I’ve started writing the tale I promised, but I’m not going to get it done at any decent hour tonight for posting tomorrow. Consider this a placeholder until I get it finished sometime in the morning.
Hint: it was a busy night.
Y’all can carry on for now, then hijack my real OP at will when I post it tomorrow. Like I have to tell any of you that anyway…
first?
yup, thats a shock!
Weekend continues, metric tonne of reports to go, Mrs. Vorlon sick with whatever is going around.
Since we are killing time, maybe someone could tell me what MMP stands for?
Monday Mundane Post. I think. Something like that.
Oh this isn’t going to end well. Payroll closes at 0600 PST, and the server to put the reports on is not responding and calling the help desk just gets cylons. Everybodys check is going to be late or short Friday, methinks.
According to the Beginner’s Guide to Glossary of Terms on Straight Dope Message Boards, it’s a Monday Morning Post.
I’m sitting around watching Mythbuster’s Christmas Specials, so I had enough time to look up the details for you. 
-D/a
Thanks. I’d guessed it had to do with Monday (although the OP here is early - cheater!) and thought maybe it stood for Monday Morning Peeve.
That depends on what time zone The Gates of Hell are in. I assumed it’s many hours off of mine (EST) and it’s already Monday there.
In fact, I expect that it’s always Monday at The Gates Of Hell.
-D/a
Heh. Yes, Monday is a relative term in the MMP. When our revered founder, Rue DeDay was the regular OP, the thread would trail into Tuesdays when there were Monday holidays. But I don’t think he ever started before Monday (Eastern U.S. Time). Since he abandoned us, we’ve gotten impatient and the thread starts Sunday night quite frequently.
In any case, welcome to the MMP. Pull up a chair, send beer and chocolate to the appropriate people, and feel free to chime in with just about any topic. There are no rules…well, except for the one: “we’re nice, dammit!”
I’m home; had a lovely dinner (there was a choice of three entrees; I sampled 2 of them) with lovely company.
Tired. Should be asleep already, but somehow am not.
Hugs all.
GT
QFT
I can send beer, but I already ate all the chocolate.
A newbie? Break out the squid and alert the goat…
Don’t you still have reports to do? Besides, I read the Glossary that D/a helpfully provided, so you’ll have to do better than that.
Had a date! Went to Panera, talked for about an hour and a half, went back to her place to watch Star Wars, which she had never seen, played a bit of Mass Effect because her computer can actually run it and mine can’t. I think I will see her again, with luck before I leave to see my sister, since she’ll be leaving at the latest when I return, and then she’ll be on break for a while.
Gratz to the Baby Alien for making car plates which don’t look like they’ve been made by a freshman.
I think the Apocralypse may be coming: Seville has been having lows at “barely above freezing” and highs in single digits. Houses here aren’t really prepared for this weather; mine is new so it has A/C-heating, but it simply can’t win against that kind of temps. I bought a big heater with a thermostat and have rearranged the flat into a quasistudio: I moved one bed into the living room, so when we get temps like that I only have to heat up that one room, open the (unheated) kitchen’s door a while before I go in there and use the general heating when I’m going to shower. And of course, afternoon (or, in the weekend, noonish) showers for the win. Min for next Saturday is announced at 1ºC, but I suspect it may be because the computers aren’t prepared to accept negative temps for Seville.
If it starts snowing I’ll know Megido assploded.
I remember seeing pictures of Automats a couple times, I also thought they were a WWII kinda thing.
I’m back from Nuremburg. And boy it’s good to be home! Nothing like sleeping in your own bed with your own pillow!
Oh wow, I totally just confused the Automat thread with the MMP thread. That’ll teach me to not post at 4 am after feeding the baby.
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffienatin’. 'Tis Monday. Rah.
BBBobbio we wait with bated breath (baited breath if one has been eatin’ sushi :D) the tale of the possible final saga of the Cottonfield County VFD. I’m sure it’ll be a doozy!
Meanwhile, I have need of more caffiene, some brekkies and then purtification for work. Woo and Hoo.
Happy Monday Y’all!
Morning Mumpers, old and new! It’s technically the first day of my hexmas holiday now 'cos I am not at work. Just as well really because it looks horrible out there. It’s been too cold for the council to grit the roads, apparently grit is fairly useless once temps get below -5 degrees and it’s utterly ineffective when the mercury gets below -9. Yesterday morning when I went out to shovel snow and dig the car out, it was -8.5 degrees so I think we can safely say there will be no gritting.
Driving yesterday was awful, but thankfully we’ve not had any more snow. Now we have ice and freezing fog instead just for fun. I’m venturing out to town today but I’ll be on the bus because that’s the easiest option. No driving for me until tomorrow when I have the added delights of taking one of the cats to the vet for her booster shots.
On the plus side, Fat Club has a taster night tomorrow so I will be baking - better go and consult the recipe books for something yummy and not too calorific. Well, it is supposed to be a slimming club, after all!
Server on Left coast crashed and burned, finaly let me in at 6 AM, now the race is on.
Nava, said baby is now taller than I am with size 12 feet. It seems like just yesterday when he fit between the first two tentacle bends…
Up, caffeinated, off to irk.