More KISS than Metallica, but good inclusion of Talking Heads.
This week is dominated by two, not-particularly-auspicious readings. It starts off with Venus and Saturn retrograde hanging out on opposite sides of the sun. This could mean a new relationship or a particularly nasty breakup. Unfortunately there are no celestial signs that they’re going to get things right this time on Thursday. Then starting Saturday we’ve got an unusually persistent situation where the Moon and Mercury are tugging at the Earth in opposite directions. Since both of those are considered unlucky events… you get the idea.
STEVE SMITH LIKE FUNNY PAGLIACCIO MAN! RAPE HIM LAST.
The cards agree with the stars, but they put more of an emphasis on money problems.
Scorpio: Page of Coins reversed – Spending money on unnecessary things.
Sagittarius: 9 of Wands reversed – A particularly stubborn obstacle/problem.
Capricorn: Knight of Coins – No bad surprises. A low chance of good surprises.
Aquarius: King of Coins reversed – Vice, weakness, ugliness, perversity, corruption, peril.
Pisces: Page of Wands reversed – Rumors, announcements, bad news, indecision, instability.
Aries: Ace of Wands – A good week to be a guy, do guy things, or do a guy.
Taurus: Queen of Swords – I just don’t like this card. By the time you strip out the overt sexism, you’re left with sadness, excessive severity, lashing out not at what’s bothering you but at a target that can’t fight back.
Gemini: 7 of Coins reversed – Bad investments.
Cancer: 8 of Wands reversed – Jealousy, a bad situation getting worse faster than expected.
Leo: The World – Assured success, recompense, voyage, route, emigration, flight, change of place.
Virgo: 9 of Cups – Concord, contentment, physical well-being victory, success, advantage, satisfaction
Libra: Judgement – Change of position, renewal, outcome.
Sagittarius: 9 of Wands reversed – A particularly stubborn obstacle/problem.
That’s what dynamite is for.
Gemini: 7 of Coins reversed – Bad investments.
I only have mutual funds. Are you saying they’re all going to tank?
The market goes up, the market goes down.
Inflation, however, only goes in one direction. Looks like 3 % is the new ‘normal’
So real inflation is around 8% then.
Broken Peach- for some reason I thought of this one not long ago. Except I had no idea who it was or how to find it.
Back to that survey:
The view from Democrats is so gloomy that a solid majority of Harris voters — 70 percent — say the quality of life in the U.S. is at least somewhat worse than it was five years ago, a period that was marked by the turmoil of the COVID-19 pandemic, widespread racial justice protests and a contentious presidential election.
They miss the titillation of doom-LARPing the plague, when every day was a life or death challenge and their mass hysteria sustained them.
And when they got to put their boots on the faces of the Icky Class.
Now, I was just thinking of increasing my 401(k) contribution. Is this suggesting that that’s…unnecessary?? 😳
It’s directed at me. I just adopted a pair of kittens, and the stars are telling me to stop buying them toys
So when are you going to post a link to some pics?? 😺😸
What you need are Kitton Mittons!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dhrqnDS_oU
Keep the hair bands away from them.
Damn moron cat of mine.
https://ibb.co/v81FtDQ
🤦♀️
Three year old comes into the house and takes her hair out of pig tails immediately. Or less immediately. Cat eats small diameter hair bands…
Let’s see if this link works.
Awwwwww!!!!! 😍
Awwwwww!!!!! 😍
For the kitties; not so much for the human. :-p
Those are some cuties.
I dunno. Not much eatin’ on cats that size.
My wife uses elastics to put her hair up. For years, she’d complain that they went missing.
That got sorted one afternoon.
Turns out one of the week beasties had figured out how to open the bathroom vanity drawer where the missus stored her elastics and would routinely fish one out and bat it around the house until it disappeared.
Wife now stores her elastics on a carabiner.
Ted, you are not wrong lol.
“ Cancer: 8 of Wands reversed – Jealousy, a bad situation getting worse faster than expected.”
Use more lube. Got it.
Looks like the Peaches lost one of their vocalists.
Well at least I made money on my sure thing investment yesterday. Some fools bet on tPSU to win so I made $3(!) on my $100 bet on tOSU to win. But tears for Buckeye fans- you ain’t
going to beat the Nits in 20
26 or 2027.
Me: Bought another bag of Twix at the store. It was 60% off.
Wife: You already have two bags at home!
Me: Yeah, but it was singing “I want you to want me.”
Wife: So?
Me: You know I’m a huge fan of cheap Twix.
Me: You know I’m a huge fan of cheap Twix.
Oh it’s twoo, it’s twoo.
“King of coins reversed – Vice, weakness, ugliness, perversity, corruption, peril.” Why yes, I am going to Vegas Wednesday.
Physical well being success.
That hasent happened in over 25 years.
