I’ll be back in Morengo this week, next weekend’s Horoscope willon on-when pre-cast. I’ll be working stage 8, but probably insanely busy other than at lunch.
This week starts off with Jupiter retrograde and Venus with Mercury in opposition. This indicates that the cute person you’ve been flirting with is married. I don’t know if it’s related or not, but there are indications of domestic disturbances on Thursday. Friday Mercury moves into Libra, joining Mars which is already there. This means it’s a particularly potent time to be a Libra, and you should bet on red that day.
Libra: Ace of Swords – Going balls-out. Will it work? Unclear.
Scorpio: Death – End, mortality, destruction, corruption. Some wussie readers will downplay this as “change.”
Sagittarius: 4 of Cups – Weariness, disgust, aversion, imaginary vexations.
Capricorn: 10 of Wands reversed – Contrarieties, difficulties, intrigues, and their analogies.
Aquarius: The Fool -Folly, mania, extravagance, intoxication, delirium, frenzy, bewrayment.
Pisces: The Moon – Hidden enemies, danger, calumny, darkness, terror, deception, occult forces, error.
Aries: 2 of Coins reversed – Enforced gaiety, simulated enjoyment, literal sense, handwriting, composition, letters of exchange.
Taurus: The Chariot reversed – A major loss of status, or of perks or benefits to which you may have become accustomed.
Gemini: Page of Swords – An underling acts without your knowledge. Their motivations are good, nothing is shown about their effects.
Cancer: 8 of Cups – Mildness, timidity, honor, modesty, the decline of a matter, or that a matter which has been thought to be important is really of slight consequence.
Leo: 3 of Cups – Ever been to a party where the drinks are flowing, and the music is good, and everyone is having a good time? This card is like that.
Virgo: 10 of Coins – Gain, riches; family matters, archives, extraction, the abode of a family.
When Lily achieves a kesa gatame, there’s really nothing Gertie can do.
This week’s music is from the previous album. A bit too late in the year perhaps, but there are a couple of things notable about this: first that it has the most amazing wordplay, both sophisticated (half-whole rhyme schemes) and goofy (assonance stretched beyond any lyrical sense). The other thing is the role that the engineering plays. Some people claim that Jane’s Addiction is a “live only” band. With respect, that’s nonsense. There’s no doubt that the members of the band were absolutely involved in the production choices (I mean, you don’t accidentally multitrack yourself.) So I don’t see how the studio work can be any less “real” than theior live work.
At least Gertie is stoic about it.
Leo: 3 of Cups – Ever been to a party where the drinks are flowing, and the music is good, and everyone is having a good time? This card is like that.
Sweet!
Great song, too. I completely agree about the production.
“Ever been to a party”
“Turn out the lights….”
A Glib Party?
Darn the luck. Things have been going so well. 😳
Who is ready to see a Titles of Nobility fight?
Markle wants to go to Washington
Also
I’m okay with this.
Since when have Ds been concerned with Constitutional limits that prevent them from getting what they want?
Gods help us.
Grass roots? That doesn’t seem to mean what they think it means. You don’t go to senior leadership in a political party to start a grass roots campaign. You already have regular people on the ground who want you to run if there’s a grass roots campaign. Bitch isn’t even popular among Democrats.
Kamala says hi!
Where was Meghan when we needed her?
I’d say she’s delusional, but in current year, who the fuck knows.
Constitutionally, it says we will not issue any titles.
It does not penalize Americans who recieve foreign titles, that amendment was actually rejected.
Though that only applies to government officials and likely doesn’t prevent existing titles.
Accepting a title or payment from a foreign power while in office is pretty much bribery and likely indicator of treason.
Trump Hotel bribery!!11!!!
“Mildness, timidity, honor, modesty, the decline of a matter, or that a matter which has been thought to be important is really of slight consequence.”
Nope. That doesn’t sound right at all.
Sagittarius: 4 of Cups – Weariness, disgust, aversion, imaginary vexations.
