Remember how I mentioned that MERCURY RETROGRADE in Pisces was particularly bad? Yeah, I’ve been feeling that. Bosses have been particularly petty, coworkers suddenly forget how to do statistics, and I had this event involving an ordinarily competent technician:
OCT: AAAaiiigh! The tool is DOWN! IT wont hold pressure!!
Boss: Why is this still down? It’s been down all night!
NA: But… it didn’t get logged down until 45 seconds before this meeting. See the timestamp?
Boss: Exactly! It says time down was 01:14!
NA: And it says time reported at 07:29… never mind.
NA: Yo, OCT, check it.
OCT:?
NA: See how this fitting right the fuck in front of where you stand to operate this is disconnected?
OCT: Yes?
NA: And see how it’s spraying eluent 8.5 meters across the lab?
OCT: Oh yeah, I put a wet floor warning cone in the puddle.
NA: I’ll bet that’s the system pressure leak. *Reconnects fitting, watches the pressure rise from zero to operating range*
NA: *looks at uptime stats hit, considers reviewing resume*
So… it’s been that kind of week. Next week’s not looking too much better. I’m going to take a day of vacation and sleep in. Because not only is MERCURY RETROGADE in Pisces, this week it’s going to be aligned with the moon (inconsistency) and Saturn (all sorts of bad stuff). Seriously, I’m not even going to try and read that construction because it can’t possibly be anything good. At least there’s not a comet involved. More hopefully, we have Venus and Jupiter aligned with the Sun, which is extremely auspicious, particularly where domestic life is involved. Which makes taking a day off seem like and even better idea. Now the Saturn from the first construction and Jupiter from the second are involved with a third in which those two planets align with Mars. Saturn-Jupiter-Mars is one of the more maximally ambivalent constructions. However, since it spans two much clearer ones, it too has a clear meaning: “Stay Home. Venturing into a war zone will get you killed. ”
Capricorn keeps tempting you to enact your master plan what with holding Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. Aries keeps Venus, which makes women more sexually receptive, however the moon is in Taurus, which is a known cause of ED, so things might not work out well for straight glibbroads. Pisces has the aforementioned MERCURY RETROGRADE. Thanks, fishies.
Counteracting all the generally bad stuff in the sky, the cards suggest that there is some fairy serious coin to be made. This undoubtedly ties into al the admonitions from earlier about paying attention to your home/your business.
Pisces: 9 of Coins – Prudence, safety, success, accomplishment, certitude, discernment
Aries: Knight of Wands reversed – Rupture, division, interruption, discord
Taurus: Temperance – Economy, moderation, frugality, management, accommodation
Gemini: Knight of Coins reversed – inertia, idleness, couch potatohood, stagnation, \ placidity, discouragement, carelessness
Cancer: 10 of Swords reversed – Advantage, profit, success, favor… but none of these are permanent; also power and authority
Leo: 10 of Coins – Gain, riches, family matters, archives, extraction
Virgo: The Chariot – Succour, providence, war, triumph, presumption, vengeance, trouble
Libra: The Moon reversed – Instability, inconstancy, silence, lesser degrees of deception and error
Scorpio: 3 of Swords reversed – Mental alienation, error, loss, distraction, disorder, confusion
Sagittarius: 5 of Coins reversed – Disorder, chaos, ruin, discord, profligacy
Capricorn: Queen of Wands – A dark woman, countrywoman, friendly, chaste, loving, honorable, love of money, success in business
Aquarius: 5 of Cups – loss, but something remains, inheritance, patrimony, transmission but not corresponding to expectations
“ Libra: The Moon reversed – Instability, inconstancy, silence, lesser degrees of deception and error“
So, situation normal.
Same here.
You know how things are going when this is an upgrade over “Death” from last week.
Yep, can confirm the accuracy of Sagittarius.
I’ll take your disorder, chaos, ruin, discord, profligacy and raise you one rupture, division, interruption, discord.
Okay not exactly the horrorscope I was looking for.
Since I’m going to the dentist soon I figured I would look up dental procedures on YouTube to try to prepare myself. This one isn’t going to make me want to go to the dentist.
