We are still in the glow of that unusual bit of Celestial Harmony from last week, though it is fading. Of course this week as bad signs, but they’re not unusually terrible and they don’t last long so this is a generally good week. Monday is lucky for Taurus as Mercury moves over from Aries. Wednesday may be a little chaotic, there are two different constructions indicating chaos/disruption/intoxication and one indicating a change in a war. Thursday is the most foreboding as the Sun-Mercury-Saturn alignment typically means “change for the worse” but if you have been needing or wanting to end something, this is also an auspicious day to take that particular action. The next day is extremely auspicious for those of you who have an official partner. As indicated by the music video below.
Taurus: 9 of Coins reversed – Roguery, deception, voided project, bad faith.
Gemini: 5 of Coins reversed – Disorder, chaos, ruin, discord, profligacy.
Cancer: 2 of Coins reversed – Faking enjoyment, literal sense, handwriting, composition, letters of exchange.
Leo: 10 of Swords – Betrayal, pain, affliction, tears, sadness, desolation.
Virgo: The Devil – Ravage, violence, vehemence, extraordinary efforts, force.
Libra: 5 of Wands – Imitation, competition, gold, gain, opulence.
Scorpio: The Hanged Man reversed – Selfishness, the crowd, body politic.
Sagittarius: The Magician – Skill, diplomacy, address, subtlety; sickness, pain, loss, disaster, snares of enemies; self-confidence, will
Capricorn: 2 of Cups – Love, passion, friendship, affinity, union, concord, sympathy
Aquarius: 6 of Swords – Journey by water, route, way, envoy, commissionary, expedient.
Pisces: 5 of Coins – Material trouble, love and lovers, destitution.
Aries: Justice reversed – Law in all its departments, legal complications, bigotry, bias, excessive severity.
Sagittarius: The Magician – Skill, diplomacy, address, subtlety; sickness, pain, loss, disaster, snares of enemies; self-confidence, will
To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their bureaucrats.
“Taurus: 9 of Coins reversed – Roguery, deception, voided project, bad faith.”
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Being shuffled around yesterday at Meijer is the closest to a ‘voided project’ or ‘bad faith’ I’ve got, and that’s just fine. Yesterday was the silliest, most sublimely chill day of labor of my adult life. Let’s continually void that other project and focus on the completely un-timed, unsupervised day I had yesterday, instead. I best finish my piece on the switch from Meijer’s gas station to their main store.
First day off this week, and I plan on having a damn day off. I’d like to ‘finish’ part of my digital, interactive map for the nephews+, and after my hilarious, sublimely chill day of labor yesterday, I best finish my piece on the switch to from Meijer’s gas station to their main store.
The Cubs’ve been very, very good the last few weeks and they’ll be perfect early-afternoon entertainment, and go MTL for their Game 7 v Tampa this early-eve. (And I’d vaguely ‘prefer’ MN over Colorado later, but I’m really just rooting for another Game 7.)
Bagel Girl’s cute. Happy Sunday to all.
Ha. I was gonna post to Sat evening’s /this morn’s post and moved it here. I didn’t edit fully. This rogue deceived himself, voiding himself.
(Well. I was on the t’urlet anyway. Might as well void yourself when you’ve got the bucket right there, eh?)
F*** every last NYC hipster who came to Ulster County and brought their shitty politics with them.
The local transplants are mostly ex rural searching for their lost roots. Mostly older and NIMBY with a dash of liberalism fairly well hidden.
Fucking them just makes more of them. Shoot them.
Why move to Ulster Co. where there is more fun to be had at home rioting in support of illegal aliens? Fuck people who need hospital care, right?
Me too with CA and the wet side moving to Idaho.
They claim to be conservative but will vote for the rural fire district that’s going to be on the ballot this fall. Growing government and hiring union is conservative to them.
It’s pretty interesting here. Eagle is now loaded with Orange County Republicans, all feeling their oats because they can wear their politics on their sleeves. It’s tiresome.
Spud, So they moved from the fire to the frying pan.
“ Cancer: 2 of Coins reversed – Faking enjoyment, literal sense, handwriting, composition, letters of exchange.”
I’m not faking anything.
Skeet, skeet, skeet!
I’m not faking anything.
Them, on the other hand….?
Experts say raising your heart rate is good for you. In case you are too busy for a good hike here is the first part of a four part groin kicker for you.
https://drewholden.substack.com/p/a-covid-autopsy-part-1-the-virus
If TL:DR the BLUF is whatever contempt you have for the MSM- it is not enough.
I had my good hike on Friday.
I remember the polio epidemic in ’46, we lived in Mpls at the time. I sort of remember school being delayed for a couple weeks in the fall but I absolutely remember the month long teacher’s strike a couple years later. We missed 4 weeks of school, Sept into Oct. We, the kids , were scared about making up the time but I think we made up about a week or so and then everything was back to satisfaction.
We didn’t take any particular precautions for the polio, other than probably some gatherings were curtailed. I didn’t know a single kid that had polio.
I was young enough to have avoided the polio epidemics but my wife had at least one friend in school who got it. He survived without being seriously and lived a relatively full life but towards the end he was quite week and needed a walker due to the damage to his nervous system.
Nobody saw that coming.
Kansas City has better Reubens than NYC, so there’s that. I’m convinced that NYC cuisine is overrated.
