The pumpkin spice (bleck!) MMP [Old]

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Can you imagine the contact high?

Bonus points if you get them to do your laundry for you.

Maybe that would improve things.

I really like this phrasing, and will use it with Monkey at the next opportunity.

The instructions given by FCM are what I do on my Android phone, too. I will add only that you need to add a line break between each quote and your reply, and then after your reply before the next quote.

His famous song is “I like big butts and I cannot lie.” You’ve heard it, trust me.

The intro to the song is two stereotypical sounding white girls (one is named “Becky”) disparaging a “rap girl” for having a curvy booty.

So a bunch of aging white women wanting to be “rap girls” was the joke.

Bwah-hah-ha! That works exactly never for me. It’s like my brain turns into a wriggling 3-year-old - attempts to pin it down just make the problem worse.

That is so incredibly kind and professional at the same time.

Polar will be missed by many whose lives he touched.

I see what you did there.

Silly when written out and analyzed via “rational brain” but I think you’ll find many (most?) people think this way, mostly subconsciously.

Doesn’t he wear hearing aids?

… and don’t those suckers have an “OFF” button?

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Morning all. A good night’s sleep was had and today’s agenda is pretty bare, so I foresee much slothage in my future. Great day, it’s 60F now heading to 75F so if anything needs doing outside today would be a good day for it.

Butters, welcome home. And if guys are still flirting with you, well, like Pilot said, ya still got it, pretty lady! I get Krystals maybe every other month, they are greasy and don’t last long, but a nice change-up in my diet. And a cross-country AMtrak trip sounds nice, but will take a bit of planning (and a lot of patience…).

I’m usually about 75-77MPH when freeway driving and almost always stay in the right lane so you mad folks can get by me…

nellie, you take care of yourself! Public transport is for you…the public. And yeah, I can think of great comeback lines…usually 4 minutes after I needed them…

{{BBBoo}}, had to look up hiatal hernia and ewwww,hope your diet can improve sometime soon.

Shoe, your manager sounds pretty cool. And while I am aware enough to know who Sir Mix-A-Lot is, can’t say I’m much for his music (old fart syndrome).

OK, need to break fast here in a bit and much more morning internettin’, so best be about it and a good day to all y’all.

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Yeah, I’ve heard it, at least part of it.

And FCD doesn’t wear hearing aids - his dad did. Alas…

The basement is toasty warm and the second load is in the washer. Quality time with the toddler. Life is good.

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So Midnight finished up at 3:20. We were supposed to start at 3:30. Things were a tad compressed, obviously. But A. I get paid by the hour. B. “Not my circus, not my monkeys.”

He’s smart enough to know what it is, unlike Gordie, who once spent 20 minutes looking for The Red Dot after I had to quit because I was laughing so hard.

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Finally made it out to COSTCO with no wrong turns or other nonsense. Relatively loosely packed store today and no parking issues. Also a lack of ditherers and oblivious sorts. Stocked up on all things wipey, blowy and scrubby. Also bacon and butter. Got to checkout and was told that my membership needed renewal. $60 for the year, but I save that with four boxes of Irish butter (compared to buying at the local market), not to mention the savings on bacon.

Restarted exercise classes this morning. After a three month absence it was a struggle getting through the half hour, I can tell you, but I already feel better for it.

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Happy Wednesday, all! It’s been a chilly week so far, but at 1:15pm it’s 67°F and sunny with an expected high of 70: when I get up to grab some lunch, I’ll also open the windows for a while. That will make both the doggy and me happy. :slight_smile:

I was right about going to the gym yesterday: once I was there, I was glad I went. I was a bit tired, but did better with a couple of the exercises than I had before/thought I could so that was a nice tiny victory (there are still plenty of non-victories there :rofl:). I’m quite happy to have no plans this evening, though.

I went to the store on the way home from the gym because I needed protein shakes, and left with $80 worth of groceries…and no protein shakes. :woman_facepalming: And this morning I drank the last one, with my Amazon subscribe-and-save delivery not coming until Friday. So, this morning I placed my second ever Instacart order. This time I went with Walmart, because the shakes I like are a bit cheaper there than at either grocery chain I frequent. I also poked around their other grocery options, and discovered they carry strawberry creme sugar-free Russell Stover candy! Score! Russell Stover makes very decent sugar-free stuff, but I haven’t been able to find the strawberry creme flavor anywhere in quite some time. Sometimes it’s the little things. :slight_smile:

A few weeks ago I learned about a possible event for my volunteer organization to have a table at on the Saturday before Thanksgiving: a big, all-day (9am-4pm) HBCU festival sponsored by an area church. This morning, the organizer notified me that our application has been denied because they’re prioritizing orgs that provide specific things. On paper it was a great fit for us, and might have been a fun day, but frankly I’m relieved! Organizing help for a long day like that is challenging, and honestly after this coming Saturday I’ll be happy to take the next few months off (from attending events). The 2024 events start in February, which is right around the corner in terms of planning.

