# The Early Worm Gets the Bird -- an East of Greenwich MMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [October 28, 2012, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-early-worm-gets-the-bird-an-east-of-greenwich-mmp/639161 "2012-10-28T22:36:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2012, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-early-worm-gets-the-bird-an-east-of-greenwich-mmp/639161/181 "2012-10-31T12:05:29Z")
Blurf. Got up niiice and early, and got my teeth really well scrubbed up for my dentist appointment this morning. It’s tomorrow, isn’t it. :smack: That’s far too long to not use my teeth. I think I’m about 70 miles away from _BooFae_, and the weather here is slightly chilly and a bit damp, with a very light breeze. Unless someone called Sandy nipped round and cut her power off, I doubt that’s happened. Anyways, I should be away; I’m going to nose round a nice garden centre and fishy shop, 'cos I need more food for the baby axolotls. There is one advantage in living in a dodgy area- we don’t get trick or treaters, they all go to the next suburb up, which is posh. Happy Halloween! ---
**Author:** ![phouka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c5a1d2/32.png) [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2012, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-early-worm-gets-the-bird-an-east-of-greenwich-mmp/639161/182 "2012-10-31T12:25:36Z")
Oh, _blurf_ is me. 'Tis Halloween, and I’ve no chance to celebrate or dress up. Work doesn’t even let us wear costumes, which is just wrong. My team has six techs and a manager who can do techie stuff. One tech is out all week. Another tech was out Monday and Tuesday. A third tech got pulled away on a project, and a fourth tech was put on a conference call for hours. My manager spent his day shuttling from meeting to meeting. So, it was me and the last tech holding down the fort yesterday, and I’m long overdue to organize the build room and schedule the next round of builds for new hires. Consequently, I spent nearly 14 hours here yesterday, and I’m still behind. Oh, and Cleo the kitty has decided she needs to be an escape artist. She’s made two successful dashes for the outside. The day before Halloween. Did I mention she’s a black cat? But she couldn’t resist the lure of her favorite swishy feather toy, so I tricked her back inside. She tried again this morning, but I stomped my feet at her, and she stayed clear. Also, I have a headache. ---
**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:** [October 31, 2012, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-early-worm-gets-the-bird-an-east-of-greenwich-mmp/639161/183 "2012-10-31T12:31:59Z")
Since I’m a bear and it’s Hallowe’en I dressed up as a human. 😃 Humans won’t know it’s a bear stealin’ their beer and cookies. The other bears think it’s hilarious. We bears know how to partay! Then again, it’s just another day at irk. Blech! ---
**Author:** ![scareyfaerie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scareyfaerie/32/3135_2.png) [@scareyfaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scareyfaerie)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2012, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-early-worm-gets-the-bird-an-east-of-greenwich-mmp/639161/184 "2012-10-31T12:49:33Z")
Don’t panic, folks, I’m here! It’s pretty windy here today but nothing like what you East Coasters have had. I have just been out to the bank and almost got blown across campus - if I pick the right route out of here, I could get a good following gust all the way up the hill to the station! ---
**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:** [October 31, 2012, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-early-worm-gets-the-bird-an-east-of-greenwich-mmp/639161/185 "2012-10-31T12:54:16Z")
I had me a major facepalm moment here. At my last job, I was always telling people I was a freekin’ ray of sunshine. Turns out, lots of places make “Freaking Ray of Sunshine” t-shirts! :smack: I’d have bought one in a heartbeat. I still may. But doggone, what an opportunity missed! Work is slow. I did a quick fix for my girl in PA, but she hasn’t sent me any more to do. I really dread getting back to making library parts - BORING!!! ---
**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:** [October 31, 2012, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-early-worm-gets-the-bird-an-east-of-greenwich-mmp/639161/186 "2012-10-31T13:38:55Z")
I just had me some chawklit chip cookies. I just knew y’all would want to know. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sticks\_and\_Scones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sticks_and_scones/32/16951_2.png) [@Sticks\_and\_Scones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sticks_and_Scones)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2012, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-early-worm-gets-the-bird-an-east-of-greenwich-mmp/639161/187 "2012-10-31T14:27:03Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > I just had me some chawklit chip cookies. I just knew y’all would want to know. 😃 Woohoo! ---