How about this one?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eti_3bXFZrk
Or this one?
I’ve had a few root canals. I got through them, you’ll get through it.
Am not looking at any of those.
Do you have sufficient anxiolytics / hypnotics?
That went downhill quickly
Virgo: The Chariot – Succour, providence, war, triumph, presumption, vengeance, trouble
NA: See how this fitting right the fuck in front of where you stand to operate this is disconnected?
I’m a button pusher, not a valve turner.
Union-approved!
Sagittarius: 5 of Coins reversed – Disorder, chaos, ruin, discord, profligacy
Don’t harsh my vibe, dood.
“NA: See how this fitting right the fuck in front of where you stand to operate this is disconnected?”
Connection: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilKcXIFi-Rc
Gemini: Knight of Coins reversed – inertia, idleness, couch potatohood, stagnation, \ placidity, discouragement, carelessness
I don’t own a couch so are you recommending I buy a couch and call in sick? Or perhaps call in sick to go couch shopping?
Do you have a davenport? I think the judges would also allow a sofa or a chaise lounge.
My grandmother always called it the davenport.
Of course, she also thought crazy rays would enter your head if you fell asleep in from of the TV.
“Divan”
I have a sort of recliner. Actually a pair of them but one is outside because I am proper white trash and my living space is very small. I don’t have room for a couch unless it goes outside too. Which I am not opposed to.
Surprise. Lunch today will be steak. These things are Flintstoneian. Two steaks at 4.6 lbs.
*rummages through safe for something appropriate*
“Nope. Nope. Perfect.”
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/iuWq4JydQm-np3UlbFz3dg.sR6TiYoCdpe2GQ7QDcM9Mi
While I’m no hoplophobe I gotta say you gun nuts are weird.
Steak thieves, dude.
https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/national-international/two-men-accused-of-stealing-1000-in-crabs-steaks-and-fruit-from-nj-grocery-store/166150/
Don’t forget this fellow!
Crabs and Steaks I get but what self respecting crook steals fruit? Unless you are one of the Little Rascals yoinking an apple from old man Thompson’s fruit stand stealing fruit is just a waste of opportunity, steal more steak. You can always sell a few steaks and buy all the fruit you need at no risk of having to admit to your cell mate that you got pinched for nicking a kumquat.
You need lemons with your crab
Yes, yes they are. Question for the gun nuts……Have any of you built an AR on an 80% lower? I just learned about such things last week.
Nope. Mine are factory finished lowers.
I am curious about them. My raise has finally caught up to my bank account and I figure the best way to rid myself of a little (very little) disposable income is to build a gun.
Needs more Harvest Gold
Avocado
Blue Cornflower or GTFO.
The steaks were too big for the Corelle plates.
What’s the hardware?
Hard chromed P7.
Squeeze cocked H&K?
Yup
Want one. Actually, want two.
Nice
XX off to work at her job at Walmart. Cheese and onion enchiladas in the oven. XY–I don’t know what he’s doing down there in the garage with all that banging. I don’t want to know. Mr. Mojeaux in the shower. Little bro coming to visit later.
Note to self: steam the tortillas before rolling.
The question isn’t what he’s banging but whom.
Touchy subject right now…
Pun intended?
Heh. Yes.
How is her job working out? I know it’s early yet but her getting it seemed pretty important to you.
So far, so good. Right now she’s going through many training modules on the computer. Her biggest frustration is that the program keeps crashing when she hits “submit,” and she has to do modules over again. Also, the Walmart employee app keeps crashing on her phone. She can check which shifts are available to be worked and sign up for those shifts.
Yesterday she got to “help out” on the floor, which is kind of what I gather they do over there. From what I can gather, everything’s kind of loosy-goosy. Minimal training. “Hey, can you help me out here?” No real direction. She’s left mainly to her own devices, at least while she’s doing the computer modules. That may change when she’s no longer a newbie. So far everybody’s nice, the managers are good. Yay.
What *I* am irritated about is she keeps texting me with “It’s 12:30 now. Do I go on lunch?” DAFUQ?! GO ASK YOUR MANAGER!
