# The MMP is here **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [June 7, 2010, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mmp-is-here/542262 "2010-06-07T12:06:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2010, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mmp-is-here/542262/21 "2010-06-07T15:44:31Z")
My dog hates rain, too. She will stand just outside the door where water streams off the roof and get soaked, but she could take a couple more steps and just get rain drizzle and not get as wet - she doesn’t understand that. ---
**Author:** ![ems](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@ems](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ems)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2010, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mmp-is-here/542262/22 "2010-06-07T16:11:39Z")
My first official day olf working from home today and I have tons to do! **mr ems** has a skin doctor appointment right now and he complained all the way out the door so I have the house to myself and I am being productive. Gotta get back to it! ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2010, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mmp-is-here/542262/23 "2010-06-07T17:07:55Z")
> [@WhyNot](#): > > **kinniptions** : a fit, snit or rage that only family members can inspire. I see what you did there. (Okay, Don’t read on if critter mortality squicks you out!) Weird thing happened Saturday. The previous homeowner put in a built-in grill under the patio. However, it needs a thorough cleaning so we’ve been using our old Weber. So I open the doors underneath the built-in to start the process and see a mouse leap through the gas connect hole and get behind the wall. I tell my wife, she comes out to see and spots the mouse on the patio looking very injured, kinda laying on it’s side and not moving much. But a minute before it’s leaping through holes all agile-like. What gives? I deftly scooped him with a shovel and took him out to a field. Okay, so then I put a snap trap back under the grill, return an hour later and… it’s gone. Are you thinking what I’m thinking? [spoiler]A venomous snake bit the first one that I startled, hence it going from agile to death curl. The trap caught another mouse and, deprived of it’s first meal the same snake tried to eat the second mouse. Under my grill I’ll find a snake who’s belly slightly resembles a mouse in a snap trap. Or not. I’d actually be shocked if that was it, I’m just kinda pee-O’d that we can haz meeces.[/spoiler] ---
**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:** [June 7, 2010, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mmp-is-here/542262/24 "2010-06-07T17:36:09Z")
**Herbs** prayers and good thoughts headed out to George. **lieu** daid meece stories are fine. I don’t like meeces. They should be daid. Today I have sent out six resumes with cover letters, finished sanitizin’ da cave and mowed da yahd. I has been right productive I has! **Coyote** HEE! That gave me the giggles. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2010, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mmp-is-here/542262/25 "2010-06-07T18:07:25Z")
I did some dishes yesterday, cleaned a couple litter boxes today, sorted mail, and partially cleaned one bathroom so here is my earned gripe … It’s sooo freaking hot! I haven’t had working central a/c for years. I know it’s not a fix it job, it’s a replacement job and I can’t afford thousands of dollars right now, even if I got it financed. So I pretty much never get anything done in the summer because I melt into a puddle in front of a fan for the season. I can’t do it anymore, my critters can’t do it anymore. So I’m going to buy a portable one and just live in my living room. Even if it only cools to 80 degrees, it’s still better than 92. However, I just figured my finances and I can’t afford it until I can deposit my paycheck on Thursday. Must suffer a few more days. ---
**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:** [June 7, 2010, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mmp-is-here/542262/26 "2010-06-07T18:38:38Z")
I wandered downtown today to get some [Tibetan Prayer Flags](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibetan_prayer_flag) to hang off the balcony. Then I went to [My Favorite Coffeeshop](http://www.firestormcafe.com/) for a pot of Earl Grey and some writin’ time. Today my goals are to get my thesis pdf’d and sent out. Then I’ll mail the last two pages of paper work and I will be **D.O.N.E.** ---
**Author:** ![RalfCoder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@RalfCoder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RalfCoder)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2010, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mmp-is-here/542262/27 "2010-06-07T18:45:24Z")
I spent the weekend up north - about the 4th one so far. Mom finally decided to sell her house, and downsize into a senior’s apartment. So I’ve been up there helping fix up the house, and Missus Coder came along once or twice to help clean out. Mom’s been a packrat since forever, and I swear some of the stuff we found was the same stuff I saw 2 houses and 30 years ago. The place is still cluttered, but it’s amazing to look at it now and remember how it was 2 months back. Now it’s just time to find that perfect buyer. Anyone wanna place up north to call home - or home away from home??? Tonight - I mow the lawn. It rained both days when I was gone, and it’s a jungle out there!!! ---
**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:** [June 7, 2010, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mmp-is-here/542262/28 "2010-06-07T19:33:26Z")
BLTs for dindin tonight. I’s tahred and fryin’ bacon (fully clothed thank you!) is all I can manage. Ok, I’m too lazy to cook anything else. Besides I have frest 'maters. MMMMMM… fresh 'maters! ---
