# The French Toast MMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [September 10, 2018, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-french-toast-mmp/821095 "2018-09-10T10:23:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 11
**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:** [September 14, 2018, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-french-toast-mmp/821095/201 "2018-09-14T23:30:47Z")
**metal mouse** , enjoy your new TV! **Moooooom** , I’m not sure what your time limit is in Costa Rica, but taking mountain trails on the back of a mule is educational, interesting and fun. Off for a long weekend. I have a dentist appointment Monday, so I took the day off. The airport down the street has been very busy as it’s an evacuation airport for the military when there are hurricanes/tornados/plagues of locusts (maybe not that last one). That was part of the deal when the USAF deeded it to the town for a regional airport. Fortunately, they’re not any noisier than the National Guard unit on the other part of the old base. Nelson is barking at the dog on the TV commercial. He’s been doing that lately with dogs on TV or the computer. Silly pup! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Vorlon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@The\_Vorlon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Vorlon)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2018, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-french-toast-mmp/821095/202 "2018-09-14T23:47:05Z")
> [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > **Alien[**, is the trench to divert/move water or for WW I re-enactors? > > **FCM** , it’s the Government; there is always papers to shred… > > **Butters** and **Midget** , glad you are both feeling better today. > > **Juliet** , Hello friend. And if any of the rest of you want, PM me and I’ll (probably) friend you…\ > > No work done yet (plumbers will be in this evening), but the ‘cleanup’ guy will be in Sattiday to pick up/throw out/spiffify the place. Goal now is for work to be done by the 20th, so I can hopefully get my stuff out of storage and go back to living normal again. > > Decided to treat myself to Red Robin (yum!) and now feel stuffed and in need of nappage. How nice, some update won’t let me edit quotes:mad: Near as I can guess the 4" crinkly tube will be draining the house slightly uphill from me, so they will not have a under-house pond. The trench is in the slight valley between houses, and runs to a drain grate by the street. In Ark times, the little valley fills with water, that goes away within 15 minutes of rain stopping. The only things that seem to like the lack of topsoil here is crab grass and the Iris my mother transplanted from her last house. ---
**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:** [September 15, 2018, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-french-toast-mmp/821095/203 "2018-09-15T00:19:30Z")
> [@Sahirrnee](#): > > …Luden’s or Smith Bros, I can’t remember which, we used to eat them like candy when I was a kid. The above described sins of my youth. > [@Sahirrnee](#): > > However, I think the stuff on the side of the house is milkweed, which I want anyway for the butterflies. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2018, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-french-toast-mmp/821095/204 "2018-09-15T00:38:47Z")
Well only things I’ve been told that are fun in CR aren’t for mature folks (booze hookers,tourist girls and blow) I figured out why my 17 year old cat has bare spots …she’s a black cat and she’s pulling up all the gray/white hairs she’s getting Tonights gonna be dullsville …so I’ll have to find threads to pester…? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2018, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-french-toast-mmp/821095/205 "2018-09-15T01:21:13Z")
Soccer practice complete, but no plumbers to finish the work, so hopefully they’ll be here Moanday. Tile should be finished Tuesday and painters in on Wednesday, so that’ll be 95% of the work done (shower door and medicine cabinet still needed). Also need to buy mirrors for the bathroom (I had one of those big panel mirrors, but now each sink with have it’s own mirror), but waiting until everything is installed so I can take measurements for it. Have a 8am game with the 6-year olds tomorrow, then drive 35 miles to coach my boys team at another region at 10am, then drive back to coach my girls at 1:30PM. Supposed to be 90F again Sattiday, so I’ll sweat some more. **FCM** , expecting notes and pictures from the trip; haven’t been to those places yet, I’d like to know what you think. As so to bed soon to prepare for a busy day tomorrow. ---
**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:** [September 15, 2018, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-french-toast-mmp/821095/206 "2018-09-15T01:30:36Z")
We’ll be in Costa Rica for maybe 10 hours. I don’t know if the area around the port is safe to self-explore. From what I read, Colon, Panama isn’t. But we definitely would never consider a donkey ride, unless donkey is the local word for air conditioned tour bus…😁 There should be some photos, but I’m a lousy photographer. I’ll try to keep a diary, tho. ---
**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:** [September 15, 2018, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-french-toast-mmp/821095/207 "2018-09-15T01:42:48Z")
Avoid donkey rides, by all means. :dubious: ---
**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:** [September 15, 2018, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-french-toast-mmp/821095/208 "2018-09-15T01:53:57Z")
Donkey rides remind me of an old sign We have tall mules for tall people and short mules for short people We have fat mules for fat people and skinny mules for skinny people And for people who have never ridden a mule we have mules that have never been ridden! ---
**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:** [September 15, 2018, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-french-toast-mmp/821095/209 "2018-09-15T09:51:33Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > And I’ll apologize right now to those I forgot - obviously you’re not all that important to me… 😛 And those of us you haven’t tracked down yet? 😛 Today is the big open house and tours at the Alcosan (sewage treatment) Plant. After working in a shit show it will be nice to visit an intentional shit show! Tomorrow is Kennywood and their last regular season day; we volunteered for a shift. Such is my big weekend with a few other things thrown in. ---
**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:** [September 15, 2018, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-french-toast-mmp/821095/210 "2018-09-15T10:33:10Z")
Up, caffeinated, and sheveled. Off to work, if there is power. ---
