# Road Trip! - An Automotive MMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [August 8, 2016, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/road-trip-an-automotive-mmp/762120 "2016-08-08T09:30:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2016, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/road-trip-an-automotive-mmp/762120/41 "2016-08-09T10:58:23Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > Helena is the capitol of Montana. It’s like a geography joke. 😃 Plus it gave me a chance to show off my mad state capitol skillz! CapitAl, unless they like naming their government buildings. And thanks. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2016, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/road-trip-an-automotive-mmp/762120/42 "2016-08-09T11:01:29Z")
Thanks, \*\*rosie \*\*- I’ll have a look when I get home. There was really nothing to back up - I had downloaded some freebie books and a few games. It was a toy the \*\*FCD \*\*just had to have, but he got bored with it after a couple of weeks because it wasn’t nearly as powerful as he’d hoped. My main concern - if it’s dead and I recycle it, will someone be able to get their grubby paws on my Dope password! :eek: Oh, and I’m guessing \*\*doggio \*\*is up early because that breakfast beer won’t drink itself. 😃 \*\*Nava \*\*- who cares about spelling? It’s the principal of the thing. 😃 I crack me up! ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2016, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/road-trip-an-automotive-mmp/762120/43 "2016-08-09T11:11:31Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > \*\*Nava \*\*- who cares about spelling? It’s the principal of the thing. 😃 _elbowsmash_ ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2016, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/road-trip-an-automotive-mmp/762120/44 "2016-08-09T12:01:30Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > \*\*Nava \*\*- who cares about spelling? It’s the principal of the thing. 😃 This made me laugh way harder than I think it should have. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2016, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/road-trip-an-automotive-mmp/762120/45 "2016-08-09T12:26:08Z")
> [@appleaday](#): > > I am spending part of the day cleaning out some long neglected corners of the house. Discovered a strange artifact-- a basin made of tin (?), about 8 inches high, 16 across, has a lid with some holes in it. No idea what it’s for. Looks like something that could have belonged to my father’s parents. > > Also doing some laundry and catching a glimpse of the Olympics now and then. Pictures? Tin isn’t usually cooking but it could be some kind of prep basin. I know a couple tinsmiths I could contact. Getting ready to visit the dentist to have a partly missing filling replaced. Since dentists scare the frik out of me I am partly medicated by doctors orders. OK - I’m doped up enough to think **Plant** is a pretty nice guy ------- but at least I’m mobile. ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2016, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/road-trip-an-automotive-mmp/762120/46 "2016-08-09T12:29:55Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > What time did you get in last night, **doggio**? - and WTH are you up so freakin’ early on vacation? I got in at 11:00p.m. and I slept in till 0600 > [@FairyChatMom](#): > > Oh, and I’m guessing \*\*doggio \*\*is up early because that breakfast beer won’t drink itself. 😃 Hefeweizen: it’s not just for breakfast anymore! ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2016, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/road-trip-an-automotive-mmp/762120/47 "2016-08-09T12:32:07Z")
> [@kopek](#): > > Pictures? Tin isn’t usually cooking but it could be some kind of prep basin. I know a couple tinsmiths I could contact. Could be a drainer. Strainer? Anyway, one of those things where you put stuff to drain them of whatever liquid they have. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2016, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/road-trip-an-automotive-mmp/762120/48 "2016-08-09T12:33:50Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > Could be a drainer. Strainer? Anyway, one of those things where you put stuff to drain them of whatever liquid they have. colander (as opposed to calendar) ---
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2016, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/road-trip-an-automotive-mmp/762120/49 "2016-08-09T13:09:02Z")
Up, at 'em and waiting for my washer/dryer.They’re supposed to be here sometime between 8 and 11. Meanwhile, I’m tackling the tornado that is my bedroom. At minimum, I have to upack clothes for irk tomorrow, which means that I have to move the stuff they put in the closet. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2016, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/road-trip-an-automotive-mmp/762120/50 "2016-08-09T13:09:24Z")
> [@Draelin](#): > > This made me laugh way harder than I think it should have. I was hoping it wouldn’t be a total whoosh. 😃 OK, temporary eyeball break is over. Back to installing a rack slide in my model. Good times! ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2016, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/road-trip-an-automotive-mmp/762120/51 "2016-08-09T14:13:56Z")
