Sorry if I’ve been distracted lately, but puppy! They get cuter as they approach adoption age — no doubt this is an evolutionary advantage. And while I thought I was going to wind up with a blonde Great Pyr, Lily’s turning out to be a large Khaki Retriever. She’s got her dad’s instincts; when she’s let outside, she gets objects and brings them back to my brother. Only two of her litter are doing that, so it’s a shame I’m not a hunter. Anyway, what was I saying? Oh yes, easily distracted. Stars.
There’s only one but it is quite unusual in its persistence. The planets, like, move maaan, and the inner ones move particularly quickly. The moon moves even faster. Most alignments involving them form and break quickly. If the moon is involved, it’s usually less than a day in duration. However, because of the relative positions of the Earth and Jupiter, we actually see an alignment of the Moon – Mercury – Jupiter that lasts for more than a week. It starts off today, reaches its perfection on Tuesday, and kind of slides around the sky for the rest of the week. If you remember last week’s discussion of Jupiter, we know this event involves government, and both Mercury and the moon are strong harbingers of change. Mercury is also representative of news, and the moon of the ocean. During the time of the alignment the moon begins in Capricorn (the sea goat) and sweeps through Aquarius (the water bearer) and Pisces (the fishes). Told you the moon moves fast. But anyway, look at all the water/maritime signs happening here (I didn’t even mention Mercury being in Pisces or Jupiter in Aquarius) — obviously this change in government is going to involve someone getting wet. Back in the day, we’d tell the king to watch for a messenger by water (Mercury in Pisces) or caution against sending emissaries by boat. But that’s not really a thing anymore, so… fishing rights? Prince Philip passes out and drowns in a bathtub? The straits of Taiwan? Mars is in Gemini, which does not bode for an imminent attack — it’s more of a conquest via diplomacy sign.
The cards agree that this is going to be A Big Week, though they are very pointedly vague about how.
Pisces: The Chariot reversed – Riot, quarrel, dispute, litigation, defeat.
Aries: 4 of Swords – Vigilance, retreat, solitude, hermit’s repose, exile, tomb
Taurus: 9 of Wands – strength in opposition, delay, suspension, adjournment
Gemini: 2 of Cups – Love, passion, friendship, affinity, union, concord, sympathy, the interrelation of the sexes
Cancer: Queen of Coins reversed – Evil, suspicion, suspense, fear, mistrust.
Leo: The Magician – Skill, diplomacy, address, subtlety; sickness, pain, loss, disaster, snares of enemies; self-confidence, will
Virgo: 3 of Coins reversed – Mediocrity, puerility, pettiness, weakness.
Libra: Page of Swords reversed – The evil side of authority and surveillance, what is unforeseen, unprepared state, sickness
Scorpio: The Sun reversed – Material happiness, fortunate marriage, contentment but all in a lesser sense than were the card upright, also diminishment, withering, decay.
Sagittarius: The High Priestess – Fruitfulness, action, initiative, length of days; the unknown, clandestine, difficulty, doubt, ignorance
Capricorn: The World reversed – Inertia, fixity, stagnation, permanence.
Aquarius: The Blank Card – tabula rasa, lack of guidance, freedom
Great looking pups, lucky guy Adahn
2020 was a Pisces?
Riot, quarrel, dispute, litigation, defeat.
Mediocrity, puerility, pettiness, weakness.
You can say that again…..
L
Mediocrity, puerility, pettiness, weakness.
Looks like a bunch of folks are going to have a bad week.
Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.
Hey, you already gave up booze. No need to give up all your vices.
Never trust someone without a vice. Also, abstinence in moderation.
Not from my perspective, that can be other people acting that Toward you according to Science!
It’s good that you have a positive mind.
Unfortunately for me, those traits sound just like current version of me. ?
WTF?
Nothing in here tells me if the hot lady cop I met last night wants to do me! This is all a lie!