But I shouldn’t be surprised. She won’t ask her teachers at school for help, either. She just doesn’t like approaching authority figures with her issues.
Is she starting to overcome that? She won’t have a choice if she works for someone else.
I know and I’m going to have to have a discussion with her about it. We’ve discussed it before, but she’s afraid of getting yelled at or being made to look stupid. That may be something I did to her, I don’t know. *sigh*
Parental guilt for the win.
Like crazy.
she’s afraid of getting yelled at or being made to look stupid
Aw, I remember that fear. Still have more of it than I’d prefer.
Luckily, it’s not possible to make me ‘look’ stupid. So I don’t have that fear.
It sounds odd to me that your daughter doesn’t know when her lunch is. At the grocery store I worked at when I was a kid, if you had a lunch break, that was built into and marked on the schedule.
Having an app to sign up for shifts sounds pretty neat. The grocery store had a sign-up sheet for Sundays, and if you worked Sundays you got paid a dollar extra an hour. For other shifts, you were scheduled for them. Picking up a shift from someone that was sick only happened if a manager called you. I think an app would make that much easier.
Good to hear things are going smoothly.
Yes, I’m wondering about that, too, but I’m a little hesitant to presume how that works now. I’ll ask her if it’s on the schedule or if they proactively tell you when your break is* or if you’re just supposed to self-regulate your 15-minute-per-4-hours-worked thing.
*I’ve seen that a lot at my Walmart. A floor manager goes to a cashier and says, “Take your break after this customer.”
Also, she thought she was doing the computer training modules on her own time. “No, XX. You’re on their property with their uniforms and on the clock, they must pay you.”
“Yeah, but I could do the modules at home if they’d let me.”
“That’s not how it works.”
At the grocery store I was at, 15 minute breaks during a shift weren’t scheduled. They happened sometime in the middle of the shift depending on how busy it was. Only some of us would go on break so that there were folks working. Managers told you to go on break, or if it slipped their mind, you’d ask.
We were pretty flexible, I told the employees to take a break when they needed it. If they were near the cash register sit down. Coffee allowed when they were working and bought by the company. Zero to little abuse.
Worst abuse was sick days, we gave a day a month. Some employees got sick once a month.
Note to self: steam the tortillas before rolling.
*okay sign*
et voilá
Not spicy enough.
Too spicy
Scrummy, as our Brit friends say.
(I didn’t know you were on the Tweety!)
Yup. Been there for a very VERY long time. I just don’t use it as much anymore because it’s not fun.
Leo: 10 of Coins – Gain, riches, family matters, archives, extraction
Hmm…. this doesn’t sound bad. Am I missing something or are you fucking with me?
You will gain two assailants named Rich, who work for a Sicillian Family, which has discovered in its archives a debt owed by someone close to you. You will not enjoy the extraction.
I feel better now, thanks. It is also enough to get me over fucking up the tags.
Not bad.
https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/3266/91419/
Two months early.
Or 9 late
It’s a seasonal, so not late at least.
I still have some Maibock in my fridge from last year.
Maybe it’s a Märzbock.
Uuuuuuuuhh, what manner of work is this? Anywhere I’ve worked would have been instant dismissal (or at least started the formal procedure to dismiss as quick as possible) for such a SNAFU, especially when combined with the apparent obliviousness to immediate cause of and solution to said SNAFU. Where is this mystical utopia where people are allowed to make mistakes sometimes and maybe even learn from them?
I know here in the UK, plenty of armed forces jobs and other govt depts are quite forgiving about such things because despite their carping, they have bottomless budgets, or at least, there’s a culture of not worrying about the pennies, because govt prints the pounds. I’ve never had a govt job, but those I know in govt employ seem to paint a vastly different picture of public sector attitudes to spending than what the unions and the lefties would have you believe.
Installed ceiling fan. I am sore from up and down ladder. Time for glibfit activities.
Okay, who builds a house in South Carolina and doesnt put a fan on the screened in porch? A light is not enough.
Have you seen those fan controller packs that don’t require you to wire a second line for the fan? If you haven’t, it’s worth a look.
