A couple of weeks old. The grass and honeysuckle have leafed out since this was taken.
Every time a new planet was discovered, the hacks that worked writing popular astrology texts rejoiced, because it allowed them to have another “planet” with which to make predictionings, despite the fact that there is no scientific basis to believe that the trans-Saturnian objects have any astrological significance whatsoever. It’s understandable that they* reached for this crutch since there isn’t really all that much up there. Heck you can see that the trend has continued where you have supposed “astrologers” including freaking asteroids like Ceres, Eris, Makemake, and Chiron in their forecasts as well as completely fictional celestial bodies like “Lilith.” I however, will not stoop to that level. I have the courage to look up into the sky and say “That’s it?” And I even have enough faith in you people that I’ll say so in this column.
So yeah, that’s about where we are. Some unpleasantly belligerent shit on Saturday. But, if you’re an Aries, Wednesday is a great time to find a sitter and put the “do not disturb” on the motel room door while you and the person(s) of your choice go at it with all the fervor that springtime and modern pharmaceutical enhancement allows.
*they does NOT include newspaper astrology columnists. Fun fact: that job used to not be done by actual astrologers, but the same person who made up the letters for the agony aunt/advice columns.
No idea why.
Soooo many reversed cards this week, but that’s normal for this crowd.
Taurus: The Tower reversed – Out of the 156 (or 157 in this deck) possible draws, this is the absolute worst one. Govern yourself accordingly.
Gemini: 10 of Swords reversed – Advantage, profit, success, favor, but none of these are permanent. More particularly, this indicates elevation/enhancement but at too great a cost.
Cancer: 4 of Wands reversed – This is a card considered so lucky that even drawing it reversed can’t fuck it up: prosperity, increase, felicity, beauty, embellishment.
Leo: The High Priestess reversed – Passion, moral or physical ardor, conceit, surface knowledge.
Virgo: Page of Wands reversed- Anecdotes, announcements, evil news, indecision, instability, being in over your head.
Libra: King of Cups reversed – Dishonest, double-dealing man; roguery, exaction, injustice, vice, scandal, pillage, considerable loss.
Scorpio: Wheel of Fortune reversed – Increase, abundance, superfluity.
Sagittarius: 2 of Cups reversed – Promises broken, agreements violated, romantic troubles.
Capricorn: 10 of Wands – Oppression, but also fortune, gain, any kind of success, and then it is the oppression of these things. False-seeming, disguise, perfidy. There is also the implication that these problems are your bad actions coming home to roost.
Aquarius: The Devil reversed – Evil, fatality, weakness, pettiness, blindness.
Pisces: 4 of Swords – Vigilance, retreat, solitude, hermit’s repose, exile, tomb and coffin.
Aries: Knight of Cups – Arrival, approach, advances, proposition, demeanor, invitation, incitement, beer run.
Inspired by this weeks’ draws:
Nice dog video.
Fun fact: that job used to not be done by actual astrologers, but the same person who made up the letters for the agony aunt/advice columns.
Huh. I didn’t know there was a difference.
Passion, moral or physical ardor, conceit, surface knowledge.
Sounds not sufficiently shitty.
“the same person who made up the letters for the agony aunt/advice columns.”
Well, I’ve heard that Doctor of Astrological Science is a real discipline. It has science in the title and a few liberal arts schools have a USAID funded program and student loans are available.
I believe that sort of thing is what Bertrand Russell called ‘Learned ignorance’.
âNice dog video.â
Concur. Itâs good to be NAâs dog.
Ours are getting freakinâ old. Ancient, even. They are littermates, but you would swear that the Big Dumb One (the male) is not a day over 8 years old, while his sister is looking every minute of her 14-plus years. I built her a ramp to get into the dog door this past week – she couldnât really manage the 7 inch step any more. My theory is that the Big Dumb One is just too dumb to realize heâs old and should act his age, while his sister has had to put up with him every single day of her life, so no wonder.
The inevitable worst part of dog ownership.
I will be so glad to get back home and sleep for a day and a half.
