# Waking up too early for the MMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [August 25, 2014, 9:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waking-up-too-early-for-the-mmp/696448 "2014-08-25T09:33:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2014, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waking-up-too-early-for-the-mmp/696448/201 "2014-08-30T11:55:05Z")
I’m at one of my Nerd Camps this weekend so I shall be scarce. Blurf, y’all. ---
**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:** [August 30, 2014, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waking-up-too-early-for-the-mmp/696448/202 "2014-08-30T13:21:45Z")
Up, caffienated, off work. I shall go to the Bistro for some college football today. > [@Capt\_Kirk](#): > > Thought for the day, dating sucks because, as far as I can tell, people suck. But when the right people suck, dating’s fun. 😉 Hope it does get better for you… ---
**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:** [August 30, 2014, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waking-up-too-early-for-the-mmp/696448/203 "2014-08-30T13:32:50Z")
Ice has been acquired. Beer is iced down. Other ice awaits for more beeverages that shall arrive. Wings are in the slow cooker. I’m told stuffed jalapeño peppers are bein’ made even as I post. Chikin for dindin (which shall be around fourish) will get heated up in a slow cooker in a couple hours. 'Tis cloudy out. Partay time nears! Your welcome **Jim**. I also get the email **MOOOOOOM** sends to family etc. The Mumper one is the abbreviated version. So far it looks like the [del]life of a pirate[/del] life of a tourist on the high seas agrees with her. 😃 ---
**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:** [August 30, 2014, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waking-up-too-early-for-the-mmp/696448/204 "2014-08-30T14:05:51Z")
This morning I went to the local cafe. I was drinking coffee when a Vance Joy song came on the radio. Win-win. 😃 I need to get back to work on crafts, after getting caught up on the Dope. ---
**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:** [August 30, 2014, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waking-up-too-early-for-the-mmp/696448/205 "2014-08-30T14:21:15Z")
> [@dogbutler](#): > > Up, caffienated, off work. I shall go to the Bistro for some college football today. > But when the right people suck, dating’s fun. 😉 Hope it does get better for you… I was going to post something like that, but I thought, “no, 'Plant, that’s just too tacky. Wait and a while, and dogbutler will pipe up.” :rolleyes: ---
**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:** [August 30, 2014, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waking-up-too-early-for-the-mmp/696448/206 "2014-08-30T14:30:11Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > I was going to post something like that, but I thought, “no, 'Plant, that’s just too tacky. Wait and a while, and dogbutler will pipe up.” > :rolleyes: Glad I could make your day.😛 ---
**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:** [August 30, 2014, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waking-up-too-early-for-the-mmp/696448/207 "2014-08-30T14:48:47Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > I was going to post something like that, but I thought, “no, 'Plant, that’s just too tacky. Wait and a while, and dogbutler will pipe up.” > :rolleyes: Here’ lemme fix that for you “Plant[del], that’[/del]s just too tacky” to make it “Plant’s just too tacky”. You’re welcome. ---
**Author:** ![Taters](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/taters/32/2845_2.png) [@Taters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taters)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2014, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waking-up-too-early-for-the-mmp/696448/208 "2014-08-30T15:02:02Z")
We finally, FINALLY got to pick up my husband’s car from the shop yesterday. This coming Tuesday would have been three weeks in the shop! I’m so glad it’s finally done, although I swallowed hard when I handed my credit card over to pay the bill. Oh well, nothing I can do about it, life goes on and the car should now pass emissions. They essentially rebuilt the front half of the engine. We are supposed to go to some friends’ house today. They invited us over earlier this week. Also, my husband needs to get his car emissions tested again, and get his license plate tabs. Tomorrow, we’re supposed to go to some other friends’ house. They live out a ways, but we always have a good time visiting with them. **FCM’s** cruise sounds nice, if rather exhausting. Rush here! Rush there! RUSH! RUSH! RUSH! I’m just not a cruise kind of gal, I guess. I much prefer to be on my OWN time when I’m on vacation. ---
**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:** [August 30, 2014, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waking-up-too-early-for-the-mmp/696448/209 "2014-08-30T15:32:07Z")
I don’t think I could ever go on a cruise. I get motion-sick (and panicky) enough on planes, and it would be worse on a boat, I’m sure. Working on crafts and music arrangements. ---
**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:** [August 30, 2014, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waking-up-too-early-for-the-mmp/696448/210 "2014-08-30T15:55:28Z")
Hey, **Doggio** , did you get a beer [multipack](http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/29/living/99-pack-beer-peacemaker-ale-eatocracy/index.html?hpt=hp_t2) for the weekend? 🆒 - Make sure to watch the video at the bottom & how they get it out of the cooler & transport it! 😃 ---
**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:** [August 30, 2014, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waking-up-too-early-for-the-mmp/696448/211 "2014-08-30T16:12:54Z")
> [@Spiderman](#): > > Hey, **Doggio** , did you get a beer [multipack](http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/29/living/99-pack-beer-peacemaker-ale-eatocracy/index.html?hpt=hp_t2) for the weekend? 🆒 > > - Make sure to watch the video at the bottom & how they get it out of the cooler & transport it! 😃 I saw that on Facebook. Now I have to do a _Smokey and The Bandit_ style roadtrip to Texas. 😃 ---
