Bone grafts: avoid. Though it’s nowhere nearly as painful as I had expected it to be.
I imagine Moj will like this one
Finally, something in the stars to write about. The big one Starts off the week and is fairly subtle, a tierce with the Sun and Mars-Moon, With Jupiter contributing to the Sun leg. This indicates a positive outcome to a disturbing, perhaps violent situation. In other good celestial tidings, Saturday will be a good day to bang. There are a lot of astrological indicators to “have sex now” since Venus is one of the inner planets and interacts with greater frequency than the outer ones. Clients typically appreciate this particular advice, and since a traditional royal astrologer’s duty included making recommendations on the most auspicious days to conceive an heir, it makes scheduling that more convenient.
Taurus: 10 of Swords reversed – Overwhelming defeat, pain, affliction, tears, sadness, desolation.
Gemini: Page of Cups reversed – A waiter/contractor/subordinate makes a mess.
Cancer: Page of Swords – Authority, overseeing, secret service, vigilance, spying, examination.
Leo: 2 of Wands – Things are actually pretty good, but you’re unsatisfied anyway.
Virgo: 4 of Swords – Isolation, breakdown in communications.
Libra: 4 of Wands reversed – Prosperity, increase, felicity, beauty, embellishment.
Scorpio: The High Priestess reversed – Passion, moral or physical ardor, conceit, surface knowledge.
Sagittarius: 7 of Wands – This is about someone successfully preventing an action that they would not have been expected to. Is it you? Is it in opposition to you? Can’t tell.
Capricorn: 9 of Coins – Prudence, safety, success, accomplishment, certitude, discernment.
Aquarius: 5 of Wands – Games, competition, bathhouse.
Pisces: Ace of Cups reversed – Severely misreading a situation to believe it more favorable than it is.
Aries: Page of Wands reversed – Anecdotes, announcements, evil news, indecisio, instability.
Sagittarius: 7 of Wands – This is about someone successfully preventing an action that they would not have been expected to. Is it you? Is it in opposition to you? Can’t tell.
This would require someone to prevent me from doing nothing.
Are you married?
“ have sex now”
I mean…you’re not even making this fun for me…
Too on the nose. 👉👌
“ have sex now”
Can’t talk, ‘bating.
“I’m going to go home and have me some sex.”
/paraphrase
Gemini: Page of Cups reversed – A waiter/contractor/subordinate makes a mess.
Nope. I don’t go out to eat, I’m not having any work done on the house, and I don’t have any subordinates. Not even orphan slave labor. 🙁
Bagger at the grocery breaks your eggs?
That’s what self-checkout is for.
And I just bought two dozen eggs on Friday at Sam’s Club.
Ha! Turns out all knowledge is surface knowledge. It’s like peeling the layers on an onion.
“…have sex now…”
I am starting to think this astrology stuff is generalized to the point that it can never be wrong. ‘Have sex now’ is only good advice on two occasions: when the sun is shining and when….well, you get it.
That reminds me…yesterday talking to my brother – “Hey, nephew no.1, is he thinking of getting married? Anything?”
Brother: “He has made some noise about it but they had a setback they are dealing with now. We will see.”
Me: “Ya know, you spend the first part of their life trying to make sure they keep their pants on but at some point you have to stand up and say ‘Hey bud, you need to get busy’.
My brother thought that was hilarious.
OT, now that we’re a half-hour in: Too bad it didn’t leave Jumanji homeless
Justice delayed is, sometimes profitable?
Something tells me that someone less melenated and connected wouldn’t have gotten 15 years of free housing.
Guessing that as a lawyer he knows all sorts of tricks to drag things out.
Public advocate…ran a housing scam….. i.e. a slimy grifter. I bet a more detailed look at his dealings would reveal some interesting stuff.
Locally, that looks like a tear down, with the bill being sent to the owner (who, in this case, would refile the bill anyway)
Virgo: 4 of Swords – Isolation, breakdown in communications.
Quite prescient, you.
/fighting with Jugsy over who came dragging in at 0130 today, knowing full well 12 hours later Im leaving for another week
*spoiler- wasn’t me
Butters, Destroyer of Worlds, sleeps.
Adorable.
😃
Oof. Those paws. Gonna be a big ‘un.
https://www.google.com/search?q=PUNK+SONF+WHY+THE+BIG+PAWS&oq=PUNK+SONF+WHY+THE+BIG+PAWS&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIJCAEQIRgKGKABMgkIAhAhGAoYoAEyCQgDECEYChirAtIBCTEwMjY3ajBqN6gCCLACAfEFhaavR7iYaSzxBYWmr0e4mGks&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:e9d03326,vid:Z_CfmfWxVuM,st:0
Power is back on and coffee has been made.