Dittoes. Been in NYC for about four weeks.
Just leaving lovely Binghamton now.
– “There is also the implication that these problems are your bad actions coming home to roost.”
Inconceivable!
Yeah, there is a lot of that going around.
*avoids eye contact*
â Cancer: 4 of Wands reversed â This is a card considered so lucky that even drawing it reversed canât fuck it up: prosperity, increase, felicity, beauty, embellishment.â
I better clear my calendar. Giggity.
Increase, abundance, superfluity.
Hmmmm. I was debating about cutting grass today. I will put it off. There are some wildflowers I want to transplant to my front yard, I will do that instead.
The opposite, here. Our septic field has gotten overgrown, and I need to cut back the weeds? brush? before I hit it with Roundup. Thereâs nothing that survives here that isnât tough as nails – the local vegetation laughs at the recommended dose of Roundup – Iâm convinced they convert it to fertilizer. A double concentration does the trick, although a second pass is generally required.
On the plus side, the Palo Verde trees are starting to bloom. Covered in yellow flowers, which put out so much pollen it drifts up in the gutters. Fortunately, itâs highly allergenic. Itâs like having 15-25 foot ragweed trees everywhere.
Flowers are starting to bloom here.
Rain went through the area earlier this weekend with some rain lingering into the morning. The rain brought cooler temperatures and wind. I turned the heat back on in my house.
I didn’t go outside to work in the yard.
Virgo: Page of Wands reversed- “… being in over your head.”
So basically every project I’ve been handed in the past 6 months.
Sagittarius: 2 of Cups reversed â Promises broken, agreements violated, romantic troubles.
That lovely young Ukrainian refugee girl in the ad isn’t really going to pay me a million dollars to marry her and make her a citizen?
She is going to grow a mustache, get wider than she is tall and beat the shit out of you every time you do/dont do what she wants which you will only find out about after the beating. Marital bliss, dude.
Out of the 156 (or 157 in this deck) possible draws,
157 is a prime number. That’s a pretty big deck.
Only the best for you people.
It’s 157 ’cause I can’t tell if the blank card is upright or reversed.
THAT NOT BIG DECK. THIS BIG DECK . . . .
OH, YOU SAID DECK. NEVER MIND.
Doggo is eating good this week. Fishmonger had salmon collars available.
Music
“Libra: King of Cups reversed â Dishonest, double-dealing man; roguery, exaction, injustice, vice, scandal, pillage, considerable loss.”
I don’t see what Gavin Newsom has to do with this.
I have a new puppy. He’s seriously eating into my Firsting time. He just sits there and stares at me and it’s disconcerting.
And I have a sneaking suspicion he is a pup supremacist by how he behaves towards me.
They all are. Congratulations, btw.
What kind of sick fuck firsts in front of their dog?
A family man?
He keeps trying to chew on my Firsting Cape.
He wants you to boop his nose.
if you’re an Aries
diggity
inorite
Is it weird that I keep track of where we are in the year by the position of Scorpio in the IFLA list?
lol Same.
I noticed Aries is back at the bottom. đ
Yeah, no.
I do the same thing. âOh look, weâre getting closer to my birfdayâ.
*unflinching eye contact with rhy+ Grumman maintained, sans blinking, drifts backwards through the hedge*
Things I learned this week:
1. Australian “experts” say that a main contributor to Australia’s housing crisis is a lack of housing. These people get paid to say things like that.
2. Suggesting that covid-19 was due to a lab leak is the same as suggesting the black death was caused by Jews. Seriously, a speaker, just this week, said that covid-19 was a natural mutation of the virus that jumped to humans because of the wrong animals being brought to the Wuhan wet market. I guess they must have missed the memos.
There must be no open land left in Australia for houses.
That space is reserved for Aboriginal vernacular housing.
Covid: Fauci and some others here, some Chinese, probably Hu and others cooked up a bio weapon funded by US taxpayers and released it into the population. That’s what happened. It didnt work like they wanted.
Now they want to block out the sun and starve humans down to a more manageable size population.
I am sure all of the people cooking these ideas up are part of the WEF crowd.
