IFLA: The “Clear, Concise, and Not Very Nice” Edition of the Horoscope for the week of May 24

by | May 24, 2020 | Advice, IFLA | 146 comments

I’ve mentioned before how the stars really don’t care about you.  Astrological divination works in two ways:  It can give results for big, important events, and it can identify which way the Tao travels at this point in time so that you can act accordingly.  This is where you can take comfort that the stars aren’t interested in your home life (unless we have some very unexpected lurkers here — greetings your majesty!)  because ho-lee shit it’s going to suck this week if they did.

The week is going to start with the Earth aligned with venus retrograde and the moon, indicating fickleness, romantic chaos, infidelity, all that sort of thing.  And then by the end of the week, things are going to shift to a Moon-Earth-Mars alignment with Venus retrograde in opposition showing that this domestic dispute is going to escalate into a Bobby Brown/Amber Heard level of hootenany.  Now the interesting thing here is, there’s no sign that this is going to end the relationship.  Things are just going to get violently bad.  Becasue of this and the status of the individuals that would be required to get a celestial notice, I’d lay money  that this is all referring to the Prince formerly known as a man.

Otherwise, we have a very have/have not situation wherein all of the good stuff is clustered in Gemini where they get the sun, the moon, and Venus (though it being in retrograde mitigates things somewhat.)  Jupiter retrograde and Saturn retrograde are glaring at each other across the Capricorn-Aquarius border, which leaves Pisces with Mars.  That last is an auspicious sign if your work involves a light armored vehicle.

The cards are generally good.

Gemini:  The World – Assured success, recompense, voyage, route, emigration, flight, change of place.

Cancer:  Page of Cups – A studious youth; news, message, application, reflection, meditation

Leo:  5 of Wands reversed – Litigation, disputes, trickery, contradiction.

Virgo:  The Star – Loss, theft, privation, abandonment, hope, bright prospects

Libra:  10 of Swords – Pain, affliction, tears, sadness, desolation

Scorpio:  Knight of Coins reversed – Inertia, idleness, repose, stagnation, placidity, discouragement, carelessness.

Sagittarius:  7 of Cups – Fairy favours, images, reflection, sentiment, imagination

Capricorn:  King of Swords – Power, command, authority, militant intelligence, law, offices of the crown

Aquarius:  2 of Coins – Gaiety, recreation, news, messages in writing, obstacles, agitation, trouble, embroilment.

Pisces:  4 of Cups reversed – Novelty, presage, new instruction, new relations.

Aries:  Knight of Wands – Departure, absence, flight, emigration. A dark young man, friendly. Change of residence.

Taurus:  9 of Coins – Prudence, safety, success, accomplishment, certitude, discernment.

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146 Comments

  1. Brochettaward

    Fairy favours

    Who’s offering?

  2. Incentives Matter

    Gemini: The World – Assured success, recompense, voyage, route, emigration, flight, change of place.

    Jay-zus, it’s about time.

  3. Mojeaux

    Taurus: 9 of Coins – Prudence, safety, success, accomplishment, certitude, discernment

    Very, very nice. I haz a happy.

  4. Count Potato

    “A 52-year-old woman has been arrested for allegedly writing a racist letter ordering residents of a San Francisco Bay Area town to vacate their homes so ‘a white person can move in.’

    Nancy Arechiga, a resident of San Leandro, is alleged to have left the notes at five different homes in the Heron Bay section of the Oakland suburb on Friday evening.

    The letter generated significant attention on social media after it was circulated by one of the residents who received it, Trinny Wynn.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8351623/Woman-arrested-leaving-letters-five-homes-ordering-residents-born-abroad-leave.html

    Who thinks Trinny Wynn is behind it?

    • UnCivilServant

      It does reek of hoax or set up.

      • Suthenboy

        The author seems to be semi-literate and nuttier than a squirrel turd.

    • Suthenboy

      Charged with what?

      “‘We welcome people’s rights to express themselves, but not in a manner that infringes upon a community’s sense of security and wellbeing.”

      The but rule seems to be appropriate here. Oh….it’s California. Never mind.

      • Rebel Scum

        Your rights end where my feelings begin, comrade.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      If she didn’t threaten anyone where’s the crime? What she did was stupid and pathetic but come on. Eat a dick San Francisco.