Pisces: Page of Wands reversed – Rumors, announcements, bad news, indecision, instability.
Don’t know. I got mixed feelings about this one.
I’m down right surprised how many election ads are being run on Plex right now.
It’s the time of the year to watch my own library to avoid ads.
Now I’m going to have to look up Plex.
You kids and your funny words.
It’s like Tubi but it has an additional movie storage thing that Neph understands.
There you go RJ using funny words too.
*checks mail*
OFFS! I just got a
bribe“Inflation Refund” relief check from Gov. Kathy. (It literally says “Inflation Refund”). I’m sure that the fact that Election Day is in a couple days is just a happy coincidence.It sounds better than the more accurate “inflation creation” check.
Inflation creation checks are for after election.
Virgo: 9 of Cups – Concord, contentment, physical well-being victory, success, advantage, satisfaction
I’ll take it. Last week’s prediction didnt manifest itself until Friday, causing me anxiety and sleeplessness over a project until the very end.
“Leo: The World – Assured success, recompense, voyage, route, emigration, flight, change of place.”
Meh. A week late, since I went to Santa Fe to close on the new house last week and won’t go back until next week,probably.
Taurus: Queen of Swords – I just don’t like this card. By the time you strip out the overt sexism, you’re left with sadness, excessive severity, lashing out not at what’s bothering you but at a target that can’t fight back.
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I just don’t like it, either. First, perhaps I don’t wanna strip out the sexism. So then I’m full of happiness, focused intensity, and cuddling something I like and they don’t *wanna* fight back. <– That sounds pretty damn fun.
Therefore, sexism is good. QED.
I’m too sexist for my shirt
Too sexist for my shirt
So sexist it hurts….
“lashing out not at what’s bothering you but at a target that can’t fight back”
So, silver lining?
Assured success, recompense, voyage, route, emigration, flight, change of place.
Hmm…. I’m suspicious this means moving from one pile of shit to another pile of shit.
In other news: Rock Island Auction is auctioning off a prototype .30-06 Thompson Gun.
That’s sweet.
Sadly I don’t have guntuber money.
My Christmas in July present to me did show up a week ago though. https://ibb.co/75S7sRD
Which is what, exactly?
It looks gatling-gunny, with revolving barrels.
Google AI say “The object in the image is a Fostech Origin-12 drum magazine for a shotgun.”
Close Hyperbole.
Fostech 20 rounder for the Barrett M82.
Update on the new house:
“Looks horse friendly, or are you going to avoid that?”
Very horse friendly. There’s a lot of horse owners around here, and our neighbor to the north is a large animal vet’s, basically, horse hospital. I extracted a blood oath from Mrs. Dean that there would be no horses.
“ RC, give me a holler when you are settled in and I’ll buy you lunch at Maria’s.”
Will do. Could be next week, as I will be there keeping an eye on contractors.
“Nice, did you get to keep the pool table?”
No. If the pool table had been there when we did the pre-closing walk-through, there would have been no closing. The previous owners left me plenty of their problems as it is; the problem of disposing of a pool table was not one I would have taken on.
“Also curious about the furnishings. Sometimes people leave a lot of stuff.”
They just left scunge and crap in cabinets. I’ve got probably 5 big contractor trash bags full of stuff they left behind. See, above, re “left me plenty of their problems”. They didn’t even fucking sweep before they left. WTF is wrong with people? They offered to sell us the furniture, but we already have all the furniture we need (and at least enough to furnish the new house)*, so, no.
“I was wondering if the nice size shop was part of the property but at ten acres it can’t be.”
Nope. Hence, the 30 x 30 barn (with a 12 foot lean-to).
*and its better furniture, anyway
It is odd that people don’t clean when they move.
Renters especially. Often it’s the only time they do clean if they clean.
I get you on the pool table. It would be cool for me, as I love the game but don’t go to bars anymore, but i can see that being a deal breaker. It would be the same if we bought a place with kids furniture or a above ground pool in the yard – it goes. And we had the same cleanliness problem when we bought this house. Called a cleaning lady, and kept her coming back as the wife loved that. Seems professional women in their 40s see this as making it, much like a sports car for dudes.
I have a pool table.
My loft is about 3’ too narrow for it so it has a ping pong table topper on it, Lego and a slot machine project on top of that.
When I built my house I made room for a pool table. Mrs F discovered it and promptly filled the space with a refrig and freezer. At least there was enough space left for a computer and a little living room.
A cleaning lady would be amazing.
I haven’t made it yet.
I sold my cabin “as is” with all the furniture, boat/motor/dishes/ kitchen appliances etc. It was easier than trying to sell or give away. I’m not sure how much the new people kept nor do I care.
We’re giving a lot of stuff away that gets filtered through a large family with kids that are starting out, anything left over goes to Goodwill.