Opening Up The MMP

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Hello, virtual chums. I sunk into the sloughs of despond and got nothing done last night or so far today. However, I was moved by MetalMouse’s very kind comment to me yesterday, and though I’m still weepy around the edges, I think I’m gaining altitude. I very seldom let myself think too much about my current situation and strictly limit my delving into the crud I’ve been through (but no limits on the good stuff) lest I start feeling sorry for myself, but this was more recognition than self-pity. Denial is my best friend, and it slipped away for a bit.

I’m going to pull myself together and walk to the grocery store, then go walk around “my” hill for awhile. Later my old college roommate is going to call. We haven’t talked in over 25 years, so I was surprised to hear from her and that she wanted to talk.

shoe, don’t feel bad you couldn’t put down your own pet. I can’t even watch Old Yeller. It’s hard enough to lose a pet. Having to do the deed yourself sounds just awful.

swampy, did you and OYKW decide to get haircuts? Our salons aren’t open yet, but when they are, I’m not sure if I’ll risk going, being all high risky and all. Or am I risqué? That sounds much better.

Welcome floatygimpy!

bumba, Wednesdays are leaf blower day here at my complex. Somehow it takes several hours. It’s very annoying. I wish someone would invent a leaf blower motor that issued classic rock or something instead of that teeth-gritting buzz.

nut, I learned a new word for chip shop. Over here, chippy means something else, but then again, we don’t have chip shops. :slight_smile:

FCM, good luck finding a phone that fits the bill–literally.

gotti, hope your shoulder gets sorted out. And now I have Gordon Lightfoot going through my head. (Ouch.)

And what does INGO stand for?

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Facebook shared a memory from 8 years ago. It was a picture of Harvey. :frowning:

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**nellie **- It Never Gets Old.

Supper has been ingested and the dishes are done. **FCD **is trying to snooze. I’m about to watch some AcornTV. Onward!

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peaches, I’m thinking that some chicken might be good in the stew too. The combo of peanut butter, coconut milk and tomatoes would totally support that.

Ouch gotti! I hope that you can get fixed back up soon.

{{{shoe and pretzel}}} I couldn’t imagine having to do what you’re facing myself. I hope that you find someone without the emotional ties to help you.

Mooooooom, check out Tar-jay, Kroger or Wally World for prepaid smart phones. You may be surprised what you can get an inexpensive one for. I don’t know who your carrier is, but I haven’t had a contract with AT&T for more than a decade. I pay cash for my phones and that gets me out of signing one of those boogers. Even prepaid, you’ll likely get some data and texting. Frankly, I use that more than voice time (calling the doctor, my dad or one sister tends to be it). I have two lines and wifi for ~$130 a month. I have unlimited data on the mobile and tablet and even though there’s a limit on it on the wifi, I’ve never reached it and I’m online and streaming TV all the time.

Irked, deposited the stimulus check, came home, walked the dog, swept the floors and et. I need to package a gift to send down in flytrap’s neck of the woods tomorrow and order Nelson’s food, flea collar, some treats and a replacement hedgehog from Chewy (thanks for the reminder nettie).

Stay healthy y’all!

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Howdy Y’all! Today we accomplished laundry and got coifed. We went separately to get shorn as that seemed to make the most sense. Wasn’t too bad. Had to wait outside and then get my temp checked. 98 Amurrkin on the dot! When haircut lady was ready for me she took me to wash my hands. I washed my own hands, she did not wash them for me. Then I got a haircut. Whole thing took right at thirty minutes, so not bad. OYKW was in and out in the same length of time. I went to the Pubic Sto’ for some provisions whilst out. Then we ordered and et Mexican along with two of their wunnerful margaritas for sup. OLÈ!

Welcome Floaty I admire your productivity.

{{{Shoe}}} havin’ to let a pet go of any kind is never easy. If that’s what needs to be done, hope you find the right help.

No rain as of yet but TWPTB say it’s comin’ overnight. We shall see.

Now to surf teh intartoobz for a while.

Nitey Nite Y’all!

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Happy Toosday!

Long nap day.

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Well, Nelson should be set for food, treats, a flea collar, a replacement for Sonic Hedgehog,a new leash and harness for 5-6 months now. Whilst I was online spending money, I made a donation to my heathen group, as I’m not there to contribute each month for now (there are still expenses for the group) and smaller ones to my two most listened to NPR stations (metal mouse, you may be able to pick up WMOT out of Murfreesboro [89.5]. It’s a great Americana station out of MTSU).

