# Yet Another Mundane and Pointless MMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [February 19, 2018, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-mundane-and-pointless-mmp/809111 "2018-02-19T10:34:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**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:** [February 23, 2018, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-mundane-and-pointless-mmp/809111/141 "2018-02-23T00:59:56Z")
Russell Johnson, “The Professor” of Gilligan’s Island is on the Wagon Train episode I am watching. The guy who could make a nuclear reactor from a coconut, but could not repair a hole in a boat. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![MonkeyCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@MonkeyCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeyCat)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2018, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-mundane-and-pointless-mmp/809111/142 "2018-02-23T01:31:14Z")
Enjoy the excitatin’ life that is yours. It’s good to have fellow happy people around. Brighten the forums. Keep up your happy shit. (Not that you need any encouragement.) I wish you kittens and rainbows. (Only during Lent. The rest of the year I’m pretty stingy about my goodwill.) ---
**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:** [February 23, 2018, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-mundane-and-pointless-mmp/809111/143 "2018-02-23T02:41:10Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Russell Johnson, “The Professor” of Gilligan’s Island is on the Wagon Train episode I am watching. The guy who could make a nuclear reactor from a coconut, but could not repair a hole in a boat. > :dubious: He was a scientist, not a carpenter. My ex-husband was an electronics technician. He didn’t know how to turn on the washing machine, make himself a sandwich, or balance a checkbook. ---
**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:** [February 23, 2018, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-mundane-and-pointless-mmp/809111/144 "2018-02-23T02:43:31Z")
We’s sleepified so it’s off to the boudoir. Nitey Nite Y’all! **bjorn** I don’t think we get to have kittens and rainbows durin’ Lent. Sounds way too festive. 😃 ---
**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:** [February 23, 2018, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-mundane-and-pointless-mmp/809111/145 "2018-02-23T02:50:19Z")
> [@Sahirrnee](#): > > He was a scientist, not a carpenter. > > My ex-husband was an electronics technician. > He didn’t know how to turn on the washing machine, make himself a sandwich, or balance a checkbook. I have a BS in electronic technology and a MS in Instrumentation and electronics, and I can do those things. Jeez. ---
**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:** [February 23, 2018, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-mundane-and-pointless-mmp/809111/146 "2018-02-23T04:34:30Z")
Worked, came home, beer. 4 more days till a day off(?). > [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > **doggio,** how are you doing? IIRC, it hasn’t been that long since you were in the hospital, but I can’t remember if it was “something routine” or “at death’s door”. :eek::eek:😕 I’m actually fine, I didn’t celebrate the Gold Medal win that hard. Maybe you’re thinking of **Bbbobbio**?(Middle aged balding white dudes with mustaches all look the same?;)) > [@tvaetbjorn](#): > > Enjoy the excitatin’ life that is yours. It’s good to have fellow happy people around. Brighten the forums. Keep up your happy shit. (Not that you need any encouragement.) I wish you kittens and rainbows. (Only during Lent. The rest of the year I’m pretty stingy about my goodwill.) 😃 Welcome! We’ll have to find you a nickname(which may have bugger all to do with you username). **Bumba** , home **OMS** feels better. ---
**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:** [February 23, 2018, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-mundane-and-pointless-mmp/809111/147 "2018-02-23T04:54:04Z")
That’s right. **Bobbio** got his transplant. I need to drop by his Facebook and see how he’s doing. If none of youse beat me to it, I will share what tidings I may find. ---
