For those of you wondering where the Lily vids are, he’re a couple things inhibiting the production of new images:
- The lack of frens at the park. In order for me to get pics/videos, she has to be doing something other than being focused on me. Unfortunately the owners of the dogs she likes to play with are either on different schedules now than they used to be (Troy, Callie) their owners are wusses and won’t come out in the cold, (Daisy, Gertie*) have moved away (Banks, Toby, Marley, Echo, Freya, Freja, Freya Martinez) or have decided that the park isn’t the right environment for their dog any longer (Dakota). So instead of playing, we spend most of our time on the trials which means she’s either playing tug with me or she’s got her butt turned to me walking the trail ahead of me, or she’s running through the woods where I can’t get a good video going.
- It’s freaking cold and the phones doesn’t work through the gloves. Once it gets back into the mid-20’s that won’t be a problem.
However, since it’s Lily’s fourth birthday this week, here’s some classic videos.
Lily and her oldest friend Dakota. They still see each other when I’m out of town, since Dakota has daycare with the person I use for boarding.
Monday has the potential to be quite good in one’s home life, with Mars retrograde modified by the moon into something indicating “less aggression.” The 29th and 30th should be the highlight of Aquarian’s month, luck-wise. If you need to end something, Feb 1 is an ideal time to do it. Feb 2 is just a repeat.
Having a good pack to play with undoubtedly helped her be more socialized than her mom and brother
Aquarius: Queen of Coins reversed – Evil, suspicion, suspense, fear, mistrust.
Pisces: 9 of Coins – Prudence, safety, success, accomplishment, certitude, discernment.
Aries: 2 of Coins – Games, recreation, news and messages in writing, obstacles, agitation, trouble, embroilment.
Taurus: 8 of Wands reversed – Jealousy, internal dispute, guilty conscience, quarrels.
Gemini: Knight of Cups – Arrival, approach, advances, proposition, demeanor, invitation, incitement.
Cancer: 7 of Cups reversed – Desire, will, determination, project.
Leo: 7 of Wands – Valor, discussion, wordy strife, negotiations, barter, competition, success.
Virgo: Queen of Wands reversed – Opposition, jealousy, deceit, infidelity.
Libra: Queen of Swords – Widowhood, female sadness and embarrassment, absence, sterility, mourning, privation, separation.
Scorpio: 2 of Cups reversed – Broken promises, delays, plans that fail.
Sagittarius: 9 of Wands – Strength in opposition; delay, suspension, adjournment.
Capricorn: blank card –
Wrestling gangs for local charities.
O.
M.
G.
Jeez. That’s the wife too.
Kinda a prescient nail in your case, ouch. When beneficial, I add “[The resolution of] Jealously, internal dispute, guilty conscience, quarrels,” etc.
Hopefully yours come far closer to resolution this week. I’m sorry you’re stuck in the middle of that shitshow. Thankfully, my family lacks a selfish cunte.
Sagittarius: 9 of Wands – Strength in opposition; delay, suspension, adjournment.
Pitchforks and lampposts?
Can’t decide between a narrowed gaze or a golf clap.
Nice dog videos.
Valor, discussion, wordy strife, negotiations, barter, competition, success.
Not sufficiently shitty.
Not sure what I will sucres at this week, other than buying groceries and getting the car smog checked.
Have success. Aaaah! What is with these typos!
Well, I might actually succeed at something.
The temps here in southern NH are high enough that I can wash the salt off my car. Which I’ll do after the gym, which I’m going to now.
I’m guessing the new local sticker looks the same as the old blue-frame state sticker?
Texans don’t much leave Texas, but every once in again I’ll see an old inspection sticker on a car with other plates;
some folks will chat about where they’re from, but many I run into were never, like me, more than just passing through.
I left mine on the Big Ugly….and a honor roll sticker from 2006…. for the decade she lasted after I escaped,
and lots of folk would remark or ask.
I had a favorite place on TX26; I suspect they were honest.
It does. The twist is that finally they dropped the “safety inspection,” which was just a scam to sell tires and brake pads. So now it truly is just smog, and only in certain counties. When I move, a few months from now, I no longer will have to do that even.
– “Capricorn: blank card –”
I got nothin.
I just want this head cold to be over.
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Sound like that fabulous all-winter cold. We have that too.
Dump coke in a pot and inhale. Worked in Crocodile Dundee.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KMKOsytp0F0
Forgot how packed that scene is to modern insanity
Poor ouback bastard was unfamiliar with the classification of noifes.
Thunderdome dog parks.
Reminds me, pooch is going to one this afternoon when it warms up a bit. Hopefully it’s dried out and no longer a mud pit. If not, going to the self wash afterwards.
Exposed!
