So, back from hot, humid, rainy and buggy Maine. Where even the range commands are just a bit off (“If cle-ah, hamma down holstah.”) I had a disappointing match, but apparently everyone else did too so I wound up finishing in the top third of my division/class combination. The great thing about having a ginormous spreadsheet to play with is you can almost always find some filtering technique that makes you look less sucky than you really are. My next (last?) major of the year is the first weekend in October back in Marengo, so maybe the weather will be pleasant. The magnets-out mag pouch works well at home, I’ll use it at a match this weekend to see if I should buy more of them. The match was not the clusterfuck I feared, but they weren’t willing to pay for a hotel room for the night after the match, so I made the 6.5 hour drive home powered by vast amounts of black coffee and have been completely fubar with the circadian rhythm ever since.
The week doesn’t start off badly, with Mercury and Jupiter indicating favorable news. Though this is counterbalanced with the moon and Saturn retrograde indicating something breaking at home. But then they split up, and Wednesday is going to be a bad time. You’ve got Mercury (bringing chaos) teaming up with Venus retrograde (conflict, romantic breakups, etc). And of course, this is happening in Leo which is just revving up for the year, so the fights should be epic. Someone will be needing new stuff. There’s another generally bad sign for the week — if you stand outside and face Gemini, Virgo will be on your left-hand side and Pisces will be on your right. Also at these anchor points will be troubling indicators: the moon and Mars, and Saturn retrograde respectively.
Cancer: Queen of Wands reversed – A hottie, but not necessarily the most faithful one.
Leo: 3 of Cups – Woo hoo! Paaarty!
Virgo: 5 of Wands reversed – Losing. Badly.
Libra: Page of Wands reversed – That fucker had one job to do.
Scorpio: The Hermit – Your paranoia will serve you well.
Sagittarius: Knight of cups reversed – Liar, fraudster, flim-flam man, televangelist.
Capricorn: Death reversed – I want to make a petit mort joke here, but it wouldn’t be cartomantically accurate. It’s basically lesser versions of the misfortunes of the Death card, so instead of losing your legs in a car crash, you’d stub your to on a cub. That sort of thing.
Aquarius: 5 of Coins reversed – it really sucks needing to rely on the assistance of others.
Pisces: Two of Wands – Bored. Bored bored bored bored bored. If you want to be artsy about it you could call it ennui.
Aries: The High Priestess reversed – A romantic encounter going badly.
Taurus: 4 of Cups reversed – Nostalgia is lying to you
Gemini: The Emperor – There’s an authority figure, and he’s in a bitchy mood.
Figured that out a while back, though it would be better to say it gaslights you. I’m doing my best not to listen to its seductive voice.
Come on, man!
(but at least I’ll have a romantic encounter, right????)
That’s what I was thinking: how can a romantic encounter go badly when there’s no way I’m having one this week.
Yes, but its with yourself.
Those never go badly for me because I know what I like.
Even on public transportation?
You can’t get romantic on a subway line – David Lee Roth
Tom Cruise and Rebecca DeMornay disagree.
Aquarius: 5 of Coins reversed – it really sucks needing to rely on the assistance of others.
So you are saying I need to call ‘the guy’ to take care of that yellowjacket nest.
Sagittarius: Knight of cups reversed – Liar, fraudster, flim-flam man, televangelist.
Never smarten up a chump
Litvak
greatness
A romantic encounter going badly.
After almost 25 years of marriage?
You might not necessarily be participating in the romantic encounter for it to be a bad event in your life.
Dammit!
If it’s not me embarrassing myself in the bedroom, then I don’t care who is.
You don’t care who’s embarrassing you in the bedroom?
One notable thing at the Maine match: They had a cooler full of Moxie on one of the stages (named “This takes moxie”). It was nowhere nearly as terrible as I had been lead to believe.
Worse than Tab?
Galco’s! https://sodapopstop.com
Galco’s!
That was the other DDG result.
Moxie is the Durian fruit of the carbonated beverages. It’s tastes weird but yet you keep drinking it.
Nice dog videos.
Woo hoo! Paaarty!
Not sufficiently shitty.
I made the 6.5 hour drive home powered by vast amounts of black coffee and have been completely fubar with the circadian rhythm ever since
Hopefully your drive back to NY was better than my drive back to NH.
It’s really hard to get a shitty reading out of the 3 of Cups.
MA is a lot easier to get through at night in a thunderstorm. The traffic is much better.
Be afraid and get your jabs.
“We’re going to have three bugs out there, three viruses: Covid, of course, flu and RSV,” Cohen said in an interview. “We need to make sure the American people understand all three and what they can do to protect themselves.”
Spread of all three respiratory viruses is currently low, but the CDC has begun to detect slight increases in positive Covid tests and Covid-related emergency department visits. And the decline in Covid hospitalizations has stalled.
Omicron XBB subvariants remain the most prevalent forms of Covid, though on Wednesday, the World Health Organization identified a new XBB version, the EG.5, as rising in prevalence around the world and in the U.S.
E.g. it’s worse than the OMG variant.
There’s a lot more than 3 out there, and guess what none of them have ever done much to me. Take your jabs and shove em.
I’m watching a recording and an hour behind, but since I’ve got to head out in a moment I’ll go ahead and venture that UGA has won in Liverpool.
Previous winners were alumni from
Cal
Texas (2)
Drake
Arizona State
Georgia Tech (3)
Stanford (2)
Oklahoma
Houston
Ohio State (2)
BYU
Wake Forest
Western Reserve
Kent State
Long Beach State
Minnesota
Arkansas
Florida
Some of the names should be obvious (Minnesota!), but Long Beach? Then imagine GT having three winners. Who’s the other guy from tOSU?
Harman would be (is?) the second from the SEC: Razorback High was in the SWC when its winner drifted through their program.
Great vids, as usual. Happy doggies!
Do you track how many rounds you shoot each year?
Leo: 3 of Cups – Woo hoo! Paaarty!
Can do.
I already realize I’m a bad person, but I think I actually lol’d at this one.
Speaking of shooting.
Taking nut punch to the next level.
Ennui
“instead of losing your legs in a car crash, you’d stub your to on a cub. ”
Did I ghost write this or something? 😛
Here we go.
https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1683171340029681665
So stupid as to be dangerous.
They hate you and want you to die never seemed more true.
I had a dream about Simon Lebon last night. It didn’t go badly, though.
Niiiiice.
Was there a union of the snake? Sounds like there’s something we should know.
“ so instead of losing your legs in a car crash, you’d stub your to on a cub”
*buckles over in despair *