# Wake up Wiki MMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [November 30, 2015, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wake-up-wiki-mmp/739023 "2015-11-30T12:05:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2015, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wake-up-wiki-mmp/739023/141 "2015-12-03T12:13:44Z")
Today is a big anniversary for me! šŸ˜ƒ Thirty years ago today, I was hired for my very first engineering job - Mechanical Engineer, GS-7, to work in the tool and equipment branch of Plant Engineering. I spent the better part of 6 years designing fixtures, transport devices, safety devices, and assorted tooling, until we had a re-org and I became an aerospace structural engineer. But it started on Dec 3, 1985 in Jacksonville, FL. Letā€™s fling some confetti, just because!! ---
**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:** [December 3, 2015, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wake-up-wiki-mmp/739023/142 "2015-12-03T12:26:32Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > **flytrap** Denial is a river in Egypt. Perhaps you would benefit from a remedial course in geography. :dubious: Humor; it is a difficult concept. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2015, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wake-up-wiki-mmp/739023/143 "2015-12-03T12:58:05Z")
[quote=ā€œddsun, post:129, topic:739023ā€] Dr. refused to give me Botox today because I was 10 minutes late. I have always been on time or early and have waited up to an hour to see him. So that was a tad irritating. [QUOTE] > [@carnivorousplant](#): > > What an asshole. Repent, Harlequin! Said the Ticktockmanā€¦seems weā€™re getting closer and closer to it. {{{sunny}}} There are times I regret having been a life-long batchelor, never having a loving familyā€¦and thenā€¦ Hope the last portion of the week will go a little bit better. FCM, I began as a GS-5, 17 August 1981, at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, Indiana. Iā€™m planning to get out just short of 35 years, partly for the reasons you are frustrated now; not enough work to keep me interested. The rain has stopped, finally, but itā€™s 35F and suppossed to be below freezing tonight. Oh joy. plant, I have cruised upon the de Nile, and frankly, itā€™s filthy. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2015, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wake-up-wiki-mmp/739023/144 "2015-12-03T13:21:28Z")
**metal mouse** - between 26 years as a civil servant and 11 years in uniform that I shelled out to add to my retirement, I had a shade over 37 years when I threw in the towel in 2011. Occasionally I wish Iā€™d hung in there till I hit 62, but overall, I think I did the right thing at the right time. Meanwhile, the boss still isnā€™t here and I have NOTHING TO DO!!! I canā€™t even take initiative because I have no way of knowing priorities or plans. This is Teh Stoopit!!! ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2015, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wake-up-wiki-mmp/739023/145 "2015-12-03T13:21:43Z")
Up, caffeinated. Working closing shift, so I miss the hockey game. ā˜¹ : flings confetti around **Mooooommmmm!**'s living room : ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2015, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wake-up-wiki-mmp/739023/146 "2015-12-03T13:47:46Z")
> [@VunderBob](#): > > :drives by: > > **BLURF!** Well said. Iā€™ve nothing to add to that. ---
**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:** [December 3, 2015, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wake-up-wiki-mmp/739023/147 "2015-12-03T13:48:31Z")
> [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > Repent, Harlequin! Said the Ticktockmanā€¦seems weā€™re getting closer and closer to it. I have not read that work by Harlan Ellison. I that you quoted Harrison. 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:** [December 3, 2015, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wake-up-wiki-mmp/739023/148 "2015-12-03T13:51:51Z")
> [@dogbutler](#): > > Up, caffeinated. Working closing shift, so I miss the hockey game. ā˜¹ > > : flings confetti around **Mooooommmmm!**'s living room : You are supposed to hunt confetti, not bring it inside! ---
**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:** [December 3, 2015, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wake-up-wiki-mmp/739023/149 "2015-12-03T14:22:21Z")
Good luck with the new job **FCM** I am the typo queen this am, and glad I caught it first I said good lick, then I said good fuck, and itā€™s not even hump day. Yā€™all can throw all the confetti yā€™all want BUT Iā€™m not vacuuming it up. ---
**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:** [December 3, 2015, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wake-up-wiki-mmp/739023/150 "2015-12-03T15:04:45Z")
Confetti! Confetti for **FCM**! Son off to school. DH and daughter are staying home sick. Some toast for me, then Iā€™m crawling back into bed. Happy Thorsday! ---