Maybe NPR will write a tearjerker profile of me. I’ll be a gofundme millionaire.
Moj – re your comments in ded thread – I think the last couple of nights have convinced me its the season to switch back to Breathe Right strips – mouth just drying out like crazy.
I went to the doc and he said, “Your blood pressure’s high.” It was. I said, “I’m stressed, in pain, and almost always angry.” He said, “You are also on a lot of stimulants.” Oh, right. I also don’t have sleep apnea. Anyway, I sleep like shit. I might buy the some of those strips in case they can help me with me waking up with a stuffed-up head. I have to have Tylenol PM to sleep. No, Benadryl by itself doesn’t work; it winds me up. I think shit’s just catching up to me. I may just bite the bullet and pull a few all-nighters and detox the Tylenol, and wear myself out.
Have you ever experimented with mouth taping? I started a few years ago and it really makes a difference in my sleep. No snoring, less congestion, etc. Highly recommended
Still don’t know if I snore – may do a sleep study for disability after I retire – but the nose strips keep my nostrils spread so I’m not breathing through my mouth.
This was a really interesting read.
Ever been to a party where the drinks are flowing, and the music is good, and everyone is having a good time? This card is like that.
Not sufficiently shitty.
Nice dog videos.
Gemini: Page of Swords – An underling acts without your knowledge. Their motivations are good, nothing is shown about their effects.
I don’t have any underlings, unless you count my two
orphanssons. I wonder what those boys are up to.I don’t even have kids.
I better keep an eye on the dog, although I’m certain she doesn’t consider herself subordinate to me.
Patzie and Scruffy, good luck to your wives!
Ditto!
Thanks. I think Mrs. Patzer’s luck ran out about 29 years ago 🙂 And I do hope you can sort out your sleep issues…
I may just bite the bullet and pull a few all-nighters and detox the Tylenol, and wear myself out.
Phrasing?
We don’t do that anymore.
a “live only” band
a.k.a., a studiocrity
I’ve heard that said of Soul Asylum. I certainly enjoyed them live a whole lot more than any recordings I heard.
The J. Geils Band for me. Like plenty of their studio recordings, but everything that landed on a live album was a bit better. And their actual shows were crazy.
Drew Carey Show marathon today for Oktoberfest, if anyone gets the Rewind channel.
Oktoberfest Buzz Beer?
Buzzy Wuzzy the bear is on later, possibly the best of the beer-themed episodes.
Carbon based protectionism
The European Union launched on Sunday the first phase of the world’s first system to impose CO2 emissions tariffs on imported steel, cement and other goods as it tries to stop more polluting foreign products from undermining its green transition.
The planned tariff has caused disquiet among trading partners and at a forum last month, China’s top climate envoy Xie Zhenhua urged countries not to resort to unilateral measures such as the EU levy.
The bloc will not begin collecting any CO2 emission charges at the border until 2026.
Sunday, however, marks the start of an initial phase of the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) when EU importers will have to report the greenhouse gas emissions embedded during the production of imported volumes of iron and steel, aluminium, cement, electricity, fertilisers and hydrogen.
Importers will from 2026 need to purchase certificates to cover these CO2 emissions to put foreign producers on a level footing with EU industries that must buy permits from the EU carbon market when they pollute.
It’ll be fine.
Feudalism for the win.
The left lurch in the west is due to the populace being ignorant of the outcomes of leftist policies and the criminal class being constituted entirely by sociopathic grifters and people with room temperature IQ’s.
It is painful to watch.
“CBAM is not about trade protection. It is about protecting the EU’s climate ambition – and seeking to raise the level of climate ambition worldwide,” Gentiloni said in written responses to Reuters’ questions.
European steel industry association Eurofer, which has been at the forefront of those in Europe seeking a border tariff, said the initial phase would test how watertight CBAM is at avoiding industrial production shifting abroad to countries with less ambitious climate policies.
Move production to low(er) cost countries? Nobody does that.
‘Climate ambition’. Just think about that phrase for a minute.