      • The Hyperbole

        harassment? although there’d need to be more than one occurrence in my opinion.

      • DrOtto

        Warn her off the property for the first incident, then 2nd incident maybe trespassing.

    • Rebel Scum

      These things seem to always happen in leftists hotbeds. Curious.

      • Suthenboy

        They sure are funny that way.

        The perpetrators always look exactly like the exaggerated comic book villains that only exist in the imagination of the leftists.

      • egould310

        I’m not sure Heron Bay is a “leftist hotbed”. It’s a blue collar, slightly grimy, suburb in the East Bay. Actually had the misfortune of staying there for a week in January.

      • The Hyperbole

        Everything west of the Rockies is a leftist hotbed… and the entire east coast… and every big city. More or less any where that does’t have tractor pulls and Alan Jackson headlining the county fair.

      • Suthenboy

        ^This guy gets it^

      • mikey

        Heron Bay?. Oh, the tidal swamp in South San Leadro. We used to go plinking there with our .22s.

        FTA – “San Leandro, an Alameda County town which borders Oakland, is a diverse suburb with large clusters of Latinos, Asians, and African-Americans. ”

        I grew up in San Leandro. Back in the day it was pure white (Portagees are white – right?). Realtors wouldn’t even show a house to a Negro or a Messican. There were a few Nisie – I think they all owned landscaping/nursey businesses. Living the stereotypes.

      • egould310

        I fell in love with the bartender at this bar on Alameda. https://yelp.to/qTKq/fHSXzkQOK6

        If I wasn’t a married man…

      • DEG

        the bartender at this bar on Alameda

        Pics plz.

      • egould310

        No pics. Punk rock pixie. Tattoos, face full of piercings, jet black dye job, Siouxie mascara. Pretty much the opposite of Mrs. Gould.

    • Ted S.

      Why is this illegal?

      • Fourscore

        Because its some sort of transgender signal

        “Born-abroad” implies that there is something wrong with the person living there, gender identification wise

        /Progressive Community Leader

  5. Count Potato

    “Prof Levitt told The Telegraph: ‘I think lockdown saved no lives. I think it may have cost lives. It will have saved a few road accident lives, things like that, but social damage – domestic abuse, divorces, alcoholism – has been extreme.

    ‘And then you have those who were not treated for other conditions.’

    Professor Levitt, who won the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 2013 for the ‘development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems’, has said for two months that most experts predictions about coronavirus are wrong. ”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8351649/Lockdown-waste-time-kill-saved-claims-Nobel-laureate.html

    • Suthenboy

      He will probably be arrested.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Nah, this is the good old US of A where we’re free to say what we think and don’t you forget it. He’ll probably just get deplatformed and unpersoned.

  6. The Late P Brooks

    Professor Levitt, who won the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 2013 for the ‘development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems’, has said for two months that most experts predictions about coronavirus are wrong.

    SCIENCE DENIER!

    De-platform this mountebank … this scoundrel!

    • Chafed

      I’m sure it’s under way.

  7. The Late P Brooks

    Sagittarius: 7 of Cups – Fairy favours, images, reflection, sentiment, imagination

    But can I make it from here to Indpls without getting thrown in the clink as a quarantine-breaker?

    • Rebel Scum

      The neighbors have family visiting from NJ. That, of course, is bad enough, the spread of commie cough panicdemic notwithstanding.

      • egould310

        As long as they left Bruce Springsteen in NJ, you should be ok.

  8. Rebel Scum

    “recreation, news, messages in writing, obstacles, agitation, trouble, embroilment.”

    In bed.

    I ordered Chinese* yesterday and my fortune said I would sleep well, which is something I never do.

    *I felt like I should grill something didn’t want to. Besides, whats more American than Chinese delivery?

  9. Don Escaped Australians

    Capricorn: King of Swords – Power, command, authority, militant intelligence, law, offices of the crown

    I finally get one decent week and suddenly I’m a British cuck? Well, okay then: I’m off to machine gun some Hindus after I jail a bunch of Micks without charge.

    #SirDonLeftJohannesburg

    • grrizzly

      That’s hard to make sense of. Though we have both British and Canadian consulates here. But I have no plans to visit either.

