The next MMP

Howdy Y’all! Miss me? :smiley:

I worked til 3 A.M. this mornin’, came home, showered, and crashed about 4:30 and slept til noon. This afternoon I was birthday feasted early at a two friends’ house. It was a pool party. What? Yes I know I have a pool but they wanted to throw me a bash at their pool. 'Twas nice. We had a major feast of chicken, ribs, some great N.O.T. that they do on the grill, (cut N.O.T. in chunks, dice up some onion and bell pepper, add butter and seal it all up in foil, takes bout 45 minutes to cook and sooooooo good!), fresh green beans, pineapple coleslaw, (recipe can be found at recipezar.com) cheesey bread and, of course ice cream and cake. Speaking of which, here’s pictures of my birthday cake. Ain’t it jake! My friend Joan is taking a cake decorating class and she did that just for me. It was a red velvet cake with buttercream icing. The middle layer was french vanilla cake, with the top and bottom layers being red velvet. The filling between the layers was a cream cheese and pecan filling. YUM!!!

Snakes Libby continues to be in my thoughts and prayers.

Haze sorry your brother and you had to experience that racist asshole.

Dotty Noor is just a lil’ ol’ cutie pie!

Special1 and Rebo thanks for the bday wishes, although here I got another hour and fifty minutes before it’s for real.

Y’all ignore Moooooom’s comments about me. Cranky old broads just get like that, ya know. :smiley:

To those traveling, be safe. To all others, yay, boo, woohoo, awww, etc. My brain can’t register everything.

I’ve started work on Monday’s MMP, which I intend to have up shortly after midnight EDT since I’m used to bein’ up at that time now.

Later Y’all!

ETA: Thanks for the bday wishes MBG and you and Mrs. MBG done good today!

since everyone else has already done so:
Happy Birthday, swampbeEr!!!

BioRosie I do believe that is the most colorful Happy Birthday I have ever gotten. Thanks! It’s jake! :smiley:

Happy Birthday Swampy!!!

Okay, my parents came in for the sharp edge of my tongue this morning - they toddled off to a 40th High School Reunion at the first school they worked at as teachers (about 1,500km away from where they currently live), but they forgot to mention it to me. So I have been trying since Thursday to call them without success. I finally got my Dad on his mobile this morning and told him I didn’t appreciate worrying myself sick for no good reason! He sounded very penitent!

Ahhhh, Sunday - happy weekend to all those who are enjoying the traditional Western weekend and Special1, get off your arse and go to work already!!! :wink:

I wasn’t following. I was [del]stalking[/del] cleaning up after you!

Happy Beerthday Swampy!

Thanks for all the beerthday wishes Y’all! :smiley: Over here I am wishin’ happy birthday to my brother and sister doper “quints”, Bear_Nenno, Ayesha, EJsGirl and Kyla. Y’all go on over and wish them a happy birthday too. I’m the oldest “quint”.

Happy Beerthday SWAMPY!!

OK then. 10 PM. You know where. And which time zone :smack:
Right?

Oh, I definitely think we should be “going there” :wink: :stuck_out_tongue:

Y’know, now I think of it… it’s all kind of hazy, but I do remember sharing some distinctly dirty fun :slight_smile:

Chemicals doesn’t sound too bad. Especially ethanol… that’s a chemical, right?

WARNING Some seriousness ahead

Hmm… I’m starting to get a hunch. Always a (lone?) guy. Always picking on an attractive* (ethnically/racially different) female. I’m seeing a pattern here… why aren’t they yelling after ethnic men? Or older, not-so-attractive females? Methinks they’re getting themselves more than one kind of “jollies” at once, here… :eek: :rolleyes: :mad:

  • Well, actually I only have proof for some of you. I need cites from the rest. Purely for purposes of scientific research, of course! :smiley:

(But, seriously, my point stands – that they’re “getting off” on this, as well as being plain bigots)

– where do you think I’m posting from? :slight_smile:

Yeah, yeah, but were you at work when I posted at 7:30am? Huh, Huh??? :smiley:

Well, hubby’s birthday parcel from my sister in Cleveland finally arrived this morning - she posted it on July 5th, but it apparently went via Bermuda ( :smack: ). Hmmmm, Bermuda, Bahrain … Nuh, I can’t see the ambiguity! :dubious: But apart from the Calvin Klein jeans and belt for hubby (from some discount store the name of which I can’t recall), Sis also popped in some CK jeans and a Ralph Lauren Polo denim dress for Noor! :smiley: Soooo cute!!! (Not that I want my daughter to be a fashion plate, but come on - allow me a little gloat!)

