Hello there
This week is exceptionally active skywise, but unfortunately I will not be able to clarify anything live since when this posts I will (God willing and the creek don’t rise) be in Austin with my dearest friend and my godson. So I will try to be as clear as I can.
Overall this week is going to be much better than is typical, with governance by Venus (love), Mercury (luck) and Jupiter (Happiness, righteousness). Monday things get even better as the moon comes into alignment with the Venus mentioned in the previous sentence and indicates domestic bliss. However there will be emotional whiplash as the moon is zipping around in the sky opposite Aquarius, meaning that from the Tuesday through Thursday it will be shifting between alignments with Jupiter and Saturn, which have opposing influences. Check your local Astrological Guide for specifics depending on your time zone. Friday is pretty much a downer, with Mercury sitting opposite the sun from Saturn. I really should have checked that before scheduling my flight home. Oh well.
Look at my fluff! LOOK AT IT! I’M SO FLUFFY!
The speed at which everything is changing is reflected in Mercury inhabitation of, and fundament incompatibility with, Libra. Without the sun to smooth things over, Mercury is kid with a sugar rush poking a set of scales. However, those born under the sign of Scorpio are finally getting more of their due as Mars brings strength
Scorpio: Six of Coins, reversed – Desire, cupidity, envy, jealousy, illusion.
Sagittarius: Three of Swords – Pain.
Capricorn: Page of Coins – Application, study, scholarship, reflection, waitron, deliveries
Aquarius: Five of Coins – Love and lovers, destitution
Pisces: Seven of Wands – valor, discussion, wordy strife, negotiations, war of trade, barter, competition, success,
Aries: Page of Wands – Dark young man, faithful, a lover, an envoy, a postman, landscaper, pool boy.
Taurus: The Chariot – Succor, providence also war, triumph, presumption, vengeance, trouble.
Gemini: Temperance, reversed – Things connected with churches, religions, sects, disunion, unfortunate combinations, competing interests.
Cancer: The World, reversed – Inertia, fixity, stagnation, permanence.
Leo: Page of Swords – weaselly backstabber, but one on your side
Virgo: Queen of Wands – Honorable woman, housewife, love of money, success in business
Libra: Four of Coins, reversed – Suspense, delay, opposition.
Pisces: Seven of Wands – valor, discussion, wordy strife, negotiations, war of trade, barter, competition, success,
Well, the brother is out of the house. I guess that is success.
I … I can’t even. Please no.
It’s a good think IFLA is all hokum.
Lily gets more fan mail than NA. Just sayin’
triumph
Cookies came out fabulously. Ovfen runs cool.
Do they go well with covfefe? Wait, never mind.
Beat me to it
I’ll be in my bunk
/Aries
A postman, a landscaper, and a pool boy. Sounds like a busy week.
Week? That’s just a regular afternoon for Winton’s Mom.
Did they walk into a bar?
Enjoy yourself. Our pool boy was left behind in California.
Right?! Seize the… whatever… the thing.
The black thing that goes up?
Nobody needs to see a gangrenous/necrotic penis.
Necrotic Penis?
I have all their albums, even the ones that don’t hold up.
Turgid they are not, it’s true.
Well, I *was* just about to head down to the house for lunch… ?
My work here is done.
“Virgo: Queen of Wands – Honorable woman, housewife, love of money, success in business”
So basically everything I need right now, yeah right…..
Good one for me. I wonder if this woman I meet can make me a sandwich.
Virgo: Queen of Wands – Honorable woman, housewife, love of money, success in business
#metoo
No sandwich for me, but my wife’s biscuits came out great. I’m so full, I’ll be skipping lunch.
Biscuit-making eludes me. I use all the right ingredients and do it the way it says, but they still come out hard as bricks and dry as the Sahara.
She’s watched many a YT video for sure. All I know is there is a trick with the slicing of the butter, and she uses sour cream instead of buttermilk.
Ohhhhhh, I would NEVER have thought of that, and buttermilk is just liquid sour cream. What can I say, I can drink buttermilk straight.
The slicing the butter trick sounds right. It’s a thing in pie crust making.
I freeze butter and then grate it directly into the flour. Learned this trick from some show which showed how some café famous for its biscuits did it. Works a treat.