      • Don Escaped Australians

        you’re in VT now ?

      • grrizzly

        In Massachusetts.

  10. l0b0t

    Sagittarius: 7 of Cups – Fairy favours, images, reflection, sentiment, imagination

    This is the best one for me yet this year.

  11. blackjack

    Shouldn’t everybody’s horoscope say ” Nothing is coming your way, you will be best served by hiding in your home and shunning your fellow man from behind a dehumanizing mask?”

    • Chafed

      This is a horoscope, not the truth.

    • UnCivilServant

      That’s a horrorscope, not a horoscope.

      • UnCivilServant

        You’re just uncreative.

      • Incentives Matter

        Horny-scope?

    • Rebel Scum

      Just made/ate brunch. Butchers cut bacon and scrambled eggs. Breakfast Guinness? Yes, of course!

  12. DEG

    I’ve mentioned before how the stars really don’t care about you.

    The government and the stars are the same? Mind blown.

    Leo: 5 of Wands reversed – Litigation, disputes, trickery, contradiction.

    So… normal.

    Yesterday, a race track in Groveton, NH held a race in defiance of the Clown Prince’s orders. Had I gotten up earlier yesterday, I would have attended. The timing didn’t work out with a trip up North I was taking. I found some video of the race. The state AG’s office said there would be “consequences for the blatant defiance”. We’ll see what happens.

    • l0b0t

      They’re gonna mark it down on the racetrack’s permanent record!

      • Suthenboy

        And sternly worded!

    • blackjack

      Everything’s about race these days!

    • Fourscore

      “We’ll see what happens”

      So winners and losers then. Pretty much a foregone conclusion from the beginning

  13. Rhywun

    A dark young man, friendly.

    Meh, I fell for that promise last time. Boy, was I disappointed.

    • Sean

      Lol

  14. UnCivilServant

    I don’t want to leave the house, but I have to leave the house to go get supplies.

    • egould310

      Take your mask. And your gloves.

      • UnCivilServant

        If I’m going anywhere it would be back to Keene – No mask needed.

  15. Rebel Scum

    I am waiting for Gov Klansman’s (D-bag, VA) edict regarding mask wearing. I did not do my “homework” to acquire a mask and I do not intend to.

    • egould310

      Lookin good, my dude!

    • UnCivilServant

      How on earth do you dry brine? Brine is by definition made up of water and salt.

      • AlmightyJB

        The salt draws out moisture from the meat then the meat draws it back in with the salt. The moisture us then retained better for the cook and the meat tastes better.

      • AlmightyJB

        Wet brine is for poultry or lean pork.

      • Mojeaux

        We here in Midwestia call that a “rub”.

      • SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

        Rub and dry brine are a bit different. It’s all about the salt content.

      • Nephilium

        You could call it pre-salting (like pre-heating) or salting and resting the meat instead. It’s just a way to avoid plumping the meat up with water, but still getting the salt crust on the meat. I’ve contemplated trying to salt roast something, but that’ll be a winter thing.

      • UnCivilServant

        If you don’t include water, it’s not brining, just salting.

      • R C Dean

        Ok, The Hyperbole.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Just pulled the chicken out of the brine myself and its drying in the fridge. Not sure if I am going to smoke it or not..decisions

      • Mojeaux

        Spatchcock.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Always… even when I smoke it. Cooks much more evenly.

      • Mojeaux

        It’s the only way to cook a turkey.

      • l0b0t

        My 5-gallon outdoor fryer respectfully disagrees.

      • Mojeaux

        LOL You guuuuuyyyzzzzzz.

      • Nephilium

        There are several ways to cook turkey. Next year I may be going with the Turketta method. I’ll need to test it out once first. I’ve had very good luck just roasting it so far. I’ve even gotten good enough at carving it that the girlfriend’s grandmother doesn’t complain about it anymore.

      • Incentives Matter

        **GASP** Language, please! Think of the children!

        (Or is this flirting in the New Normal?)  ;-)

    • Incentives Matter

      Sean’s House of Firearms and Fleshy Bits.

      Has a nice ring to it.

      • UnCivilServant

        Sean’s Steak and Shooters?

