Well, my sweet sixteen MMP, anyway.
That is correct; sixteen years ago, September 28, 1999, the SDMB became my internet hangout of choice. Happy DoperDay to Me!
I asked my dad if he wanted to throw me a sweet sixteen party. He said: “With a magician?” And I said: “Yes.” And he said: “And a rockin’ deejay?” And I said: “Yes!” And he said: “And gift bags?” And I said: “Aw, HELL,YES!!!”
And he said: “Fuck no.”
So that’s my Monday morning. How 'bout y’all?
Mine won’t officially begin until 11 am when I get up for work. About to head to bed. I still remember when I first discovered this message board…Memorial Day Weekend 2000. I stayed up all night reading General Questions, and read it off and on regularly fora little more than a year before I joined.
Happy Doper Anniversary!
Home, time for bed. I was going to start a new Magic Key MMP when we had a break but Sweet 16 it is, but, ummm, aren’t they usually for girls?
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN ‘Tis 73 Amurrkin out and muggy with a predicted high of 78 and rain for the day. This mornin’ I shall roam up to the north forty for a while and then back to da cave to finish the day. I can handle that. 
I think October will be my thirteenth Dopeiversary. Happy Sweet 16 DAAAAAAD!
OK, that’s all I got. I need more caffeine and rumbly tummy wants to be fed. Then, alas and alack, irk purtification must commence.
Happy Moanday Y’all!
Dad, you never told us how it went last week with your HS friend.
Also, BLURF
Darned Morning People.
Up and at irk. Not that I am irking, mind you, but I am here, and that should count for something…
I have a moderately strange history with the SDMB. I joined in 2004 while browsing the site, and made a few (5-6, IIRC) posts, and then just wandered away and never came back. In my defense, for most of that time I was a regular contributor to the James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF) board (posting under a different name) so I spent most of my free time there. That board is now disassociated from the JREF and called International Skeptics and while I still browse there, I am not a regular poster.
So I wandered back here about 3-4 months ago and was surprised to see I was still a registered member. Closing in on 800 posts now and this is now my go-to site (helps that it beats the filters at work…).
Otherwise, Moanday again. 49 more to go to retirement (if I would be bothered to count). Hope your return to the workstation goes well, FCM. I can’t wait to get out.
Up, caffeinated, off work today. I shall do laundry. My SDMB Sweet Sixteen is February 2017
Actually, on Friday, I reported that she had declined to respond. Oh, well. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Huh, it was my 16th anniversary too, two weeks ago. I never thought to look that up before.
I came here in 2001 after reading the Evil Nazi Groundhog thread.
I’m planning on going out and :eek::eek:buying clothes:eek::eek: today!
So, you’ve been walking around naked all this time? 
I’m like that, wait until I need them then buy (like 24 pairs of underwear, 6 short-sleeve shirts and 4 pants the last time) all at once.
Better naked than dressed like this.
I was late registering here but I read a lot all the way back to the old AOL days. Back then about the only posting I ever did was in some of the reenactor chat rooms; especially the one Civil War one. The Hosties there were really good, I had met several in person, and the “live” discussions and contests were a lot of fun. So was blowing up Katies rock and getting hugs from Fannie (inside jokes) and the night my wives all formed an actual organization (another inside joke). I still see some of them in real life and we regret that as AOL folded different tents we weren’t able to move the whole thing along. So consider the Dope special and lucky for surviving.
Now that you mention it ---- I was narrating the battle yesterday when one of the highlanders took casualty a little enthusiastically and as he went face down his kilt flipped up to about the middle of his back. I apologized to the audience for their history lesson being mixed with biology and said we should have expected it since that man’s Delaware name was Flashing Moon. Between us, he and I, we got quite a round of applause.
Happy Moonday!
It’s a cloudy 67 degrees outside with a high of 77 predicted. It’s getting warm in here so we’ll open more windows.
I overslept this morning so I have a big ol’ blurf.
Today we will bathe the dog and go grocery shopping, along with the other small stuff like vacuuming and unloading the dishwasher. I’ll need to irk longer hours every day this week to make up for not irking on Saturday. Fun fun fun!
You vacuum your dishwasher.
Okay…
GOOD MORNING SUNSHINE!:D:p
To get the food particles out, duh!:rolleyes:
I guess commas can be your friend!
I was looking at a writing site, thinking about applying as a writer but I went out looking for complaints against the site and there I find out that they do not allow the Oxford comma. What a strange way to do business. If they are that picky and will reject work for that reason I am rethinking if I would want to work for them.
Can I say, and I know it is not my business, but I do not like Sah-son’s art instructor. Well we will see anyway. This is week six of a 15 week course and he finally posted some of his grades, 3 out of 9. No feedback what so ever. NOW he tells everybody papers have to be typed online into the system - no Word attachments. Sah-son has been sending attachments.
NOW he tells everybody that a 10 point paper is supposed to be one paragraph, and a 20 point paper is supposed to be two paragraphs - Sah-son has been doing complete essays with inline citations, Work Cited and Bibliography. The instructor said he wanted college level writing, a paragraph is NOT college level writing when you are answering multi-part questions.
AFAIK there is no way to save as you type on the online system - there might be and I told Sah-son I will help him look at it again today. That is why he went to Word because he would be typing into the online system and POOF! the work would disappear.
I hope he does not get a zero for the previous assignments sent as attachments - but if he does I will be furious. If the instructor didn’t want attachments he should have said so from the beginning. If he had graded in a timely manner he could have said something sooner instead of waiting until a third of the way through the course.
C&P doesn’t work so well, it loses all formatting. Last night he had to include a picture in with the paper, that took some manipulations. Now he’s worried that the paper that had to be two pages printed out will be too short. It was more than two pages in Word, on the online site it looks to be less than a page. He spent a lot of time getting the hanging indent right POOF! Formatting gone. Centered the picture with proper citation POOF! Formatting gone. There is no way to tell how many pages you have typed in, it’s like typing on a message board. Now way to tell where to put a break for the Works Cited or Bibliography pages. He sent in his work both as a C&P and an attachment last night because there was some confusion. This am came the word - no attachments!
Of course this leads to the question of why if a 10 point paper is supposed to be one paragraph, and a 20 point paper is 2 paragraphs, why a 30 point paper is two pages?
He’ll play with it and figure it out, but damn if he gets zeroes I will be pissed.
Howdy all! I am at my second home aka irk. Where else would I be?
Moanday. One of my employees is sick with sinus crap and I’m gonna send her home shortly. Other than my normal daily paperirk I have to do some purchasing paperirk and I need to clean my office. I have some travel research to do. I am about to sell three cruises I hope.
I would rather be home asleep though.