Hmmm, my biscuits are good, but wondering if both the sour cream and grated butter may just raise them to next level. Maybe I’ll try one trick at a time and then combine the tricknowledgy to see what works best. Either way I’m intrigued.
Sagittarius: Three of Swords – Pain.
Ain’t that the troof
What temperature have you been running your smoker? How long will the cook be overall?
225 for the pork butt but I transferred to the oven at that temp. Restarting the smoker now for the ribs and that will run at 250ish and once chicken goes on up to 300.
That was definitely accurate for last week.
Lily!
She’s so clean!
Leo: Page of Swords – weaselly backstabber, but one on your side
For now, anyway. That’s the problem with weaselly backstabbers.
Weirdly, for someone who works in a bureaucracy, nobody comes to mind.
Which worries me, now that I think about it.
Page of Swords – weaselly backstabber, but one on your side
Hmm… sounds sufficiently shitty.
“He’s a weaselly backstabber…but he’s our weaselly backstabber.”
Sagittarius: Three of Swords – Pain.
Succinct and to the point.
Finally I’ll get back at that kid who knocked me unconscious in the 1st grade! CTE motherfucker!
and unthreaded.
I don’t need a horrorscope for the future. Apparently my boss has decided not to fight the mandate and will leave a month from tomorrow. Found out from a coworker late Friday and it was too late to get it get from the horse’s mouth. Guess my boss doesn’t want to do the firing for anyone who doesn’t have an approved accommodation request (which I think will ultimately be meaningless in companies that are mandate cultists; another coworker got their submission received with HR saying they’re going to schedule an interview on it).
Good on your boss. Although it would be more powerful if he/she refused and forced the company to fire him/her instead, I understand the desire to leave on one’s own terms and not have a termination for cause following one around.
He’s at the end of his career and will retire to spend time with his grandkids. I think his timing is more about not having to fire someone else. One of the things he absolutely hates. Even layoffs and he’s had to do a few rounds of those over the years.
I believe that in any company mandating the vax, asking for an exemption from HR is just putting yourself on the next-to-be-fired list.
One of our plant managers was shown the door after he wasn’t enforcing mask mandates at his facility. A corporate EHS person visited the plant and complained. Never mind that all the employees at the plant supported the manager and didn’t want to mask up…
Probably the right thing to do, legally speaking for the company, but what an asshole the EHS person was. They’re no longer at the company either…
Went to the eye doc yesterday, which is in a strip mall. There is an insurance company next door and they had a huge sign that said MASKS REQUIRED.
Eye doc had a small sign that said “Masks recommended”.
Nobody there was masked, and they had taken away all the spacers between the reception desk and the public. I told them thank you as I left.
I’ve switched eye doctors to an eye doctor that doesn’t require masks. First appointment is this Thursday.
Next is the dentist. I need to get some recommendations.
The shame of it is, I actually like both my current dentist and my old eye doctor. But if I can find an alternative that doesn’t require face diapers, I’m taking it.
Good for your boss.
which I think will ultimately be meaningless in companies that are mandate cultists
The company I just left explicitly said in their announcement about complying with Let’s Go Brandon’s contractor EO that they would honor very few exemptions.
Yup, I’ve been rehearsing my conversation with my boss because I fully expect that I won’t be part of the “very few”. I hope to leave with more dignity and respect than the company has showed me over the past couple years.
Good luck.
I’m seeing more and more vax requirements in job postings over the past couple of weeks. Makes my stomach turn.
I’m off the job market now as I found a place to land. However, I did join RedBalloon just before I had the interviews that led to my current job. There wasn’t much up there, but I they are growing. There is also a no-vax job board on Gab. They’re out there.
But, I agree, the increase in vax required jobs is horrible.
Interesting. I posted a job for my firm. An applicant called asking if we had a vaccine mandate.
Sounds about right for this week. One of my reports has been fucking up and pissing off a lot of people. After being provided relatively gentle feedback from myself to get performance back on track, said report went behind my back for a meeting with my boss to complain about receiving feedback. Boss is highly pissed at the report for doing this and so am I.
I stuck my professional neck out quite a bit and it sucks to get backstabbed like that. The pain this week will be deciding what things look like moving forward.
