It only takes about three miles in the snow to tire her out now. She’s no longer a pup.
The beginning of the week continues the happy making whoopie trends from last week, but with a warning when it comes to an end. Abruptly on the 29th, when Mars and the Moon deliver a most unpleasant smack.
Aquarius: 5 of Swords – Gaining from your enemies’ losses and humiliating them in the process.
Pisces: 2 of Swords reversed – Imposture, falsehood, duplicity, disloyalty.
Aries: 9 of Cups reversed – Truth, loyalty, liberty, mistakes, imperfections. You fuck up, but you’ve got a safety net in place.
Taurus: Knight of Swords reversed – Imprudence, incapacity, extravagance.
Gemini: 8 of Cups – Joy, mildness, timidity, honor, modesty, the decline of a matter, or that a matter which has been thought to be important is really of slight consequence.
Cancer: 10 of Cups reversed – Repose of the false heart, indignation, violence.
Leo: 3 of Coins reversed – Mediocrity, puerility, pettiness, weakness.
Virgo: 4 of Cups – Weariness, disgust, aversion, imaginary vexations, ennui. On the bright side, it also shows resistance to persuasion.
Libra: Strength reversed – Despotism, abuse of power, weakness, discord, disgrace.
Scorpio: King of Swords reversed – Cruelty, perversity, barbarity, perfidy, evil intention.
Sagittarius: Wheel of Fortune – Destiny, fortune, success, elevation, luck, felicity.
Capricorn: 3 of Wands – Established strength, enterprise, effort, trade, commerce, discovery.
“Leo: 3 of Coins reversed – Mediocrity, puerility, pettiness, weakness.”
Well I’m three out of four on that.
It’s changed over to sleet here. Not good.
Yeah, just checked the forecast – going to freezing rain in an hour or so. Just about the time we’ve got to get over to feed the horses (I don’t think I mentioned, but my friend/neighbor/barn-owner passed day before yesterday).
I’m sorry, JI. Could you go feed the horses a little early, for safety’s sake?
“It only takes about three miles in the snow to tire her out now.”
I get about 100 feet, no snow. Fortunately we haven’t had too much snow this winter. The path to the wood shed is cleaned and downhill to the house.
Sorry to hear the news about your friend, JI
“In the long run, we’re all dead”
Keynes, the philosopher
Sorry to hear about your friend.
Sorry to hear about your neighbor. One of the only thing that’s kept us from moving is our neighbors who we have become friends with. Good neighbors are awesome to have.
Sorry JI
His wife let us know that she and her daughter have it covered today. I’m holding off on clearing the snow because we’re getting freezing rain and I’d rather let that crust up on the snow than the driveway or sidewalk. It’s in the teens and I didn’t think it would actually do this. Snow I don’t mind, but I really hate ice.
It sucks, he was a good guy if a little rough on some edges (which is enough like me that we got along great). The bigger question is going to be what she does with the place. It’s a lot of work with a dozen horses (6 borders) and I know she plans to sell two of theirs, and it’s a very big house for one person to rattle around in. There may be changes coming, not soon, but eventually. Fortunately, Mrs JI has warmed to the idea of building on our property in Virginia.
I’m probably four of four but I forgot what puerility is.
I think it has something to do with bathroom soap from a pump.
As long as this doesn’t mean my boss won’t let me work from home tomorrow, I don’t care.
I may be that boss to some people where I work. I went to an empty parking lot this morning to practice skid recovery (you can’t often do this in central TX.) The roads were basically all ice. Even with staying in RWD and on the stock Goodyear tires I don’t particularly consider to be all-terrain or all-weather, it wasn’t nearly as bad as I expected.
I plan to drive to work tomorrow morning.
When I was stationed at Ft. Hood, we had a decent ice storm. Watching “those people” that can barely keep it on the road after a downpour try to handle ice driving was hilarious.
Kinda like this.
Or this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zz0qZ-sSCbY
Taurus: Knight of Swords reversed – Imprudence, incapacity, extravagance.
