Lily with her favorite terriers.
This week starts off well — The Moon is waxing and that matched Venus-Mars pairing that started yesterday continues through Tuesday. And then on that day, we get a Mercury-Jupiter alignment bring additional good luck through Wednesday. After that, things fall apart, but at least nothing bad is indicated, so Yay!
Aries gets a boost with Mercury joining, and while Pisces loses out because of that you’ll get that more than made up for on Wednesday when you get to keep Venus.
Gertie has trouble deciding who to play with
Pisces: Ace of Cups – Spilling one’s beverage.
Aries: 9 of Swords – Utter desolation.
Taurus: The Empress – Fruitfulness, action, initiative, the unknown, clandestine, difficulty, doubt, ignorance.
Gemini: 8 of Cups reversed – Great joy, happiness, feasting.
Cancer: 2 of Swords – Peace, or at least stalemate, through strength.
Leo: Knight of Swords reversed – Speed kills.
Virgo: Queen of Swords reversed – An ordinarily reliable support rejects you.
Libra: Ace of Swords – It wasn’t pretty, but it worked.
Scorpio: The Magician reversed – There is a line between creativity and stupidity, and you’re on the wrong side of it.
Sagittarius: Strength reversed – Strength, but not for you — for people that don’t like you.
Capricorn: Wheel of Fortune reversed – “Good luck” but of the kind that doesn’t actually do anything for you.
Aquarius: Knight of Wands reversed – Do not expect favors from people this week.
Would you people stop posting shit at the wrong hour
It’s the wrong hour for all of us.
Still think this should go to noon if there’s only going to be two Sunday posts. Make the AM a Sunday brunch post.
It IS at noon! 😉
Sagittarius: Strength reversed – Strength, but not for you — for people that don’t like you.
Sounds like a good week to take up sniffing glue.
“things fall apart”
it’s scientific.
Cancer: 2 of Swords – Peace, or at least stalemate, through strength.
Nonsense peace is not an option
The Moon is waxing and that matched Venus-Mars pairing that started yesterday continues through Tuesday. – this just sounds kinda gay
“Sagittarius: Strength reversed – Strength, but not for you — for people that don’t like you.”
Dammit. Being half horse half man ain’t got no end.
Well why are people born during silly times of the year that are not mid July
Probably our moms and dads got frisky on Valentine’s Day.
I was a honeymoon baby.
They should have had the shotgun wedding earlier.
I was a replacement baby. The baby boy born between my older brother and I only lasted about 15 minutes. Preemies didn’t have much of a chance back then.
I’m the third of four. Rumor has it the last two of us were unexpected.
My brothers are 8 and 10 years older than me – I was quite a surprise.
I think I’m-a have an awesome week!
I think you should not jinx it
Utter desolation.
That’s an upgrade from a couple of weeks back.
Let’s just throw all of it at the wall and see what sticks.
The fruitfulness part sounds yummy. As long as it’s not banana. Banana flavored anything is gross.
The Empress is multi-talented.
Six minutes until first shots and I have a definite lack of shooters.
If you’re the only one there, you’re bound to win!
We’re getting some snowsqualls here, so I can only imagine what things are like up your way.
I actually had a featured image: frozen fish thawing.
I think there are some tricks to a featured I’ll I haven’t figured out.
From the last thred, describing Temu as a fashion brand is misstating their model. They’re more like Amazon/Alibaba/HSN. It’s not just Facebook either. I see their ads across all sorts of sites.
The site is considered dangerously riddled with trackers and potential malware. Many biz and gov have it banned.
That doesn’t surprise me.
Also, the six month campaign to define the conflict as Israel-Hamas continues to work wonders in conceding the premise, and leave the Gazans as as the real “victims”.
And when you consider public broadcasters from Muslim countries are calling the Gazans “martyrs”….