Tell us more
I’ve seen her at work before, never met her. Couldn’t hit on her…THEY are watching…
Darn it, always they, getting in the way,
Didn’t stop the Guv of NY.
“Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned”
You must not be a Gemini.
What CPRM is thinking
Huh. Are you sure you read the cards right, Not Adahn? That doesn’t sound like me. The rest of it does, though.
Finally, a good one!!
That by you is a good one?
I was thinking we are doomed again. (Bangs virtual ram horns as fist bump against KK horns).
I’m a misanthropic introvert. It’s quite the combination
I like the cut of your jib KK,
Sagittarius: The High Priestess – Fruitfulness, action, initiative, length of days; the unknown, clandestine, difficulty, doubt, ignorance
So- “Are you a good witch, or a bad witch?”
A Scarlett Witch? [Nerds applaud and ignore a terrible first season for the show]
Good? Bad? I’m the guy with the gun.
Hail to the King, baby.
Might be time for a viewing. I still have the DVD.
I used to have the VHS tape, in the 90s when everyone wanted cool wAV files on all their computer alerts. I dutifully forwarded the VHS tape to the right spot and input it to my pc to capture audio.
I had the one you quote above, “honey, you got real ugly”, “Come get some” and other choice bits.
What a nerd! Good times.
It’s a top 5 for me. Along with Big Trouble In Little China.
Top 5 absolutely. Off the cuff:
1. Die Hard
2. Maltese Falcon
3. Godfather
4. Army of Darkness
5. Blade Runner
That list can change on any given day, or hour.
Nice list!
1. Midnight Run
2. Big Trouble in Little China
3. Army of Darkness
4. Grosse Pointe Blank
5. Miracle
And yes, subject to change.
I’ll play.
1. Rock N Rolla
2. Army of Darkness
3. Fightclub
4. Pulp Fiction
5. Dogma
Grosse Pointe Blank has an absolutely excellent sound track in addition to being an excellent movie.
Midnight Run is great. Big Trouble; anything with Kurt Russell gets a lot if traction in this household. I’ll have to watch Grosse Pointe Blank again. I thought it was boring on my first go around.
Please forgive me; I have not seen Miracle. Maybe I’ll remedy that this evening.
GPB is a great movie. But Minnie Driver is only kinda hot and John Cusack is kind of annoying sometimes, not to mention his politics. Con Air was better.
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/john-cusack-anti-trump-friends-family-us-election-joe-biden-bernie-sanders-b716406.html
@Cy
Pulp Fiction top ten
Dogma is awesome; but Clerks maybe Chasing Amy
RocknRolla is awesome but Lock Stock…
I dig your style.
Straight To Hell – https://youtu.be/GDrTKKbFwdo
The two Lee Van Cleef Sabata films – https://youtu.be/bqbnzHtMy20
Paint Your Wagon and Westworld are my top five Westerns.
Oh that’s just what we call pillow talk, baby, that’s all.
Also a favorite, but it didn’t make it into the WAV file clip pile.
I did isolate snd record Jeremy Irons in Reversal of Fortune: “You have no idea.”
‘strength in opposition, delay, suspension, adjournment’
A coworker is going to be a dickhead all week, my car will breakdown on the way to work, be taken to the shop, a suspension issue is found, takes all week to get it back.
Got it.
Since the picture on the Rider-Waite deck for the nine of wands, kind of looks like a dude standing behind a palisade, the “strength in opposition” is intended to mean that you’re in a defensible position.
I’m not defensive! Shut up!
Scorpio: The Sun reversed – Material happiness, fortunate marriage, contentment but all in a lesser sense than were the card upright, also diminishment, withering, decay.
Jill! Have you seen my teeth !
ROFL
are you getting any rest these days? seems like you’re on here at least every other hour
That’s about the pattern. I think it adds up to enough.
Last night I had a nightmare, which is rare for me. Betrays an unsettled mind.