Not really sarcasm, I think ‘food’ is overrated. Yes, I have ‘favorites’ and go-tos, like everyone. I even enjoy cooking and meals w friends, family, is (or often is, or can be) a fun social dynamic. But people care much so much about it, and not to ensure they have enough calories to continue to exist, but about their own little Good Times vanity bubble projects where certain foods are highly prioritized, sought, with others judiciously kicked into the “NEVER!” camp.
Certain foods are better for ya, and ya shouldn’t make sour Skittles your most important food group (as I’m leaning toward), but people -who don’t have legit medical issues to balance out- are still bizarrely picky about opinionated what they eat.
Full Disclosure: I’ve never had any dietary issue that needed managing. I topped out ~160lbs in Singapore. No shit, the Prednisone steroids I took to help my embattled skin combat the humidity kinda bloated me up 25-30 pounds, featured in my current passport pic. (DAMMIT. But I gotta renew it this year!)
Full Disclosure, Pt Eleven: Grapes suck, raisins are worse, and wine is only ’round cuz that’s what locals had to make reliably clean ‘water.’
(Also, lima beans are profoundly underrated.) I rarely ‘care’ for food. I constantly nibble (nuts, candy, granola, Fruit Loops (I don’t truck with the knockoff brands!)), but I may feel “Hungry” a couple times a year. Maybe. *shrug*
I am with EV here. Food is just not that interesting.
So, of course I am married to someone who thinks it is the most interesting ever.
Is it that spaghetti and chili stuff?
Mrs F cooks, I eat. Sometimes it’s better than other times but I don’t complain. Lately we are enjoying the invention of the microwave. A lot of frozen meals are being consumed, god bless marie callendar.
Food and sex are interesting.
The quality of the individual providing either varied.
For the most part food is fuel, possibly because I only have a vestigial sense of smell. My dad on the other hand had quite the sniffer and enjoyed cooking (and eating).
I have two modes: food for survival and food for enjoyment of a shared human experience that taps into our roots.
My hard-boiled in the AM is survival. My handmade pasta is for enjoyment and communion.
My sense of smell and taste are not really connected. I have always been confused when people said that when they got a head cold they couldn’t taste anything.
I recall the horror stories of the incorrect reubens you received in NYC. If you ever make it out here, Slymans would be the default expected stop, I would also suggest the little deli around the corner from me that used to provide a sample platter of their wraps if it was your first time there.
10/10 Slyman’s. Im not even a huge corned beef fan, and their stuff is great.
NYC rides on volume in which only a small portion is good.
Places where certain foods arent as prevalent need to up thier game to stand out — hence better ruebens in KC
Here is an EXTREMELY thorough (read Looong), but interesting article on how the SPLC ended up in the Federal courtroom.
https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/nonprofit-indicted-bank-fraud/
The lawyer author does a very good job at explaining how banking law works, that nexus with the SPLC and their allies, and how they evolved into right=nazi and OMB must be destroyed.
Unless you have time, you probably consider reading this in chunks. But IMHO using the time to read it is worthwhile.
Read it this morning. It is long, and it is worth it.
My Virgo brothers right now. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RhUMRgZjKr8&ra=m
“Leo: 10 of Swords – Betrayal, pain, affliction, tears, sadness, desolation.”
I’m sad because my sister just went back to Texas and I’m not with my wife, but none of the rest.
Dust off the guillotine
Let’s see, tail feathers like a pheasant rooster, bill like a duck, a chest like a Tom turkey and the color of a cardinal.
A little something for everyone, lady must be a bird lover.
I’m guessing that’s the most work her neck has done in a long time.
Ladies, remove your hats
Back in my day, you might get banned from a website like a forum or a chatroom. But you at least had confirmation that you were banned.
It’s downright Orwellian how modern social media handles it where you can view and seemingly interact with the content only to find out you’ve had access restricted after trying to engage. And that’s’ got nothing on what the sites themselves do in terms of shadow banning people.
Two consumers launched a lawsuit against Nintendo over their attempt to claw back tariff money from Trump’s regime.
The logic simple. Nintendo, like many companies, publicly and loudly attributed unpopular price hikes to the tariffs. We spent over a year listening to the left pretend as if they believe in basic economic reality with regards to tariffs and tariffs alone. Yea, they were “taxes.” On the consumers. The corporations would pass the cost onto consumers. And many didn’t just do that, but publicized their decision to do so.
Then they’ve lined up to get the money back from the government.
If I were Trump, I would publicly lobbied after that court decision that the money should go back to the American people somehow. Make these companies feel some shame for coming to get money they never really even lost.
How do you prove what some company “would have charged” if Donald weren’t around…?
Jobs saved or created.
Same way Obama did that.
On cooking. ChefIQ probes are awesome. I haven’t found a cooking method they cannot handle, accurate temp reporting to include ambient temps.
I woke up late, cuz it’s my day to, but then I took a nap mid-Cubs game, cuz my body was still nap-hungry. Game still ongoing, but I caught all of the Arizona run-scoring on one swing in the 2nd. I missed ours, but, that’s still. Uh. Ongoing.
Fun bit I’ve noticed so far this season: Not only is our defense outstanding, like, really really really outstanding, ‘specially up the middle (and in left), but other teams are frequently (un)making easy plays, highlighting how defense isn’t really prioritized, these days. The difference is massive. Whoopsie-doodle, for those other folks.
Busch has three parts of a cycle, with four RBIs, only lacking that damn elusive single! (He’s got the bases loaded, now, two down.)
Biggest disappointment for me so far, and unrelated, is the nap took me out of my Write and Update Map projects. I can still get back in the groove, but I’ve also got ‘early’ work tomorrow. Must push myself to prosper (in that realm).