1) empire is the best, other than Luke’s whiny ass training scenes
2) loved watching Labyrinth when I was a kid. Or maybe it was just Jennifer Conelley.
3) piss Christ was under Bush, whose rino NEA head defended the agency and kept it funded. Japanese tried to kill Bush twice, too bad the first time was successful.
4) RIP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill_Sobule#Personal_life_and_death
Mojeaux, from the dedthread:
“Rhys (a mortal, but long-lived, sorcerer, who is also a lawyer catering to legendary, fairy tale, and mythical peoples)”
Did you read https://www.goodreads.com/series/91029-craft-sequence?
Magical lawyers, sorta. I greatly enjoyed it.
w00t!!! Thank you!!!
Note that the publication order is a bit odd.
https://www.thehiddenschools.com/articles/craft-sequence-reading-order
I read them in publication order, but the titles indicate the chronological order.
I second the recommendation — he writes good stuff, in these and other works/settings.
Leo: 2 of Wands – Things are actually pretty good, but you’re unsatisfied anyway.
Yes. This is true.
I’m days late. Thursday nights Glibflix choice was a banger.
Soundtrack alone makes it memorable.
The short with the flight crew turning into zombies with Don Felders ‘Taking a Ride’ is possibly my favorite bit.
I learned long ago that good enough is good enough. Not sure if that’s an Iron Law, but it should be.
Got the bees installed yesterday, it’s warm (high 70s) today and the critters are out looking for the non-existing flowers. I’m guessing they’ll find some pollen on the maples/oaks/aspen. Next 10 days looks very nice, summer like.
We had some frames left over with honey plus they got fed a bunch of corn syrup yesterday, plenty to eat and they need to do some housecleaning before the queen gets in their little faces.
5 year old fell in love with bees last week. He was scared of them but I put a tiny bit of honey on my finger and offered it to a bee that was buzzing around. The bee started eating the honey and I said “See. If you are nice to them, they are nice to you. Look at her really close.”
He leaned in watched the bee eating with his nose about three inches from her. God, I wish my eyes could still do that.
“Look at her little round fuzzy body and big eyes. She is a tiny little teddy bear with wings. She eats flowers and makes honey. Bees are like little fairy tale creatures come to life.”
He hasn’t been able to stay away from the bees and is no longer scared of them.
That’s what Grandpas are for, teach the younguns about the real world with hands-on education.
I have a 3o foot tall Linden tree that just vibrates with bees when it’s in bloom.
We had an astounding out-of-season rain today. The electro-gauge says 0.17 inches. Generally in May we get zero point zero inches of rain.
There’s nothing like the smell of the desert after a rain, either.
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/05/04/trump-dismisses-a-third-term-four-years-is-plenty-of-time/
I though he was going to ride it out a bit more.
Yeah that one wasn’t milked out yet. But I understand, he is going to be busy being pope.
The problem is that now a lot of folks don’t trust or believe America’s BS Artist. There’s a saturation point.
We’ve all known folks whose stories are beyond belief and so we don’t believe anything they say. The “Cry Wolf” syndrome.
We could see the evidence with Biden, Trump thinks he’s too slick for us or takes us for fools. In either case he’s wrong.
He is the flip side of the professional pols. When they say “We are gonna get to the bottom of this!” or “We are going to cut the waste/budget/fraud etc” you are supposed to know they are lying.
With Trump he says ridiculous things that you are supposed to know he is trolling. No serious person thinks he is actually going to be pope or run for a third term. It is a handy way to smoke out the right people.
Wait, this isn’t serious?
https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/1919053040734072844
A whole bunch of Boomers were convinced he was serious about making Canada the 51st state, and now we have a WEF globalist running the government.
Jesus. “Red light saber means he’s evil.” Just how broken is your brain, let us count the ways.
At some point Canadians will need to just accept that they themselves are responsible, not some boogeyman on the other side of the border.
Well, Chipping, that’s kind of them, isn’t it?
I was thinking about the Boomers today. Pretty soon they will die off (leaving me not too far behind) and there is going to be both a glut of housing, and a sea change in world politics.
Well Zwak, I’m taking it with me.
Is that why you’re stockpiling C4?
Third term? I thought he was going to declare himself dictator for life.
He has to finish throwing all of the journalists in prison first.
Taurus: 10 of Swords reversed – Overwhelming defeat, pain, affliction, tears, sadness, desolation.
Damn. I’d say that resembles my inner self *most* of the time, but I’ve actually been doing rather well lately, in my own way. I got a chill full-time gig after three months fallow, a remarkable win for me. It’s silly (grocery) factory work, but it’s got a schedule and it pays! (Very little.)
