# 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:** 8
**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:** [October 30, 2012, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-early-worm-gets-the-bird-an-east-of-greenwich-mmp/639161/141 "2012-10-30T17:14:50Z")
I just got a call from a lady named Acquanetta. Her parents actually named her that. ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2012, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-early-worm-gets-the-bird-an-east-of-greenwich-mmp/639161/142 "2012-10-30T17:52:29Z")
> [@Sticks\_and\_Scones](#): > > We’re having another alzheimer’s vs. dogs day today. It’s not a good thing when a dog comes upstairs with a half a snack cake and a potato chip in his mouth. And just as I was starting to type this, he puked (fried potatoes). For now, all concerned parties have been separated from each other. This sucks. For everyone. I am very sorry, and I know it has to suck…but I am laughing my ass off at this image. Mostly because Mouse over here regularly walks into the room with SOMETHING in his mouth that he’s not supposed to have, and he would LOVE for it to be a potato chip, a snack cake and fried potatoes. 😛 Also, my mother-in-law has Mouse’s mother, plus 3 of his siblings over there still. So she has to deal with all of that times 4. It’s gonna be interesting when Mouse is living over there; he’s the biggest of all of them, and has learned quite well how tall he can get when he stands up, and is learning to paw any and everything off of anything he can reach. Which is quite a bit now, sigh. To wake me up in the mornings, he used to jump up so I could see his head above the bedline, which is funny as hell. Now he just stands up and head-buts me. If that doesn’t work, he starts dragging hte sheets off. ---
**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 30, 2012, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-early-worm-gets-the-bird-an-east-of-greenwich-mmp/639161/143 "2012-10-30T18:04:58Z")
> [@SpazCat](#): > > I just got a call from a lady named Acquanetta. Her parents actually named her that. Did you ask if she has a brother named Brylcreme? ---
**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 30, 2012, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-early-worm-gets-the-bird-an-east-of-greenwich-mmp/639161/144 "2012-10-30T18:23:12Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > Did you ask if she has a brother named Brylcreme? 😃 ---
**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 30, 2012, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-early-worm-gets-the-bird-an-east-of-greenwich-mmp/639161/145 "2012-10-30T19:53:50Z")
Howdy from da cave! I snuck out a wee few minutes early which is ok cause I was at irk earlier than usual this mornin’. Makin’ jambalaya, sallit, garlic bread and baked apples for dindin. Ice cream to go on the baked apples even. YUM! ---
**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 30, 2012, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-early-worm-gets-the-bird-an-east-of-greenwich-mmp/639161/146 "2012-10-30T20:22:36Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > **Sari** ya know, any other time of year, a statement like “I don’t see a bit of damage other than the neighbor’s tombstones are leaning a bit” would be right disturbin’. 😃 Unless, of course, your neighbor’s have tombstones in their yahd all year long. That would be disturbin’. Especially if new ones appeared from time to time. I’m rather impressed that their ‘graveyard’ is still standing. They did a good job. Pizza day today, everything is back to normal around here. Depending on your definition of normal. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2012, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-early-worm-gets-the-bird-an-east-of-greenwich-mmp/639161/147 "2012-10-30T20:26:17Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > A co-irker went next door to the tech skool to get a BLT for which she had been jonesin’ and… this is almost to horrifyin’ to even post… > **THEY WERE OUT OF BACON!!!** > > The only thing I can possibly think of that would be worse would be a bakery out of cookies. :eek: Dear Og, I may not have had chawklit chips to make emergency cookies, but I sure as hell have a fridge drawer full of bacon! ETA: Looks like I have to update The List. ---
**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 30, 2012, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-early-worm-gets-the-bird-an-east-of-greenwich-mmp/639161/148 "2012-10-30T20:28:05Z")
> [@sahirrnee](#): > > Pizza day today, everything is back to normal around here. Depending on your definition of normal. > [@HHGTTG](#): > > “…[W]e have normality, I repeat we have normality.” She turned her microphone off — then turned it back on, with a slight smile and continued: “Anything you still can’t cope with is therefore your own problem.” 🙂 I’ve seen FB feeds from \*\*Ivory \*\*saying they’re OK and have power – anyone heard from \*\*Rosie \*\*though? Any other mumpers in the path of Sandy that are MIA…? ---
**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 30, 2012, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-early-worm-gets-the-bird-an-east-of-greenwich-mmp/639161/149 "2012-10-30T20:49:07Z")
I’m home, and the furnace is working fine. Apparently when I changed the filter a few weeks ago, I bumped a switch on the side of the burner to the OFF position. It’s in the ON position now and the house is warm. So yay! Tuna noodle casserole in the oven. I talked to my mom - she’d just gotten her power back about an hour before I called. That’s pretty much all the excitement in my life this afternoon. rah. ---
**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 30, 2012, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-early-worm-gets-the-bird-an-east-of-greenwich-mmp/639161/150 "2012-10-30T21:07:25Z")
Glad it was a simple fix to your furnace problem, **FCM**. I’ve spent the last little while rearranging the house to make it more user friendly for man and beast. Hopefully it will help. ---