Was thinking about it the last day or so…any Glibs planning on heading to the GalaxyCon fest in Richmond next Saturday? Looks like it’s about $65 for the day but there are a lot of different actors, etc going to be there – although a lot of those might be more expensive too. Maybe fun to walk around, but maybe not at that price…
Regarding Airedales, I’ve posted this before but it always cracks me up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CC0CMSGMTaY
https://www.pennlive.com/news/2024/03/75-year-old-central-pa-man-charged-after-trying-to-pay-for-threesome-with-juveniles-police.html
Rather ambitious for 75.
https://giphy.com/gifs/O2K7wIcw3CoeY
This shouldn’t be surprising, what with all the “sugar daddy” sites out there.
The relevant question is, did he ply them with candy?
There is a line between creativity and stupidity, and you’re on the wrong side of it.
“That’s so crazy it might just work!” is not a business plan?
Convincing win by Newgarden.
DEG must be out and about. On his behalf I will say Leo’s reading is more than sufficiently shitty.
I thought I posted this earlier: ‘Taurus: The Empress – Fruitfulness, action, initiative, the unknown, clandestine, difficulty, doubt, ignorance.’
This accurately resembles me. Computer broke down to start my day, but I was able to fix that. Delayed my weekend job push, but much was sorted before the crash. Docs safe. Psychiatrist appt in 3.5hrs. Have most of my glibs article done, but it’s hard as hell to edit your own shit. Semi-personal, but (mostly) all moving upwards. (Ish.) I could stand for a home run right now, something hit into the next time zone, but more to do.
Good things to s̶i̶l̶l̶y̶ ̶p̶e̶o̶p̶l̶e̶ ̶w̶h̶o̶ ̶c̶a̶n̶ ̶o̶r̶g̶a̶n̶i̶z̶e̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶i̶r̶ ̶t̶h̶o̶u̶g̶h̶t̶s those with patience.
Congrats on the puter fix. Nailbiter, that feeling.
Everything old is new again.
https://www.nj.com/morris/2024/03/excessively-hot-dunkin-coffee-burned-me-customer-says-in-lawsuit.html
Did she also decided that the best way to hold a cop in a moving vehicle was with her knees?
Oh, it’s a dude this time, sorry.
My suggestion is for those that don’t want hot coffee avoid fast food places, restaurants, etc or bring your own container and transfer the coffee. Also don’t order a pizza, sometimes they are hot-hot.
Excessively hot because the typical Jerseyan will karen the management if the coffee is too cool.
Replaced the stovepipe on the garage stove, a 1 hour job that I managed to stretch into 3 hours. Then an hour of treadmill/Wieder machine work, that pretty much winds up my chores for today.
Brooks managed to send some nice weather this way, though it was but 9 on the plus side early this morning.
Coffee time now
Its like I dont know what time it is.
Obligatory.
I knew what that was before I clicked. You’re awesome.
Also relevant.
There it is.
It’s Doopee Time!
It’s 4:30.
*Grumble*
My second UPS has decided that it doesn’t like to provide power to my Linux server. Since that provides DNS to the whole house, I moved the power line over to my desktop UPS and have to diagnose what’s gone wrong.
Fuck.
I suppose it’s likely the battery needs replacing.
The UPS retails at $80. $60 of that is the battery.
To be fair, six years is a good run for a UPS Battery. I apparently bought it back in 2018.
So….it may be out of warranty ?
I’m pretty sure it’s out of warranty.
Well, that was just uncalled for. 😒
Wait, we’re supposed to be stupid?
I disagree.
That’s a creative way of interpreting it! 😁
Played a couple more 500 point games of 40k yesterday. First one was intentional Combat Patrol Votann vs my buddy’s Dark Angels. 2nd Game was supposed to be 1000 pts Marines vs buddy’s Tyranids, but he forgot 500 pts of his ‘nids so it was a little more limited. Still having a lot of issues remembering all the details – having to keep looking up things in the rules, etc. But a lot smoother than the first game the beginning of Jan.
I think what I really need to do is to actually watch over the shoulders of some more experienced players doing a game or two (not just a heavily edited battle report on youtube). I also plan on building an updated file for myself to print – with ALL the keywords and definitions in alphabetical order – too hard to keep looking up things in the rules when the keywords are scattered throughout 40 pages.
The important question – did you have fun?
And yes, keeping track of what you can do matters. My first game of 10th edition was against a guy who didn’t even read his faction’s index, so he never used any of their abilities. I beat him, but it was more like punching a guy tied to a chair than winning a brawl.