The Trump administration has already launched sweeping attacks on the federal government itself, from hiring freezes at various agencies to shutting down the Justice Department’s civil rights division. These moves are not simply about abstract opposition to government; fully explaining them requires acknowledging U.S. history. From the military to the United States Postal Service to sundry federal agencies, the federal government’s personnel policies — though nowhere near perfect — have helped expand and sustain a Black middle class.
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And it’s not just the post office. As the Center for American Progress pointed out in a 2020 report, “the federal government has hired Black Americans at higher rates than the private sector going back a century or more.”
Not coincidentally, generations of conservatives — from George Wallace to Donald Trump — have plotted to rein in the federal government. Let’s be clear, then, why the federal government has bothered conservatives so much and for so long. And let’s be clear about the impacts reducing the federal workforce — either via the so-called “Department of Government Efficiency” or by unleashing anti-DEI “patter rollers” — would have.
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But the devastation for the workers themselves cannot be forgotten. And we can expect extra hardship for Black communities. The federal workforce, though far from majority Black, is disproportionately Black. Thus, any policy aimed at firing federal workers en masse — even if it is not explicitly tied to Trump’s despicable anti-DEI obsession — would still disproportionately hurt Black people.
This is not a bug in Trump’s program. It is a feature.
Trump hates black people so much he’s willing to dismantle the government just to punish the black middle class.
Fuck. Off.
The opposite is true. Rather than inspiring personal growth and small business skills, it created a trap where people worked just for work’s sake. It destroyed excellence for generations.
Are they saying that the only way Blacks can get ahead is by becoming parasites? That they are incapable of advancing themselves through hard work etc. in the private sector? ‘Cause IMO that’s what they’re saying.
White Saviour complex exposed.
I don’t think that’s quite what they’re saying. Going back to the FDR administration, FedGov work was one place where blacks could be treated closer to equals and make it into the professional classes. It’s natural that black responded to this incentive and thereby wound up a disproportionate part of the FedGov workforce.
The New Deal even more than LBJ’s so-called Great Society is what led to blacks voting in monolithic percentages for Democrats.
https://youtu.be/lHdXQAQHjd8
I think the Great Switch in black voting preferences came after the Mississippi flood of 1933 which the outgoing Hoover administration did not respond adequately to. Also the slowdown in manufacturing due to the Depression disproportionately affected black industrial employment, since they tended to be the first laid off.
“My friends, go turn Lincoln’s picture to the wall,” Pittsburgh Courier editor Robert Vann implored African Americans in 1932. “The debt has been paid in full.”
I’m sorry, remind me again about govt discrimination and Jim Crow and just exactly how much FDR leaned against that? What election did he lose the solid Dem south in again?
Elections have consequences.
And it’s not an attack on the government; it’s an attack on the self-styled Ruling Class.
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-support-white-black-voters-immigration-2020299
Well they have to spin the narrative how ever they can.
“…Democrats winning about 80 percent of the [2024] Black vote, down from 90 percent in 2020, according to the Associated Press. In total, Trump won 20 percent of the Black vote, compared to 13 percent in 2020 and 8 percent in 2016, the highest level of support by Black voters for any Republican since George W. Bush in 2000.”
That’s gotta burn. Blue should realize they ran their train as long as they could and now it’s time to rebrand. Their Belief is too strong, methinks. They *will* latch onto anything they (think) they can in order to win again, ‘principles’ be damned. I’m mostly interested in how the Blue Base, especially my family, will react to the dawning realization they’d been fooled. Ha. Their Belief is too strong, methinks.
Here’s a very uncomfortable observation/story from my time at a certain much hated three-letter agency:
I was having a hell of a bad time with a certain sub-org responsible for providing backstop for some of my operations. A big chunk of the federal employees in this sub-org were black, including the administrative head of it. I was expressing my substantive dissatisfaction to a senior officer – and soliciting his advice – completely devoid of any observation about melanin content, when this very senior officer interrupted me to lean in and whisper: “Ozy, how do you think this agency meets its quotas? They have to go somewhere.”
Then he leaned back and stared at me.
In essence, deal with the incompetence and be thankful that it wasn’t in the operational realm. And this was back under Bush II – I can’t imagine that got better under subsequent regimes of the Half-white guy and his token VP.
DHS owns the TSA don’t they?
Yes.
“Cancer: 7 of Cups reversed – Desire, will, determination, project.”
Sounds like the right week to show my gf that new thing I bought. 😈
“Aquarius: Queen of Coins reversed – Evil, suspicion, suspense, fear, mistrust.”
well, it was my birthday on Thursday…
/backs into corner, both guns drawn.
Replace the tub drain push and lock…should be easy enough.
*one hour later*
This is why dad drinks.
