From top: Sky, Peaked mountain, Pond, Dogs.
Wait… this is all good news? I don’t understand.
The week starts off with Mercury returning to direct motion. This not only eliminates the previous retrograde nonsense but is a particularly lucky time in its own right. Then every other day we have a new event, leading up to something really big and positive for Saturday (Saturn’s day). On Tuesday there’s an alignment that might portend something bad, but on further examination it’s something rather personal happening to a young woman which is none of your business. If I were being employed as a Royal Astrologer, I’d probably set a reminder on my calendar, but I’m not so that’s something else I don’t have to worry about. What I might have to worry about is Thursday, when Saturn goes station retrograde in Aquarius. Classically, this is a bad time for shipping/mariners/tidal disruptions etc. And I’m not saying it won’t be. But looking ahead it’s looking more like this is portending less “things ending very very badly,” and more “important beginnings.” Mor on that in a bit. Overall, this is a week favorable for the femme/witchy/goth with the moon starting in Leo and ending in Scorpio. Gemini gets kind of hung out to dry, but that’s also a warning against using deceit as a tactic, so stick with honesty at least until the next horoscope drops.
Having water to cool off in is going to be a requirement for hikes until fall.
And now, Saturday.
Make a date. Propose marriage. Get on Bumble/Tindr/Grindr/Whatevr. You’re unlikely to ever see any arrangement so favorable to romance again. SEVEN planets involved, all interlocked like some anime mystic rune effect. Want “The Lovers” (Mars and Venus) aligned with “Important Beginnings?” Done. Want Venus (love/sex/peace) aligned with the Sun (growth/power) and Jupiter (happiness/righteousness/leadership)? Got that too. Hell, we’ll even throw in Mercury (luck) aligned With the Earth (home) and moon (change).
Once you get to the top, a celebratory wrestling bout is in order.
Gemini: 4 of Cups – Weariness, disgust, aversion, imaginary vexations, resistance to temptation.
Cancer: Queen of Coins – Opulence, generosity, magnificence, security, liberty.
Leo: Ace of Cups – House of the true heart, joy, content, abode, nourishment, abundance, fertility, Holy Table, felicity.
Virgo: Queen of Wands reversed – Opposition, jealousy, deceit, infidelity.
Libra: 3 of Coins – Métier, trade, skilled labor, renown, glory.
Scorpio: Temperance reversed – WOOOOOO HOOOOOO!
Sagittarius: Knight of Wands – Departure, absence, flight, emigration. A dark young man, friendly. Change of residence.
Capricorn: King of Coins reversed – Vice, weakness, ugliness, perversity, corruption, peril.
Aquarius: 4 of Coins reversed – Suspense, delay, opposition.
Pisces: Judgement – Change of position, renewal, outcome, total loss though lawsuit.
Aries: Strength – Power, energy, action, courage, magnanimity, complete success and honors.
Taurus: 2 of Swords reversed – Imposture, falsehood, duplicity, disloyalty.
Everything the light touches is my kingdom.
Gemini: 4 of Cups – Weariness, disgust, aversion, imaginary vexations, resistance to temptation
verdammte Spanier! – Jürgen Klopp
What happened to the good news?
you probably just went over my head
I was stuck: Carlo Ancelotti is also a gemini, so………
Dafuq?
Love the pics! Such happy pups! And the green mountains are spectacular! Lily is indeed queen of all she surveys.
Leo: Ace of Cups – House of the true heart, joy, content, abode, nourishment, abundance, fertility, Holy Table, felicity.
What’s the catch?
Next week it’s your turn in the barrel.
a golden oldie
Lily loves getting on top of rocks. It’s nice, I don’t have to trim her nails.
Good pics.
I liked that I got the same pond/peak shot from both elevations.
This hike was particularly scenic, which is good since I didn’t get munch in the way of pics for next week.
“Opulence, generosity, magnificence, security, liberty.”
Sweet.
House of the true heart, joy, content, abode, nourishment, abundance, fertility, Holy Table, felicity.
Not sufficiently shitty.
But I get what I pay for.
Nice dog pics.
Beautiful. Looks fun and exhausting.
Even though this hike was not the longest, nor have the greatest elevation increase, it wiped me out more than the previous ones. TH must be right about there being some sort of “exhaustion threshold.”
https://www.nj.com/marijuana/2022/06/nj-legal-weed-in-full-swing-but-still-no-rules-for-detecting-if-workers-are-high-on-the-job.html
I wonder how the wc insurance industry is handling it.
Colorado would reduce WC amounts if the person popped hot in a post-injury test. I don’t recall the specifics since I don’t smoke and didn’t get hurt on the job in my brief time there.
