The n00bing of the MMP -- a tale of hubris and temerity

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I’ll concede right here at the outset that I may be violating the spirit of the Moanday Morning Post tradition, on account of some folks’s contention that it’s not really morning until the sun comes up.

On the one hand, I don’t really care – I’m in first this week, and that’s an experience they can’t take away from me. OTOH, I don’t really care – to risk the ongoing opprobrium of the powerful Mumpers lobby, so if I’m stompin’ on anyone’s tootsies here, just say so, and I’ll refrain from being so uppity in the future.

Anyhow, down to beeswax: the spouse and offspring are presumably both sawing logs in their respective beds, while your faithful correspondent sits on the other side o’ town, babysitting the mechanical behemoths which ensure that when you fill out a prank subscription to Leather & Latex Annual Gimp Suit Edition on behalf of your local Sunday School superintendent, the periodical gets delivered to the superintendent, and not to his next-door neighbor who won’t appreciate your hilarious wit. The behemoths in question take quite a bit of babysitting, and I’ve already had to contend with one catastrophic failure which degraded operation to 50% capacity for an hour, and two separate software anomalies on other machines that simply required reboots of a single operator’s console.

Lunch is about an hour and a half into the future. I haven’t decided if I prefer to nosh from the vending machines or drive over to Carl’s Jr. for a burger and shake.

Anyway, break time is over. Back to the salt mines for me, and I hope this finds all you senior Mumpers rested, refreshed, and ready to greet April 7th with a smile and a roar of anticipation.

Or at least a growl of resentful defiance. :slight_smile:

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Thanks for starting us off, Dad! The rule here, such as it is, is that it’s morning somewhere! :smiley: There’s no sun in southern Merrylande either and I’m glad you got the ball rolling because I would have started things in some bizarro and random way - OK, fairly typical for the MMP. But you didn’t violate any protocol, so there ya go!

Because it’s early and my brain is not yet functioning at full capacity, I can’t decide whether you work for the USPS or a magazine printer/publisher. And, no, I don’t want to subscribe to L&LAGSE, thanks. Around here, magazines just get chewed up by a cat or a dog or both. And reading paper magazines is *so *20th century anyway…

**FCD **got up with Higgs, but I couldn’t sleep, so I let him go back to bed while I surf and read and stuff. Our tentative plan is to leave around 7:30 and head to the dump so we can be there when they open at 8, in the hopes that we beat the rain. However, if it’s raining, we may postpone that adventure till tomorrow. Either way, he’s got an eye exam appointment at 9:45 in the wilds of California, so I’ll drop him off, then make a run to the wilds of WalMart before heading back to retrieve him. Beyond that, no specific plans.

My mother returns from her cruise around New Zealand tomorrow evening. She’ll get to LA tonight, but she and her traveling roomie decided they’d stay over rather than risk missing connections. Kinda the same reasoning she and I employed for our cruise this summer - we get to London a day early, just to be safe. Another bennie of being retired - you’re not constrained by work schedules.

Thus beginneth my week. Happy Moanday, all!!

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Second! Juvenility ensues!

I think I should subscribe to that magazine on behalf of both sets of neighbours we’ve currently got. Reggae Retard won’t understand what it’s all about, but it might give the Polechavs a few ideas for something to do besides playing bad 80s pop at full volume on a Saturday night.

I suppose technically, N.O.Lunch and Dottygumdrop have morning officially before the rest of us, I think Nuts and I would be next, followed by Nava depending on which country she’s working in at the time. Most Mondays, there’s no MMP when I log in at work so I could be starting it almost every week unless one of the US late birds is still up and posting. But I am the shy and retiring kind (not the retired kind like moooom) so I leave it to someone with something far more interesting to say.

Ho hum. Back to exam papers…

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Happy Monday!

Third!!

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Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffienatin’. YAWN Ok, already caffienated, purtified and leavin’ in a bit to go meet OYKW for brekkie at Pearly’s just cause. 'Tis 64 Amurrkin out and not rainy at the moment with a predicted high of 75 for the day and rain/tstorm/apocalypse. Flash flood watch in effect even, rah.

DAAAAAAD thanks for startin’ us off. Anybody can start the MMP about anything for any reason cause, well, the OP is just gonna get hijacked to heck and back. So, feel free to do this anytime. We’ll ignore your witty and erudite OP just like we do everybody else’s. :smiley:

Ok, gotta go surf a couple other things right quick then hit the road. 'Tis Moanday, alack and alas.

Happy Moanday Y’all!

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Now, you’ve been here quite long enough to know that “interesting” is not a prerequisite of the MMP. Admit it - you’re lazy! You’re a taker! You expect everyone else to do the heavy lifting while you lie back with your cup of tea and your purring kitten and you look down your nose and the mere rabble with amused detachment while silently mocking their valiant attempts to get the ball rolling! ADMIT IT!!!

Or I could be making a really bad assumption here…

:smiley:

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Actually, moooom, you could be absolutely right!