**Author:** ![peedin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peedin/32/14095_2.png) [@peedin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peedin)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2012, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-early-worm-gets-the-bird-an-east-of-greenwich-mmp/639161/188 "2012-10-31T14:30:11Z")
I’m wearing an orange wool jacket and black pants. That’s as costumey as I get. I bought a small bag of Three Muskateers fun size bars figuring that since I hate it, I won’t eat it. Wrong. I nommed 5 of those suckers last night and wonder why my tummy’s upset this morning. D’OH! Tonight’s excitement will consist of trying to put Bob teh Wonder Pony’s blanket on. It goes over his head and horses are not exactly fond of large pieces of material pulled over them, causing darkness . OTOH, if my friend stuffs him with carrots as this is happening, he won’t care. _It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown_ is on ABC tonight at 7pm CST. I love Peanuts holiday specials. ---
**Author:** ![Taters](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/taters/32/2845_2.png) [@Taters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taters)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2012, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-early-worm-gets-the-bird-an-east-of-greenwich-mmp/639161/189 "2012-10-31T14:32:02Z")
Happy Halloween. I did not dress up. When my boss saw me he said I was out of costume and should have dressed as Wonder Woman or Super Girl. I haven’t dressed for Halloween in years. It is raining, raining, raining and really jacking up the commutes. I’m kind of hoping that the rain will keep most of the little monsters indoors and we don’t see a lot of ToTers. I’d turn off my porch light, but people here seem to be clueless about what that means and ignore it. They ring the doorbell and the dogs go bonkers. Well, I must dig into work. Donwanna. ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2012, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-early-worm-gets-the-bird-an-east-of-greenwich-mmp/639161/190 "2012-10-31T14:32:19Z")
[QUOTE=FairyChatMom] I know he doesn’t want to go to Yuma, but neither do I. 😛 [/QUOTE] Smart cookies. People who have seen _3:10 to Yuma_ might want to go there out of curiosity, but anyone who’s been there once knows there’s even less there there than in Oakland. I’ve had the misfortune of being there twice due to where extended family members decided to live. ---
**Author:** ![Noone\_Special](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noone_special/32/2863_2.png) [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2012, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-early-worm-gets-the-bird-an-east-of-greenwich-mmp/639161/191 "2012-10-31T14:34:45Z")
Just a regular day here. Halloween…? Wazzat??? 😕 **phouka** - get one of the new machines to display a boot splash that says “Linux” all over the screen (instead of the windows logo) 😛 Give it to whoever on your list most resembles Pointy Haired Boss 😃 Bring popcorn… ---
**Author:** ![Noone\_Special](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noone_special/32/2863_2.png) [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2012, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-early-worm-gets-the-bird-an-east-of-greenwich-mmp/639161/192 "2012-10-31T14:36:28Z")
> [@Taters](#): > > Happy Halloween. I did not dress up. When my boss saw me he said I was out of costume and should have dressed as Wonder Woman or Super Girl. Heh 🙂 Dunno if he has the same sense of humor as I do, but I’m reading that as a nice compliment. ---
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2012, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-early-worm-gets-the-bird-an-east-of-greenwich-mmp/639161/193 "2012-10-31T15:05:57Z")
Happy Halloween! sah-kid off to school, sah-pup snoring away Got my am irk shift done, time for breakfast. Grey and dismal looking outside. **Swampy** not nice if you’re no gonna share! :mad: I need chocolate! ---