      • Sean

        A bar, steakhouse, and gun shop and I could serve shots with gun themed names.

      • Sean

        The Mossberg – Wild Turkey 101, mountain dew, and angostura.

      • egould310

        The Ruger— Jagermeister and Redbull

      • DEG

        Beautiful.

    • UnCivilServant

      I went looking at salt on amazon, and couldn’t help laughing at the special filters.

      “Vegan” “Gluten Free” “Organic” “GMO-Free” “Vegetarian”

      It’s salt…

    • DEG

      Excellent.

    • Gustave Lytton

      I tried it last week, and used a bit too much salt. It also left it too dry when flattening it afterward for scaloppine. Thicker cut I think would be best.

      • Sean

        Looking at the excess salt on the plate, I believe your claim of over salting.

  16. Mojeaux

    We are trying to decide whether to rent a place next month (before it goes to someone else) with a sympathetic private landlord (who is apparently a very good one) versus waiting until the foreclosure process winds out to maximize our cash reserves, given that we don’t know when that will be and facing hostile property management companies.

    There are equal pros and cons, so my question isn’t about whether we should do it or not.

    My question is this: How do you tell between “what is wise” versus “what I want”, especially when the pros and cons are about equal?

    • blackjack

      That’s a tough one. Prices will certainly go down, once the brokeness sinks in a bit, BUT lots of people will have to bail from mortgages and seek rentals. I’m in a holding pattern with any real spending until the dust settles. Granted, L.A. housing works very differently than the real world. Sometimes, though, happiness is worth the premium.

      • Mojeaux

        The price is good. The premium is that it’s out in the middle of nowhere and we would change school districts. The high school is top-notch, but the “out in the middle of nowhere” part is my biggest bugaboo. That, and giving up however many months of cash reserve building, but that means we have to live with uncertainty.

      • Toxteth O’Grady

        By plebiscite?

        Don’t know how democratic you are as a family, but what do the kids think about changing schools? Would they have to change in the closer house?

        Just rhetorical, no need to respond.

      • Mojeaux

        At this point, they’re actually quite phlegmatic about it, but I suspect the Kung Flu helped with that. Shit happens. Obstacles have to be gone around, under, over.

        XY had a bit of a surprise reaction yesterday when he saw one of the matching bookcases gone. He said, “Why’d you take that one to storage but not that one?”

        “We sold it.”

        And he had a bit of a micro-meltdown. It’s real, man, it’s happening. Storage is fine, I guess. Selling household landmarks he’s known all his life caused distress.

      • Mojeaux

        Oh, forgot to say, taking them with us to look at places and allow them a say helps a lot. We looked at one place and I said to XY, “What do you think?” “I hate it.” “Me too, but we might have to.”

        Their knowing that we may not be any happier than they are but we have to take what we can get gives us a kind of solidarity. We’re all in this together.

      • R C Dean

        New HS might be just the thing for XY.

      • Mojeaux

        That is in the pro column.

        That said, he’s a freshman so technically the high school XX goes to IS a new school, but … well, *sigh*

    • DEG

      Your foreclosure will show up on a credit check any property management company or landlord runs on you, so I think if you have a sympathetic landlord lined up, you should take that offer.

      I saw your other post down below about making bad decisions to “get over it”. I’ve done that too. You have to live somewhere, and unless you find another sympathetic landlord/property management company, you might be stuck.

      • Mojeaux

        We have a place lined up already as a backup plan. We’re just waiting for our discharge papers. It’s not ideal, but we can make it work with some sacrifice and it doesn’t have to be our forever home. In looking, we’re trying to find out what could happen if we’re open-minded and patient. AND we have a couple of big points in our favor, so we’re not STUCK stuck.

    • SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

      When it comes to two fairly equal options, I focus on the risk. What’s the worst case scenario for each, and which worst case can you live with?

      We just had a somewhat similar situation where we could put cash down early on a rental at risk of ending up with two mortgage/rent payments, or we could pass up that rental and end up in TX without a place to live. Well , we’re sitting in TX and will be househunting this afternoon.

      When it comes down to it, it’s going to be hard to find a decent rental once the foreclosure/bankruptcy/etc go through. In your shoes, I’d probably jump on the rental. Worst case, you keep the landlord happy at the expense of everybody else, and you’ll still have a roof over your heads.