Sadly I am at work without a cup of tea and no purring kittens. I will have to content myself with peering down my nose (and over the top of my specs) at the rabble. I should take up knitting and build a guillotine, shouldn’t I?

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I’d pay good money to see you knit a guillotine!

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Morning all,

I completely fell for the seductive lure of the Herb Planting Goddess and made my requisite 20 or so variatal of offerings to her in the lovely raised beds Mr. Jynxsters made for me last year. There is still room for a couple of more offerings and I haven’t been to all the nurseries in the area yet… Next month I (read Mr. Jynxster) shall plow the virgin earth and create my alter to the God of Vegetables to include but not limited to peppers (red, yellow, purple and jalapeno), tomatoes and perhaps some variety of squash.

Mr. Jynxster had much success with his tasks for last Friday. He made a surprisingly easy call to the place that holds the lien on his truck. They agreed he did not owe any monies and are sending him a letter in 7-10 business days saying so. The taxes are done did, and we finally get some doller bills y’all back from the gobermint after owing for the past 3 years. The lawn mower is at the shop, although that had to wait until I returned home as it did not fit into Mr. Jynxster’s car. It will be 2-3 weeks before they can get it back to us, but thats what you get for waiting. I know Mr. Jynxster is super disappointed that he won’t be able to mow anytime soon…NOT!

That was my weekend, other than 1 million loads of laundry and making sausage, kale soup for Mr. Jynxster’s lunches this week. Oh and I bought some new bedding for our bed that has dragonflies on it. Its purdy.

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My mother said the only thing I was good at knitting was holes, so you might have a long wait for that!

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Blurf.

S’pose I should get my carcass outta bed and start making The Hippy’s Breakfast for FDiL, because it’s her favorite. That would be biscuits and groovy…

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Daaddd, the only rule is it should be moaning where you is. After midnight is moaning time.
BooFae, a guillotine both has a hole in the frame & is used for making holes.

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Whine whine whine. I didn’t sleep well and I don’t want to be here. Whine whine whine.

But it’s definitely not winter anymore, so I can try to be happy about that. :slight_smile:

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Don’t worry, **dad **- I think I started an MMP on a Sunday night once.

I gotta go vote in the election soon. I hope it won’t take long, but I have the whole day off anyway.

This afternoon I’ll see if I can write some music. If I’m not feeling too physically and emotionally bad. Been emotional lately…

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Morning Mumpers! I’m de-lurking to boast that I had a great weekend including movies, lunch with friends to plan our girly weekend, and attending the last day of a music festival with my hubby where we partied until 2 am then spent all day yesterday bemoaning the fact that we are too old for this shit. :slight_smile:

Happy moanday all!

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Ooh, what herbs ya plantin’ Jynx?

I’m thinking of starting all my squish collection off this week- I think I have 15 kinds I want to grow this year. I have plenty of ground space, and squish are great for covering everything up, thus making it look like you’ve been busy, but I needs to start 'em all at home to get a long enough season, and I have no idea where I’ll be able to put 'em… The windowsills are all already taken over by baby tomatoes and chillies.

Was going to do gardenin’ today, but it’s wet, windy an 'orrible, despite the forecast saying it’d be nice. Maybe I’ll just plant some more seeds at home, and do boring stuff like washing. Hopefully the nice will arrive tomorrow.

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All righty. I decided the pickin’s were too slim in the vending machines today, so I’m currently digesting a Carl’s Big burger and chocolate shake.

Mooooom, your first guess about my employer was correct, which is why, for the past sx years, your initials have been causing me to think, not of communications with maternal sprites, but of envelopes with postage stamps on (First Class Mail for those of you playing along at home).

According to my work calendar, it’s drawing near to quittin’ time on Friday afternoon. And paradoxically, it’s also Monday morning and the first day back from spring break for my high school senior. I anticipate her being VERY blurffy today, which is why I graciously declined my supervisor’s kind offer of an extra hour-and-a-half of overtime to mostly clean stray packaging materials out of some glorified trash compactors.

Once I get home, I’ve got quite a day. Take Kayla to school, get some laundry started, go out and get a tire put on the Edge, fix lunch for kaylasmom, MAYBE get a nap, pick up Kayla and $150 of See’s fundraising chocolate, deliver some of it to a couple of our blind friends (the rest will be distributed next Sunday, at church), fix dinner.

I also still have last week’s episode of The Big Bang Theory on the DVR, and a mobility instructor is coming around to.start teaching kaylasmom how to.use her personal talking GPS receiver. And Kayla might have rehearsal for Sweeney Todd (she’s been cast as Mrs. Lovett, so most days she will need to stay).

Just abou time to give her a wake-up call, which will require the use of this phone, so I better hit “Submit” and get to that.

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Good morning all. I dropped this week’s link into last weeks’ MMP. Just be cause otherwise I’d get confused.

Hope this week goes well for those that need it.

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blurf

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Once it’s Monday in your time zone, the new thread is fair game unless someone’s asked to be the starter. You’re good. :smiley:

I really have to stop staying up past midnight on work nights. 5:20am is held WAY too early.