**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:** [October 31, 2012, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-early-worm-gets-the-bird-an-east-of-greenwich-mmp/639161/194 "2012-10-31T15:14:40Z")
Here, have a cookie **Sari**. I have a stash in the bottom left hand drawer of my desk. 😃 **Taters** I kinda agree with **Special1** in that I think your boss was payin’ you a compliment for bein’ such a super duper employee. Or he just might be sayin’ he thinks you’d be hot in a Supergirl or Wonder Woman costume which would then make him a creep. Wow, amazin’ how stuff can be taken ain’t it! Sounds like you made the right choice to pretty much ignore it. I have jambalaya for **N.O.L.** This is keepin’ me from eatin’ more cookies right now cause it’s gettin’ close to \*\*N.O.L.\*\*time and I don’t want to spoil my appetite. I make yummy jambalaya. ---
**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:** [October 31, 2012, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-early-worm-gets-the-bird-an-east-of-greenwich-mmp/639161/195 "2012-10-31T15:20:15Z")
Leftover tuna-noodle casserole for lunch - yum! The sun has actually peeped thru the clouds a few times and I saw a wee bit of blue sky earlier. Yay! No cookies or chocolate here, alas. I wonder if there’ll be leftover candy brought in tomorrow?? ---
**Author:** ![Noone\_Special](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noone_special/32/2863_2.png) [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2012, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-early-worm-gets-the-bird-an-east-of-greenwich-mmp/639161/196 "2012-10-31T15:25:55Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > … I think your boss was payin’ you a compliment for bein’ such a super duper employee. Or he just might be sayin’ he thinks you’d be hot in a Supergirl or Wonder Woman costume… Or maybe it’s both! 😉 😃 ---
**Author:** ![phouka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c5a1d2/32.png) [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2012, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-early-worm-gets-the-bird-an-east-of-greenwich-mmp/639161/197 "2012-10-31T15:37:45Z")
> [@Noone\_Special](#): > > **phouka** - get one of the new machines to display a boot splash that says “Linux” all over the screen (instead of the windows logo) 😛 > Give it to whoever on your list most resembles Pointy Haired Boss 😃 > Bring popcorn… That . . . would be awesome. I keep asking them why we can’t run Ubuntu, and I get mutters about the health care industry, profit margins, and global conspiracies. > [@](#): > > What bugs me the most is that these are trifocals, which so far for me just means I can only see properly out the middle third of my lenses. > Guess which part of my lenses have deep, deep grooves in them now? > > THANKS MOUSE!!! /facepalm It’s astonishing what a small dog can do to polycarbonate lenses, isn’t it? Lil Miss Rowdy, my mom’s dog, happened to be teething when mom got new no-line bifocals and foolishly left them within reach of the puppy. Smells like mom? Feels good to chew on? Yep. I had no idea that a six pound dog’s jaws were strong enough to carve divots out of polycarbonate. It looked like someone had taken a Bedazzler to her glasses. She ended up having to replace them. ---
**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:** [October 31, 2012, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-early-worm-gets-the-bird-an-east-of-greenwich-mmp/639161/198 "2012-10-31T15:39:53Z")
**Special1** we can always count on you to make sure it’s extra sleazy.😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2012, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-early-worm-gets-the-bird-an-east-of-greenwich-mmp/639161/199 "2012-10-31T15:42:11Z")
Ha! **Swampy** only thinks he has cookies. :::raiding his secret stash::: My knee doesn’t hurt. For the first time in months. I don’t know what was wrong with it, kind of a dull constant ache. It didn’t want to bend so every night in bed I would make it bend. There was a weird twisting sensation behind my knee before it could bend. Sometimes the ache would go down my leg and into my ankle. Last night I’m laying in bed and _my knee doesn’t hurt_. Today it feels a little stiff but it doesn’t hurt. I can literally do the happy dance! ---
**Author:** ![Noone\_Special](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noone_special/32/2863_2.png) [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2012, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-early-worm-gets-the-bird-an-east-of-greenwich-mmp/639161/200 "2012-10-31T15:44:52Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > **Special1** we can always count on you to make sure it’s extra sleazy.😃 Nah, that was just normal sleazy 😛 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-early-worm-gets-the-bird-an-east-of-greenwich-mmp/639161.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-early-worm-gets-the-bird-an-east-of-greenwich-mmp/639161.md?page=11)