# The I stayed up until midnight just to post this MMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [August 26, 2013, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-i-stayed-up-until-midnight-just-to-post-this-mmp/667180 "2013-08-26T04:23:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**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:** [August 26, 2013, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-i-stayed-up-until-midnight-just-to-post-this-mmp/667180/21 "2013-08-26T13:42:19Z")
Blurf. Moving sucks, that is all. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2013, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-i-stayed-up-until-midnight-just-to-post-this-mmp/667180/22 "2013-08-26T13:53:27Z")
blurf Yes, it does, **Nuts**. ---
**Author:** ![Capt\_Kirk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@Capt\_Kirk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt_Kirk)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2013, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-i-stayed-up-until-midnight-just-to-post-this-mmp/667180/23 "2013-08-26T13:55:50Z")
Happy Moanday all Up, Caffinating and sore, three days of production hell but I survived. I had a pretty cool event Saturday, an awards ceremony for school teachers. Ten teachers split $225k USD! I ran the audio cues, lighting cues and was the Voice of God, busy, busy, busy. Sunday I made the loud for Candlebox, it was very much like being in a 90’s time warp. TVCTPMO made me use an alarmclock that had a 5 as the first number for all three days. I did not get into the Rock and Roll business to get up that early. I need to eat and drink more coffee Cheers **Jim** ---
**Author:** ![Zakalwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zakalwe/32/270_2.png) [@Zakalwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zakalwe)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2013, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-i-stayed-up-until-midnight-just-to-post-this-mmp/667180/24 "2013-08-26T14:17:29Z")
First time MMPer. So, ZakalwePrincess has started piano lessons - which requires the availability of a practice instrument. After some research and discussion with the instructor, my wife and I decided to forego the electronic keyboard route and jump in with both feet. A little craigslisting yielded a nice console (upright) piano for sale nearby with a good price (for those interested - $180 for a Kohler & Campbell in good condition - it’s even in tune with the exception of the very lowest register). Call up best friend and off we go! Get to piano owner’s house and like it. Back truck up to steps and load the thing in. Holy shit. Did you know pianos are REALLY heavy? I don’t mean big dresser or china cabinet heavy, I mean DAMN HEAVY. Shit. What to do now? We realize that there ain’t no way the two of us (plus wife) are getting that beast down off the truck and into the house - at least not in one piece. Stop at the pub whilst research is done and texts are sent. One hour later, our workforce has doubled. 30 mins after that, piano is in the house. One worker has a pretty good ding on one toe and I have a pulled muscle in my shoulder/back and I have a lot less beer. ZakalwePrincess arrives at the residence (she was sent off to make this a surprise). The look on her face (“Oh wow. I — I mean we — have a REAL PIANO!”) made it all worth it! So, to as fine a set of good 'ole boys as ever walked the Earth, my thanks and the thanks of my daughter! As song says: > [@](#): > > You find out who your friends are > Somebody’s gonna drop everything > Run out and crank up their car > Hit the gas, get there fast > Never stop to think ‘what’s in it for me?’ or ‘it’s way too far’ > They just show on up, with their big ole heart ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2013, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-i-stayed-up-until-midnight-just-to-post-this-mmp/667180/25 "2013-08-26T14:41:58Z")
That’s a great story **Zaka**! ---
**Author:** ![Capt\_Kirk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@Capt\_Kirk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt_Kirk)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2013, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-i-stayed-up-until-midnight-just-to-post-this-mmp/667180/26 "2013-08-26T14:44:41Z")
Hey **Z** and welcome to the MMP, someone will be along shortly to give you a Mumpername if it hasn’t happened while I was typing. Sit a spell, have a cuppa joe or tea and blather along with the rest of us. We are here all week. Piano moving is not exactly fun, worth the beerverages eh’? Voice of God, I realized that this might need some splaining VOG is the hidden announcer that you hear at public events, this weekend had these gems " Ladies and Gentlemen, Teachers from YES Prep public schools, Teach for America and KIPP Houston public schools please welcome to the stage, Jason Bernal, Sebah (pronounced SE-BA, and don’t screw it up like you did in rehearsal, twice) Ali and Luis (Spanish!) Elisando-Thompson" (roll Audio, dim stage lights) “Please direct your attention to the screens as we announce our next “Teachers in Excellence” award winner”(Cue video roll) My job is weird **Jim** ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2013, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-i-stayed-up-until-midnight-just-to-post-this-mmp/667180/27 "2013-08-26T14:45:27Z")