      • Mojeaux

        Ackshually, after we get the discharge papers is where everything gets easier.

        We have a place to go once we get those papers; it’s not IDEAL because both of us are now working from home, but we can live with not ideal. (Heck, we’re even willing to sleep on a sofabed and turn the master into an office.) Having A place to live is not a problem. Having a place in our price range where both of us can work comfortably (preferably kids going to the same school) is going to be a problem.

      • SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

        That’s good news! It gives you options, even if said options aren’t ideal. When it comes down to it, annoyed is better than miserable, and miserable is better than homeless.

      • Mojeaux

        Correct. It would be annoying possibly verging on miserable. It’s a NICE place (mobile home park where they’re busily upgrading and installing new ones everywhere) and it’s in the kids’ school boundaries. It’s new. It’s possible they will have a bigger one available than the model home. And we don’t have to live there forever; we can financially heal there. It’s just going to be very, very cramped and tempers will flare.

  17. Ted S.

    What’s the opposite of a nut-punch?

    Twin Delivers Twin’s Twins

    A midwife who is a twin was assigned to the delivery of a pregnant woman who herself was a twin (not the midwife’s sister), and who was giving birth to twins. In an added twist, the midwife and pregnant woman (and their twin sisters) knew each other as children but hadn’t seen each other in years.

    • egould310

      What’s the opposite of a nut-punch?

      A nipple lick.

      • Ted S.

        I ain’t licking your nipples, bro.

      • egould310

        C’mon bro. We’re friends.

      • Tres Cool

        #Full_Homo

  18. The Late P Brooks

    My question is this: How do you tell between “what is wise” versus “what I want”, especially when the pros and cons are about equal?

    What is the intangible benefit of getting the new, presumably less stressful, place? I assume there is some.

    • Mojeaux

      The intangible benefit is having a resolution to our situation and not living with silence and uncertainty anymore.

      That is extremely valuable

      BUT

      is it valuable enough?

      That is what we don’t know.

    • Mojeaux

      To put a finer point on it: I have made many very bad decisions for the sole purpose of “getting it over with”, whatever IT is because I couldn’t live with the uncertainty.

      • Fourscore

        Changing schools can be dramatic for kids (but I won’t say traumatic, ’cause kids are resilient). My brother and I changed schools in high school , within days we had friends and later that’s where we came back to retire, ’cause we knew the area and had a lot of small town experiences that we enjoyed from school.

        We thought we were losing a lot but actually gained much more.

  19. Derpetologist

    “obstacles, agitation, trouble, embroilment”

    Ah, the usual I see…

    On SP’s Italian project

    There’s a checklist you can use to mark your progress.

    First, is the FORTE, which stands for family, occupation, recreation, travel, and education. If you can say a sentence or 2 about yourself for each of those topics, check!

    The other tasks are:

    Describe your daily routine from waking up to going to bed
    Describe a familiar person and a familiar place in detail
    Give directions from one place to another
    Give instructions on how to do something
    Tell a story about a trip or an experience
    Express an opinion and explain it
    Describe a plan for the future
    Describe what you would do in a hypothetical situation

    These tasks cover all the important aspects of grammar and vocabulary.

    I highly recommend this site: https://langmedia.fivecolleges.edu/lbc-topics/47/105

    Listen to the clips while reading the translation. Then listen while reading the Italian transcript. Then read the Italian transcript out loud. If you say the words, you will remember them. I guarantee.

    • Incentives Matter

      Thanks, mang! Looks like an excellent resource.

    • Ted S.

      I’ve read that people in the Nordic countries have better English skills than other parts of Europe because most of the US/UK entertainment they watch is subtitled, not dubbed.

      Interestingly, I’ve found that the last couple of German silent movies I’ve watched, I was mostly able to follow the intertitles in German and didn’t need the English translations. (Except for the peasants’ song in Faust; it also didn’t help that those intertitles were in Fraktur.)

      • Ted S.

        The other thing that’s always fun when trying to read foreign-language news is officialese, especially acronyms. And portmanteaux, which Russian uses a lot.