Howdy Y’all! After brekkie this mornin’, I cleanded the bathrooms and the kitchen and made a batch of soft chawklit chip cookies. OK, I cleanded the kitchen after makin’ the cookies, but still I’ve been productive. It looks like the rain may be settlin’ in for the day. I hope so. I have no where I need to go or be. Hamburger steak with onion gravy, smashed N.O.T., succotash and bizkits for dindin because that’s what I decided to make. ETA: First on Two. Take that **spidey**! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2016, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/road-trip-an-automotive-mmp/762120/52 "2016-08-09T14:19:43Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > colander (as opposed to calendar) Not really, you put a colander atop a pot and the liquid drains down. The ones I mean, you need to tilt them. You’d put the stuff in the basin, then close the lid and turn it upside-down in a controlled way. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2016, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/road-trip-an-automotive-mmp/762120/53 "2016-08-09T14:25:44Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > _elbowsmash_ Hay, hay, hay. Wrasslin’ belongs in [Del]Game room[/Del] Cafe Society, not MPSIMS/MMP. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2016, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/road-trip-an-automotive-mmp/762120/54 "2016-08-09T14:26:07Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > Not really, you put a colander atop a pot and the liquid drains down. The ones I mean, you need to tilt them. You’d put the stuff in the basin, then close the lid and turn it upside-down in a controlled way. in 'murica, also a [colander](https://www.google.com/search?q=colander+lid&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwii0dP4xLTOAhXTsB4KHUsAAm0Q_AUICSgC&biw=1157&bih=707) ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2016, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/road-trip-an-automotive-mmp/762120/55 "2016-08-09T14:33:44Z")
Hi-ho. Road trip, yes! I leave today for Oregon. I’d snoopy dance, but I’s tarred. We went to pick up our U-haul trailer yesterday and found out it was not at the promised location but in another town 20 miles south. U-haul therefore owes me $50, accordin’ to their website. The trailer also turns out to be a mite small for what we need to take, so I’ll be leaving a few things in my folks garage until we come back a Thanksgiving or Christmas. Last night I was in a right tizzy over it, but today I made a list of what we had to take versus what can wait and I feel better. Now I’m just waiting for everyone else to get their butts outta bed. _drums fingers_ Tonight we stay in Redding, which is just south of Mount Shasta. It will be a 6-7 hour drive with a trailer (frickin’ speed limit, mumble, mumble). Tomorrow’s drive will be about the same to bee-yoo-tiful Albany, OR. Best known for being the city before the town with the paper plant on I-5. 😛 Alright. Imma see what I can do by my lonesome. Been up since 4. Couldn’t sleep. 😃 Also, fingers crossed please. We have a possible offer on the house. Waiting to see it in writing. Hugs, congratulations, stop that **Doggio** , and Happy Tuesday all around! ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2016, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/road-trip-an-automotive-mmp/762120/56 "2016-08-09T14:54:48Z")
Blurf. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2016, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/road-trip-an-automotive-mmp/762120/57 "2016-08-09T17:05:03Z")
Three voice mails today!! Two were crap and were deleted when I figured out they were crap, the third was from the company’s 401k office - I need to call her back about rolling over the 401k from my last job. Haven’t heard from my sweetie today, and that concerns me a bit. I worry about him being home alone. Two anna half more hours till I can leave. ---
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2016, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/road-trip-an-automotive-mmp/762120/58 "2016-08-09T17:24:56Z")
The first load of laundry is in the washing machine, albeit on cold. When the guy from Lowe’s hooked it up, a leak was found in the hot water valve. Maintenence will be here this afternoon to repair that, then it’s washing sheets and towels to my heart’s content. How’s that for an exciting life? 😛 Glad things are underway for your move, **sunny**. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2016, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/road-trip-an-automotive-mmp/762120/59 "2016-08-09T17:29:16Z")
**Mooooom** - while you’re on the call with payroll (or whomever) ask them about the upgrade to fabulous 501(k) I want to order in some Italian food. Please talk me out of it. ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2016, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/road-trip-an-automotive-mmp/762120/60 "2016-08-09T17:40:38Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > I want to order in some Italian food. Please talk me out of it. I’ll take it if you don’t want it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/road-trip-an-automotive-mmp/762120.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/road-trip-an-automotive-mmp/762120.md?page=4)