Oh I know this. I’d guess it’s whoever built the porch on your house. What do I win?
The fan is operated by the slave labor.
Orphans with palm fronds.
Possibly the same previous owner and/or builder of my house. There were no overhead lights in three of the bedrooms.
Wow. Post that to #cheapAFbuilder
#metoo
Fist bump my Dallas bound friend.
House was built for another couple, they chose the options, but deal fell thru (divorce I think). We got a discount and our first owners.
If the discount was decent then that sort of shortcoming is worth it.
Maybe. Worth it vs paying the builders to add it on before closing. And I like doing stuff like that, although my xursing argues against.
We got a discount and our first owners.
You are surprisingly nonchalant about your new condition of servitude.
Taurus: Temperance – Economy, moderation, frugality, management, accommodation
Poking fun at me for being broke, I see.
Speaking of paranoia and delusion
Trump and Republicans have rejected all safety nets – including paid family leave and guaranteed sick leave – that people need to cope with personal health emergencies. This also makes America less prepared for contagion.
What Trump and his administration fail to understand, but which the coronavirus should make painfully clear, is that personal health and individual wellbeing are inextricably linked to public health and social wellbeing. This is not a socialist hoax.
A new and especially virulent contagious virus is bad enough. That it is spreading at a time when the US government is headed by an incompetent and vindictive paranoid who denies it, blames his opponents for it, and dismantles what’s left of the institutions that could contain it, makes the danger far worse.
“Come back,
ShaneObama!Who will rid us of this Bad Orange Monster?
The guardian is becoming the new go to for derp. Salon and Slate haven’t really kept up.
Foreign interference in domestic politics confirmed.
Now that’s saying something.
Soooo, like all of the leaders this useful idiot looks up to?
Posted earlier but relevant.
wut
They’re not even trying any more. Just straight up lies. ?♂️
Mike will get it done.
?
It’s simply impossible for people to save their money in an emergency fund. I’m self-employed and have done this for over 20 years. I’m sure “rich” people like me wouldn’t be covered under this great socialist plan.
The guardian is becoming the new go to for derp. Salon and Slate haven’t really kept up.
And teh googulnooze links to them a lot.
Weird, huh?
Robert Reich is just afraid he’s going to have to show up and teach his own classes, because his TAs are on strike.
Haha, I crack myself up.
“Robert Reich is just afraid he’s going to have to show up” and bring his own box
But the rope will be supplied?
While going through Q’s Chive link earlier, I discovered this instagram page exists. Thanks Q!
*sees page title loading*
Need moar dirn…
*page loads*
…uh, never mind.
*Login to continue*
Fuck you Instagram!
Very similar to my reaction. I may eventually open an account because self absorbed hot women post pics of themselves on there and who doesn’t like to look at them.
There is a workaround.
Bring up a picture and use the arrow keys to advance past the point where you’d get the pop-up.
So I was traveling last week. Everyone who works in the airports is scared shitless about the Corona virus. The car rental agent, TSA agents, and airline employees in Dulles were using gloves and hand sanitizer and some with masks.
I asked the car rental clerk if she is concerned, she gave me a crazy look and said, “why aren’t you?”
Because you returned from the future with the cure?
I heard it was the 12 Monkeys.
To be honest I am glad I don’t travel for work anymore. The latest virus not the sole reason but I just hate people now more than I used to.
The (social) science is settled
President Donald Trump is weaponizing homelessness in a way not seen in a generation — giving cover to local Republicans pursuing punitive measures and unraveling a longstanding consensus on how to best get people off the streets.
Trump’s fondness for slamming San Francisco as “worse than a slum” and blaming “the liberal establishment” for homelessness in major cities comes as the number of people without shelter has surged. It’s also become more public as income inequality has widened. Watching a bipartisan agreement around so-called Housing First homelessness policies crumble over the past year has dishearten many of those who have spent years crafting it.
Advocates for the approach argue access to shelter be prioritized before or alongside connecting people with other social services like addiction treatment rather than forcing them to get help before securing a place to live. And nearly everyone seeking to help people experiencing homelessness had reached that same conclusion, said Nan Roman, head of the National Alliance to End Homelessness. So she was taken aback at a congressional hearing last year when Republicans questioned the well-established philosophy.