There was a lovely trail of cat barf on the hood of my car this morning. I recognize the kibble (almost completely intact!) because, well, I’m the one who feeds the pair of ferals born on our property. Set the tone for the morning, I think. ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2013, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-i-stayed-up-until-midnight-just-to-post-this-mmp/667180/28 "2013-08-26T15:04:28Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > There was a lovely trail of cat barf on the hood of my car this morning. I recognize the kibble (almost completely intact!) because, well, I’m the one who feeds the pair of ferals born on our property. > > Set the tone for the morning, I think. If it makes you feel better, my dog is still pooping mixed nuts. 🙂 ---
**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:** [August 26, 2013, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-i-stayed-up-until-midnight-just-to-post-this-mmp/667180/29 "2013-08-26T15:12:06Z")
> [@Draelin](#): > > If it makes you feel better, my dog is still pooping mixed nuts. 🙂 Thanks for sharing! 🙂 ---
**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:** [August 26, 2013, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-i-stayed-up-until-midnight-just-to-post-this-mmp/667180/30 "2013-08-26T15:16:22Z")
I see none of you had any problems finding the new MMP. I’m finally up and had my breakfast. **Mooooom** you make me feel positively lazy as all I have done today is let the dog out and make myself a sandwich. I love sleeping with an open window and this neighborhood is pretty safe and my window is fairly high off the ground. Even when I lived in the city I left my windows open at night even though two of them were on the porch and all somebody would have to do is cut the screen and step in. I did start closing and locking the window over the basement stairs after somebody tried to come in that one. There was a roof over the stairs, very easy to climb up on and come through the window. If this were my house I’d have the windows open 24/7 even though it gets a bit warm during the day. I love fresh air in the house. I have a friend who never leaves her windows open, too scared even though her neighborhood isn’t bad. I have clients who never open a window, they go from heat to AC to back to heat. I think it’s weird but I’m not paying their electric bill. **Nuts** moving sucks and moving a piano sucks even more **Rio** I hope this week goes better for you {{{ **Jynx** }}} Yay! **Picu** What public holiday is it today **ScarieBoo**? hugs, kisses, gropes, slaps, chocolate and caffeine to those in need I’ve got to do something besides play here all day like that is going to stop me ---
**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 26, 2013, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-i-stayed-up-until-midnight-just-to-post-this-mmp/667180/31 "2013-08-26T15:58:08Z")
I copied this post from my FB because I didn’t feel like typing it again: > [@me](#): > > Brace for geezer mode. > > I just got back from grocery shopping. I saw not one, but two old-enough-to-know-better females shopping in pajama pants. I declare a new rule - unless it’s the middle of the night and you’re making an emergency run for diapers or medicine, you do NOT go out in public in pajamas. Period. End of discussion. > > Not even going to go into a rant about the one jammie-woman who was moseying along nattering into her cell phone blocking those of us who were shopping and not socializing loudly with persons unseen. And it wasn’t like the conversation was about “Did you want the Fresh Flowers scent or the Pine Forest, scent?” I could understand such a call from the store. Nope, she was just shooting the bull and apparently it couldn’t wait till she cleared away from the cooler where the chicken was on sale. HANG UP THE PHONE!!! > > I got what I wanted mostly without other issues. I think the woman behind the deli counter was new - she sliced my corned beef about 2 ounces at a time, walking across from the slicer to the scale each time. Obviously estimating wasn’t her strong suit. When it got up to .99 pounds, I figured I was done. Nope, she went back for one more slice. OK, fine, I wasn’t in a hurry, but I was amused. I’m not sure about the person behind me in line. > > All done, and off to check out. I had miraculously remember to bring my own bags, and I passed them to the young kid at the register, saying “I brought my own bags.” He set them aside and started putting my food in plastic bags. Yeah. So I stopped him and asked him to please use my bags, not the plastic bags. He seemed confused but he complied, sorta. > > For example, the container of ground beef went in first. Understandable - it’s heavy. Did he put the bags of frozen veggies on top or it? Or the bag of cereal? Or the bread? Nope, he piled cans of dog food and tomato sauce on the plastic-wrapped meat. Fortunately, it didn’t break, so there’s that. > > He got another bag about half full, then decided to put the bread in. I know what would have followed, so I grabbed the bread and put it atop another bag. He put my milk in a bag without asking. They always ask. I prefer my milk to be unbagged - it’s easier to carry, but I let it