**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:** [August 30, 2014, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waking-up-too-early-for-the-mmp/696448/212 "2014-08-30T17:19:57Z")
> [@Spiderman](#): > > Here’ lemme fix that for you “Plant[del], that’[/del]s just too tacky” to make it “Plant’s just too tacky”. > > You’re welcome. You are thinking of [sundews,](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0f/Drosera_capensis_bend.JPG) _Drosera_, not Venus Flytraps,\* muscipula\*. 🙂 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![tarragon918](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d26b3c/32.png) [@tarragon918](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tarragon918)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2014, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waking-up-too-early-for-the-mmp/696448/213 "2014-08-30T17:25:05Z")
Happy Saturday all! I have to say that I am enjoying the emails from **FCM** about the cruise; I just checked where they are now, they’re in Liverpool! I wonder if there were any tours of Beatles hangouts?! LOL I did hear on the news this morning that the UK is on **Red** Alert for terrorist threats - I really hope that won’t affect any excursions. Not sure exactly why they went to that alert. That was the top of the news on the Saturday Today show, which I turned off right after that. Heh. And yes, I enjoy **Swampy’s** missives too. Thank you for sharing, **Swampy** - he’s probably enjoying his party at the cee-mint pond right now, though. LOL **Doggio** , if you swing thru Texas, you might as well drop in to ABQ, it’s right next door. 😉 And then you can have some of the fresh roasted Hatch ™ chiles while you’re here. You’d like them, I suspect. 😉 They are so good when they’re fresh roasted! **Rosie** , what do you all do at the nerd camp? Inquiring minds, you know. LOL Sometimes, I live vicariously through other’s activities. I imagine myself cruising the British Isles … until I think of the ship’s rocking motion, that is! 😃 I also don’t think I’d be wanting to climb up any steep paths. I am not a goat! 😛 Well, I hope everyone has a good day today. ---
**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:** [August 30, 2014, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waking-up-too-early-for-the-mmp/696448/214 "2014-08-30T17:50:03Z")
> [@tarragon918](#): > > **Rosie** , what do you all do at the nerd camp? Inquiring minds, you know. Wind up toy car races, and board games. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2014, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waking-up-too-early-for-the-mmp/696448/215 "2014-08-30T18:14:21Z")
Afternoon all! Had football again, which is the only work for the week. It’s getting far beyond a joke now, that’s two months in a row where doing every shift I was offered was still not enough to pay the rent. It wasn’t too bad, at least, 'cos they won, so the threatened mini-riot didn’t happen. I think I’d go stir crazy on a cruise; I like being spontaneous far too much. I don’t enjoy tours, because I want to be the person who decides when I’m ready to do something else. By the way, I can’t see the terror threat level change having much impact on **Moooom** ’s cruise (unless there is a major attack of course); we were at that level for something like 3 years at one point recently. I never noticed any difference, despite going in and out of the country several times in that period. ---
**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:** [August 30, 2014, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waking-up-too-early-for-the-mmp/696448/216 "2014-08-30T18:21:43Z")
> [@Filbert](#): > > I think I’d go stir crazy on a cruise; I like being spontaneous far too much. I don’t enjoy tours, because I want to be the person who decides when I’m ready to do something else. Sour grapes on my part, but I don’t think I could be in England with seeing the Imperial War Museum. 🙂 ---
**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:** [August 30, 2014, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waking-up-too-early-for-the-mmp/696448/217 "2014-08-30T18:26:08Z")
Got the last parking spot at the Bistro. It was kinda empty inside, at least till State started loosing, then it started filling up. I think they are 1-15 in the last 16 games I’ve been able to watch. 😮 \*\* Flytrap \*\*, I agree with you on the IWM. ---
**Author:** ![gardentraveler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gardentraveler/32/3576_2.png) [@gardentraveler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gardentraveler)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2014, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waking-up-too-early-for-the-mmp/696448/218 "2014-08-30T20:27:14Z")
Even scarcer than usual because of [new puppy…and now allergies](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=732595). ☹ We’re trying to find a new home for the puppy before my brother leaves on his next trip (Tuesday or Wednesday, I can’t remember). Did I mention ☹ Haven’t read, so **rosie’s** sig to all. Hope to be back posting more often soon since huge project at work has been delayed some, which should make work life a bit more bearable. Hugs all. GT ---
**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:** [August 30, 2014, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waking-up-too-early-for-the-mmp/696448/219 "2014-08-30T20:29:51Z")
**rosie** , what’s nerd camp? Somehowthe mention of it makes me feel that I was deprivedas a child. Went to one of my regular meet ups at Dragon Park this morning. We drank coffee, ate bagels, visited and worked up some good arrangements of folk songs. I sang, played tambourine and C and F recorders. We also had a fiddler, a guitarist, a mandolinist and another percussionist. We worked on some Celtic songs and some from the folk revival of the fifties and sixties. ---
**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:** [August 30, 2014, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waking-up-too-early-for-the-mmp/696448/220 "2014-08-30T21:04:19Z")
> [@dogbutler](#): > > I saw that on Facebook. Now I have to do a _Smokey and The Bandit_ style roadtrip to Texas. 😃 Take the bus there; drive [Trans Am](http://austin.craigslist.org/cto/4637842871.html) home. It’s 8 years newer, but even more awesome! 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waking-up-too-early-for-the-mmp/696448.md?page=10) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waking-up-too-early-for-the-mmp/696448.md?page=12)