**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:** [February 23, 2018, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-mundane-and-pointless-mmp/809111/148 "2018-02-23T07:43:40Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > **bjorn** I don’t think we get to have kittens and rainbows durin’ Lent. Sounds way too festive. 😃 Send 'em all my way; I’m one of them godless heathens, so I don’t have to worry. My rental agreement may have some issues with the kittens, but I shall explain it’s for the good of mumper souls, so I’m sure it’ll be OK. Back at irk today for the first time in a few weeks; I only do one day a week there, and was off sick one week, then off the next 'cos I was going away for the weekend, after changing days the week before. Almost forgot irk was a thing I’m supposed to do. ---
**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:** [February 23, 2018, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-mundane-and-pointless-mmp/809111/149 "2018-02-23T11:11:15Z")
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. _YAWN_ ‘Tis 61 Amurrkin out and clear (well, dark but TWPTB say clear) with a predicted high of 82 and mostly N.O.S. for the day. Also pollen. Lots of pollen. The pine tree orgy is movin’ into high gear. I shall go see Miss Becky in the nursin’ home early this afternoon. She desires a pimento cheese sammich so she shall have a pimento cheese sammich. I made some yestiddy. I foresee some fried shrimpies to sup upon. YUM! As for **Bbbobbio** he posted the followin’ on my facebook timeline yestiddy: “Back from my clinic. Liver still settling in, labs are almost normal. No signs of infection or rejection. Lost all sutures and half of my staples, with the remaining staples to be pulled next week.” So things are goin’ pretty good for him right now. Now I need more caffeine and rumbly tummy demands sustenance. At some point I suppose I must purtify bein’ as I am committed to goin’ about the public. Happy Firday Y’all! ---
**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:** [February 23, 2018, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-mundane-and-pointless-mmp/809111/150 "2018-02-23T11:21:53Z")
I had to drive the truck today. I don’t like driving the truck. OK, I also didn’t want to come in anyway, but that’s neither here nor there. 😃 It’s the end of a \*looooooooong \*short week - these 4 days have seemed like forever. But I’ve made it - just 9 hours till I can go home. Happy Firday, 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:** [February 23, 2018, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-mundane-and-pointless-mmp/809111/151 "2018-02-23T11:36:59Z")
Up, caffeinated ,and sheveled. Off to work. Hockey after work. ---
**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:** [February 23, 2018, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-mundane-and-pointless-mmp/809111/152 "2018-02-23T12:42:51Z")
Happy Firday! It’s another cold, wet, miserable day. It could be worse though, it’s raining, not snowing. The cat is on my list this morning. I was sleeping so deep, and managed to sleep through the night, and he woke me up an hour before I needed to get up. He whacked me once, then I heard him banging on Sah-son’s door. Then he came back and whacked me with his claws. That woke me up! Other than irk, I don’t know what I’m doing today. I plan on making stuffed peppers for dinner for me, tacos for him. Then again I may make one of those today and the other tomorrow. I got **Doggio** and **Bobbio** confused a few times, but only because of the consonant-‘o’-double consonant-‘io’ combo. I’m sure people get me and **Sario (Rio)** mixed up as well. I had a bit of trouble with\*\* Red\*\* and **Rockin** ’ because the _red red robin comes bob bob bobbin’ along_ Where are **Rockin’** , **BigKitty** , and **Peaches** anyway? ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2018, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-mundane-and-pointless-mmp/809111/153 "2018-02-23T12:49:59Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > **bjorn** I don’t think we get to have kittens and rainbows durin’ Lent. Sounds way too festive. 😃 'course we do, but we’re not supposed to have rainbow kittens because kittens aren’t rainbow-colored. It is too cold here ☹ Sunny, but cold. ---
**Author:** ![scareyfaerie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scareyfaerie/32/3135_2.png) [@scareyfaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scareyfaerie)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2018, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-mundane-and-pointless-mmp/809111/154 "2018-02-23T15:52:47Z")
Crazy busy week for me over here at Education Central - I have not even had time to read all the mumper goings-on. I just know that _hugs_ are required all round. So have 'em! ---