If it seems too good to be true, it is. <——- Iron law
If it seems too evil to be true, it is probably true. <——- suggestion for new iron law.
So, Kamala has been down under?
A lot
That’s the one thing she’s good at.
1. Just direct some hand-picked developers to build lots of affordable housing, duh.
Donât forget the massive subsidies and hinky accounting!
I still can’t believe that “This lab in China didn’t follow proper safety protocols” was considered super racist, while all the antiracist goodthinker people went with “Well, you know, those people eat, like, live bats and pangolins and shit like that.”
We can’t have nice things.
Not just nice cars, we can’t have nice links
Australian âexpertsâ say that a main contributor to Australiaâs housing crisis is a lack of housing. These people get paid to say things like that.
If I didn’t know better, I’d think “experts” as a species are nothing more than confidence men.
UNLV had 2 players registered for the draft, a receiver and a safety. The Seahawks drafted the receiver in the 7th round and the Packers signed the safety as an undrafted free agent. 100% success rate.
I dragged myself out of bed because I need to medicate, drink, and get some food.
Problem is I used up my energy in getting to my chair and taking my cold meds.
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Order Chair Dash.
I used door dash for the first time last week.
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DO EEET!!
We call door dash for delivery at the disc course, life is good in America
I managed to feed myself and I’m not as completely worn out as I was.
âAries: Knight of Cups â Arrival, approach, advances, proposition, demeanor, invitation, incitement, beer run.â
Good week to apply for new jobs while also executing my current job to the best of my ability.
Getting bored with the “blowing shit up” gig?
No, Iâm dying to get back into the blowing shit up gig! Or, better yet, preventing others from blowing up our shit.
This current gig is about power generation, but itâs fraught with politics and trans activists.
I just want to move to a red state after 25 years in the wilderness.
“…fraught with politics and trans activists.”
Jesus. No matter what they are paying you it ain’t enough.
Good to hear from you, HE. Iâve been meaning to tell you – thatâs a great picture.
And let me just take this opportunity to say that I am quite pleased to no longer be in the job market in any way. To the point where both my law licenses are currently inactive, so itâs actually illegal for me to give legal advice.
That sounds like advice about legal advice. Gonna have to report it to the bar.
“It’s a matter of ethics.” — Johnny Caspar (Miller’s Crossing)
Look, Gustave, you can complain about lawyers all you want – you still have to settle your tab before we’ll server you any more alcohol.
Woot!
Congrats on the retirement! And thanks for the photo compliment. Of course I chose the best one of the dayâŠ
I figure I have to work at least 15 more years so I might as well enjoy it .
I ditto the ‘Great to hear from you!’
I hope your job ‘adventure’ swims well in that river, and ‘knowing’ your expertise, uh. Many people are interested in you for many things. (Like school, this is a No Euphemism Zone. Those work.)
Best of luck to you. What type of work are you seeing on the vine? / What are you looking for?
Thanks!
Type of work: defense
Area: Texas, please!! Itâs time to go home.
“Taurus: The Tower reversed â Out of the 156 (or 157 in this deck) possible draws, this is the absolute worst one. Govern yourself accordingly.”
Well, my computer crashed yesterday and I had to get a new one! This *was* the worst for me. I’m typing on it right now! I s’pose I really am unlucky. Yeesh! On my birthday’s eve, even. *aww shucks smirk*
Well.
Hm.
*fist bump*
Vanna spins it backwards and gets Satanic messages?
I’ll take the first two. I guess I’ll find out how superfluous I am when I get back to work Thursday after three days off.
Teen #3 gets on a red-eye tonight. I spent more in groceries then I have in a long time anticipating more mouths to feed.
Sounds like a good time is gonna be had by all.
In ohio 18 year olds cam drink if with parents….we will have fun
OBE:
Technically it’s any child in Ohio, as long as they’re with parents. But they can’t sit at the bar unless they’re 21.
I finally got the new patio furniture assembled and set, it looks nice. I had to haul it up to our second story deck to do, but its done now.