——-
Whether it’s invisible or viewed as an everyday nuisance, the growing scrutiny from Trump and other Republican officials has teed homelessness up as a political dart against city- and state-level Democrats already struggling to get a handle on the issue. The issue has become so fraught in California it imperils the political future of Gov. Gavin Newsom, a frequent Trump critic, who devoted his State of the State address this month to the “pernicious crisis in our midst.” It’s also dogged liberals like Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, who has called on the federal government for help and setup yet another feud between Trump and the California congressional delegation.
Trump is seizing on these new cityscapes to prod Democrats like New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio just as his messaging counters steady — albeit slow — progress on policies anti-homelessness activists considered settled.
You only have to look around you to see how successful these homeless advocates have been. There are ‘way more homeless now. Success!
Somehow, I have a feeling that people like Dr. Chet who deal with the mentally ill homeless wouldn’t agree with any of the activists’ policies.
Those are the real problem. They’re pushing “decriminalizing homelessness” here now. Since it’s not, and never has been, a crime to be homeless, they’re clearly pushing other crap under that banner. Like all of the antisocial stuff that those POS assholes do like theft, vandalism, property damage, trespassing, littering, and public defecation.
Who is Dr. Chet?
Sometime commenter “Chet Anacreon” (not his real name), who is an emergency room psychiatrist
“The issue has become so fraught in California it imperils the political future of Gov. Gavin Newsom”
The homeless are a problem, see, Gavin’s political future is at risk. The concern for the homeless is minimal except for the taxpayer cost and the outrage of the locals that are tired of excess fecal matter on side walks. Now its effecting New York and other big cities. There’s a lot of (Demo) political futures at risk because they (the pols) may have to try to find a productive job.
Right? He might only get re-elected with 89% of the vote instead of 90%.
*gales of laughter*
“We just need one… more… decade!”
If the activists agree then it must be an effective policy. *rolls eyes*
Sounds like a sensible way of addressing this. So it’s no wonder the Dem presidential candidates want no part of it.
“We see our state leadership and governor demonizing people experiencing homelessness and creating a link between homelessness and criminality,” Austin Mayor Steve Adler said in an interview. “It certainly doesn’t make it easier to deal with the challenge.”
Roman, with the National Alliance to End Homelessness, and others who have been working on the issue for decades say the Trump administration is throwing out a playbook that’s working.
Right.
Gemini: Knight of Coins reversed – inertia, idleness, couch potatohood, stagnation, \ placidity, discouragement, carelessness
So, just another day of retirement? I’ll TAKE IT!
Fuck me.
https://recruiting.army.mil/army_esports/
Is the Army going to stand up a competitive drinking team as well?
I sort of assume this is a way of recruiting drone pilots and the like. Though I may be giving them too much credit.
Caption contest on the main photo in a linked story
I guess “The Spirit of the Bayonet” is not to kill anymore.
I wouldn’t be able to answer my grand kids with a straight face if they asked “What did you do in the Army, Grandpa?” …and I had to say, “Oh, I was in marketing”.
“We do more before 9am than you do all day.”
Caption contest
Something about a Trojan pony.
I heard this gem in the grocery store this morning. I thought I went back in time to the 1979.
Dr Hook.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uVXVO_vF2Io
I don’t think I like the song but it was pummeled into my brain by AM radio.
A true American HERO
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) received a standing ovation in Denver on Friday night over his vote to convict President Trump for abuse of power.
Romney earlier this month became the first senator in history to vote to convict a president of his own party. The senator traveled to Colorado on Friday for a discussion on the state of the world’s democracies at the University of Denver, according to The Denver Post.
The discussion held at the university’s School of International Studies was hosted by the Alliance of Democracies Foundation, a nonprofit established by Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the former prime minister of Denmark.
Rasmussen opened the discussion by praising Romney. “I am so honored to be onstage with what I would say is a true profile in courage,” Rasmussen said, prompting a standing ovation from the group of nearly 300 people in the university’s auditorium, the Post reported.