One of the biggest reasons that the EU has flirted with ‘climate ambitions’ already. It was a disaster.
The grift that keeps on grifting.
It hurts my brain.
I played https://squaredle.com 10/01:
74/74 words (+23 bonus words)
📖 In the top 10% by bonus words
🔥 Solve streak: 2
Good grief.
I played https://squaredle.com 10/01:
74/74 words (+17 bonus words)
📖 In the top 35% by bonus words
🔥 Solve streak: 7
Tough one.
I played https://squaredle.com 10/01:
*74/74 words (+26 bonus words)
📖 In the top 5% by bonus words
Watching Bills-Dolphins. One of these teams might score 70 and lose.
Looks like a hockey game is starting to develop.
Miami is not scoring 70 today.
Flying into/from Denver, driving to my destination: five-six hours, and that was basically perfect conditions. No delays, light security, the knuckleheads at Avis could at least fog a mirror.
Driving to my sister’s from Albuquerque would have taken seven hours.
I’m really starting to question what’s my break-even point between flying and driving, and increasingly it’s weighted against flying. I think I’d need to sit down and really consider a ten hour drive vs five hours spent flying. The only reason flying comes out ahead is that I drive all the time, but I fly only a few times a year, so driving seems mundane but I forget how obnoxious flying is.
I hate the time it takes to drive, but I love driving and I hate TSA, so I drive. Ialso love the control of having my own car at my destination.
Plus side for flying: I got to laugh at the almost Brazil-like experience of marching through ten switchbacks of cordon, along with hundreds of other people, before getting to the actual security queue. Row after row walking pointlessly flanked on both sides by the same people walking pointlessly in the opposite direction. Like a game of Centipede.
I finished a good chunk of the novel I’m reading.
I got a snack bag and a drink like a good little boy who minds his manners.
Points in favor of driving: getting to arrive and leave whenever I choose, like a wizard. Not sharing a cabin with strangers. I get snacks whenever I damn well please, not just when I’ve minded my ps and qs.
Pre covid, two hours was it. Particularly over city traffic hassles like to a conference or trade show shuttle distance from the airport.
Bears are playing a team even worse than they are. Woo Hoo.
*sigh*
Talladega is on. Good background for a snooze. They’re reasonably well behaved so far for three wide racin.
Why I no can watch Browns and Ravens?
Because you’re geographically closer to Broncos/Bears? (My guess as to which CBS game you’re getting.)
No, not getting that one, either. Miami/Bills and Bengals/Titans. I could probably go over to Peacock for Browns/Ravens.
Prolly defaults to Romo if there’s no obvious choice for your location.
I got some paint on plastic. It’s nothing close to being in a state to show off, but I’ve been prepping parts for so long, it’s heartening to finally have color appearing.
Still priming. Did a lot of black yesterday – gonna try a white zenithal coat today – nice weather outside but still picked up a respirator. I’d my wet pallette gets here this week I’ll start painting on the long weekend.
Hopefully you’ll find it fun and relaxing.
I enjoy seeing something emerge from the primordial plastic and primer.
I dislike waiting for the paint to dry…
Weird experience visiting my sister: I walked through the family room and saw my nephew, sixteen, hastily alt-tab away from a Jordan Peterson lecture. I don’t know what to make of that, but it made me a little sad. There’s something so cynical about what Peterson signifies, not the guy himself or his philosophizing, but why he became significant and the fact that my nephew recognizes what he represents to the outside world. I was never ashamed of what I read or listened to, growing up. Now you can’t help but be guarded.
My wife fashioned a replacement cover for this book
https://www.amazon.com/Documents-Revolution-Anti-Federalist-Confederation-Constitution/dp/B09MYRCT9Q/ref=d_pd_sbs_sccl_2_1/145-4560887-4119333?pd_rd_w=gEHq3&content-id=amzn1.sym.83180963-0377-46ea-9aa4-1ece655ef63e&pf_rd_p=83180963-0377-46ea-9aa4-1ece655ef63e&pf_rd_r=97SV6CD128MGDM63E0YZ&pd_rd_wg=d5YrF&pd_rd_r=1dc6e253-fc7e-4ee6-87bb-86d05bf01175&pd_rd_i=B09MYRCT9Q&psc=1
so that I can read it in waiting rooms etc….when I am in public. I never dreamt this country would come to this state.