No, but I was out of the house and on my way to work by 7:45. Which is actually pretty early, we’ve pretty much taken to the 9 AM start of US culture, at least in High-Tech, but given I’m taking off for two weeks in a few days, and I have lots of stuff to finish at work…
Yeah, I know, “so what are you doing posting instead of working?” Well, thankfully, the infrastructure build cycle still takes about 6 minutes a pop…

Cite? :slight_smile:

ETA: Page 12!? :confused: :eek:

Well, no cite, but will some photos in due course satisfy you???

Well, natch. :slight_smile:

What did you think I meant? :confused: (:D/:eek:?)

I dunno - I need to wash the clothes before she wears them (refer this thread), so I … never mind. I’m an idiot!!! :smack:

Hey Swampy! [post=8827944]Look here[/post]!!! I [del]stole[/del]wrote you a birthday poem!!! :smiley:

Happy Beerday Swampy!, that looks like a fantastic cake. I hope you’re saving some for the HumperMumpers!

We had a fun night out at the Wellington last night, there were ten of us in the end and some were folks we hadn’t seen for quite a while. The choice of beers was great, although 'im indoors got a surprise when he tried a pint of Cherry Bomb and found it tasted very strongly of almonds. It was a proper marzipan pint.

We made it home by about 1am and stayed up a bit longer drinking a cup of post-pub tea so we’re blissfully hangover-free today. It’s going to be a lazy day though, I have nothing pressing to do so I think I’ll have a nicely relaxing day. At the moment I’m lazing on the sofa with the laptop now that it’s been wireless’d properly.

'im indoors is threatening to drill holes in the floor upstairs and faffing about with cables for his computers and stuff, there’s something to do with networking going on but it’s too complicated for my poor little brain so I’m just letting him get on with it.

The veg man brought me beetroot this week so I think today I shall make chocolate cake with it. That’ll be yummy!

I may be late to the party here, but I sent off the appropriate e-card a week ago, with a delayed deliver date, so I was ready. Anyway,
Happy Swampster Day, you old fart!! I keep meaning to send a song to you - I was listening to one of my Limeliters CDs and they do a song called “The Bear Chase” - it cracked me up as a kid and is still does. I need to figure out the best way to share it with you.

I had a terrible night - kept waking up for no apparent reason. Then about 4:30, Brandy came in, stood on my pillow, and dripped cat snot in my eye. Now that’s a heck of a way to wake up! :eek: I dozed again fitfully, but a little after 6, I gave up and got up. Now the dogs are crashed and Miss Snot-Dripping Brandy is curled up between my back and the back of the chair. Guess that’s what I get for leaning forward a bit.

I should take advantage of the quiet and go make more monsters in the basement. ummmm, maybe later. We discussed going to the teeming metropolis of Waldorf today so I could get some new sneaks, but the sneak store doesn’t open till 11, and that’ll chop our day right in half. I may wait till next Sat when I’m up there anyway to get the oil changed (for free) in my car.

Speaking of my car, did you know that glass isn’t covered under warranty? I’ve got a big old crack snaking from the rubber gasket up to the middle of my windshield, and I’ve got to replace it myself. I haven’t even had this car 6 months. That doth well and truly suck.

And speaking of real estate, we drove around our neighborhood (all 3 streets of it) to check out what’s for sale. The latest is on the street that parallels ours - listed for $450K!! I don’t know if they’ll get it, but prices like that are good for our equity.

Happy Sunday, all! Now where’s our doggone birthday cake?!?!? :stuck_out_tongue:

Sorry y’all, the birthday cake got et. What can I say. My friends are just big ol’ hawgs!

Thanks for the bday wishes. Dotty the poem is a hoot! It’s jakely jake!

Up and caffienatin’ here. Soon I need to start purtyin’ up for church. Afterwards I’m bein’ lunched. After that I get alone time with ol’ y’all know who cause I want some appreciation. :smiley:

Have a great day everybody!

ETA: I noticed the old broad managed to string together a fairly coherent bday wish. My guess is she back on the meds. :stuck_out_tongue:

yeah, yeah, bite me, bear:stuck_out_tongue:

~Happy Birthday, Swampbeer!!!~