go. But I did have to grab the two cans of Comet to make sure they weren’t bagged with the produce. > > Now, I’ve never worked in a grocery store, but I thought logic would dictate that you put larger items in first and smaller ones on top. Or perhaps try to put a layer of cans on the bottom with lighter items on top. Or put the boxed items standing upright, rather than just tossing my Wheat Thins in randomly. > > But I got it all home safely. My tortellini might have been a bit smashed, but I can hide it with sauce. And I don’t think the cucumbers were too bruised. But the boy on the register needs some more training. I won’t be going thru his line any time soon. > > End of geezer mode. Whew! Great story, **Zaka**! If you’d lived closer to me, I could have made you a deal on a piano. Mine has been sitting in the tiniest bedroom for years. It has stuff piled upon it and its bench. I can’t recall the last time I played it - 8 years maybe? One part of me wants it gone, but the other part clings to it. That’s why I still have my accordion - altho I did play it 6 years ago when my daughter was teaching 2nd grade. I took it to her classroom to show the kids and let them try it. In fact, my folks had given it to me when I was in the 2nd grade. It seemed so huge back then! Anyway, welcome to the Kingdom of the Mumpers! Since you like beer, you and \*\*swampy \*\*and \*\*doggio \*\*will hit it off well! I really should go convert the ground beef to meatloaf… ---
**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 26, 2013, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-i-stayed-up-until-midnight-just-to-post-this-mmp/667180/32 "2013-08-26T16:03:08Z")
I now have a new I Know A Guy to fix my car: Mr. Night Audit Lady. He not only did the transmission/differential service on my car he found that my oil filter was loose and causing me to leak oil and I have a busted CV boot on my car. Polly Subaru is going back up to Weavervegas tomorrow for her new boot and again when she needs an oil change. Plus he’s letting me have the boot at cost so yays! And boos to the oil changing place down the street from the Stately Manor. They used to be pretty good when I started going there four years ago. They’ve slowly degenerated service-wise so the heck with them. Besides, I’d rather go to Mr. NAL because that way I’m helping out NAL who has another mess of medical bills to deal with on top of an oxygen tank. I’m sore from going up and down a mountain yesterday so after I straighten up the Stately Manor I’m going to fritter away my afternoon with some Skyrim. ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2013, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-i-stayed-up-until-midnight-just-to-post-this-mmp/667180/33 "2013-08-26T16:03:18Z")
[QUOTE=Zakalwe] Stop at the pub whilst research is done and texts are sent. One hour later, our workforce has doubled. 30 mins after that, piano is in the house. One worker has a pretty good ding on one toe and I have a pulled muscle in my shoulder/back and I have a lot less beer. [/QUOTE] You got off seriously cheap. 😃 Of course, the various recently surgerized spots in my spine are all going “OWWW!” just thinking of moving a piano. ---
**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:** [August 26, 2013, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-i-stayed-up-until-midnight-just-to-post-this-mmp/667180/34 "2013-08-26T16:23:27Z")
So I should be irking but instead I am reading and stretching and well, not doing shit. I need to get up and get dressed and bop on over to Best Buy but of course my phone is behaving this am. Except once again I have a VM with no indication that somebody has called. I haven’t delivered a newspaper in over two years and one of my old customers called me to tell me he didn’t get his paper again today and how much he misses me and do I have a number he can call to get his paper delivered correctly because calling the paper is not getting any results. He’s a nice man so I put out a few calls to see if I can get him a direct number to somebody who can help him. Still waiting… waiting… waiting… to hear from the mortgage company. My ear is mostly better, my eyes are still red. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2013, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-i-stayed-up-until-midnight-just-to-post-this-mmp/667180/35 "2013-08-26T16:56:49Z")
> [@Draelin](#): > > If it makes you feel better, my dog is still pooping mixed nuts. 🙂 Well, you didn’t really expect them to be sorted, did you? ---
**Author:** ![Sario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sario/32/18580_2.png) [@Sario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sario)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2013, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-i-stayed-up-until-midnight-just-to-post-this-mmp/667180/36 "2013-08-26T17:08:07Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > Dude, yours was. I’m talking with a couple of dealers now and your experience is a sobering reminder. Hope this week’s way better. > > The kiddo has 1st day in 8th grade today. Let the multiple manifestations of pre-teen crises begin! Do your research on any car your looking at, especially if its used. The time and effort is more then worth it. ---
**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:** [August 26, 2013, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-i-stayed-up-until-midnight-just-to-post-this-mmp/667180/37 "2013-08-26T17:11:30Z")
The Princess of course lacks snooze button, and is a champion at “get underfoot”, especially when any of the following apply: human is not wearing her glasses lights are not on human is not fully awake. In other news, blurf. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2013, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-i-stayed-up-until-midnight-just-to-post-this-mmp/667180/38 "2013-08-26T17:22:06Z")