The voca rehab people and I have checked boxes and I’m gonna meet my kinda-case officer in the coming weeks. Initial talks showed I’m kinda a happy unicorn in their world, a quite disabled dude who actually has talent and can do shit. (I’m only talented in limited ways. I can be shockingly dumb at all sorts of simple shit. Even pre-Incident.)
In my own odd world, I really am doing quite well. I’m holding the fort with stable, though trivial, employment, and I’ve wound the machinating gears to potentially slot me into work with potential for professional growth. The year should be interesting, moving onward. ‘May you live in interesting times’ is, indeed, a curse, but overlooked: You’re still alive. Make the most of it. Even when the “interesting” are … interesting(!), there’s always something.
My persistent chipperness has greatly benefited me, IMO. I’d say I’ve reversed the Reversed Swords. (I straightened the sword. Super sexual.) Always a pleasure to throw Life a curve, which it deserves and expects it. Bitch really does have it coming.
Bonus music link, May the Fourth edition.
That reminds me of a song: There’s a hole in my head dear Liza dear Liza
or something like that.
Another one of these “Royal Kingdom” commercials and I am going to put a hole in my head. That is all.
How about some Wild Kingdom?
Just no Possum Kingdom or Ill be the next one with a hole in my head.
Wow. Wild Kingdom…that is some serious nostalgia that brings back some memories. There should be an ad break in that with Euell Gibbons gnawing on some pine bark.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0N290zPrbA
This:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=a3kpk5u6yMU
Libra: 4 of Wands reversed – Prosperity, increase, felicity, beauty, embellishment.
Well good: I spent most of today trying to fix the awful structure of my detached garage in preparation for new siding. Hopefully I can “embellish” the appearance and have an “increase” in durability for another decade or so.
Got the frame of the man-door replaced, then started doing the same for the garage door frame and discovered that a big section of the beam over the opening (the “header” I think it’s called?) is almost entirely rotted away and/or eaten by bugs. Thankfully it looks like the rot/bugs were only in that middle section that was getting soaked by rain; the rest of the wood looks good. It’s two 2×6 pieces side by side, so I’ll have to replace them one at a time.
I run and lift weights like a madman, so I thought I was physically prepared to handle just about anything, but construction/renovation work is fucking exhausting, and I’m only out there for a few hours every day. Major props to anyone who has done this for a job.
“the man-door”
These euphemisms…
Its more subtle than “bussy”.
It’s the garage door, so that would be a front-hole, wouldn’t it?
If ya hit the button on the front hole and open it all up, does that make it consensual?
I mean. That ‘Vette never woulda dressed like that were it not all moored up. So I gave her a damn-good ridin’. Don’t worry, though. I pulled out. Safely outta the drive.
*Takes notes*
I’m glad I’ve never owned a home. Plenty easy to hide the b̵o̵d̵i̵e̵s̵ ̵o̵r̵p̵h̵a̵n̵s̵ ̵e̵v̵i̵d̵e̵n̵c̵e̵ a̵u̵n̵t̵ p̵r̵o̵s̵t̵i̵t̵u̵t̵e̵ morning paper in an apartment. Why add the fuss?
I don’t blame anyone not wanting to own a home. It’s a ton of work, especially when 1) It was built in a stupid way to begin with that was going to result in water leakage issues, and 2) I knew it was fucked up but waited too long to do something about it.
… But if I “build back better” (just invented that myself!) I’m hoping it should last a lot longer and only require the regular replacement of finite-lifespan stuff (roof, siding, etc). I think I have it figured out how to install the proper flashing and overhangs so that we won’t have structural elements turning into a termite buffet anymore.
Speaking of the roof, there are at least two layers of old shingles under the new ones… Meaning they didn’t tear off the old shingles first; just nailed on the new ones. But that project will be next in line after I’ve fixed the frame of the structure.
STEVE SMITH LIKE BACK DOOR.
“Man-door”
You’d search the linked article in vain for any background explainer of, you know, what is going on there and why.
It’s just a “humanitarian crisis”. These things happen.
Is it going to be filled with munitions and explosives to help the poor oppressed Gazans?
Holy Hand Grenades of Antioch.
Fuck them kids.
Kids are the worst.
If it’s the RAM 1500 that was his hearse, it seems kind of small.
So what does the next pope ride around in? If it’s the guy I’d pick, it’d be this
https://www.autoweek.com/car-life/a1717661/cars-escape-new-york/
He gets to walk.