One important effect (to me) of the THC is the dream inhibiting quality. My dreams, left unsuppressed, are incredibly vivid and engaging; even when not of the nightmare variety, they preclude a restful sleep every time.
The blank card. Tabula Rasa.
Fweedom.
Just got back from Warrensburg and made it out of there under $120. Looking forward to trying out their braunschweiger. There is a bookstore on main street that may have crossed the line from “charmingly overstuffed and cluttered” to “cry for help.” I honestly don’t think UnCiv can make it into the shop. I had to walk sideways at all times. There were multiple hallways that were completely inaccessible because of the book piles. All the shelves were two layers of books deep, and some of them I had to inspect by sticking a flashlight in because they were so close together that no light could make it in.
It’s the low ceilings, isn’t it?
I honestly don’t think there was more than an 18″ clear path on the floor, and I know that I couldn’t square my shoulders and move between the shelves they were that close together. But yeah, it’s right on Main on the way to Oscar’s. I can’t remember what’s it’s called. You can park on the street in front of it, or there’s a parking lot behind it. They literally had shelves of books (not expensive ones, Star Trek paperbacks and the like) on the front porch.
I can get through that sideways.
But how are you supposed to follow the illegal diktats?
The owner (I assume) was not masked. Neither were the cats.
It’s hard to have cats and nice things.
My cat pissed on the very first nice leather handbag I ever bought. It dried before I noticed. When I got on Metro to go to work, I kept wondering which of my fellow commuters smelled like cat piss, then the smell followed me off the train.
LOL!
A bookstore like that is what we used to call, back when I was in the business, a “live” store. When books are coming in so fast that they cannot process them quickly enough and so they pile up, is a place where you can find some real treasures at great prices. A “dead” store is one that every book has been checked against online pricing, alphabetized on the shelves, and the staff has enough time to sit around a judge the customers. In other words, not enough books are coming in. There are zero deals to be had in this type of shop.
I have worked in both, and a live shop is so much more fun.
I picked up a 1924 printing of the Scoutmaster’s Handbook in excellent condition for $30.
My little treasure found in such a shop is the four volume “History of the English Speaking Peoples” by Winston Churchill.
Not sure what year. And I’m presently too well snuggled in bed to go look.
They had a blue-leather gilt-edged edition of The Fountainhead but they wanted $175 for it.
Honestly, her books are important but not terribly enjoyable.
Good choice to save the money.
Interesting little vignette there. Thanks for sharing.
I finally read your comments on my truck article.
90% we’ve done some business.
You don’t have any KTA19’s lying around anywhere do you? Reman? New? I’m not picky.
don’t fuck around: https://www.amusingplanet.com/2013/03/the-largest-and-most-powerful-diesel.html
1920L ~ 100X !
That won’t fit into the engine room. Hell, it might exceed the deck rating of 350 tons.
Enjoyed your article Don. As a wee lad I prided myself in being able to ID all the big truck brands. I’ve wondered what happened to them. Now I know.
No Diamond T though.
In some summer day camp they’d pile all us kiddies into the back of a Diamond T stake bed for interesting tours.
Once the brakes went out coming down the hills into Palo Alto. That was fun! Probably couldn’t do that today.
brakes
if kids only lived through drum brakes they’d understand like Uncle Versie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9VLykPWxSU
I picked up a 1924 printing of the Scoutmaster’s Handbook in excellent condition for $30.
More like the He-Man-Woman-Hater’s Handbook.
Also racist.
I don’t have an original, but from a reprint of the 1910, the BSA originally had a “Chief Scout Stalker,” who was responsible for teaching stalking skills. Even into the ’50s, the Fieldbook talked about how to cross ridgelines without being seen and suchlike.
“how to cross ridgelines without being seen”
Here’s more good guidance on how not to be seen:
https://youtu.be/ZGv8oAHxekU
Had to be.