More troubles for Collingwood….
BTW, it looks like Anett Kontaveit grabbed the last spot in the YEC over Ons Jabeur.
Of course, neither would have qualified if Australia didn’t make people like Ash Barty quarantine for two weeks on returning home.
The groping upset the woman’s male friend, who confronted the 6-foot-3, 194-pound De Goey and Goey’s friend, Luke Dyson, 28.
one the one hand you should always protect your friends… on the other…
Cancer: The World, reversed – Inertia, fixity, stagnation, permanence.
well this does not bode well for the lottery ticket I bought.
Capricorn – waitron?
Is that Megatron’s less decisive brother? I don’t think I need more scholarship. I’m convinced that if I was a less avid reader I’d be a lot happier.
I only heard it a couple of times when I was in college decades ago as a neuter word for waiter/waitress.
Awesome!
Oh….
Maybe pleasure spiked with pain?
Also, and this will be a theme for me all week, the post was early
Filing PI motion today or tomorrow – checks out.
Working on another article regarding “The Big Lie” and how well it works – even on us – in the context of the vaccine mandates.
This whole thing is a giant fraud; it’s amazing how well propaganda works.
I bet I had as many hours and obviously and exponentially greater understanding of micro as that ridiculous Fauci. I remember him from 30 years ago. He was full of shit then and he is fulll of shit now. He doesn’t give a fly shit for public health. This is about power. Every time a new bug came along he was screeching to have today’s measures implemented. He is ecstatic. He has lived for this moment.
None of that shit worked on me.
See my comment below RE: humanity.
Dumb, fucking apes with an overgrown frontal lobe. We are not special or particularly intelligent in a useable sense. We are just as useless as ever with the same defective minds that fall for the same stupid parlor tricks. My cat demonstrates better reasoning and problem solving than vast swaths of humanity.
When the kid tells her grandpa she wants to be a Transformer for Halloween.
*applause*
That kid’s look says it all – “This isn’t the transformer I meant, grampa.”
Bravo!
The look she’s giving is electric.
It is shocking.
Who could resistor?
When Switzy gets home, y’all are grounded.
I don’t think he has the capacitor to do that.
Did you arrive at that conclusion by inductive logic?
She’s gonna get all wired up on candy.
Ohm My God! I just can’t even!
Yeah, what a phase!
At least she will be well insulated against the cold weather.
She really blew a fuse when she saw that.
But she really did step up and solder on.
Oh no! Whatever will our celebrities and politicians do now??
https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/drugshortages/dsp_ActiveIngredientDetails.cfm?AI=Lipid+Injection&st=c&tab=tabs-4&panels=1
Fix-a-Flat?
Jugsy has an Anne Frank costume for Halloween.
The rest of the year, I keep it in the attic.
(Bengals are doing their best to lose this game)
It’s the Jets. I think you’re all right.
There is a new named storm in the Atlantic: Subtropical Storm Wanda. If you look at the projected track, the name is appropriate.
Trick or treaters came last night (per some silly rule).
We had one adorable little girl come by dressed in an angel outfit. She was radiant when she yelled out “trick or treat”.
Being responsible people, we were giving out apples instead of refined sugar. And I dropped a large honeycrisp into her bag.
She looked down into the bag, and then back up at me. “You broke my fucking cookie”.
That is simultaneously hilarious and depressing.
“The frost got my apples so here’s a gift certificate for the health food store”
That’s great. Sounds like a new tagline.
One year, Jugsy and I were handing out candy. A black kid, maybe 7 or 8 years old walks up. He had on a shiny sharkskin-esque suit w/ narrow tie, a fedora, and was in whiteface which gave him a gray look. I asked “who are you supposed to be?”
“I’m dead Michael Jackson”.
He reached for candy and I noticed the glove.
^^^That kid gets it.
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Apples? What are you, some kind of hippie dentist?
I’m starting to look at Cheyenne as a place to rent an apartment for a year while I wait for the RV market to crash. I can access my favorite ski resort in 3 hours from there.
the RV market – wait you want to be a vagrant?
Very much so
KK, I don’t think the RV market is going to crash anytime soon.
With gas prices? You never know.