I just picked that book up about a month ago to read on the plane, since Ive been gone so much.
Excellent choice. Y ou might want to pick up one of those fresnel lenses for reading….
American flag on the cover = MEGAMAGA
That is probably accurate.
Mind you, MAGA is not synonymous with Donny Two Scoops. It is an ethos independent of any individual. That is what makes it so threatening to the leftist shitbirds. It cant be stamped out by taking out some key individual. It is an ethos that was sleeping inside all the while. D2S just woke it up in many people.
“America was never great.”
Megamagas want to reinstitute slavery and back-alley abortions.
I’m warming to the death penalty.
And extremely restrictive immigration rules. And extremely aggressive deportation.
The question is not whether there are people that need killin’. The question is who is qualified to decide who those people are. That’s the rub.
That little girl was apparently trafficked. Obviously her parents can’t make the call, so I volunteer. No government needed.
You wont see me standing in your way….
The Dems are 100% responsible for this.
Collectivist cultures, having essentially no regard for individuals, are far more prone to high rates of criminal behavior. The dems are importing them precisely because they are collectivists. Foreseeable consequences are not unintended…I think I heard someone point that out a time or two.
There was an article posted here yesterday that played the immigrants commit less crime card after talking about illegal immigration.
It’s such a pathetic sleight of hand, but it’s little pieces of propaganda like that which allows progs to keep their heads in the sand. They just need that little bit of reaffirmation of their worldview no matter what their lying eyes say.
The NYC progs got a rude wake up call. We will see what they do. Still vote Dem? Just wish the problem was being dealt with by Americans other than them? I am afraid to find out what the answers are.
I am a bit perplexed that the ruling regime planned to keep the invaders in TX and there was not more of an outcry from the rest of the country. They were partially expelling one of our biggest and most important states from the union. If Texas over this issue, why not other states for any number of reasons?
National divorce seems realistic and closer than ever. I never figured that the leftist crowd would be the ones suing for the divorce, but hey, they can knock themselves out if they want to. We can just finish up the self segregation part in less time.
Do they really want to go down that road?
No line they will not cross, no lie they will not brazenly tell….
They have no bounds. They are utterly morally bankrupt. There is nothing they can do that would surprise me. In fact, I expect the worst from them every time and in every way. What does surprise me is that there are still people out there that cannot see that.
Jillions of ladybugs today. Warm (82) fall day. Swarming like bees around the front door, looking for a warm winter place, they migrate to the corners of the room, a vac will take them down. I like to catch them in mid flight with the vac, like hunting doves.
Little bastards bite, too.
Yeah, those are assholes. Apparently an invasive species.
Nice to get a little extra summer, huh?
Bees….put water heater insulating jackets around the hives and maybe a small light bulb under the insulation.
Just a thought.
It doesn’t get cold enough here to warrant that measure, but where you are I imagine it does.
Lady bugs or invasive asian lady beetles? Dark orange to almost red, but not quite? We get tons of those here, I kill them when they swarm…by the tens of thousands.
True native lady bugs…blood red….they are my friends.
So many it looks like snow flakes in the air. Brownish orange with black spots. I opened up the big garage door, it was like an army, waiting on the slab and poured in side. They’ll accumulate in the corners by the hundreds to easy to clean up later with a shop vac.
I use my pressure washer with liquid dish washing soap in the additive tank.
I’m kind of glad to see the Steelers embarrassed.
Back from a strictly for funzies steel match. New squeeze went with me, seemed to enjoy herself. This is good. When she starts shooting alongside me, that will be better.
Buildsubmarines.com? WTF?
It might make sense if they junk all the F35s and transfer that budget, but I doubt that’s the plan.