Our payroll/wc provider requires mandatory testing with any claim. Previous language I think was a denial on any hot test. I haven’t seen any changes.
Our liability/wc no longer requires a pre-employment screen for marijuana but still requires the pee test for the hard stuff, but my org requires the full screen. On one hand, I don’t give a hoot if someone goes home and takes a bong rip at 5:01 pm. On the other hand, if you can’t put down the bong for thirty days to get a job, then do I really want to hire that person?
And, as much as I hate it out of personal privacy, I can have a known smoker tested and fired for it at any time as a fool-proof method to circumvent our “progressive discipline” policy.
But perhaps it’s medicinal?
Any medicine that can cause impairment has to be reported and, to date, nobody has has said they have a medical card.
One guy told me he quit smoking weed a month ago. LIke, okay, whatever, but dude, please don’t tell me this ever again if you decide to start back up.
Because 4473, if they’re smart? Just spitballin’.
I think nobody has one because it’s legal in AK and nobody gives a damn where I work.
Taurus: 2 of Swords reversed – Imposture, falsehood, duplicity, disloyalty.
I did get an employee fired last week and the person, despite being a horrible worker and surviving past attempts at shit canning, did not see it coming at all. Even after said worker was given written notice of their legal rights before the meeting where the ax fell.
Ya know, Im just a guy that climbs smokestacks and measures stuff. I dont always understand whats going on in them intertubes. Can someone ‘splain to me whycome if I get a paywalled page (Wall St Journal) browsing in normal pr0n-mode, if I open in it with a TOR browser I can usually read the article?
Well, I am moving in a few weeks. I’ll take it.
OT: I hadn’t paid much attention because it is the NRA. So this is old news. Wayne LaPierre re-elected as NRA CEO.
I washed my hands of the NRA when they screwed Neal Knox.
I’m a Life Member, and probably been one for long enough that I’m costing them money as I stopped giving them money when I paid off the membership.
I vote in NRA elections. I usually do not vote for any incumbent board member or board member candidate endorsed by the Nominating Committee. I figure they are part of the problem. I’ve made exceptions. Voting in NRA elections like this is easier than pissing up a rope.
Those elections have been well-fortified, for a long time.
*sigh*
TFW you know you have no better choice than to drop $2k on fixing your paid-for vehicles because there is a premium on cars, IF you can find a decent one.
?
Can YouTube be your buddy and walk you through a DIY project?
Front wheel bearings and AC compressor.
What’s that clickin’ noise?
Oh, and that’s not including the brake work I had done last week.
Just buy a Tesla?????
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA *deep breath* HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
No.
AC compressor
A full one third of the compressor warranties I saw over five years were incorrect. Mechanics might know a dead compressor when they see one, but they seldom understand the actual root cause of failure, so the original problem promptly kills the second compressor as well. A typical durability experience is first compressor: 10 years; second: 10 months; third: 10 weeks.
I once got the lecture from a mechanic about how he’s been fixing A/C for 20 years and no college boy in a tie can teach him anything. He killed six compressors on the same truck: didn’t balance the oil charge. So, 20 years of not remotely knowing what he was doing.
Mechanics might know a dead compressor when they see one, but they seldom understand the actual root cause of failure, so the original problem promptly kills the second compressor as well. A typical durability experience is first compressor: 10 years; second: 10 months; third: 10 weeks.
So what questions should the customer being asking a mechanic when taking the car in for a dead compressor?
I’ll be joining Mo in taking a car in later this month to replace a dead compressor. It had an 11 year run.
It’s usually a leak somewhere. Even with a sniffer, they are hard to find.
Example: refrigerant gets low, clutch starts to rapid cycle and burns out. Mechanic replaces (they don’t swap clutches any more: the whole compressor is too cheap) and recharges. Leak does not get better, old oil starts to get pretty burnt and clot up the orifice tube or TXV throttle; clutch starts to rapid cycle; this time the front seal burns out. Mechanic using sniffer finds the leak on compressor, replaces compressor and tries to charge back as “bad seal,” and the original problem is still not discovered or fixed. Third and fourth compressors die in short order etc ad nauseum.
Example: clutch wire gets beat up or comes loose or the connection corrodes, voltage at the coil plummets; weak clutch field leads to weak clamping, slippage, heat, and the clutch burns up. Mechanic replaces compressor but, like my earlier friend, doesn’t balance oil: the wiring was never fixed, the voltage is still too low, and now the system has too much oil in it resulting in high condenser pressures, and the newly replaced compressor burns up in a month.
I got a million of these
Thanks, that’s helpful. In our case the freon is still full and the compressor is not working. The mechanic wanted to look for a leak first using dye (said we would need to come back in a month or longer if it’s a small leak), but cancelled that after seeing the freon level was full.