Also, Girl Scouts were using swastika in them there days. I have a circa 1930 picture of my mom in GS uniform with a swastika badge. (No, not in Germany.)
https://worldscoutingmuseum.org/swastikas.shtml
Swastikas were used a lot for “luck” before they got usurped by the Nazis.
You can find all kinds of “Good luck’!” Postcards with shamrocks, horseshoes, swastikas, kewpies, and other good luck symbols.
Swedish power company Asea (now the first A in ABB) used the swastika as their symbol, which was appropriate in the land of runestones. When I toured their hydro generators in Wattenfall, I noticed that every lovely brass brush on the generators was inscribed with a swastika. They’re still working after all these years, so why not?
It’s a bit like claiming the OK hand gesture is now white supremacy.
Ovaltine had a mail in promotion back in the early 1930s whereby one could send in for a Indian sandalwood medallion, carved into a “… swastika, the Hindoo symbol of good luck.”
BESURETO
See also many antique Oriental and Persian rugs.
Don’t forget the Bellamy Salute.
Ralph or Bill?
David or Homer ?
+1 Let Your Love Flow
Yeah, I have a couple of early Kipling books with an elephant and swastika on the cover.
Also, the swastika was the name for the New Mexico State University yearbook until fairly recently.
Puppies!
Leo: The Magician – Skill, diplomacy, address, subtlety; sickness, pain, loss, disaster, snares of enemies; self-confidence, will
Cool!
The Disillusionist.
Geminis are gonna have a great week! Bow chicka wow wow!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6QZn9xiuOE
https://brooklyn.news12.com/boeing-max-makes-emergency-landing-at-newark-liberty-due-to-engine-indicator
What happened Boeing? You used to be THE ONE! Now it’s raining parts! You can’t let the Frogs beat us!
No worries; airlines have diversions, air turn backs, and rejected take-offs regularly. Call it an abundance of caution.
https://brooklyn.news12.com/police-woman-killed-after-being-hit-by-construction-truck-in-reverse-in-east-new-york?minutetv=true
Ouch…
Also… That’s not a truck.
our seventh generation entered the cemetery when a cousin backed over his three-year-old
the second on the hill was mortally wounded at Vicksburg
it’s not been a pretty run
“No arrests yet”
Why would arrest be the default response?
I’m guessing she had noise canceling earphones in, but not seeing any barriers to keep people out of the construction area, no guide to back up the vehicle onto a public street, and driver didn’t see the pedestrian. I see an out of court/insurance settlement in the future.
Moving around while using noise cancelling headphones is asking for a Darwin Award nomination.
You see the “flagger” at the end of the video.
Ah, i see him now.
This is a truck
100L engine
The construction vehicle trade show is at Vegas is so horrifyingly boring: I don’t even like being paid to go.
It is Vegas. I used to strongly dislike a conference being there, but between budget cuts and covid, that isn’t a problem. Knew a fellow attendees who was a devout Mennonite. Must have been awful.
Wiedertäufer!
My fam !
We’re all gonna die, again… Some more… sooooon… soonish… wait for it…
https://fox11online.com/news/coronavirus/2nd-more-contagious-covid-19-variant-found-in-wisconsin
I was stupendously drunk on the Zoomy last night (it was a white-knuckled drive to work and I should have called in sick). I’m very sorry to any of y’all I may have cursed out, stink-eyed, or waggled my nether-bits towards in an insulting manner.
I really need to start drinking later on the weekends. I miss all the fun.
*sad trombone*
I have one of the quite rare weed hangovers today. It’s been brutal.
But did you fatally damage a 55″ flat-screen ?
Piker.
I promise one of these Friday/Saturday nights all take off so I can re-join the club.
“I came here to night to sing praises to Allah- allah you mutherfuckers!”
Well, stuffed peppers are in the oven.
Stuffing is – diced onion and bacon lardons carmalized in butter, ground pork seasoned with parsley, basil, cumin, coreander, smoked paprika, and black pepper. These items were mixed with cream cheese and sour cream.