**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 30, 2012, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-early-worm-gets-the-bird-an-east-of-greenwich-mmp/639161/151 "2012-10-30T21:16:29Z")
Supper’s ready - c’mon over if you’d like some casserole! 😃 No cookies, tho. Sorry, **swampy**. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2012, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-early-worm-gets-the-bird-an-east-of-greenwich-mmp/639161/152 "2012-10-30T21:28:49Z")
I am guessing **Rosie** lost power; she doesn’t have to work today 'cause they shut down, but 20 hours ago she said that ‘windy doesn’t even begin to describe it.’ So fingers crossed she gets power back and is otherwise alright. In the good news territory, the fairly-new glasses that Mouse chewed up, to the point the lens came out \…anyway, OptomEyes is where I got 'em, so I went back there to see if they could replace that wire and stick the lens back in. Not only could they, they did it within 20 minutes and for FREE!! That was such a relief, and so nice of them. Now to find the grater, so I can even out the sharp, plastic bits sticking out of what’s left of my earpieces… 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 ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2012, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-early-worm-gets-the-bird-an-east-of-greenwich-mmp/639161/153 "2012-10-30T21:30:32Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > I’m home, and the furnace is working fine. Apparently when I changed the filter a few weeks ago, I bumped a switch on the side of the burner to the OFF position. It’s in the ON position now and the house is warm. So yay! > > Tuna noodle casserole in the oven. I talked to my mom - she’d just gotten her power back about an hour before I called. That’s pretty much all the excitement in my life this afternoon. rah. I’ve done things like that :). Still not sure how TV picture went weird yesterday, but DH fixed it 🙂 (he says he’s not sure what he did that worked). Houseguest kitten has figured out eating canned gooshy food from a dish (she’s also still getting kitten formula), and has impressive lung power. Amazing how much sound such a tiny body can produce. Queen Allie is still sulking under the bed, with growls and hisses when approached (although I did get my usual “isn’t it breakfast time, Mom?” snuggle-purr fest this morning, before Her Majesty was reminded about the guest). ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2012, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-early-worm-gets-the-bird-an-east-of-greenwich-mmp/639161/154 "2012-10-30T21:49:59Z")
> [@Taomist](#): > > I am guessing **Rosie** lost power; she doesn’t have to work today 'cause they shut down, but 20 hours ago she said that ‘windy doesn’t even begin to describe it.’ So fingers crossed she gets power back and is otherwise alright. Let’s all make positive waves. Has anyone else not checked in? ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2012, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-early-worm-gets-the-bird-an-east-of-greenwich-mmp/639161/155 "2012-10-30T22:08:58Z")
It’s halfway gloomy and chilly here, so I made a pot of split pea soup for dinner. Or Evening Noms, as I heard someone call it. Found sugar-free Oreos at the grocery store, so we’ll have a cookie-to-cookie taste test tonight. Have not seen the pumpkin pie Pop Tarts yet. Maybe they were just to be a one-season special. Oh, if anyone’s looking for a yellowish plastic pumpkin, it’s on my front porch. It blew into the yard from somewhere else a couple of days ago. I put it out by the mailbox, hoping its owner would see and reclaim it. Instead, it blew back into the yard, and some helpful person put it on my porch, thinking it was mine. With my luck, the owner will see it there and call the cops, thinking I stole their decorations. ---
**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 30, 2012, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-early-worm-gets-the-bird-an-east-of-greenwich-mmp/639161/156 "2012-10-30T22:16:36Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > Tuna noodle casserole in the oven. Channelin’ a skool lunchroom lady are ya? 😛 Dindin was nummy. I make gooooooooooood jambalaya! Haven’t seen **Rosie** on facebook either. Hope she’s ok! ---
**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 30, 2012, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-early-worm-gets-the-bird-an-east-of-greenwich-mmp/639161/157 "2012-10-30T22:29:41Z")
Casserole was yum, and there’s enough left over for tomorrow’s lunch. For those of you who weren’t around 2 years ago when I posted [this](http://mumpersrecipes.blogspot.com/2010/10/healthy-white-sauce.html), it makes for a really good and healthy tuna noodle casserole - or any casserole that uses a white sauce. 😃 I think I’m gonna sign off now and knit another hat. Stay safe and stay warm! ---
**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 30, 2012, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-early-worm-gets-the-bird-an-east-of-greenwich-mmp/639161/158 "2012-10-30T23:03:32Z")
I’m tahrd. Thus I shall go lie upon the bed and watch teevee until sleepy time. Nitey Nite Y’all! ---
**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:** [October 31, 2012, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-early-worm-gets-the-bird-an-east-of-greenwich-mmp/639161/159 "2012-10-31T00:08:26Z")
Irked, came home. **Tao** , guess you’re overruled on the Monty Python thing.😛 sticks, sorry about the hornking. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2012, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-early-worm-gets-the-bird-an-east-of-greenwich-mmp/639161/160 "2012-10-31T00:58:38Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Let’s all make positive waves. > > Has anyone else not checked in? **Rosie** lives on Lawn Guylandt. \*\*Soapy, \*\*too. I doubt if they’re interested in any kind of waves right now, positive or not. ETA: Back to irk tomorrow. :grumble: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-early-worm-gets-the-bird-an-east-of-greenwich-mmp/639161.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-early-worm-gets-the-bird-an-east-of-greenwich-mmp/639161.md?page=9)