Excellent! :smiley:

D’oh! I do sometimes forget that most other folks are taller/longer than me (5’3). :slight_smile:

For me, the volume is the key: I set it so that I can hear what’s going on if I want to, but it isn’t loud enough to keep me from falling asleep. Having something on will wake me up, though, so I :heart: sleep timers!

Um…I could help you with that… :grin:

Sometimes I do that when I’m on the way to/from NJ: I’m generally a “no more than 10 mph over the speed limit” driver, but every now and then on a long drive I’ll decide that I’m willing to chance a ticket!

(I haven’t been pulled over in years. *knocks on wood* Maybe even decades, at this point. I’ve gotten a couple of tickets in the mail from Maryland, though, for speeding in work zones on I-95; luckily, those have no points and very small fines.)

Oh, I doubt that: ever done paint-by-numbers? That’s pretty much what LEGO sets are. :grin: They look impressive when they’re done, but putting them together is really just following a bunch of detailed steps. Kinda like assembling IKEA furniture.

I appreciate the thought and the link, but Bailey would never use one. :slight_smile: She sleeps in her dog bed (next to my desk) or on my bed when I’m working, and on the couch when I’m in the living room, but at night she sleeps on the bathroom floor (on a memory-foam bathmat, but still). Crazy mutt. At least her dog bed has the supportive cushioning for old doggies in it.

Never!! :smiley:

It just means that sometimes it’s hard for me to love you. :grin:

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GodBod, so glad college is going well!!

{{{{Taters}}}}, I’m so sorry to hear about Polar.

My curmudgeonliness calmed down a bit with some decent sleep a couple of days in a row. As a bonus, it was nice & stormy this morning and now it’s glorious and sunny. Work is silly at this point. My new boss is really nice, but we spend the vast majority of our time together (after she joins our meeting 20-30 minutes late) with me reminding her of what the team does, her exclaiming how little she knows about my team and promising to set aside some time to get to know our products better, promptly not doing that, then asking about box reports.

When I’m not filling out box reports, I’m helping the team translate their specialized work plans into the organizational work plan because I’d rather they spend time doing the stuff in their work plans than changing them to a format that works less well but my boss likes better. Or we’re all driving into our separate offices (one on the East coast, two separate offices in Texas, one in Florida, one in Indiana and a different one here in MO) to sit in cubicles on zoom calls with each other because being in the offices encourages “collaboration” (though with who I’m not sure; I’m thinking it encourages tax breaks instead).

Okay, fine - I’m still feeling curmudgeonly, but more awake.

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I hate to say it, but that might mean it’s on its way out. If an unopened package has any decent shelf life, I suggest you buy a coupla more packages.

You need an Allen wrench for LEGO sets now?

Plug that sucker in right next to your desk, and turn the temp down to the coolness you want.

That’s dumb. Concur that tax benefits or something similar is the real reason. Awesome that you have to spend your time, gas, car mileage etc. for someone else’s benefit.

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Hi all! Midafternoon as I wander into the MMP for the first time today. I have read and processed everyone’s comments but will only feed back on a very few.

Congrats to all the good, and boo to the various vexations. Fortunately, it sounds like nobody here is having a crisis today. Yaay for that!


It’s amazing how much smoother commerce goes when the participants are willing to lie to the authorities about any inconvenient features of what they’re doing.

And that Polish language tee-shirt is great. Awesome find!


These were the exact same letter, just different dollar amounts. I think they sent the first, then by coincidence the very next day they processed my IRMAA numbers, changing everything, so they sent out a new one to revise the old one. Any bureaucracy is subject to the same kinds of timing risks, this was only funny / frustrating because it was a day apart, not 4 weeks later or whatever.


Yayay for both of you!! Now I just need some of that ambition to echo around over here. I did get some walking in.


“HBCU” is what now?

We’ve had shorter two-person “loveseats” for years; no room for a full-length couch in our TV-watching spots. My late first wife was 5’3" as well and loved sleeping in the love seat. New wife is even smaller 4’10", but could no more nap than flap her arms and fly.


As to me:
Was up pre-dawn balconatin’ and catching up on reading & such. A bit post-dawn went beaching (Great day for it) and returned 3 hours later to find Her Ladyship still asleep! Took my shower in the other bathroom and shortly thereafter she emerged. She sheveled then dual breakfasts right at the crack of 12 noon. Had a short talk with my PCP’s insurance billing lady because Medicare rejected my very first claim. Not a great omen. She wasn’t much concerned, said it sometimes takes a month or two before they realize your employee insurance has ended, so now they need to shoulder the primary burden. I’m chill as long as the PCP is.

Afterwards I launched off to do a mini-groc, the CVS, and to pick up my new spectacles with the revised prescription. Ref FCM’s complaints about Food Lion, there was a series of ginormous displays of Halloween themed cookies, pastries, candies, etc. obstructing the entrance to the groc store. Had to be 30 distinct SKUs of sugary evil. Quite the gauntlet to get past unscathed. But resist I did.

Last time a couple days ago they got to me for a bag of the pumpkin-shaped Reese’s peanut butter cups. More for Her Ladyship than me. I hope. :grin:

Now home & slothin’ ‘til it’s feedin’ time agin.