So statesmanly. I wonder how many of those same people eagerly bought into the “Mitch Romney is going to dismantle America’s safety net and kill all the poors,” lies from the Obamanauts.
“Please like me! Pleasepleaseplease like me!”
The only Dr Hook song I ever liked
It’s cheezy soft rock, but I was 7-8 when it came out. It felt a weird nostalgia when hearing it. Sunday at the grocery store with mom and my sisters after church as a kiddo.
Definitely a better song than mine.
“So which sport are you excited to follow this spring?”
My answer
Also, I’m so glad the O’Rangers are doing terribly so far. The O’Rangers fan is the guy who drinks Budweiser, whose dream car is a red Corvette, whose porn fetish is “cheerleader”, and who takes his wife to the Olive Garden for their anniversary while wearing khakis and a polo shirt.
Fuck the O’Rangers.
Because bugs never transmit diseases.
Food taboos are retarded.
Oh I agree, but don’t lay the rest of that horse shit on me. If you want to eat bugs have at it.
ngl, I’d eat a baby if it were cooked in choo chee curry and I could get away with it.
Dei gustibus non est disputandum?
God’s taste is not to be disputed?
FTFY
Also, she thought she was doing the computer training modules on her own time. “No, XX. You’re on their property with their uniforms and on the clock, they must pay you.”
“Yeah, but I could do the modules at home if they’d let me.”
Management material.
*squints* Don’t know if serious…
No, but seriously, I’m hoping that she sticks this out and does in fact head for management. Between that and her trade school the next two years (IT), she’ll have a ton of options and no student loans.
I would have liked it if she’d gone into railroad, but that’s just me projecting my regrets on her, so I let that go.
She has a good opportunity here and I’m crossing my fingers she can get a head-start on life when her peers are getting degrees in English lit.
They let Lucian Truscott IV out of his padded cell and gave him computer privileges
You may be forgiven if you are under the impression that the Trump administration’s response to the coronavirus outbreak is just one more example of his incompetence, aggressive ignorance, contempt for science and outright abuse of government. But it’s worse than that. For the White House, and especially for Donald Trump’s re-election campaign, it’s an opportunity to put into play the massive disinformation apparatus they have built for the 2020 presidential race.
Just look at what they’ve done so far. They unleashed their platoon of poodles in the right- wing media to pound the drum for the proposition that the Democrats have “weaponized” the coronavirus outbreak to “bring down Donald Trump,” a line of outright horseshit pushed aggressively by Trumpazoid spokesbots Rush Limbaugh, Laura Ingraham and Sean Hannity on their shows. Their “evidence”? Well, that terrible, nasty, mean Chuck Schumer has been critical of the Trump administration’s initial request for only $2.5 billion to fight the virus, proposing instead that more than $8 billion will be needed. Trump himself doubled down against Democrats at his press conference on Thursday, unleashing a new attack on Nancy Pelosi. “I think Speaker Pelosi’s incompetent. She’s trying to create a panic. I think she’s not thinking about the country,” he added. “She should be saying we have to work together.” As if that’s not what Pelosi has been saying.
But perhaps the most egregious thing they’ve done was to announce a rule that all statements coming from administration officials must be cleared through the office of Vice President Mike Pence. For the White House and the Trump campaign, saddled with an out-of-control narrative about a disaster they are singularly unequipped to handle, disinformation is no information at all.
The Trump campaign’s disinformation “Death Star,” as one campaign operative described it to McKay Coppins of the Atlantic, https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/03/the-2020-disinformation-war/605530/ is located in an office building in Roslyn, Virginia, just across the Potomac from Washington. “Heavily funded, technologically sophisticated, and staffed with dozens of experienced operatives,” the Trump campaign plans to spend more than $1 billion on “the most extensive disinformation campaign in U.S. history,” according to Coppins’ article.
That’s right, Lucian. Trump is the one running a disinformation campaign. You and your pals at Salon are all strictly on the up and up. The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
Now hold still, and let the nice man tie your sleeves together behind your back. No biting, or you get to wear the hood, remember?
Two episodes into the new season of Altered Carbon. Not bad so far.