I had one of those in my youtube recommends although she had a van not an RV and also had a sort of cabin in the woods as a permanent place. Not for me though.
Why do you think the market will crash?
Mainly gas prices, but also a lot of the hipsters that took off in 2020 will give up and move back to the cities? Maybe?
“a lot of the hipsters that took off in 2020 will give up and move back to the cities”
Not likely the cities IMO, but after all the freaky RV fuckin’ they’ll have little ones that need a yard and a swing set. My bet is the ‘burbs. Still has the same impact on all of them getting rid of the RVs though.
Did she have a bald boyfriend too?
not in the few youtubes I saw. I aint subscribed so who knows?
LOL
She wants to be like Trapper John, MD and live in a hospital parking lot.
I was saying to my dad how much Alaska intrigued me because of the income tax (none) and the weather and the isolation and the nerd stuff (auroras, volcanoes, etc.). He is alarmed at that prospect. I told him I would wait til he’s gone to move there.
Nice. I was looking for job options that would let me work remotely (or with travel) so that I could get a cheap rental over there – to get a better feeling for winter climate, etc.
Probably won’t happen for a while. Thinking it might be better for me to keep this current job until I finish my reserve retirement requirements.
The bottom end of the RV market seems to be the new homeless encampment tent. I see hundreds of them, broke down and sporting out-of-state license plates at every wide spot on the road in any somewhat lenient town in Oregon. Portland is filthy with them, Eugene is getting there, and Salem is overrun now.
I have the feeling this is actually pushing the market up in cost.
Sorry, but I need to rant.
We recently switched from Verizon to AT&T for our wireless. Mostly because they have been investing in more coverage near us and we live in an are where Verizon has limited coverage. Not to mention Verizon’s terrible customer service. It is hard to believe anyone in wireless could outdo them in providing shitty customer service. Well AT&T does just that. Throw in the horribly deceptive bait and switch (which effectively tripled our monthly bill) and it is just one more example of me wanting out of modern society. Fuck these huge corporations. Fuck globalization. Fuck the government that makes it happen. Fuck the people who cheer it on and want to see me destroyed. Fuck it all. It’s not worth the fucking headache. Every day provides another reason to sell everything and start a “homestead” (I don’t like the term, but it gets the point across) in the middle of nowhere Wyoming. Fuck this shitty world our “betters” and “technology” have created. I want no part of it. All it does is suck the life from you and leave a hollow shell. It’s becoming harder and harder to find peace in this life.
/rant off
PS I almost deleted this because I don’t like putting myself out there and it’s nothing that hasn’t been discussed. Plus it feels like I’m whining. But maybe I need to get it out and just typing it isn’t enough.
We have had AT&T for many years now. We’ve been happy with the service and cell coverage.
Same. No complaints here.
But I think the overarching theme is that tech has brought us no peace, no joy. Just contention and more things to be looked after.
Coverage is fine. Website sucks. Difficult to talk to a person on the phone unless you call an ATT store. Service personnel made several mistakes when we signed up that we’re still trying to fix. My wife drove to the nearest town (an hour away) today just to talk to a real person at the store and figure out why the monthly cost they told us at the time has ballooned. Yeah, yeah read the contract….good luck figuring that out. Yes, it’s less about this particular company and more about every medium to large corp out there. I just want value for my money. In lieu of that, the only way to win is not to play.
I just want value for my money.
I’ll go even farther than that. All I want is a straightforward transaction where the costs and the metes and bounds of the product/service are presented in plain language for my inspection prior to purchase.
what does wireless mean in this story?
marconi and cheese
Known in Canada as Fessenden Dinner.
That was just noted in an ocular capacity.
Cellular service
Don’t forget Animal’s neighborhood, water, trees and no neighbors, to speak of.
I see two lots have been leveled off near me (3/4 of a mile). Now I know how Daniel Boone felt.
“Animal’s neighborhood”
Whatever else they are lacking in, I’m sure they make up for with number of months when it’s cold enough to snow.
Take heart; while every day provides more justification to start a homestead, it also provides more and more opportunity for our “betters” to trip over their own dicks and chip away at their own credibility. When I see polls showing trust in media, Big Tech, “experts” and the government going down faster than a drunk prom date, I get optimistic. Maybe it’s stupid optimism, but it’s something.
