Rawr mode in 3… 2… 1…
So this upcoming week has got lots of stuff in it. Some of it seems to be indicative of the Ukraine situation, but I’m also trying to get some idea of how I should shoot the ME state championship on Thursday. I’ve never been to Maine, but from the stereotypes, it’s full of moose, biting insects, and moralizing government employees. Like Minnesota but without the silly accents. If you’re shooting that match, say hi — I’ll be the middle-aged bearded rat in the NROI jersey.
But back to the horoscope — this week is a good one for love (the sun, Mercury and Venus of course) and then on Thursday we see Jupiter and Mars come into alignment. This doesn’t say anything about how I should plan my stages, but looking at the broader sky we do see that I’ll be getting a boost from Mercury (which rules both luck and speed) with nothing opposing Sagittarius (the house of accuracy). So I got that going for me, which is nice. As for the rest of the planet, that alignment refers to War, and it gets even more so the next day (Friday), when there is a really convoluted multi-branched interaction involving literally every planet except Venus, which means something very big and unpleasant. One of those interactions is between Mercury and Saturn retrograde, and since Saturn is analogous to lead, it means I will probably DQ someone for unsafe gun handling that day. Fucker. Rak starts off great, but then loses its Mercury Mojo to Leo midweek.
Rawr!
Cancer: Page of Wands – Dark young man, faithful, a lover, an envoy, a postman.
Leo: 7 of Coins – Money, business, barter, altercation, quarrels, innocence, ingenuity, purgation.
Virgo: 5 of Cups – Loss but something remains, inheritance, patrimony, transmission.
Libra: 7 of Swords reversed – Good advice, counsel, instruction, slander, babbling.
Scorpio: King of Coins – Valor, realizing intelligence, business and normal intellectual aptitude, sometimes mathematical gifts and attainments of this kind; success in these paths.
Sagittarius: Death – End, mortality, destruction, corruption.
Capricorn: Knight of Swords reversed – Imprudence, incapacity, extravagance.
Aquarius: 5 of Coins reversed – Disorder, chaos, ruin, discord, profligacy.
Pisces: King of Cups reversed – Dishonest, double-dealing man; roguery, exaction, injustice, vice, scandal, pillage, considerable loss.
Aries: 4 of Cups – Weariness, disgust, aversion, imaginary vexations.
Taurus: The Moon Reversed – Instability, inconstancy, silence, lesser degrees of deception and error.
Gemini: The Lovers Reversed – Failure, foolish designs, marriage frustrated.
I love hiking. I really love hiking with a pack of dogs. Their joy is contagious.
Sagittarius: Death – End, mortality, destruction, corruption.
Sweet.
Huh… Quordle wasn’t all *that* bad today…. calling it destruction seems a little over the top.
Daily Quordle 174
7️⃣4️⃣
5️⃣6️⃣
Mid-year “pay adjustment” on account of inflation AND mid-year incentive both hit this week, so the math checks out.
Salaried people like me got to hand out adjustments to hourly workers while we got … well, I was going to say a goose egg, but you can at least theoretically eat those.
I love hiking, too. And seeing pics of Lily and her posse.
Sadly, mine are too old for hikes in the mountains. Slow, meandering walks on the neighborhood paths are their groove, now.
Leo: 7 of Coins – Money, business, barter, altercation, quarrels, innocence, ingenuity, purgation.
Sounds spot on.
I took a new favorite hiking pic yesterday. It’ll be in next week’s post.
My vexations are never imaginary.
Preach it, my Aries brother.
I’ve got to somehow stretch out my work next week since we have no primary project work. Going to be writing training materials mostly, I guess.
You can have two or three of my projects.
If you have a charge number, I’ll take you up on it!
You worth with Feds HE. You can bill an entire month to repeatedly changing fonts and font sizes on 20-year-old powerpoint training decks.
Right?!
“That blade of grass has smelled the same every day for the past 5 years. I wonder if it will smell differently today?” (sniffs grass)
“No. No it doesn’t. Good.”
You forgot “so I am gonna pee on it”.
Oh great. Hunter Biden is coming to dinner.
Stock up on crack.
Crackheads don’t eat very much, right?
OT: So many questions.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11021799/Ukrainian-cargo-plane-crashed-Greece-carrying-11-TONS-mortar-land-mines.html
Why was a Ukrainian cargo plane carrying Serbian weapons to Bangladesh? Were the weapons Serbian made, or was it just that the dealer was Serbian? Was any US money involved?
NPR said that it was a Ukranian shipping company (not government owned) shipping Serbian made weapons to Bangladesh.
Deeper analysis… NPR realized this looked bad for the Biden administration and moved quickly to provide a debunking story.
Well, shit.
Some years back, I bought a cheap set of padlocks for travelling with gunz. Of course I have lost the key and need to travel on Thursday.
I bought a new set (deliberately picking a different model so I wouldn’t get them mixed up) and this new set isn’t lockable on my gun cases.
Dang. I really hate that moment of realization.
Also, check the Lock-picking Lawyer. You will learn that most locks you would buy can be opened faster without the key (looking at you, master lock).
Yeah, but you have to know what you’re doing, and I don’t.
I swear, somebody hacked my account yesterday.
Yeah yeah. You just had the same password here as on your OnlyYiffs account.
Just be glad it was a lone wolf, not an organized hacker group.
That’s what the Russians want you to believe.
Boo.
That is what every Furry tells his friends.
Based kitty.
Based, indeed.
“Rak starts off great”
Que?
Rak is the Slavic root for crab, and by cognate the word for the astrological sign Cancer.
These euphemisms.
Pie was concerned that his sign was never mentioned.
It is spelled with a c not k. Rac.
Cancer: Page of Wands – Dark young man, faithful, a lover, an envoy, a postman.
This is useless information what am I supposed to do with this?
I’ll trade you mine – “Weariness, disgust, aversion, imaginary vexations”
Beware tall dark mailmen?
Daily Quordle 174
7️⃣3️⃣
4️⃣5️⃣
quordle.com
Upper left is mean.
Daily Quordle 174
9️⃣8️⃣
6️⃣4️⃣
9 8
6 5
ah good, I’m not the only one. Man, my seed words were not helpful at all.
Daily Quordle 174
4️⃣6️⃣
8️⃣9️⃣
aw Lily pics!
and I get an inheritance this week! — oh wait, that means someone dies. Not good. Unless it’s one of those “you have a distant relative in Far Off Place who inexplicably chose you to inherit all his money, please give us all your info” letters.