**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:** [February 23, 2018, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-mundane-and-pointless-mmp/809111/155 "2018-02-23T16:07:51Z")
LUNCH TIME!!! And boy do I need it! Very busy morning. But a few more hours to go, then I can go home. Not that it matters - we’re promised a rainy, dreary weekend. But no snow, so there’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:** [February 23, 2018, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-mundane-and-pointless-mmp/809111/156 "2018-02-23T16:27:54Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > Just for clarification, the trainers are going to be the tank equivalent of a flight simulator. They won’t move, they won’t shoot, they won’t have armor plating. Dear-heart, with some of the stuff and tools in my garage, we could probably change that. 😉 > [@Spiderman](#): > > I understand that, but given I’m a bit rusty on driving tracked vehicles, a sim would benefit in that I’ll be up to speed (heh) when I get into **Ruble** ’s acquisition. > > OTOH, I could go practice on a [bulldozer](https://www.diggerlandusa.com/), but they have open, unobstructed viewing, not looking thru a tiny little window/screen like in a tank. With my eyesight all I had to do was remove my glasses and … not that I was thinking along those lines or anything. > [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > **Ruble** da Jungle is weird. Enjoy your night out. I wonder why it’s always the good 'uns that get the ax? That wasn’t always the case; just with the current junta. Its almost like the couple at the top want to remove anyone who thinks it can be done well without crushing peasants on a daily basis. Our shift ended at 10pm and I got home at 2am so --------------- it was a fun send-off. We started this tradition of friends gathering after someone’s last shift at this watering-hole way back when. Originally it was because we were all sad; the person leaving (almost always by choice for something better) and all of us because we had such a great team. Now we’re almost happy in a strange way like when someone dies after a long and debilitating disease; their pain is over and they can move on. Its strange like that. We all have hope it will get better but there are those days -------- And I volunteered for a triple Sunday since we’re going to be short-handed. Yes, I am an idiot. :smack: ---
**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:** [February 23, 2018, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-mundane-and-pointless-mmp/809111/157 "2018-02-23T16:39:38Z")
> [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > **ruble,** so once a year they offer _everybody_ the chance to leave? what if everybody took them up on it. **Sunny’s** right, wierd place. Actually in a way it makes sense. You have to be there a year or more and at least one holiday season. If you do that and really hate it all better to get you to move on than to stay and pollute the entire floor with negative vibes (think Moriarty in Kelly’s Heroes). It also gives a chance for those too beaten down physically (FCs can be really brutal) to continue a chance to bail. The average seems to be (TPTB never tell us anything solid but with the internet we do talk around) about 10-15% but I have been told of times and places where it was as high as 50%. That place was found to be so bad that TPTB simply shut down the entire place, canned all the bosses, and moved on. It was almost like a mutiny. This year among those with 2 or more years and 3 Peaks we’re going to be around that 50% but a lot of the 1 year people are sticking (they get less money as a pay-out) so I don’t have a good feel for what our final result is going to be come March 1. ---
**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:** [February 23, 2018, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-mundane-and-pointless-mmp/809111/158 "2018-02-23T18:30:16Z")
**Ruble,** thanks for the info. Having worked in Government for 34 years, I forgot how working life without rules can be. **doggio, bobbio,** all those ‘io’ people are all the same to me… Well, my bathroom is now more or less normal, need some work on the doorframe and floor molding, but at least I can now bathe in my large whirlpool tub for hours if I so choose…and I think I will choose to do so shortly. Plumbing problems are expensive as hell. ---
**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:** [February 23, 2018, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-mundane-and-pointless-mmp/809111/159 "2018-02-23T18:33:39Z")
'Beamer is feeling poorly. He’s very depressed. There’s talk of hospitalizing him, which I am reluctant to do for now. If it has to change, then it will. With his autism, changes in routine are really hard for him. I just can’t see how going to an entirely new place wouldn’t make everything worse, not better. I think he would miss his dog, and his bed, and us, and just be that much more miserable. In any case, it’s all been a worry. Happy Firday to all. {{{hugs}}} to everyone too, just because hugs are good. ---
**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:** [February 23, 2018, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-mundane-and-pointless-mmp/809111/160 "2018-02-23T18:43:39Z")
**{{{Sunny}}}** sounds like you need a hug yourself. Blurf. I have to irk a half day tomorrow… oh joy. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-mundane-and-pointless-mmp/809111.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-mundane-and-pointless-mmp/809111.md?page=9)