Sorry.
It’s that little black Sonata I love so much. It’s like the universe thinks I shouldn’t have a zippy V6 ICE.
Oh no.
Spoiler-free microreview of Outer Range.
It’s a slow-burn (too slow, in my opinion) mystery show. It spends too little time on the Great Mystery and too much on the lives/situations of frankly fairly terrible people. A few too many cliches, but it does at least avoid the fate of Lost and BSG of not actually having any idea what the Great Mystery was. And it’s at least different in its use of grotesquerie.
It might be worth watching if there are later seasons and if they’re good. Until that happens, don’t bother watching unless you particularly like Josh Brolin make the Marlborough Man look like the “before” picture in a Charles Atlas ad.
https://news.yahoo.com/house-democrat-plans-introduce-bill-124000738.html
“A House Democrat plans to introduce a bill that would hit AR-15’s with a 1,000% tax — and it could pass Congress without GOP votes”
Grosjean says “hi!”
Yes he does
How do they get cloture in the Senate?
Reconciliation, since it’s a tax?
Well, shoot, my gun fund was earmarked for a .44 or .454 or .460 revolver for backcountry protection.
https://www.bearcreekarsenal.com/blog/everything-you-need-to-know-about-50-beowulf-ar-15s.html
Just sayin.
I need something compact for when I’m out hiking or whatever in case of grizzly or moose encounters.
LOL.
20 million AR-15s are estimated to be in circulation already. Which means the real number is probably close to 30 million. You’re struggling to close the barn door now that the horse is in the next county…
Next up: $100/round tax on 5.56/.223 ammo.
Sagittarius: Knight of Wands – Departure, absence, flight, emigration. A dark young man, friendly. Change of residence.
“Dark young man, friendly. Change of residence.” Like somebody from IT support at Ameritrade? Does this mean I’ll figure out how to wire transfer the money before the closing tomorrow?
I’ve forgotten, did last week’s horoscope say my horse was going to catch a leg on a rock and dump both of us into a stream?
Fortunately, nothing broken, but I’ve got an interesting contusion on my left shin and low back is tweaked. He’s got a good scrape on his leg from the rock. All my tack, clothes and boots are out drying in the sun. Even though it’s a nice day, I’m spending the rest of it indoors.
Sorry.
Classic MERCURY RETROGRADE.
Ouch.
Oh no!!!
Horses are not to be trusted.
Indeed. Horses are the work of the Devil.
Funny you should say that because I was wearing this shirt.
I want that shirt.
Damn, glad you both are okay.
“A House Democrat plans to introduce a bill that would hit AR-15’s with a 1,000% tax — and it could pass Congress without GOP votes”
It’s just common sense.
That’ll show those criminals.
OT: Getting around gun laws part who-the-fuck-knows.
I think making it a pump action would be better. Unless they are banned too.
Great pics!
Weariness, disgust, aversion,…
Sounds legit.
It’s that little black Sonata I love so much. It’s like the universe thinks I shouldn’t have a zippy V6 ICE.
You can live without A/C, but not wheel bearings. I assume it’s front wheel drive, and needs some sort of oddball wheel bearing puller. Or a big press.
True, I can live without AC, but I did that for 10 years in the Granny car thinking she was gonna die any day now, and I am loath to do it again when I know I want to keep this one for, like, ever.
I want to make sure it’s roadworthy in case Mr Mojeaux and I decide to head up to Alfred next month for SP’s celebration of life. I really don’t like Mr Mojeaux’s car.
What make / model / year and why not? Just wondering.
2006 Hyundai Azera. Not sure why. I just don’t. It can be fast, but it doesn’t have the get-up-and-go that my car has.
The way things work now, it’s probably cheaper and easier to just buy complete replacement front hubs/uprights/whatever-the-kids-call-them-nowadays.
That’s how it was when I did the rear wheel bearings on the Honda.
I thought all new vehicles used bolt in cartridges containing the wheel spindle and bearing.
My car is a 2006. It was the one whose side got bashed in last year. A friend of my husband’s found doors at the u-pick and did the work for basically nothing.
I had a ’95 Cutlass that was that way. Manufacturers have been doing it for quite some time now.
Just saying it may be a fairly easy DIY project.
Fortunately, nothing broken, but I’ve got an interesting contusion on my left shin and low back is tweaked. He’s got a good scrape on his leg from the rock.
You didn’t even get to shoot the horse? Not fair.
I was a little worried I might have to – we had trouble getting him back up on his feet, but after getting the saddle off and getting him turned his leg was freed unharmed (minus the scrape).
The Buffy first episode is on…Everyone is so young!