**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:** [June 7, 2010, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mmp-is-here/542262/29 "2010-06-07T20:01:00Z")
Can I go home now? Please? My supervisor is getting on my last nerve. I can usually let it roll off my back, but today I’m just extra irritable because I’m so worried and sad about my dog. I am a fucking GS-11, thankyewverymuch. I’m not some GS-3 clerk-typist who needs direction. STay the fuck out of my work and contacts if you’re not going to do any of it anyway. Dammit! You’re just pissing them off and confusing them and they’re sending me “WTF” messages. Arrgh. ---
**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:** [June 7, 2010, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mmp-is-here/542262/30 "2010-06-07T20:14:46Z")
If Roommate Andles doesn’t STFU about his freaking bluetooth mouse not working after he got back this weekend, I may have to slaughter him. Just because you’ve worked with computers for 20 years does not make you immune to getting a virus on your system. If he hadn’t been so busy trying to assign blame last night and instead uninstalled and reinstalled the drivers like he should have, the damn thing might have been working twenty-four hours ago. :rolleyes: Aren’t people fun? ---
**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:** [June 7, 2010, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mmp-is-here/542262/31 "2010-06-07T20:37:32Z")
> [@SpazCat](#): > > Aren’t people fun? Not really. ---
**Author:** ![MsChilePepper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@MsChilePepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsChilePepper)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2010, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mmp-is-here/542262/32 "2010-06-07T20:45:00Z")
In what may be an exercise in futility, I stayed up all last night, so I can go to bed at a decent hour tonight and get my wonked-up sleep schedule back on track. I don’t know if I’m gonna make it. I keep staying up until 3, 4, 5am or later, then go to bed and zonk out until 1 or 2pm. Bleh! Gotta get back on track or getting back to work is gonna be HELL! ---
**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:** [June 7, 2010, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mmp-is-here/542262/33 "2010-06-07T21:16:05Z")
**HotStuff** ain’t too many things worse than a wonked out sleep schedule. Try to make it until 8:00 pm if’n you can. That’s a decent hour. Or later. Or just ignore me. What do I know! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![taxi78cab](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47c2d/32.png) [@taxi78cab](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/taxi78cab)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2010, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mmp-is-here/542262/34 "2010-06-07T21:29:19Z")
Blah. At work. With a case of the blahs. ---
**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:** [June 7, 2010, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mmp-is-here/542262/35 "2010-06-07T22:12:30Z")
Oh what the hell? I’ve submitted my thesis to the electronic submission site and it’s asking me to pay $55? Seriously? Is the budget that tight that the freaking university can’t cover the cost to submit a thesis? I’m getting real tired of emailing the lady at the grad school and I’m sure she’s tired of seeing a new email from me every day. Stupid university. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2010, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mmp-is-here/542262/36 "2010-06-07T22:19:36Z")
OK, finally a chance to post. I did my anti-terrorist training today - rah. I didn’t read any of it - just clicked thru and took the test. It was pretty much common sense anyway, altho I did learn that if someone is shooting, you crouch behind big furniture because ricocheting bullets tend to stay low. But if they’re hurling grenades, you lay flat on the floor, because the shrapnel goes up. So remember that if terrorists come to your office. I came home and fired up the grill. Daughter and I prepped 17 russet N.O.T. and I cooked them while marinating tuna steaks. Carrots on the side. Very yummy dinner, with plenty of leftover N.O.T. to make twict-bakeds. Yum. Off with daughter to sign up for a Zumba class. It should be, um, something… Laterz… ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2010, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mmp-is-here/542262/37 "2010-06-07T22:48:33Z")
[QUOTE=lieu] (Okay, Don’t read on if critter mortality squicks you out!) [/QUOTE] Okay. i won’t. 😉 Lovely weather today, positively effecting my mood. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2010, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mmp-is-here/542262/38 "2010-06-07T23:37:11Z")
I killded the MMP on a Monday evening! That deserves a [LOL](http://cheezburger.com/View/3608878848)! 😃 ---
**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:** [June 7, 2010, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mmp-is-here/542262/39 "2010-06-07T23:49:08Z")
I revived the MMP! Live! Live! Live! It’s fun to sit upon the bed, watchin’ teevee and playin’ on the net! ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2010, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mmp-is-here/542262/40 "2010-06-08T00:07:42Z")
Back. We’re signed up for 5 classes starting June 22. And on Saturday, the school is doing a showcase, which is like a recital, but since there are lots of adult students, they call it a showcase. Anyway, it’s $5, so daughter and I are going, and \*\*FCD \*\*probably won’t. It’s been a loverly day - I’ve had the windows open all day, and it’s supposed to drop into the 50s tonight - goooooooood sleepin’ weather. This is supposed to last till Thurs or Fri. yay! And on that note, off to finish reading my comics. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mmp-is-here/542262.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mmp-is-here/542262.md?page=3)