My second game of 10th I lost because I forgot to use two of my abilities when it would have made the most difference and kept one of my heavy hitters in the game longer. (Forgot the damage reduction the Redemptor gets, and didn’t use the tactical doctrine on the turn I fell back which would have let him unload his big guns at the squad he’d been duelling most of the game and charge back in for a nice first fight)
But yeah, there are a lot of rules to keep track of. But less than previous editions.
Having fun…but yeah, very difficult to keep track of all the abilities, army special benefit rules, scoring, etc. At least for me – particularly since there was a pokemon tournament going on at the same time in the same room yesterday. That’s why I think I would get more (in the near term) out of a game in a basement or somewhere else a little quieter with more setup space where we can take our time and work through things. My buddy also still hasn’t read through all the rules in detail yet, so a little wonky on both ends.
Oof, yeah, there’s a danger to focus.
Terry Kath Chicago > Peter Cetera Chicago. Change my mind.
Peter Cetera gun safety > Terry Kath gun safety. Change my mind.
Booooo!
You’re bang out of order!
Only a casual fan but a brief self-enactment of my labor seems to yield “Robert Lamm” as the vocalist of most of my favorites. Never heard the name, to be honest… Cetera is associated with “cheesy ballads” in my mind, perhaps unfairly.
I need to walk back a touch.
Cetera was the bassist and keyboardist on some of their early (best) work. I prefer the early sound because they use a solid horn section, and Kath plays guitar like he’s having a seizure.
I’m off to a three day class on trauma medicine at Gunsite next month, so this article on, well, trauma medicine was very timely.
https://www.recoilweb.com/lifesaving-skills-every-gun-owner-should-know-183550.html
I realized I have some pretty nice (as far as I know) first aid kits with stuff in them I really didn’t know how to use. Decent first aid classes that do more than “Here’s how we do CPR now” are surprisingly hard to find. The Gunsite class is two days of classroom, and then on the third day they stage a mass casualty event (with “actors” and everything). Taught by an ER doc who, if memory serves, has been in the Sandbox. Should be very interesting.
“He trained in the early ’90s in Dayton, Ohio, which, at the time, was the number-one dual-homicide city in the nation (meaning two people died during the incident).
“Dayton is at the crossroads between I -70, which crosses the country, and 75, which goes from Detroit down to Miami,” he said. “Right in the middle of cocaine central. So I’ve taken care of so many gunshot wounds. Sometimes they got shot in the hospital parking lot. It was that crazy. Just a crazy time to train. There was almost not a day that I was not in the operating room tending to a gunshot wound.”
Home Sweet Home!
Emergency first aid-
I somehow or other watched a little thing bout first aid quite a while ago. Anyway, the guy talked about tourniquets. He said they have an unduly bad rap. Apparently, when it’s your next best option to bleeding to death you can go ahead and use one.
That’s one of the big things that changed in military training. In basic training, it was “field dressing”, then “Pressure dressing”, then “tourniquet” if you needed it – that was the procedure no matter what your injury was – even a missing limb. Then, pre-deployment it was specifically tourniquet first and do what you can after that.
When I got to my first ship they wanted us to do the old style again…but pretty soon they switched over to tourniquet priority as well for the same reasons.
Reminds me, I have a couple kits from Solatac.com I’ve been meaning to buy as part of slowly building up my home equipment.
Finally drying out today – super windy the next couple of days – after a crapload of rain. Really hope I can get 5 cubic yards of topsoil delivered before Thursday so I can lay it down before it starts raining again on Friday…I’ve got a pond in my backyard right now. Willow is finally starting to warm up, but not soaking stuff up fast enough yet.
I’ll probably need to order more dirt in the near future – just need to raise the overall level enough to absorb more water and hopefully direct it elsewhere (although ideally not my neighbor’s yards). Plan to plant a rye mix – which will hopefully do more for absorption too. My current yard is a total mishmash of grass/clover so I don’t think it matters too much what else I lay down.
Next step will also be to see about quotes for upgrading my back patio – roof with screens or roof plus proper windows and door and an extra electric socket so I can use it regardless of weather – TREX decking.