Hauled it up with a rope and my skinny ass.
But the view is spectacular, Mission bay from the north,
Its better in person,
https://photos.app.goo.gl/Vvtw3s8M2yyC2z1e8
Looks nice. Too many people, but nice
If it’s fewer people you want, you’re not too far away from this little bit of serenity.
And if I want fewer people and no sidewalks?
Then you’re exactly where you ought to be. đ
“If heaven ain’t a lot like…” I ain’t going.
Well-done! Your neighborhood is rather different than mine. In addition, someone has a pretty dope water slide for kids on their lawn.
I strongly approve. We had a trampoline in our backyard, pushed close to E-ville trees. Only one kid ever got hurt, sadly. Sad ass rookie numbers.
I have a practice basket for disc, otherwise its a pretty clean yard/ deck.
As far as crowds and noise, we dont have that on Soledad Mt. You go down to Whoville for that
Monthly reminder to send your book reviews, synopsis, and or reports to “whatarewereading25@proton.me” in the next few days if you would like to be included in the main post with the cool kids and not some loser who merely mentions their reading achievements in the comments. Thanks in advance, we are all counting on you.
Still no identity on the Vancouver murderer. HmmmâŠ
Sounds like they’ve been Culturally Enriched.
What are you hoping for?
one-eyed, one-horned, flying, purple people eater
He didn’t have his magic driver’s license with the star so the officials are not sure he is who he says he is.
We’re supposed to get an inch of rain tomorrow. We’re probably OK now, fire wise, but the rain should make stuff start turning green. A couple apple trees are showing signs of life.
Holy cow – Comet is finally showing the last couple seasons of X-Files that came so much later. Something new to me to watch!
Huzzah!
*runs to window*
Aww… I was thinking you meant an astronomical phenomenon.
I was right there with ya, UCS.
They’re, umm, no very good for the most part. Sorry.
Although, there is an episode in there that pays a sweet homage to Kolchak: The Night Stalker.
Paging SF
https://nypost.com/2025/04/26/us-news/nyc-librarian-quits-sues-after-parade-of-unhinged-patrons/?dicbo=v2-Lp3XbD0
When I saw that, I thought to myself, “What the hell were you expecting?”
OMG I can’t believe this bigot shut down naked man story hour for the kids.
Lily, is this you?
“Suspect in Vancouver festival attack IDâd as Kai-Ji Adam Lo, 30, after at least 11 killed, dozens more injured”
The 30-year-old was arrested at the scene by authorities and was âknownâ to law enforcement and mental health care professionals before he allegedly carried out his deadly attack, Vancouver police said.
https://nypost.com/2025/04/27/world-news/suspect-in-vancouver-festival-attack-idd-as-kai-ji-adam-lo-30-after-at-least-11-killed-dozens-more-injured/
‘My’ Walmart has a list of drivers we refuse to use. Threats, or otherwise breaking the rules, etc. One name was similar to this alleged killer, with obvious Africa-Africa flavor. Alias: ‘Henry Clay.’ First thought wasn’t that he ‘knew’ who/what that was, but that ‘Clay’ is the surname Alan Rickman used to try to fool McClane in Die Hard. My hypothesis is *FAR* more likely, but Liberia+ would have an ‘idea’ of Clay, I s’pose, though I don’t trust historical knowledge from *anyone,* let alone a wayward gig-driver for Walmart.
“‘Known’ to law enforcement and mental health care professionals” means that a few decades ago that fruitcake would likely have been institutionalized instead of plotting mass murder.
Obviously Reagan’s fault for closing all the mental hospitals.
@Rhy: I’m officially in the ‘Asylums need a resurgence camp.
Derp and I can attest. (It’d still likely do me good.)
Homicidal tragedeigh?
I’d *love* to know Walmart’s hiring standards for legal v illegal workers. I’m guessing they *carefully* ensure folk are legit. Still, the odd layers, dividing lines of language, especially, of ‘our’ odd factory are striking. The African loaders /unloaders and maintenance are totally separate from the Americans + Hispanics, who work side by side, though their English ability is extremely lacking, certainly can’t speak to shoppers and answer questions. (That’s one reason I get asked questions constantly. Another, I learned, is I’m the only personal shopper to *not* have earbuds in. Listening to music or podcasts never once crossed my mind. (I have the entire world around me to listen to. There’s much more fun observing the world than being told it, in such circumstances.