      • Rhywun

        Or academic language. I tried to translate an art history article from German for a friend once – holy crap that was painful. I had to give up halfway through.

      • Derpetologist

        The translation of The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir was notoriously bad:

        ***
        Many commentators have pointed out that the 1953 English translation of The Second Sex by H. M. Parshley, frequently reissued, is poor.[103] A reviewer from The New York Times described the zoologist hired to do the translation as having “a college undergraduate’s knowledge of French.”[6] The delicate vocabulary of philosophical concepts is frequently mistranslated, and great swaths of the text have been excised.[104] The English publication rights to the book are owned by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc and although the publishers had been made aware of the problems with the English text, they long stated that there was really no need for a new translation,[103] even though Beauvoir herself explicitly requested one in a 1985 interview: “I would like very much for another translation of The Second Sex to be done, one that is much more faithful; more complete and more faithful.”[105]
        ***

        You’d think she could have gotten an English-speaking colleague to help her with it instead of some rando in the US.

      • grrizzly

        I can watch movies with French subtitles. I watched a Finnish movie in a movie theater in Paris. Fortunately it wasn’t dubbed.

      • blackjack

        Coulda used subtitles when I went to Ireland. Did you know that “Touristday” is not a holiday? It’s just drunken Irish for Thursday!

      • UnCivilServant

        I thought touristday was whenever the gullible Americans and plastic paddies came into town and got overcharged.

  20. Ownbestenemy

    Im like a little kid waiting in anticipation for the SpaceX launch on Wednesday.

    • Incentives Matter

      #metoo, but I’m worried about ‘splody things with people atop them. The lift vehicles have a decent but not perfect track record, IIRC. Even after all these decades, sending missiles up isn’t a 100% reliable science/engineering feat.

      • SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

        They at least have it stacked right. ‘splody stuff at the bottom and meatsack stuff at the top. It’s the least unsafe configuration, and was a massive flaw of the shuttle.

        The thing that concerns me is the minimal testing of the capsule. I guess most of the cargo dragon learnings are compatible with crew dragon, but I expected a few more launch abort tests at various phases of launch, TBH.

  21. The Late P Brooks

    To put a finer point on it: I have made many very bad decisions for the sole purpose of “getting it over with”, whatever IT is because I couldn’t live with the uncertainty.

    I thought moving to Livingston, Montana was a pretty damned good idea 16 years ago. I can’t get out of here soon enough. Fuck these commie idiots.

    Based on the behavior exhibited in the past few months, I’ll give Wyoming a long hard look. Sheridan might not be too bad. I’ll scope it out on my way home from Indpls, whenever that will be.

    • Mojeaux

      I wouldn’t take Wyoming unless it’s around Jellystone, but Idaho is gorgeous. Might want to scope out Team Blue migration patterns, though.

      • dbleagle

        I love Wyoming on either side of the Wind River Range. I used to live in Lander (E of the range) and always wanted to move to Pinedale (to the W). One day when I retire retire Wyoming is at the top of my list.

        Hell Livingston is the wild west compared to crossing the pass into Bozeman. (I lived just west of there by Bozeman Hot Springs for three years in the 1990s as well.)

      • Mojeaux

        To be fair, the only thing I know about WY other than Yellowstone is I-80. It’s so depressingly barren and coupled with the interstate getting closed now and then, I can’t imagine living there.

      • Shirley Knott

        I have family in Big Timber and Hardin. Neither would suit me, but it works well for them. Probably more so for the brother in BT.

  22. The Late P Brooks

    Still leaning heavily toward someplace between Pocatello and Idaho Falls. I ain’t skeert o’ them Mormons, much.

    • PieInTheSky

      I don’t know what your work is is it of such nature that you can just pick where to move?

  23. The Late P Brooks

    Might want to scope out Team Blue migration patterns, though.

    Hence Sheridan and environs. There are some nice places bumped up against the Bighorns and the Beartooths.

    • PieInTheSky

      Sheridan experiences a semi-arid climate (Köppen BSk),[17] with cold, dry winters and hot, wet summers, – yeah that would be a [ass for me. US seems wither to hot or to cold, you should learn the value of moderation climate-wise

      • Mojeaux

        There is no such thing as a moderate clime in the US unless you’re willing to spend 6 months in one place or another.