**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:** [December 3, 2015, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wake-up-wiki-mmp/739023/151 "2015-12-03T15:10:10Z")
> [@VunderBob](#): > > :drives by: Throws spike strip to get **V-Bob** to stop & stay awhile. > [@FairyChatMom](#): > > Meanwhile, the boss still isnā€™t here and I have NOTHING TO DO!!! I canā€™t even take initiative because I have no way of knowing priorities or plans. This is Teh Stoopit!!! Nothing to do? Nothing to do? Put some mustard in you shoe, Fill your pocket full of soot, Drive a nail into your footā€¦ How about read some Shel Silverstein? > [@carnivorousplant](#): > > You are supposed to hunt confetti, not bring it inside! Aims confetti cannon! ---
**Author:** ![Buttercup\_Smith](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buttercup_smith/32/473_2.png) [@Buttercup\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buttercup_Smith)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2015, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wake-up-wiki-mmp/739023/152 "2015-12-03T15:17:50Z")
_ **blurf** _ ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2015, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wake-up-wiki-mmp/739023/153 "2015-12-03T15:19:46Z")
whatā€™s with all the confetti? ---
**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:** [December 3, 2015, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wake-up-wiki-mmp/739023/154 "2015-12-03T15:49:19Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > whatā€™s with all the confetti? **Flytrap** doesnā€™t like it. I just ordered a [del]case[/del] pallet of it; just for him. ::whereā€™s the Eeevil smiley?:: ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2015, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wake-up-wiki-mmp/739023/155 "2015-12-03T15:49:45Z")
Itā€™s nearly lunch time. Still no boss. I just spent some time playing around with the program creating parts and assembling them, just because I havenā€™t done that since I finished training. I had to remind myself how to do some stuff. Still no real work. A different job is sounding better and better. At least itā€™s almost lunch time. And I have tomorrow off, so thereā€™s that. ---
**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:** [December 3, 2015, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wake-up-wiki-mmp/739023/156 "2015-12-03T15:52:06Z")
Been productive around the house the AM. Now that crap ends and Iā€™m tuned into the Dope for a while. Life is acceptable. ---
**Author:** ![2gigch1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/2gigch1/32/3313_2.png) [@2gigch1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2gigch1)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2015, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wake-up-wiki-mmp/739023/157 "2015-12-03T16:04:28Z")
Shifted to nightside today so I slept many many hours. It appears I needed it. Time to go reheat some pizza for breakfast. So thereā€™s an article in the paper about the misbehaving midshipman - heā€™s still a midshipman. Seriously punished but still in. I never said anything because I felt my time to honorably do so has passed, and in the end the entire event has been an exercise in honor. [http://www.capitalgazette.com/news/naval\_academy/ph-ac-cn-midshipman-burglary-folo-1203-20151202-story.html](http://www.capitalgazette.com/news/naval_academy/ph-ac-cn-midshipman-burglary-folo-1203-20151202-story.html) ---
**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:** [December 3, 2015, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wake-up-wiki-mmp/739023/158 "2015-12-03T16:21:28Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > You are supposed to hunt confetti, not bring it inside! A reference to _Siegfried_, when he [brings home a bear](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ivbrDbjXQMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ivbrDbjXQMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ivbrDbjXQM) some eleven minutes into the first act and frightens Mime. ā€œYou are supposed to hunt bears, not bring them home!ā€ See Dogbuttā€™s single redeeming feature, that he has heard _Der Ring des Nibelungen._ ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2015, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wake-up-wiki-mmp/739023/159 "2015-12-03T16:36:12Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > Itā€™s nearly lunch time. Still no boss. Could be worse. Just concluded the weekly Branch meeting, whereupon we get exposed to all the wisdom dispelled by Division and Directorate levelsā€¦yeah, right. It would be tolerable, but my Branch Chief, who is a nice guy and ex-USAF COL, cannot run a meeting to save his life and we spend 90 minutes on a project that should take us 40 tops. I use the time to calculate my retirementā€¦ OK, time for Mountain Dew (caffine fix), maybe thatā€™ll help my mood. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2015, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wake-up-wiki-mmp/739023/160 "2015-12-03T17:02:54Z")
Well rats. No loaner available from my car guy, so Iā€™ll be stuck at home tomorrow. Not that I had any great plans to go anywhereā€¦ Still no boss. lalalalalalalala [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wake-up-wiki-mmp/739023.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wake-up-wiki-mmp/739023.md?page=9)