Fun observations fill the void. Yesterday, the Best Moment was when I found a lost kid, ~4yo, Hispanic. I asked him where his parents were. He wasn’t afraid, but he called out his sister or mom’s name. Not long after, his sister rushed to the scene and happily discovered the wayward boy.
I’m happy my latent paternal instincts kicked in immediately. And that nothing became of it.
Tomorrow should be chill at work. We’re going with my nephews to ten-pin bowling and dinner for my bday afterwards. Tuesday brings an EEG session, and I’m rather curious how it’ll go. I’ve done a 24hr, or at least overnight one before, with limited recollection. (I *was* asleep for most/all of it!) Then Wed I have my latest, and theoretical breakthrough, meeting with Vocational Rehab.
Evan Bouchard. I see you. There can only be one. (And I’d fucking lose. So. Well, still go-Edmonton.)
Tomorrow shall be chill. Work, bday bowling with nephews, and then my Tues-Wed weekend. Be well, y’all.
Oilers can suck a dick
I’m instinctively pro-Canada in hockey. Or the Avalanche cuz Roy back in the day.
Fuck LA in everything.
Well Kings blew the lead so now OT. Kid is on his way to airport. Im thinking 2 OTs to decide this game which means just don’t go to bed and get him in a few hours.
Some sort of shitty “prevent defense”. WTF. Like in football, it prevents you from winning.
I gotta work in the morning so I won’t even go the distance on this first OT.
Get up and get at it Glibs!
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Good morning!
Getting up. Getting at it.
BY GETTING AT IT MEANâŠ
Drink some coffee.
My manager today is young and hot. Good at her job, at least when it comes from me. I haven’t given her $20 and I highly doubt we’d ‘get along,’ but ’tis fun enjoying little beautiful things.
And an Eville connect! All coming up Milhouse.
The shoppers are more up Tres’ alley.
Morning folks!
The start of another week. Funny how time slips way.
Saturday we pick up the bees and install them in their summer homes, where they’ll bust their butts all summer, only to see the fruits of their labor confiscated in the fall.
It’s socialism, pure and simple.
Good morning, 4(20), Ted’S., EfE, and Sean!
Good morning.
I recently calculated our total tax rate at 53%, so I guess we’re doing better than the bees?
They’re going to vote for more of it good and hard today.
Pol Pot o’ Hunny
Good morning.
Iâm eating chocolate cake for breakfast. I made it yesterday, following the recipe on the back of the Hersheyâs cocoa can. I didnât have all purpose flour, so I used self-rising flour, after looking it up and seeing that the difference is that you donât need to add baking powder and salt to self-rising (you still use baking soda, though). I also made âbutter cream frostingâ, but one of the tax deductions complained that it tastes to much like butter. The recipe I chose for the frosting uses granulated sugar, which I chose because we donât have confectionerâs sugar.
The cake is pretty good. Very moist. Not very chocolate-y, though.
What I am wondering is, why is there no Hersheyâs cocoa available at the two grocery stores I visit?
What is this world coming to when the cake recipe on the Hershey’s cocoa can makes a cake that isn’t very chocolatey? đ
It may be that my taste buds arenât working very well. I do taste chocolate, but it isnât the explosion of chocolate flavor that a Mrs. Freshleyâs Lava cake from the gas station has.
Itâs possible that the butter cream frosting is masking some of the flavor.
It may also be that about a third of the cocoa I used was special dark cocoa, having exhausted my supply of regular cocoa.
Last night, my wife tried a slice, and said it was delicious.
Cocoa is imported, probably all the serious bakers/confectioners rushed in to buy the supply. Need prices controls! Rationing!
Hoarders always seem to know what to do in times of shortages, real or man-made
Cake sounds delicious though.