I also got the gift packaged and taped up before discovering that the card wasn’t in it. I opened it back up, put in the card and retaped it to go in the mail tomorrow.

Now, I’m just chilling with a small dog in my lap. :slight_smile:

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Irked and picked up a project to do so lugged my puters home. Gonna dope upBuddyboy in the morning and try the Vet again.

Haven’t read but will. Doggiooo You getting flooded?

Later

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{{{purplehorseshoe}}} I’ve done that final vet trip (or discovered they’d moved on before I could make such arrangements) too many times myself, but I’ll keep having pets because I can’t imagine not having them.

Dunno why Target is having worse supply problems in paper goods than Walmart or Winco. Are Target shoppers just more prone to being greedy hoarder locusts?

At a couple of points today, queues totalled less than 100 calls waiting. Peak was ca. 600. Much better than even last week. We might be starting to get on top of this, if it weren’t for the unhelpful “help” we’re getting from other call centers in this company who are giving their agents crash courses on my project to “help” us. Appreciate the thought, guys, but just shoveling the calls into random completely inappropriate queues for the caller’s need and not bothering to do minor stuff like routine card replacements without screwing it up is not really all that helpful, IMO.

Got to spend an hour off the phone today, in a group phone call with people I was sitting less than 10’ from (the company’s notion of doing training and social distancing at the same time) learning about a new option I’m dubious about, called a “digital card”. Not sure I grasp a point to this.

Got home, had a burst of “take out the garbage NOW”, did it. Must run some laundry, too, since one section of the hamper’s getting full. The Princess is fed and her box scooped.

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I did hit Food Lion. No paper products, and 60% of the staff and 80% of the customers were maskless. I will be avoiding the plague house for the foreseeable future.

{{{{Flyboy}}}} Harvey sounded like a good cat.

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I just learned that Deep Water Reunion learned about “Cindy’s Crying” from John Denver.
Jesus Christ.

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I had a wonderful time talking to old college roommate. She said I “saved” her from frat boys. I’m not against frats, though I guess I was at the time. She had many other kind things to say about me. I was such a mess back then–guy I dated killed himself–but apparently I didn’t come off as the mess I was. Always interesting to see how we appear to others.

flyboy, your tribute was so great that I feel like I knew Harvey. I can see how you’d miss such an Extraordinary Cat. He was beautiful and had a beautiful spirit and he didn’t live nearly long enough. I’m so sorry.

swampy, glad you got shorn, though I bet you and OYNW look good with longer hair.

cupcake, good luck with stoned buddy in the morning.

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Morning, mumpers! It’s lovely and sunny here, complete contrast from yesterday morning, and it’s going to be hot today. Windows are open, but it means all the kids will be outside screeching at each other which also means next door’s dog will be barking her head off all day. The cats will be most unimpressed.

nellie, over this side of the pond there’s a chippy and a chippie :slight_smile: The chippy is the fish and chip shop, sells chips, ours opens today but it’s not on my current food plan so I’ll live without. The local chippie is a carpenter, doesn’t do chips unless you want wooden ones!

metalmouse, all the info I needed was in a filtered excel spreadsheet…sounds great but it meant copying a chunk of cells and converting to text, then putting it all in an email (three times, to make sure I’d got all the right people) and then going back to deal with all the addresses it wouldn’t pick up from the directory. Lots of our students have quite common names (our final year has four girls called Elizabeth Scott, all taking different language combinations) so the global directory won’t automatically pick them out because it doesn’t know what one I want. Fiddly job, time consuming and annoying. And to top it off, the person who asked for the email to be sent caused so much confusion with her accompanying document that she wanted a second one sent to the same people again this morning…when it was Even More Urgent Than Before. Good job I kept the list…

shoe, sorry to hear about you and Pretzel. It is indeed a nasty thing to do, but perhaps there are local rescues etc that could help you? Otherwise, I’m afraid you just have to do it and know you did the right thing.

I should get my project results today…let’s hope nobody expects me to actually implement the thing!

