:waves at new and occasional Mumpers:
Someday, we’ll have an MMP potluck. It will be the best potluck EVER.
Only thing I’m coming up with so far is leaving home: didn’t really leave home till I was 25. (Although I lived on my own for a summer in Germany when I was 24.)
Surely there should be more.
It’s lovely out. Just a bit too warm, but hardly humid at all.
Need to get out to the garden.
GT
I didn’t get to finish my work today because the keys are stuck in my ignition. Again.
So now I’m stuck in… Parma? I don’t know. My father has graciously volunteered to try to get the keys unstuck or drive me home and I’m just waiting for him to show up. I’m not sure if AAA will allow us to renew. This may be 2 tows in 2 days.
I’d have to say going to school and being enthusiastic about it.
I was a good student up until Jr. High (7th grade). Then I just essentially dropped out…skipped school frequently, didn’t do the work, the whole thing was supremely STUPID imo (and I still think so…dumbed down work, pathological social situations, waste of my time…was like having a job I hated but couldn’t QUIT! :smack:)
I finally dropped out at 16 (with what amounted to a 6th grade education, since I’d failed 7th grade due to skipping and spent a yr in a Baptist school where I “worked at my own pace” and pretty much did nothing) and at 18 went in and took the GED test, got my diploma, as I had promised my poor, frustrated mother.
Despite not studying for the test, I scored very well (tells me 1. the test is dumbed down and 2. I am rather bright) to the point that the administrator asked, “You ARE going to college, right?”
A few years later I did and graduated with a 4.0 GPA, President’s Honor Roll.
I am currently back in college full time working on another degree and have a 3.85 GPA (all A’s except for 2 Cs, one in French, which I earned and one from a nutjob English prof. which I really should have challenged as it in no way reflected my grades or performance, but I just didn’t want to deal with it at the time…fuck her. :mad:)
As an adult, I was able to study what interested me and escape the whole pathological system of compulsory schooling. Plus, the school system I was in sucked hard…I was not going to tolerate it and rebelled big time, after having been an A student/teacher’s pet throughout elementary school.
So instead of poke roast I had poke chops. I guess it is poke night! 
Annie we eat around 5:30. Don’t be late!
I’m eating Mentos and ice cubes until my rescuer arrives.
I’m having car troubles too. My vehicle has a faulty “multi-function switch” (the thing on the steering column which controls the lights, blinkers) and the problem manifested a few weeks ago as the fog lights coming on randomly and draining the battery.
I have the new part sitting on my dining room table, waiting for my brother-in-law (who knows how to install it and volunteered to) but as of now, my car is sitting with a drained battery. I lack the funds to pay anyone until next week, so…:rolleyes:
Took it out yesterday to buy groceries and had to get a jump from a stranger to get it home. :smack: Then, the lights came on AGAIN in the night and drained the battery AGAIN!
Just commiserating/venting.
In my family, every car that we own is 16 years old except for one which is 11 years old. I know this is to be expected but having two cars down at once is a bit troublesome. So, in other words, yes, I feel your pain.
I worked, I came home, I’m consuming a martini. Another adult thing for me, I apparently have 2 women interested in me at the same time.:eek:
:eek: I guess I have the kavorka.
:dubious: Dude I did it for the first(and only) time at 19, and I was toking on that bong for all I was worth.
Welcome, and welcome back Mumpers! Lenny the squidgoat is um…eager to meet you.
LiLI, I’d like to skip to September 21st.
Sticky, my car is 15, and it hasn’t broken down yet. : knock on Gordie’s head :
Whoa, doggio, you studmuffin!! 
Just got a phone call from my daughter, the camp counselor. The storms that came thru yesterday took out the power to the camp. The camp is on a well. They have no water in the cabins, and no electricity. There is a generator at the dining hall, so they have toilet facilities there.
She’s teaching sailing again and she was supposed to help with the waterskiing class, but since the ski boat is on an electric lift… They’re hoping to have power back in the morning. I heard on the news that 4 substations were damaged - dunno if their problem is from substations or downed wires.
Good thing the temps moderated - it would be really miserable otherwise.
Ah, the joys of summer camp!
doggio are you sure they’re not just after your floaty cooler?
I keep yawnin’. I shouldn’t be sleepified just yet but it would appear not to be the case.
first on two!
Ya know, I didn’t get any interest till I posted about it in the MMP. Hmmmm.
Doggio, you’re very lucky. My car seems to break down about once a month. Fortunately it should be fixed by tomorrow evening.
Right now I’m having a crappy time so I guess I should just give up for the night and go to bed.
The usual stuff; buying a house, etc.
I survived Montag. Four more days to go and then I won’t have think about work for two weeks.
My two dogs are currently doing their “silent” rasslin’ and bumping my chair. It makes it very difficult to type.
It’s rather toasty here. It was close to 90 degrees when I came home at around five this evening.
I think I’m going to go sit under my big ceiling fan and watch mindless TV.
I am overtired. I was sleepy earlier, so I took my meds and got into bed - I turned the TV to something drone-y, set the shut off timer, and closed my eyes. No sooner did the TV shut off then I was wide awake again. grrrrr.
Hey all! I lost power in the big storm here Sunday afternoon and it didn’t come back until some time late this morning. We lost some food in the fridge, unfortunately. 
Also I couldn’t sleep but a few winks! The heat just made me miserable.
At any rate, we are finally back in action. Tonight, we ordered Chinese food and I decided to try something from the “diet” menu - steamed hunan chicken. Wow, what a surprise! It was full of fresh veggies - lots of big broccoli trees. It came with this brown sauce, though, which proved to be very very spicey (extremely spicy! LOL) At least I know that’s a safe thing for me to get in the future, the diet menu dishes, as long as I avoid the sauce that is!
One down, four to go? 
There was TP? I don’t remember TP, hot dogs, toast, newspapers, lighters. I don’t remember TP
But count me as another one who didn’t see RHPS until I was an adult. Around 24 or 25 IIRC.
Our car trouble was with the monster truck. The windows all decided today was a fine day to go on strike.
After about half an hour of fruitless fuse-searching, I thought to try popping the switch panel out of the driver side door. Ta and Da! One of the plugs fell out of its backside as I removed it. Re-plugging it brought the windows back to life. Apparently, the plug has been not fully latched in ever since the day the truck was built and it only took 65,000 miles to shake loose.
I saw it for the first time in college but sort of by mistake. Near Pitt was this bar and hot dog place called “The Original” ----- or as we lovingly called it “Dirty O’s”. I was sitting on my Harley, a black FLH semi-bobber with leather bags, outside the Kings Court theater with some fires and a brown bag when this usher-dude comes up to me and says “You can bring it around back and put it on the stage”. I guess I looked a little confused so he said again, with some emphasis, “You can bring it around back and put it on the stage”.
What the Hell? I didn’t have anything going and whatever this dude had in mind, I could always kick it in gear and get out as fast as I got in. Wouldn’t have been the first time I made my own exit from somewhere when needed. I get in and next thing I know this dude in fishnets is drooling over my scoot. And I started to see some of the other early arrivals. Heck, we didn’t have us folks like this back up the mountains and this was looking like fun. That was my first RHPS ------ not the last by a long shot. Because of build and bikes, I usually end up Eddie but if I had my way I would be Riff. Especially in his outer-space duds. And especially if his clock and mother came with the gig. I really want one of those clocks in the worse way.
Getting up at 6am to go trout fishing so I’m out shortly. See ya all Wednesday.
I never had one sip of alcohol until I was 21.