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Huh. Without caution, I’m bubbling back over into the Real World with my 8am interview with Lt. Norris with the Indy PD. I suppose if they ask “When can ya start?” my honest answer will be “Tomorrow,” though tbh I’d prefer it be NEXT Monday or at least a day or two for both sides to settle things before I’m sure a very ‘interesting’ onboarding. Of course, this presumes they’ll *want* me for this gig, but I’m struggling to think of why I’m kinda not ideal for them.
I hope this is sorta *good* extravagance. $$ thoughts: Would be going from $14 to $19.76/hr, so a significant fiscal bump for me. Would/should allow me to (eventually, soon ish?) get my own apt somewhere in the city. Wowza. That would be bigbigbig.
Though I hate much of their power, I’ve learned to get along well with police and my gig would be transcribing *actual* crimes, so big bonus, there.
Incapacity to reason: Time to explore! (Like the wondrous last-ever Calvin & Hobbes strip in 1995; fond memories of reading that in the paper that day.) More snow in the sky, falling and shushing off roofs and swirling in the air, than I’ve seen in a rather long while. Probably 4″ so far and ongoing. I don’t have boots but I’ll come up with something to keep my ankles wet. Or maybe I should wear normal shoes and punish myself for not being winter-prepared. (No.) It should be a slight adventure around the block.
Evanvescent, please buy this for your nephew:
https://goodreads.com/book/show/24812.The_Complete_Calvin_and_Hobbes
Berke Breathed has been doing a good job with Calvin throwbacks. Make sure you go to the bottom for “load all images”.
https://imgur.com/a/reddit-com-r-bloomcounty-RXXnB
I have my own copies to give him! But I’ll see how we can compromise. C&H is perfect, and (near) perfectly timed with my childhood. He will be very pleased, and myself as well. I’m keen on being the bringer of Big Things. It’s the perfect way to get a kid excited about reading. (He can ‘read’ but it still takes thought. I’m kinda surprised his parents haven’t pushed harder on that, tbh. I had 5yo Asian-Asian kids reading more confidently in English than Ez is, thus far.
As mentioned before, DAMN I’m glad Waterson keeps his political thoughts to himself. Tremendously special artist.
(I strongly approve of your new pet name for me. 🙂 )
Zodiac signs of today’s starting QBs:
Jarret Stidham Aug 9 Leo
Drake Maye Aug 30 Virgo
Sam Darnold! June 5 Gemini
Matt Staffird Feb 7 Aquarius
Is there a game today?
Two of them.
Looks like Patriots/Rams Super Bowl, part III.
Mediocrity, puerility, pettiness, weakness.
This shit sounds like Snowpocalypse. Forecasts vary from 5-10″ to 12-18″. I’ve been through worse storms.
I still hate snow.
Id guess we got at least 12″ here, and its still coming down. I managed to get round #1 of driveway clearing done, and avoided the classic “shoveling induced heart attack”.
For now.
Snowblower. Makes short work of this shit.
Each winter for the past 5 or so, after Ive shoveled, I tell myself that Im buying a snowblower. Later I rationalize “why spend the money on a once or twice a year event, and I have a short-ish driveway?”
This spring its snowblower time.
Coworker was talking up a battery powered one he has, but the concept just sounds 🏳️🌈
My one neighbor has a battery powered snowblower. Battery powered lawn mower. Battery powered leaf blower. Teslas. Solar panels on his house. This neighbor is one of the few in the neighborhood to put up political signs at election time. All the Democrat candidates. I was amused in 2020 that he had up a Obama/Biden sign instead of a Biden/Harris sign, and in 2024 there was no presidential candidate sign among all of the Democrat candidate signs.
I use my gas powered snow blower anytime there is more than two inches of snow. 2″ and less I use my shovel to push the snow away.
Snowblower. Makes short work of this shit.
Mounted on the front end of a Cub cadet mower/tractor.
Tres Sr. bought a battery powered (aka coal fired) snowblower. On its maiden voyage he realized how useless it is for wet, heavy, snow.
I tried to warn him.
One of my neighbors bought a big 6 or 7 foot wide snow blower for his skidsteer after the winter we got a total of about 12”.
It took him two years to be able to use it and it only snowed about 3”. He ended up just throwing gravel with it. No snow this year. He’s used it once or twice in almost eight years.