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Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN 'Tis <snerk> 69! <snerk> Amurrkin out and tstormy, with a predicted high of 81 and partly N.O.S. for the day. The rain will allegedly go away by noon. It was rainy and stormy through the night, thus, “It was a dark and stormy night!” :smiley: No plans at all for the day, which is fine by me. OK, I will actually make sup, which I suppose is a plan. It shall be poke roast in the slow cooker with some type of side matter TBD. I could make slaw and fries, and do it up as bbq sammiches. HMMMMM…

BooFae way back in the dark ages when I was workin’ on my Master’s degree, I had to design a customer satisfaction survey and test said survey in a mock situation. My biggest fear was that I would have to use the dang thing to do actual customer satisfaction. Fortunately I did not, but did get a big fat A, so there’s that.

Nellie truth be told I looked more like Cousin ITT’s ungroomed brother.

Now I need more caffeine and rumbly tummy wants to be fed. Then, onward into the day! Rah.

Happy Hump Day Y’all!

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I bet they looked like a coupla damned hippies! :stuck_out_tongue:

:smiley:

Some eons back, I heard the term chippie used to describe a female personage of less-than-stellar sexual morals. :eek:

Good morning! I made a run to Food Lion to get **FCD **some Boost for meal replacements. He just tried one and said it tastes chemical. So I’m stuck with these overpriced bottles of stuff that I can’t return. Dammit. I also got him juice, sherbet, and Greek yogurt, plus some pudding cups. He’s going for a non-solid diet for a while.

Not sure what the day holds - it’s another dreary one. Maybe I’ll break out the carpet clean cleaner and use the upholstery attachments on the sofa where Cozmo watered… I swear, that dog hikes on everything!

On the plus side, I’m getting a bit more sleep.

Happy Wednesday!

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Got Buddyboy dosed with half a tablet. The instructions say 1/2-1. May have to give the other half. I was able to try his muzzle on him and get it adjusted. It’s a hell of a way to go to the Vet

Still reading but Snake :eek::eek::eek:

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I went ahead and gave him the other half. He loves peanut butter. I have him in a carrier and will muzzle when we get there. I think this will work.

Happy hump day.

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Morning all. Swear I posted last night, but got caught up watching bad movies (The Expendables 2 and Geostorm) and reading and never got to it. Stayed in until 8:15am this morning. Lawn got aerated yesterday, wasn’t even aware of it of Cook’s pest control is due today, so some activities are still happening. Need to stop at the Kroger today and pay my gas bill, but that is about it for outside activity.

Butters, hope the vet trip is calmer than the last one.

swampy, your barbers took more care than mine; outside of social distancing, masks, and a squirt of disinfectant, that’s all they did. Still, it’s nice to have the hair back in order.

boo fae, forgot about moving data to work/notepad; yeah, wish there was a better workaround for that. And least it’s done.

nellie, more than a few of us were messes in college…I look back now and lord, I was sooo immature, nothing like what the movies say college kids are like. But we manage with what we got and keep on moving. And thank you for the kind comments.

doggio, I’ll report on Kroger, but I’ve noticed on my limited trips out that masks seems to be going away; since some restaurants are opening and such, I guess folks figure the danger is gone and they don’t need to do anything–more fools they.

Nettie, need that burst of “Garbage out” today, both garbage and recyclables need to get to the curb for tomorrow’s pickup.

Red, I listen to NPR on XM and my local station is WLRH, which gets a nice donation (along with Ali-bama Public TV) every year from me.

Sunny, good on you for getting the School Board to do their duty.

Purp, if you can find a vet to help out, take pretzel in. Yeah, the financial costs may hurt, but the emotional pain you’re having will be worse.

OK, that’s enough for today. Everyone take care.

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Happy Hump Day!

It’s chilly here this morning, 52 degrees and windy. I wore long underwear and my coat to the park this morning and I was still cold.
We were only there for a little over two hours today. Jax’s mom wasn’t feeling well and we left with her. Almost none of the regulars are showing up, probably don’t know it is open, and I don’t have their phone numbers to let them know.

Have a doctor appointment today, over the phone.
I took the morning off irk, I think I should have taken the whole day off.

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Belated word to swampy: I’m so glad your little spell of “under the weather” was just THAT. Your MMP posts are like a little sparkle on the board!

Bekkers, the weatherpeople keep surrounding you with hellacious rainstorms and flooding. Any plans to put pontoons on Ft Covid, loading up with canned sardines and GrandWreks, and floating away from Big Toe?

I think I’ll crank up the bread machine and make hot dawg buns today!
~VOW