> [@Sario](#): > > Do your research on any car your looking at, especially if its used. The time and effort is more then worth it. I’ve researched the tar out of it for two weeks now. I just called the dealer and told him I would take it for the price we negotiated this morning and to pull it off the market, I’d be there in two hours. He said someone has it out for a test now and that I just better hurry there. I’m so disgusted I could spit. I hate the process, can’t stand 99% of the salesmen. ---
**Author:** ![Zakalwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zakalwe/32/270_2.png) [@Zakalwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zakalwe)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2013, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-i-stayed-up-until-midnight-just-to-post-this-mmp/667180/39 "2013-08-26T17:27:27Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > That’s a great story **Zaka**! > [@Capt\_Kirk](#): > > Hey **Z** and welcome to the MMP, someone will be along shortly to give you a Mumpername if it hasn’t happened while I was typing. It is apparently “Zaka”. 😉 > [@sahirrnee](#): > > and moving a piano sucks even more Yes. Yes it does. > [@FairyChatMom](#): > > Great story, **Zaka**! If you’d lived closer to me, I could have made you a deal on a piano. Heh. Thanks! Nice thing about this one is that it came from a family with a piano student who had progressed to the point where a better piano was needed/wanted. Guy cut me a bit of a deal on the price since it was essentially the mirror of his story when HE bought it. There are nice people out there… > [@](#): > > Anyway, welcome to the Kingdom of the Mumpers! Since you like beer, you and \*\*swampy \*\*and \*\*doggio \*\*will hit it off well! Some would argue that what I like isn’t beer. See the story below. 😛 > [@gotpasswords](#): > > You got off seriously cheap. 😃 > > Of course, the various recently surgerized spots in my spine are all going “OWWW!” just thinking of moving a piano. > [@Capt\_Kirk](#): > > Piano moving is not exactly fun, worth the beerverages eh’? Yeah, I realize that now! I also have learned why comedies and cartoons always show a piano being dropped on someone’s head (assuming a safe isn’t available). Dear Og! Okay, so the other story from the weekend: On Saturday we attended a party at a friend’s house. The theme was “White Trash Bash”. Not my favorite, but whatever. ZakaPrincess refused to dress to fit the theme - which upon reflection fit perfectly since most WT families always have the one that makes good and escapes the trailer park. Anyway, I wore my lawn mowing clothes (old t-shirt with sleeves cut and cut-off cargo shorts, camo flops, and an old camo trucker-style ball cap). Orders were to bring cheap beer - NO CRAFT BEER allowed. Now, as it happens my beer of choice in a bar is Miller Lite. At home, it’s Natural Light (WAY cheaper), so I was set. We get there and it rapidly becomes apparent that only one other guest had any idea what a WTB really is. The costumes were a mix of Deliverance and Beverly Hillbillies. I commented to my wife that I was probably the only one there who didn’t actually have to buy/make anything specifically for the party. So, the beer selection is: Natural Light, Miller Lite, Keystone Light, Michelob Ultra (see what I mean about not getting the theme?), Busch Light, and Bud Light. The first event is a blind beer tasting - shot of beer, name the beer. Most right wins. Well, I won. 4 of 6 right (for the curious, I reversed Natty and Bud Light - they do taste really similar). Next closest was 2, but these guys are mostly micro-brew types. Only big upside to the party was that I discovered Golden Flakes Louisiana Hot Sauce Pork Rinds. Wow - are those things awesome! Now to find a regular supply! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![want2befree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3e96dc/32.png) [@want2befree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2befree)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2013, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-i-stayed-up-until-midnight-just-to-post-this-mmp/667180/40 "2013-08-26T17:38:54Z")
Another Monday and another morning of ex snoring on my couch in the kitchen. He should be getting served with the divorce papers later this week, we’ll see if that gives him a kick in the butt. According to a letter I gave him, August 31 is supposed to be his last day here. Yeah…if you could go ahead and pack your things, that’d be greaat…mmmkay… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-i-stayed-up-until-midnight-just-to-post-this-mmp/667180.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-i-stayed-up-until-midnight-just-to-post-this-mmp/667180.md?page=3)