Broke off the t-bar in the drain. Now time to find a wide crow-bar I guess.
I hate plumbing. I think I’m going to put off pulling the toilet til next weekend.
I hate bottom toilet seals. The hold down bolts are always rusted into a lump that requires destructive removal.
From ded thred about AF stopping a Tuskegee airmen documentary. It’s the Washington Monument strategy of malicious compliance.
Somehow, the AF managed to do this 25 years ago prior to the current die office. Still have the coffee mug on my shelf.
https://media.defense.gov/2008/Oct/01/2000675091/-1/-1/0/080930-F-3188G-066.JPG
Just like when they rolled out all the DEI initiatives, all those programs were halted to revamp. Of course, that was good and glorious.
All this FedGov kicking and screaming is all HQ and regional offices.
The field, well at least my little circles, we’ve been the office taking care of shit.
I will admit, our support for things like logistics, business management, among other things has greatly suffered with WFH. People don’t answer, no WFH phone so it goes to their office phone.
So ya, get your ass to the office.
My boss texted me yesterday and said she was on the verge on suggesting we just archive and wipe the entire website and start from scratch.
I was, like, YAS KWEEEN. DO IT.
The way we’re doing it now – unpublishing pages one-by-one, is a fucking nightmare.
Today is my personal PC clean up day. Full wipe and reinstall. So ya, sometimes it’s best to nuke it and rebuild
And then every external link breaks. DO IT!
I suppose I should do this occasionally
but I just dread making a little mistake that adds an order of magnitude’s trouble to the routine
and makes everything dreadfully difficult for the three days it takes me to figure it out
OG maintenance is a joy: I’ll volunteer to come over and repair fence; I dirty up a gun just so I can clean it.
but that digital stuff is joyless
To each their own right Don? I can work on electronics all day long like my dad could swing a hammer.
😵💫
I’m scared to death to lose my utilities, license keys on software reinstall (only so many devices, and a reinstall after a full wipe counts), customizations of software (e.g., Word), very old software incompatibility, etc etc etc.
I keep all my data on a separate drive and archive on an external hard drive. I have shit I’ve ported from computer to computer since 1989.
In ’89 I was using a Remington manual.
That was 1984 for me. I was required to use a computer in 1986 the second I stepped on campus. My dorm complex’s cafeteria/conference/event space had a computer lab. That was where I was introduced to IBM and DOS and Word Perfect.
Yeah, I was still typing papers on a typewriter in ’93.
I didn’t have my own computer until ’99 or so.
My horrorscope: You are doomed. Yep. Story of my life.
Had big plans Friday. Thwarted. Delayed until tomorrow. Thwarted already. Jeebus.
I did get some jasmine and honeysuckle planted today…transplanted from other parts of the property onto some trellis’s I built.
also got more firewood cut and stacked so today is not a complete loss. Hands are full of thorns now and shoulders ache. Life is good despite all.
Snow melted already?
Whoever accidentally put my email address when signing up to order online at Burgers and Shakes in Florida really likes their burger with a sunny-side up egg and their chicken avocado burger. They ordered those for a late-night snack on Friday, dinner Saturday, and lunch today.
Wan’t me, I can’t stand runny yolks or avocados.
What about the chili cheese fries with chili on the side, are those yours?
Way too spicy.
I don’t ‘care’ about football and root for a good game. But I’m human. Between these two? I generally hate Philly (sports). But fuck Washington. a) If you’re born there, I’m sorry, but… if you live there, you should (still) be embarrassed. If you work there, you should be embarrassed. If you were *traded* there, well. That seems to work out fairly well. I’m sorry the Expos were ‘traded.’
With no series, it must suck to have everything depend on winner-take-all games. I’m sure it’s exciting as hell when ya win. Or the whole game could be the Yankees’ 5th Inning, World Series fuckup. Oh, dearie. Cole’s pitching a no-hitter before FIVE UNearned runs suffocated the year’s last breath. Ouch. *cheeky grin*
Washington Wokesters are looking kinda stunned.
I could watch some Buffed out Iggles for the super bowel.
“Brotherly shove” lol
“Brotherly shove” got a legit lol from me, as well.
I don’t care if he’s been sittin’ on that for a bit for a while, aching for a chance to use it, but that was well executed, and delivered with perfect timing. Hats off. It’s been a fun first half. For a while, I hate to say it, go WV. (Looks a lot alike to this Bluefield (at birth) boy.) At least for a bit.
I think I’ve been hearing it all season.
Don’t count D.C. out. Iggles known for bonehead mistakes.
Happy burf-day, Lily! Who’s a good girl??
🐕 🍖🍖🍖🍖
Don’t count D.C. out.
They aren’t lying down.