The stuffing was put inside mini peppers, stood up in a small aluminum pan, and covered with shredded mozzerella cheese. Now baking to melt and brown the cheese.
I didn’t take the onion and bacon out of the pan before adding the pork and seasoning. So that also helped flavor the browning meat.
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And it turned out just as good as that sounds.
heh….”cumin”
I love me some alien eggs.
Mrs. T. sent me to the butcher shop yesterday. “I want a steak!”
Marinating a a 32 ounce boneless ribeye for Sunday dinner….
Also grabbed a package of these for later in the week.
Gormet Hot Dogs?
That sounds like a contradiction in terms.
Nathan’s would like a word……
Hot dogs are ground up meat stuffed into an intestine.
So…
When you eat a hot dog, you are a hot dog.
When I eat a Hamburger I’m a Cow?
/makes no sense…
No, but you’ve got chewed up meat in your intestines. So, if you just ate beef, you might even be a kosher hot dog.
Those franks look good. Snake River is the real deal. Enjoy!
Thanks! I need to stop being lazy and make my own hot dogs, but SF dogs are pretty darn good.
Spot on.
STOP READING MY PERFORMANCE REVIEW!
I’ve got a chicken thawing on the counter. I’m going to use a bbq rub all over it and roast it. Slather it in bbq sauce to finish it. Sides will be leftover red beans with smoked pork shank, and creamed spinach with sliced hard boiled eggs.
Four more hours on a jerk pork shoulder in the sous vide. Gonna throw it in the oven for a bit to crisp up the outside, shred it, and make tacos.
Yes! Gotta get a pork shoulder next time at the butcher.
Excellent! Starting my brisket corning today. Should be nice and ready for St. Paddy’s day.
Brisket went from the normal $6.99 per lb. to $1.59 per lb. today, so I picked up a couple to make immediately. Next Sunday it goes down to $0.69 per lb. (our peninsula has a greater percentage of Irish-Americans than any other place in America; St. Pat’s is a big deal here) so I fill the chest freezer.
Oh wholly hell..thats cheap!
Got a process or a favorite link? I have a big brisket in the deep freeze, and I I’d like to do something with half of it besides smoking it.
^^^
They all have mad cow or something???
*sigh*
Is there a Glibterm for replying to yourself when you meant to reply somewhere else? Doh.
It’s so nice out, I opened the windows to air the place out, 35 and Sunny, a very good Sunday, next is food…….
We ain’t that cold but we did the same. Fresh air through the house is always nice.
no wind here means the Sun gets through to your bones, so nice after all the Darkness,
HEY YUFUS!
Since it’s Sunday- Mandatory
Nice one my Friend! how about a Tall Can!
Cheers
Last of my OG non-vented plastic gas cans is going in the trash. Cap flew off when i was driving back from the gas station. Now it’s all metal cans (Justrite Type II). I like the ones with the roll bars but way more expensive and not entirely needed if I’m careful. Pull handles are nice but does drip a bit if not paying attention and it’s possible to pressure force the fluid back through the handle mechanism.
The new gas can spouts suck. Another prime example of government over reach.
you’re not wrong, but
the year I was in code enforcement I would always tell the quibblers: hey, fuck me, fine amigo, but you’re going to get the same story from your insurance
I hate all the safety contraptions and am more likely just to use an old paint thinner can, but I do advise using metal whenever possible. Plastic containers fail must earlier under heat and contribute to “pool fires.” High energy, fast-spreading fuels are great for engines, but terrible on houses.
All the Avatars are missing,
FBI! Open up!
Nope. Ted’s still got his.
I noticed that, Ted is magic?
Dr. Chet still seems to have his, too.
And CPRM
I think this means you’re all sockpuppets of each other.
Tulpae un-masked!
I call caboose!
Just shipped Jugsy back south of the Mason-Dixon for another week. However, that horriblescope doesn’t seem favorable to me importing punani here to the palatial 2X-wide for hijinx.
/saves coke for a rainy day