    • Derpetologist

      I liked Casper and Dubois. There’s a couple great mountains near Dubois. I vividly remember driving past Ramshorn Peak. Prices go up exponentially the closer you get to Jacksons Hole and Yellowstone. When I was there in August, I thought I’d just get a room at the first motel, no reservations. That’s what I always do. Well, turns out Jacksons Hole in the summer is not the best place to get a cheap room for the night. I ended up paying $700 for a night in the rock star suite. That was cool though. I had a butler and there was a phone next to the toilet. Suddenly I had an urge to say “show me the money!” and “have your people call my people”. Money is for spending and since I’m generally frugal, I figured a one night splurge was OK. The first motel I stopped at in Dubois wanted $200 a night. For some reason, I thought I could find something cheaper. How wrong I was.

      Assuming the economy doesn’t collapse, I could move to WY and use my nest egg to buy a semi truck or some other big rig and start a business of some kind. Maybe I could buy something from sloopy. He auctions that stuff if I recall correctly. I guess I could find some kind of engineering/mechanic type work in the gas fields or the coal mines. Being my own boss is the goal though.

      It’s very tempting to stay in Army long enough to get the pension, but I’m worried I might spend the last 10 years marking time in admin roles until I retire.

      • Fourscore

        We missed about 3 motels (sold out) in Jackson Hole. As we were leaving one the “Vacancy” sign came on next door. We ran and got the room, a little on the high side but credit cards are nice when you’re traveling at 11 PM .

  24. The Late P Brooks

    Wut?

    Commenting on large crowds seen at beaches on Saturday that appeared not to be social distancing, Birx stressed in an interview with ABC that “there’s asymptomatic spread. And that means that people are spreading the virus unknowingly.”

    “And this is unusual in the case of respiratory diseases in many cases. So, you don’t know who’s infected. And so we really want to be clear all the time that social distancing is absolutely critical. And if you can’t social distance and you’re outside, you must wear a mask. These are items that really critical to protect individuals,” she said.

    Seriously? Are they now telling us that there are no “asymptomatic” flu carriers? Everybody exposed to the flu gets it?

    I call bullshit, at the top of my lungs.

    • blackjack

      Dr. Birx and Howie Mandel!

    • egould310

      Why all the “ands” and “ reallys” in her language? It’s childish sounding.

    • Suthenboy

      Because of the way it is spoken about and that it is usually only spoken about when a bad outbreak occurs people don’t realize how ubiquitous viruses are. There are tens of millions of different ones and new ones all of the time. A lot of old ones are still around as well. Everyone is exposed to countless viral particles with every breath, every touch every day.

      We have spent millions of years adapting to that environment. Yes, there are asymptomatic flu carriers, and asymptomatic carriers of a bazillion other viruses.

      *The dream of colonizing another earth-like planet for our Libertopia is just that. Only a dream. Never gonna happen. The native pathogens would turn is into puddles of goo in about a month, at most.

  25. The Late P Brooks

    I don’t know what your work is is it of such nature that you can just pick where to move?

    I’m a bum.

  26. The Late P Brooks

    I liked Casper and Dubois. There’s a couple great mountains near Dubois. I vividly remember driving past Ramshorn Peak. Prices go up exponentially the closer you get to Jacksons Hole and Yellowstone.

    Absolutely. I know somebody who moved from here to Lander (I think). They like it pretty well, I guess. Sheridan is not likely to be infested with Californicators (he said).

  27. Crusty Juggler

    Remember the first time you saw The Godfather when it wasn’t on cable and saw Appolonia’s amazing nips?

    To be young again.

  28. The Late P Brooks

    US seems wither to hot or to cold, you should learn the value of moderation climate-wise

    “Snowbird”

  29. R C Dean

    “Leo: 5 of Wands reversed – Litigation, disputes, trickery, contradiction.”

    aka The Lawyer. Perfect.

  30. The Late P Brooks

    I have family in Big Timber and Hardin. Neither would suit me, but it works well for them. Probably more so for the brother in BT.

    Big Timber is not too bad. Hardin? No Fucking Way, I wouldn’t live on the edge of a rez for anything. Sue me.