NB: This doesn’t change my overall opinion of humanity as being useless monkeys with overgrown frontal lobes, it just makes me slightly more optimistic about my own future.
Yeah, but even if the ratchet is somehow broken and turns back, it’s only temporary. Unfortunately until we get to the truly hard times, there are too many soft people that won’t allow those of us wanting to be left alone to exercise that freedom. They want what we have, but aren’t strong enough to get it themselves.
Can I go ahead and cosign this rant?
AT&T is an example, but not the only one.
*switches back over to landwatch to look for a homestead plot and gab to find non-Amazon Christmas gifts for the family*
Ammo. It’s practical and says you care about them.
*adds some 22LR to 4 year old’s stocking*
That’s the spirit!
I’ve also been following landwatch and others. I noticed there are sites specifically catering to for sale by owner which is intriguing, along with contract for deed to avoid mortgages with a bank. Finding something that checks all the boxes we want is not easy, especially if I prefer to not spend all of my retirement fund on property.
Seconded.
All cell phone companies suck. It’s just that some suck a little less than some of the others, or so the rumor goes. I have T-Mobile and can confirm that they also suck.
T-Mobile is on the “hell no” list for us because they’ve been social justice assholes for half a decade.
We’re on Cricket (owned by AT&T) and are happy enough, but I have zero loyalty to them. I almost dropped them when they parted out the mobile hotspot functionality into an additional cost. No, I’ll not pay to be able to share my meager data allotment with a second device.
So long as they stay at the $35/device price point, I’m okay with them.
https://patriotmobile.com
I’m on Ting who I think sublet from Sprint or whatever they’re called now.
My needs are low so the $18 average per month works for me.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/31/man-dressed-as-joker-arrested-tokyo-train-attack
I thought they have common sense knife control in Japan?
Fake News.
#CapricornsRPeople2
In more exciting OT news. I’m making my first pot of chili using Serrano peppers instead of Jalapeno peppers. Why? Because I have Serrano peppers and no Jalapenos. So I just ate 2 of them, and the heat is about the same as the Jalapenos I grow in containers, which is way hotter than the ones you can buy in the produce section of supermarkets. But not too hot. I think I can work with these. So the entire world is on the edge of their seats awaiting the results. I don’t really intend to put the world on hold like that, it just happens all of the time.
It’s Halloween and I’m still picking peppers here. The ghosts and the Scotch Brain really pushed out some fruit at the end of the season.
The Ghengis Khan has been picked clean and retired. Still a couple peppers left on the chocolates, but they’re winding down.
Those are suicide peppers. I can’t work with those. Well, I guess I could if I could get used to the right amount to use for cooking. The only peppers I even have in my seeds collection for next spring that are hotter than the Serrano or Jalapeno is Lemon peppers and I guess those are somewhat hotter than the Serrano or maybe quite a bit hotter, but still not suicide peppers like the ones you grow.
Hey Capricorn doesn’t suck.
Son knocked it out of the park this morning for his first paid church service as an organist. Thanks to everyone rooting for him. He’s 18 and collecting a paycheck now.
Huzzah!
Don’t know if you saw it yesterday — he and/or you might enjoy Barbara Owen’s biography of E. Power Biggs.
Thank you. I’ll pass it on to the son.
Son knocked it out of the park this morning for his first paid church service as an organist. Thanks to everyone rooting for him. He’s 18 and collecting a paycheck now.
Excellent!
“Hey Capricorn doesn’t suck.”
It’s a trap!
That’s great! The organ is a magnificent instrument.
Err. . . .
??????
https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/the-media-prepare-their-readers-for-a-possible-kyle-rittenhouse-acquittal/
Self defense. Let the kid go free.
Charges should never have been filed.
There is ambiguity in some other cases, but we have this incident on video. We know what happened.
Self defense. Let the kid go free.
Muh VIGILANTISM!
“It will be killing fields in all the usual-suspect neighborhoods of all the usual-suspect cities.”
I’ve already seen this one.
Like I said re: Bengals
They’re trying their best to get beat by the Jets. It’s about to happen.
And they did it!