same level who perform just as well or better than her _and_ have been there longer, they might be prioritized. But we don’t tend to do simply “last in/first out” cuts, if that helps at all (at least, in my part of the company). The direct report who has “senior” in his title and has been here for 3 years will be affected; the junior guy who’s been here for 8 months won’t be. Different jobs, contract needs, etc.

> [@(Old) Make Me Proud! In the MMP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-make-me-proud-in-the-mmp/1014414/320):
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> I just finished making up several snack bags of nuts for him.

NSFW comment behind the blur:

In other words, you handled his nut sacks? 😁

I’M SO SORRY…I HAD TO DO IT…I REALLY HAD NO CHOICE…I’LL SEE MYSELF OUT

> [@(Old) Make Me Proud! In the MMP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-make-me-proud-in-the-mmp/1014414/322):
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> sometime in the night someone came to the damaged property and looted stuff that was left

Incredible. That’s a certain kind of evil right there.

> [@(Old) Make Me Proud! In the MMP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-make-me-proud-in-the-mmp/1014414/334):
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> The table was team Oxford comma!

Excellent!

> [@(Old) Make Me Proud! In the MMP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-make-me-proud-in-the-mmp/1014414/336):
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> No pint of the black stuff? 🤔

I can get an actual one of those (not a mini Lego version): that’s what the free drink ticket is for. 😁 🍺

> [@Kitten\_Mitten](#):
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> Did you/are you going to respond to the email about your accomplishments last week?  
> Really don’t know what I would do if I was a federal worker.

I’m a contractor so I didn’t get that email – though some of my co-workers did 🙄 – but this morning I saw an email directing people to not respond to it. (And some of my co-workers _didn’t_ get that one. The distribution lists are a **mess**.) From what I hear, a lot of departments/agencies provided similar guidance.

> [@FairyChatMom](#):
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> How important is it for you to win at Solitaire? Or any other on-line game, for that matter.

Not important at all.

The only online games I play are Bejeweled, and Connections and Spelling Bee from _The New York Times_.

- I don’t care about Bejeweled at all; it’s strictly a “killing time” thing.
- Connections will bug me a little if I can’t eventually figure out all of the groups, but just fleetingly. If I tank it more than two days in a row I’ll start feeling kind of stupid, but only while I’m playing. Mostly I just get a little “yay” feeling when I get all four groups with no misses.
- My goals for Spelling Bee are always just to (a) get at least one pangram (if there’s more than one) and (b) get to Genius. “Winning” would be getting to Queen Bee, which means finding all of the words. That hardly ever happens. If I don’t get the pangram/Genius, my feelings are similar to when I “lose” Connections (idle wondering whether my M.A. in English might have actually come from a Cracker Jack box).

> [@InternetLegend](#):
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> Good Monday, Mumpers!

Welcome back! 🙂

> [@Chefguy](#):
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> Some of you must have a go-to brand that does the job, right? RIGHT?

I like the Evercare brand, which I can sometimes find at the grocery store.

But, yeah, like **shoe** said: most of them will get the job done. I’ve used Scotch tape at the office (back in the day)!

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