My new Snowzilla handles the wet snow with ease.
Husqvarna, bigger engine, power steering, hand warmers, headlight. All the controls are handled from the drive handles. Only used it twice this winter, it’s not amortizing very fast.
There are a couple of inches of accumulated sleet out there. It’s 22 degrees and pouring rain right now. We haven’t lost power yet which is good because I’m not going anywhere for days.
“Weariness, disgust, aversion, imaginary vexations, ennui.”
Imaginary vexations, oh boy did I spend a lot of money on parts for my welders before I trouble shot them, whoops. Still haven’t figured out my hot all the time problem.
And when I was going through the trouble shooting (15 stages down so far, 2 more to go on the welder itself) I found an unrelated fault to the issue and the problem self resolved.
Dang it. Must have been a loose connection that I bumped looking for the trouble. I’m sure it will come back. And I can try it all again.
At least I’ll have hard to find parts in the shelf that are a month out at the earliest. Hey Lincoln. Why don’t you have parts in stock for welding machines you have continuously made for the last 40 years? I get that they are durra le but failures happen and people need to get to work tomorrow, not in six weeks.
Pretty fun out, no snark, clearing the path to the van and clearing it after walking Peabody. Dad’s drivin’ off to workout, cuz habits be.
I’m glad I’m not dispensing groceries curbside today. (Wonder if Walmart closed that off today. (Possible.) Wonder if customers over-ordering, or out of consideration to fellow humans, toned down delivery orders in general. (Highly doubtful.)
Hope y’all find solace in warmth or comfort in the cold. Go skiing and shush about. Or get some yayo and ALSO go skiing, but stay indoors.
One got more troubleshooting to do on my junk and work on the spare work truck. Looks like the weather is going to be clear. Sunny and about 36 today. It’s below freezing now but we’re going to break out a couple board games for a while.
“Cancer: 10 of Cups reversed – Repose of the false heart, indignation, violence.“
Someone’s getting 🏓🍑
Ping-Pong apricot ?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=X5dtBoyZ33o
Sagittarius: Wheel of Fortune – Destiny, fortune, success, elevation, luck, felicity.
Putting the pile on red.
Penske Porsche three in a row at Daytona.
A nice thick layer of ice on top of fresh east coast snow heavy as concrete. Who doesn’t love that?
It’s a standard out here.
I have one of their magnets on my refrigerator. The store in Lyndhurst.
Tres Cool:
The Parma Heights location is between my house and the local I walk up to for away games. During the earlier games of the season, it’s not unusual that we’ll stop there for a snack on the way home.
It’s pretty light here – battery-powered leaf blower was enough to clear the porch, was _just_ a bit too much snow to do the driveway with it.
But it keeps coming…
LOL.
The weather forecasts have me in the 18″-plus zone, and so far I don’t get any impression that’s going to be inaccurate. I’ve shoveled a small area around the car two or three times already, as well as the front steps that we don’t normally use but have to be kept clear.
I hope I don’t have to trudge through all the snow to clear off the dryer vent. That’s going to be fun.
I’m so bored I might watch an entire NFL game. Go Patriots!
I assume my power will fail while the opening kickoff is in the air.
The Seahawks looked pretty formidable last week.
I’m officially for Denver. As I said that, I realized I’m actually rooting for a Good Game, but I’m (surprisingly) already getting that. (Also, low-scoring. Big plus, for some reason.) So I’m really just anti New England. (They can come close…)
Snow’s gettin’ fiercer. By far the most I’ve seen in central Indy.
Yeah, more in a day here than the last three years put together.
We haven’t had much snow so far, cold spell this week end but tomorrow’s the last serious day, then it begins to warm up a little.
I have about 10 apple seeds in the window, sprouting. By May they’ll be about a foot tall and can go outside. I’ll give most of them away but I just need to have something green this time of the year, to remind me that Spring will come back.
Aha! Evan Washburn. Sideline reporter. I’m onto him. My not uncommon name seemingly suddenly became much more common.
Well, he’s been added to The List. I don’t think any of y’all are on *that* list. (Yet?)