**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:** [September 15, 2018, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-french-toast-mmp/821095/211 "2018-09-15T11:22:45Z")
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. _YAWN_ ‘Tis 75 Amurrkin out and clear with a predicted high of 97 and mostly N.O.S. for the day. After a relatively mild August, we are havin’, even for us, a hawt September! Quality time at the cee-mint pond is the big item on today’s agenda. Steak, sallit, company smashed N.O.T., and rolls shall be supped. Plus I shall make a chawklit sheet cake with chawklit icin’. YUM! **doggio** I gather you survived Flo. Here’s hopin’ things are ok at irk. Now I need more caffeine and to feed rumbly tummy. Then I suppose I should get busy makin’ cake and other stuff. Happy Sattidy Y’all! ---
**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:** [September 15, 2018, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-french-toast-mmp/821095/212 "2018-09-15T11:43:38Z")
\*\*ruble \*\*- you’re on my FB list, but since you don’t appear to have posted in the entire time we’ve been “friends” you’re easily forgotten! 😛 To be fair, you did warn me that you don’t play on FB. \*\*sari \*\*- that’s hilarious!! At the risk of jinxing it, I’ve had 2 good sleeps in a row! I’m feeling almost human! Which is good since I’ll have custody of Roxy tonight when her parents go out. Plus it’s critter-fountain-cleaning-weekend - woohoo! And \*\*FCD \*\*needs me to do some stuff for him for work. So I should be busy. Happy Saturday!! ---
**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:** [September 15, 2018, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-french-toast-mmp/821095/213 "2018-09-15T11:56:15Z")
Happy Saturday! I woke up too early, but I have lots to do, and so I should be doing it. I have no idea what is going on outside, except humidity. It looks cloudy and gloomy, but it’s still early. I’m glad you survived **Doggio** Should I hope the power is out so you can have the day off, or hope the power is on because being without power sucks? One paper down and two more to go. My proofreading skills are not what they should be. ---
**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:** [September 15, 2018, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-french-toast-mmp/821095/214 "2018-09-15T13:12:39Z")
Glad you survived the wrath of Flo **doggio**! Now to withstand the deluge of dingbat customers that comes after. 😃 Up, caffeinating, breakfasted, puppy crate cleaned and a load of sheets and towels in the wash. SIL was supposed to come down today for the pup swim and international festival in the 'Boro, but she’s on Flo duty, dispatching enviornmental cleanup crews to the coast. She may be able to come down sometime this evening to go to the Celtic Cup [http://www.thecelticcup.com/](http://www.thecelticcup.com/) to hear a friend play. ---
**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:** [September 15, 2018, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-french-toast-mmp/821095/215 "2018-09-15T16:24:52Z")
I have a cat on lap. I am stuck!!! 😛 Not doing too much today. Movie? ---
**Author:** ![Buttercup\_Smith](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buttercup_smith/32/473_2.png) [@Buttercup\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buttercup_Smith)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2018, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-french-toast-mmp/821095/216 "2018-09-15T18:56:37Z")
Home from my sixth day of work this week. It was so slow it was almost a waste of time to be there today. I am tahred. I stopped and picked up steaks for supper. **Blurfage**. I may try for a nap. Happy rest of the weekend all! ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2018, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-french-toast-mmp/821095/217 "2018-09-15T19:24:52Z")
I stayed up too late and got up too early. Throughout the day, I’ve had 2 failed nap attempts. No wonder I’m tired all the time. Oh, and it’s another Fires of Hell type heat day today. At least I think today and tomorrow will be our last days like that for a while. Tomorrow I might just go hide behind my dad’s air conditioner. ---
**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:** [September 15, 2018, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-french-toast-mmp/821095/218 "2018-09-15T19:55:40Z")
It got N.O.S. for a while, now it’s all cloudy and gloomy outside again. Not too hot out there. Making shrimp for a late lunch, early dinner. I got a letter from the IRS telling me I owe them a whole bunch of money, but no explaination as to why I owe them a whole bunch of money. I guess I will have to call them Monday and ask why. Once, many years ago I made a mistake on my return and they sent me a letter telling me what I did wrong, this time nothing. That is my good news for the day. ---
**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:** [September 15, 2018, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-french-toast-mmp/821095/219 "2018-09-15T21:29:53Z")
Howdy Y’all! We had quality time at the cee-mint pond and have supped. JDD and Partner have left. We’re all kinda all in after bein’ out most of the afternoon. Heat index was and still is around one hunnert! Glad to be inside and all showered and cleanded up. Still, ‘twas fun just hangin’ with our two IRL besties. ---
**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:** [September 15, 2018, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-french-toast-mmp/821095/220 "2018-09-15T23:01:42Z")
**sari** , don’t pay them in gift cards. 😃 I took Nelson to the pup swim today and he wasn’t really interested. I did find out that his swimming instinct is intact though. 😛 He was more interested in being off leash with a whole bunch of other dogs, including some of his dog park buds than the water. We left after the whistle was called for a half dozen code browns. 😛 I went to the international festival and shopping this afternoon and plan to head an hour towards Choo Choo town for my friend’s gig in a bit. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-french-toast-mmp/821095.md?page=10) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-french-toast-mmp/821095.md?page=12)