Like Nellie’s experience, my new specs are a big improvement. Yaay us. My doc cranked up the reading correction to 2.5, which is probably about all you can get in progressives; to see for distance I now have to look aggressively out the very top of them to avoid looking through the beginnings of the close-up part. Between that and the astigmatism, there’s a lot of swimming in my peripheral vision when I turn my head. Going to be some getting-used to, but there always is. Overall, color me happy about the glasses, but less than happy about the unending march of age-related far-sightedness.

It grayed up and sprinkled a bit then has switched back to partly cloudy. Some chance of t-storms later, like almost always around here. A pleasant flavor of warm.

Now casting about a bit for an evening plan. It’ll come to us.

Cheers all!!

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I almost bought it last Spring, but I didn’t want to spend $22 on it. I do like the phrase in the original Polish though, so I may get it yet.

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Sitting in the car in Daughter’s driveway, Tobias snoozing in his car seat, waiting for Roxy’s bus. On the way here, I realized I hadn’t taken anything out of the freezer for supper. What I want is a big salad. I may stop by Aldi for a sack o’ greens. We shall see…

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I’m definitely glad that work is quiet, but wow has this afternoon dragged! At least it’s finally 4pm, which means quittin’ time is in sight.

I’m a proponent of being in the office more, but I’m definitely in the minority on my program and I won’t go sit in an empty room just to be on Teams calls all day. I went in one day last week (because the deputy program manager was also there), but until then I hadn’t been to the office since July.

Nah, this flavor has been around forever; it’s just not carried at the stores I tend to go to (other sugar-free Russell Stovers are). I’m tickled to know that the local Walmart – which I’ve been to exactly once since it opened ten years ago – has it!

I said “KINDA.” :stuck_out_tongue:

…but, some LEGO sets do come with a tool!

I appreciate the effort, but you’re omitting/overlooking several key details: she only sleeps next to my desk when I’m working, and that’s not when I’d want to keep the house cooler. I’d only want to do that at night, which is when she sleeps in the bathroom.

I’ve been getting by just fine with overnight temps of 68-70 vs 63-65…it isn’t really a problem that needs solving. :slight_smile:

Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

Also, sorry! I assumed “HBCU” was more widely known. At least that time it wasn’t white-collar jargon… :wink:

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The Spousal Unit was talking about getting a gourmet pizza for dinner last night. (She’s been wanting pizza for a week or two.) So I was all ready for a couple of delicious slices when I got home from Burien. Got a text on the way home. She decided to have a kebab wrap instead. Just as well, since it took 3:35 to get home. Gods, I hate that drive! (120 miles each way, but only once a week.) I don’t know if she’ll order pizza tonight. If not, I might do a chicken stir-fry.

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I have no clue how to pronounce it. I hope we’ve got a Polish speaker who can try to edumacate us.

I’ve been the primary family cook for many, many years, although not so much any more. I have never taken the salad out of the freezer, not once. :wink:

Some of your shifts of logic are just priceless. I get what you mean, and they’re fun to read!

In my work world, “CU” was almost always “Control Unit” and in my late first wife’s work world it was almost always “Credit Union.” So [something something Control Unit] or [something something Credit Union]. I really had no idea what exactly you do other than it’s governmental, so no way to narrow down the field of possibliities.

I have certainly read the phrase “Historically Black Colleges and Universities” in the past. And thinking about it now, it’s unsurprising it’s been acronymated (acronymified? acronymized?) by the folks in the biz. Thanks. TIL. :grin: :crazy_face:

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I can’t find a good audio link, but it’s roughly ‘Nyee moy sirk, nyee moya malpy’, with a non-english ‘r’ pronunciation.

Try using Nie mój cyrk, nie moje małpy in Google Translate and click the speaker icon. (I don’t know if you need the special characters, so just copy and paste the text I posted.)

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Walking is the most underrated of exercises. It helps lower cholesterol, blood sugar and blood pressure while promoting circulation. Get after that shit.

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I walked my 3.1 miles today. An elderly couple remarked that I was wearing shorts and a T-shirt, and wondered that I wasn’t cold. (Come on, it’s 60º Ferret Height!) I saw an 84-year-old and his dog Oliver. We encounter each other most days. And I saw a neighbour I haven’t seen in a while, and her dog Enzo.

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Got my 1.5 miles in today in the semi-hard sand and ankle-deep seawater. The beach slopes side-to-side of course, but is also dead flat coming and going. Sea level is really really level. :wink:

My problem is I oughta be doing 5, not 1.5 and wimping out on the rest. The Lazy is strong in this one. But I’ve gotten over the hardest hurdle, getting up from zero every day.

Thanks for the encouragement, Master Chief.

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Howdy Y’all! Provisions were procured along with fried chikin N.O.L.s. Stuff got stowed, N.O.L. got et, and nappage ensued. We day drank out on the back porch while watchin’ it rain. Easily entertained we are. Thus has it been in swampland on Hump Day. Have I mentioned lately how much I lurve bein’ a retired drain on society?