“I’ll probably need to order more dirt in the near future – just need to raise the overall level enough to absorb more water and hopefully direct it elsewhere (although ideally not my neighbor’s yards)”
Sending water to your neighbor is the most likely outcome of just raising your yard. Try to see the lay if the land and where the water would go off it could, then you can regrade accordingly. Don’t be afraid to put a shallow swale (ditch) in.
Where do you live?
In a small town in VA – I have neighbors backing all sides of my back yard. Hope to raise the corner of my front yard enough to drain towards the ditch along the street – I think my neighbors on that side actually had their yard raised the year before I bought my place – due to the water that fills up in my yard out of theirs. Raising to reach their level – or direct towards the center of my yard away from the edges will work alright – especially maybe with a new type of grass.
“Finally drying out today”
Never hurts to leave the booze alone for a bit.
[shivvers] remembering coming back from my two weeks work in London. Christ they drank more than the Irish.
I’ve long said that should my drinking ever get out of hand I could just move to England where it would not even be noteworthy.
My neighbor is a Brit and his mates will hit the pub at 11 to watch a 5 PM game on TV and be putting down at least 3 beers an hour the whole time. And these are guys in their 50s.
Tremendous amounts of drinking.
I just went outside for a minute. We’re finally getting some noticeable snowmelt. Temp is upper 40s.
OMG everyone is live-blogging the Oscars somewhere else, I guess.
Not I! Stumbled across the list of nominated films, and I think I recognized one title.
They’re not So White anymore?
?
I’m at a loss. Why would anyone either watch or live blog the Oscars?
The Bee knows the only possible motivation: Oscars Ratings Soar As Nation Watches In Hopes Of Seeing Someone Slap Jimmy Kimmel
I’m with you. We should all Zoon in protest. I care less about the Oscars than I do about snail racing.
My long lost cousin didn’t win. I blame racism.
I sous-vided a corned beef for over 24 hours at 140 deg F, then smoked it for another 4 hours. Most of the fat rendered out. It is wonderful, except a little salty.
My girlfriend made homemade English muffins. Very good.
“wonderful, except a little salty”
So, it’s wonderful. 👍
Are we talking about PONick or the corned beef? Oh, a little salty, got it.
I am a salt fiend. It was a bit salty even for my taste.
Fantastic. Fancy food day over here was simpler – chicken thighs on the grill with baked potatoes and corn.
Nice!
ZWAK is sitting in a shitty hotel room, in a shitty town, having just left a shitty bar, where ZWAK got a pretty decent burger.
Vacation ZWAK is happy ZWAK.
Vacation is what you make of it. Slum like a Lord!
Chicken update: I posted on Twitter/X whatthefuckever that I wanted to name my chickens after all the influential libertarian woman of our day and so on. There is this one chic that seemed really friendly, and was the only one to greet me when I reached in the brood box to tend to them. As I fed and watered them she was right there. As she has grown it has became apparent she is not being friendly, she is a fucking terrorist. This bitch of demonic poultry hell flew all the way across the brood box with feet extended and flapping wings to latch on my arm like she was taking a salmon from a river in Alaska. There is a good chance she will be the first chicken out of this batch that gets turned into stock.
I named her Hamas,
Sounds like you got a real tukey.
Ladies and Gentlemen, this is why there are no libertarian women.
My Brahma chickens all became broody recently. It was a nice day (45 deg F) so I locked them out of the coop for most of the day. I hope it fixed the broodiness, because those lazy ass chickens weren’t producing any eggs. Look here, miss, there aren’t any free lunches in Compound Pistoffnick. Start laying eggs again or you become chicken sausage.
Deploy your patriarchal privilege… make her into a sandwich.
A real patriarch would have someone else make the sandwich. He just gives the orders.
Godzilla Minus One just won the Oscar for visual effects. Apparently Spaniard is watching.
Just say not to watching the Oscars.
Let the past die.
Agreed. I have to pick the next movie for Thursday. That is the future.
Go for something really old.
Tell UCS he’s a jabroni.
A jabroni’s jabroni.
*clears throat*
“Dry hair is for squids.”