You are catching on Rhywun. Nothing about that makes any sense at all. It’s a freakin’ clown car. How is that going to help? Why is there a crisis? Wouldn’t it be cheaper to just buy an ambulance? That is the kind of thing you would hear down on Unit 7 at the loony bin.
He was not the antipope, he was the antifapope.
Saw one Star Wars costumed guy at Walmart today. No kilts though.
That’s nothing special. I routinely see Hutts at WalMart.
I do indeed love Extreme. Thanks, NA!
I’mma Brooks this because it’s hours gone and I have things to say to @slumbrew and @Beau Knott above, @SDF-7, @Zwak, @GT, @Tater, @Suthen, @cav973, which is, THANK YOU AGAIN!
I grabbed Mercedes Lackey’s fairy tales, Butcher’s first Dresden Files, and Gladstone’s first Craft Sequence to start figuring out if somebody else did my ideas first.
Now I still have to write this shit, though.
I find this fascinating, the glimpse at another creative’s workflow. When I want to write in a given genre I have to stop exposing myself to content in that genre, otherwise my own ideas fail to form as my head is full of other people’s work. The absense provides the space to work.
Of course, no two people get their minds working in the same way.
I learned this the hard way. I had a really awesome idea and I was working on it, and during the course of my research, I found that someone else had already done it, AND that they’d done it better than I was doing it. Mine would look almost like a bad copy.
Now if it’s an unfamiliar genre, I want to find out if other people have already done something, so I don’t waste my time.
I learned long ago – Everything has already been done better. It’s either write my version anyway, or give up.
My cynical response was too harshly worded. What I meant was I stopped worrying about my awesome idea being done before.
I don’t want to be accused of riding someone else’s coattails, either.
I’m not a writer – other than some fumbling bad attempts – but that’s one thing I would assume to be the case if I were one.
Have to agree with UCS on this one. Just because it has been done already doesn’t mean there’s not room for your work. It may be best not to expose yourself to anything similar in fact so that you can just do your own thing without outside influence. You aren’t riding someone else’s coattails in anyway to me.
I get your concerns and they are highly practical, but you’re limiting yourself. If you have fans who enjoy your writing and your voice, that may be enough.
You’re welcome.
Also, I recommend re-reading The Magician’s Nephew by C.S. Lewis.
He put two things in that book that were, in my opinion, ahead of its time: the Wood between the Worlds, and Charn.
Charn is one of the creepiest places in children’s literature that I’ve ever encountered, and it’s more sci-fi than fantasy, really.
Long but very good,
https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/the-shitting-in-the-yard-test?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Yes, thanks.
AI hype adjacent and it’s eye roll inducing. The point about Silicon Valley desperately looking for some growth is right. How many tech company still aren’t profitable? Like in a real sense of paying dividend to their owners (stockholders).
Morning Glib dudes and dudettes.
😎✊🏼
Step 1 chew bubble gum
Step 2 kick some ass
Skip to step 2 if out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvsMPOfblfg
🎶🎶
You’re not the boss of me.
*takes names*
Kick ass instead of complaining. :-p
OBEY
Good morning, Sean, Bro, U, and Ted’S.!
Morning.
Made it to the office slightly delayed because I forgot to fuel the car over the weekend. But I’ve got plenty of time before the workday officially starts.
cough still lingers 🙁
I sympathize with that symptom! I had a terrible time getting to sleep last night because I couldn’t stop coughing! 😖 Finally dropped off and got at least a little bit of sleep.
I wonder to what extent I’m going to disturb my co-workers with it, since I am in the office and every so often get hit by a bout of phlegm-displacing coughing.
Othr than the terrible night’s sleep, how goes it with you?
Pretty well, except I realized last night that I have a PT appointment, a hair appointment, and a baseball game all set for Thursday. The main problem is that the hair appointment would likely make us late for the game, so I’m going to see if I can reschedule at the salon. 🙄
Oh dear.
All I have scheduled for thursday is some package deliveries. Hope the salon can accomodate you.
👩🦰🤞
Chill start to the day. Cutie mngr hasn’t made an appearance, but my vigilance is unwaned.
Fun today is my Friday equivalent. I get off at 2 and am off til Thurs am, payday.
Kinda brightens the day. I hope Monday tedium is at minimum for y’all.
Harris is a cunt. That is all.
Good morning, EfE, and Happy Virtual Friday!
I think we all knew Harris is a cunt. Is there a new reason, as if she needed any more?
suh’ fam
whats goody
TALL (419) CANS!
Good Mornin’ to all the Glibsters and incognito lurkers.!
Another wonderful day in the woods! Gophers are testing and teasing me but I have a steel trap and cunning. I will prevail !
*cue Kenny Loggins