# The SuEPs of the MMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [March 28, 2016, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sueps-of-the-mmp/750446 "2016-03-28T09:18:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2016, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sueps-of-the-mmp/750446/141 "2016-03-31T17:43:52Z")
**thoughtless** , did you bring beer and chawklit? šŸ˜› **Emily** , Iā€™ve decided that the ukulele is the next instrument that I want to learn. How hard was it? Yay! Month end and all of my stuff is turned in. SIL and I are looking at a road trip to East Tennessee this weekend. Taking mostly state and US routes, weā€™ll get to see a lot. ---
**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:** [March 31, 2016, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sueps-of-the-mmp/750446/142 "2016-03-31T17:45:57Z")
> [@missred](#): > > **Emily** , Iā€™ve decided that the ukulele is the next instrument that I want to learn. How hard was it? I believe they are made of wood. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2016, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sueps-of-the-mmp/750446/143 "2016-03-31T18:24:47Z")
> [@missred](#): > > **Emily** , Iā€™ve decided that the ukulele is the next instrument that I want to learn. How hard was it? It depends on what you want to do with it. If you want to use it to accompany your singing, you can learn a few chords and a few simple songs, or you can work at it a bit more and learn more complex songs and/or instrumental pieces. Of course, when singing I have the problem of having an unusually narrow and weird vocal range. ---
**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:** [March 31, 2016, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sueps-of-the-mmp/750446/144 "2016-03-31T19:25:40Z")
Howdy Yā€™all! Irk has been survived. YAY!!! The weather PTB are tellinā€™ us we are in for ā€œsignificantā€ weather in a couple of hours, over night, and tomorrow. We shall see. Tomorrow is irk from home. I shall be busy with lots of EOM and quarterly reports. Rah. Howdy **Thoughtless**! Come back and play with us. **Midget** glad youā€™re feelinā€™ better. ---
**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:** [March 31, 2016, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sueps-of-the-mmp/750446/145 "2016-03-31T19:33:26Z")
Busy morning, then I took a nap. Looked at cemetery location and itā€™s not a far as home as I thought. The trip from here to funeral home to cemetery to here makes a triangle so not as bad as I thought. However, it still means driving the hated 495. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2016, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sueps-of-the-mmp/750446/146 "2016-03-31T19:47:35Z")
**Butters** I am with you. Itā€™s bill paying day. Aaack! Tomorrow we leave for Yosemite for 5 days. Which is all well and good, except I havenā€™t really done anything to get ready for it. Great googly moogly. Must pack! Find pet sitter (done)! Pack! : runs in circles in mild panic : And, of course, I have broken a nail. This is not a big deal normally, but it bent funny and now my finger hurts. :mad: Wahhhhh! Poor me. šŸ˜ƒ ---
**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:** [March 31, 2016, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sueps-of-the-mmp/750446/147 "2016-03-31T20:00:08Z")
I forgot to mention that dindin will be magic intartoobz pizza and bag sallit. Gourmet all the way here at da cave!šŸ˜ƒ ---
**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:** [March 31, 2016, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sueps-of-the-mmp/750446/148 "2016-03-31T20:39:07Z")
Home, exhausted. \*\*FCD \*\*doesnā€™t want to eat supper, so Iā€™ll make something for myself. No idea what, but Iā€™ll figure it out. Theoretically, weā€™re going to get rain, but it doesnā€™t look that way on the weather radar, so I have the sprinklers going on the lawn. Iā€™m not impressed with the seed the guy put down - nary a sprout. So I flung some of the seed I had leftover from last year. Hereā€™s hoping it takes root. Meanwhile, one more day to get thru. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2016, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sueps-of-the-mmp/750446/149 "2016-03-31T20:42:54Z")
Just got an unsolicited phone call (spam phone call? Whatever theyā€™re called) from some sort of astrology thing. Thatā€™s a new one. ---
**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:** [March 31, 2016, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sueps-of-the-mmp/750446/150 "2016-03-31T21:08:35Z")
I got to crap calls threatening me with judicial action or some such nonsense. I didnā€™t even answer them, but they went to voice mail. Pain in the patoot! ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2016, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sueps-of-the-mmp/750446/151 "2016-03-31T21:11:19Z")
And then there was this automated call from someone named ā€œAmyā€ whoā€™d keep calling my house and saying I won a cruise. (Nonsense, of course.) One time I had a meeting with two women who were trying to help me find a job. One of them had their phone ring, and had to answer it - she wasnā€™t trying to be rude, she thought it might be important because it might be someone calling about helping me find a job. But no - when she answered it: ā€œHi, this is Amy! You won a cruise!ā€ So I said, ā€œI hate Amy! Sheā€™s been bugging my family for a while now!ā€ The lady who had just been called by Amy laughed and gave me a high-five. ---
**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:** [March 31, 2016, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sueps-of-the-mmp/750446/152 "2016-03-31T22:14:08Z")
Dindin has been et. 'Twas good. The weather PTB may have gotten it right for once as itā€™s rainin. No Tstorms/Apocalypse, but rain. ---
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2016, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sueps-of-the-mmp/750446/153 "2016-03-31T22:34:30Z")
The unsolicited phone calls that I get tend to be from a trucking/logistics company. I interviewed there for a position in the driver office and again for a position in inventory management and theyā€™ve been calling me since about driving jobs. I donā€™t even have a CDL anymore. **Emily** , Iā€™m thinking a few chords on the uke to accompany myself singing. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2016, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sueps-of-the-mmp/750446/154 "2016-03-31T22:59:59Z")
A few chords shouldnā€™t be too hard. Thereā€™s a website (Ultimate Guitar, I think itā€™s called) that has the chords to a lot of songs, and you can even change the chords into another key on the website, if you want to sing the song in another key. ---
**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:** [March 31, 2016, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sueps-of-the-mmp/750446/155 "2016-03-31T23:43:08Z")
I shall retire to the boudoir shortly. OYKW is already there. We shall watch teevee until sleepy time as is our wont. ā€˜Tis rainy out with the promise of storms movinā€™ in in a while. A nice night for sleepification. Nitey Nite Yā€™all! ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2016, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sueps-of-the-mmp/750446/156 "2016-04-01T00:15:16Z")
Home from work. We got news that sometime next month weā€™re being used to test a project for a different sort of home delivery. Not the cool robot type but some sort of driver system they havenā€™t done before bypassing the mailman. Sometimes I feel like a lab rat; others just a plain old rat. šŸ™‚ ---
**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:** [April 1, 2016, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sueps-of-the-mmp/750446/157 "2016-04-01T00:49:51Z")
> [@kopek](#): > > Sometimes I feel like a lab rat; others just a plain old rat. šŸ™‚ Check the mirror. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2016, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sueps-of-the-mmp/750446/158 "2016-04-01T02:31:27Z")
**Sunny** , say, ā€œHiā€ to Sam for me. > [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Check the mirror. Donā€™t take your own advice. ::Shudder:: Home, but to late too call my cousin, which I need to do. Gosta go to bed _now_ but still has a lot to do. ā˜¹ ---
**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:** [April 1, 2016, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sueps-of-the-mmp/750446/159 "2016-04-01T02:36:54Z")
Wasnā€™t Gosta one of those Goths, Huns or Republicans that caused the fall of the Roman Empire? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2016, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sueps-of-the-mmp/750446/160 "2016-04-01T02:37:34Z")
**Doggio** , when was the last time there were no Canadian teams to make the NHL playoff, eh? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sueps-of-the-mmp/750446.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sueps-of-the-mmp/750446.md?page=9)