(I will continue to shamelessly pitch that awesome bit of 80s cheese)
I’ve got shit to do tomorrow and its really only 2145 and I need to get to sleep. Hopefully Bendryl is my Morpheus.
Fuck DST.
After all, I really hate The Time.
Oh mamma I’m in fear for my life
from the long arm of the First
First man has put an end to my seconding
And I’m so far from First
Oh Mama, I can hear you a-cryin’
You’re so scared and all second
Firstman is comin’ down from the gallows
And I don’t have very long (yeah!)
Sad little E-3
When your bitch burp you smell my balls in the air.
You call out my name when you are being pegged.
Potroasted corned beef in the oven. Turned out pretty good. Soda bread and potato colcannon.
I liked this recipe
https://web.archive.org/web/20120319170700/https://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2008/09/colcannon-recipe.html
Looks good. I’ll be starting the corning process today. Not yet sure if I’m going to do same old corned beef and cabbage or something a bit more elegant.
It’s cold. It’s windy. It’s Monday.
Imma try to make the best of it.
☕👀
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oS-9P0LkExY
Cover 🎶🎶 with a cute front chick.
Morning.
I had to do a general reset of my sleep schedule this weekend, so I might have avoided the trouble I have whenever the clocks change. I just have to adjust to knowing that the time on my alarm is the actual time, so no need to mentally adjust an hour. (I never bothered to change in the fall because it was just going to change back yesterday.)
Good morning, Sean and U!
Gee, it’s awfully dark outside.
Morning! I am okay with dark mornings.
Same. Part of why I chose the earliest start time allowed was to commute before the sunlight was at a blinding angle.
Good morning, OBE!
Morning.
I made it to the office. Today’s my first performance evaluaton since… 2012? Hopefully it’s not bad. I wonder if any of those supervisors I went through in between had any input.
Past managers in the FAA don’t like dealing with me because I demanded each time I moved out of a position or was losing a manager that we sit and do a performance evaluation.
Evaluations for the most point are pointless and stupid. If you are doing a great job, I’ll make a note of it and tell you. If you suck, I’ll do the do the same. If I leave you alone, you are in zone and everything is fine.
*waves*
(Good morning, TARDy!)
Mornin’, Red!
Twelve years?? And HR wasn’t hounding anyone to complete one? That’s worse than my boss, who hates doing evaluations and insists he’s run out of things to say about me (at least things appropriate for an evaluation) after 24 years (as of 3/6.)
After many wasted arguments with the unions, the rule is that if no evaluation is filed, it is to be regarded as “Satisfactory” for all purposes where the rating matters.
The only other rating is “Unsatisfactory”, which usually results in an argument, but is needed if you want to fire a state employee (along with documented efforts at getting them to improve)
Seems like a good rule. Why give someone an eval if they’re doing just fine? It’s an enormous waste of time and unless they’re trying to can your ass no one pays them any mind anyhow.
Eval, in its entirety: “This employee is performing to the same satisfactory level as the previous eval.”
Here we have four evaluation levels. The lowest gets you put on the paperwork trail to termination, the middle three do nothing, and the highest gets you a raise.
Five levels:
Superior Contributor
Greatly Exceeds Expectations
Exceeds Expectations
Meets Expectations
Does not meet expectations
::counts on fingers:: Middle three??
Speaking of liveblogging, what happened to OMB livetruthing the SOTUS? Since I heard nothing about it, I assume he wussed out.
Technical glitch due to influx of traffic:
https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/03/07/trumps-truth-social-struggling-during-state-of-union-address/
I would have thought that would inspire mockery form he usual journalismists.
My in-laws, on the weekly Zoom call, were all slagging on the Republican “parody” reply to the SOTUS speech.
Me: “So it was a parody of a parody of a shouty old man with senile dementia?”
Mrs Prole: “He doesn’t have dementia! He has a stutter!”
Me: “If a Republican president was acting like that, would you still deny he had obvious cognitive decay?”
Mrs. Prole: “I don’t want to talk about politics.”
“I don’t want to talk about politics.” —> “My opinions have no basis in logic or fact so SHUT UP!”
If I had a nickel…..
Mornin’ all.