Shooting season is weird here. It starts later than most because of the whole “winter and NYers are pussies” thing, then can be delayed because of the legendary “April Showers” and then BAM! It’s time for the major matches. So I’ve got a match every weekend (some weekends there are two) until mid-August. I’ll be writing more of these horoscopes in advance since I’m travelling excessively to get my “more experience” up to the completely unspecified level required to get me out of this Range Master program nonsense.
The skies are a mixed bag, but not at all terrible. The week has the fading influence of the Jupiter-Venus niceness buff from the end of last week, and on Monday and Tuesday Mars and Saturn interact ion a way that can be read as “a war ends” or “Trouble involving a war.” I’ll let you decide which reading is most likely. I will still take credit for the prediction if the peach thing happens, naturally. Actually, for 2/3 of the world, the sky just doesn’t really care about you. Unless your signs are between Aries though Cancer inclusive, there is literally nothing going on for you. Which is why I added cartomancy.
Taurus: 5 of Wands reversed – Loss in competition, disputes, trickery, contradiction.
Gemini: The Sun reversed – Things are nice. Not great, but nice.
Cancer: 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.
Leo: 2 of Wands reversed – Surprise, wonder, enchantment, emotion, trouble, fear.
Virgo: 9 of Swords – Death, failure, miscarriage, delay, deception, disappointment, despair.
Libra: 10 of Coins – Gain, riches; family matters, archives, extraction, the abode of a family.
Scorpio: Page of Wands reversed – Anecdotes, announcements, evil news, indecision, instability.
Sagittarius: 4 of Swords reversed – Wise administration, circumspection, economy, avarice, precaution, testament.
Capricorn: The Emperor reversed – Benevolence, compassion, credit, confusion to enemies, obstruction, immaturity.
Aquarius: Queen of Wands – A dark woman, countrywoman, fan of the leader of your country, love of money, success in business.
Pisces: 8 of Coins reversed – Voided ambition, vanity, cupidity, exaction, usury. It may also signify the possession of skill turned to cunning and intrigue.
Aries: The Worlds reversed – Inertia, fixity, stagnation, permanence.
Surprise, wonder, enchantment, emotion, trouble, fear.
Possibly sufficiently shitty.
Continuation of last week’s woes.
What is this “emotion” of which you speak?
It’s after DMotion but before FMotion.
“Cancer: 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.“
Sounds like D/S play is on the menu.
Sagittarius: 4 of Swords reversed – Wise administration, circumspection, economy, avarice, precaution, testament.
I’m a cheap bastard.
Pisces: 8 of Coins reversed – Voided ambition, vanity, cupidity, exaction, usury
nothing that a few polygraphs can’t fix! – Kash Patel
Taurus: 5 of Wands reversed – Loss in competition, disputes, trickery, contradiction.
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The loss of competition, plus contradiction, come from my ‘voluntary’ end to Meijer’s main store. Back to the gas stn in a few weeks, unless I find a remarkably upward replacement, as I finish my current contract. Perhaps a better place to (re)post:
Assuredly, that was my last shift at the main Meijer. Frankly? Thank doG. The station is much more chill, comparatively, much less (practically zero) over-your-shoulder supervision and far more Be Yourself zoning. (We also have our ‘own’ bathroom! One guest at a time! 🙂 (Often me!))
I’m gonna hold off ’til the station opens again, so for the next three weeks, I’ll just do my test scoring. Good.
Today’ll be out with Dad and the 11 and near-6yo nephews, with determination to get a bit of my own shit done, tho I’m still sleepy.
FI qualifying in Miami is on. I was into Top Gear back then, as well, and I believe price is the only thing that kept me out of a ‘curiosity ticket’ in Singapore for the 2015 race. (Vettel won.) I saw the city circuit set up, but price was assuredly a sticking point. Along w timing.
Also! Herbie Hancock and the Headhunters is frequent walk-the-dog music. AirBnB is using bits from Watermelon Man in their commercial. Well, the song’s upper echelon Fantastic. I hope the royalties got paid to deservin’ folk.
I would like a single stack 5-6 round pocket 10mm. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
https://www.springfield-armory.com/xd-series-handguns/xd-m-elite-handguns/xd-m-elite-38-compact-osp-10mm-handgun/#:~:text=Combining%20potent%20power%20with%20cutting,rounds%20of%20the%20powerful%2010mm.
Were I to own or, particularly, to carry, that’d be what I’d be interested in. That or a small revolver, one known for keeping debris out of the wheel. I could see a shotgun if I ever own a home in the ‘right’ (or ‘wrong’) area.
As much as I love firearms, it’s a fairly terrible idea for me to have one. Mistakes tend to happen around me in shockingly abrupt fashion. Not *my* fault, though I used to kinda get in situations that could escalate things. If I lived someplace that warranted it, outside of the safety of Carmel, I might rethink things, but only after a fairly big Life Switch occurrs.
‘As of 2026 data, (Carmel, IN) maintains low violent crime rates (0.553 per 1,000 residents) and low property crime rates (7.15 per 1,000 residents), often ranking better than 82% of U.S. cities,” and ‘voted safest city >30k.’ No murders. (I think Fishers had one last year?)
11 rounds, double stack. Too big.
This isn’t Zardoz’s article, you expect the gift of the gun here?
Why?
Seriously, why? The recoil would make it unshootable, and the short barrel would yield the ballistics of a gelded .40S&W.
It would make a hell of a fireball, though. That’s something.
It reminds one of those .45/70 derringers.
Woods gun. I like mouse guns but they’re not going to stop anything larger than a coyote. Maybe.
“I would like…” Yeah. You’re not my mother.
(If Mom wanted ammo on this Mother’s Day, I, uh, would be pleasantly shocked. If she wanted a *gun* for these projectiles, well, then. I believe I’d ask y’all for a good, simple handgun for a 4’10” 72yo. (Dad’s ~6’2,” me right in twain! Bro’s only 5’4″.)
We’re doing a collective Mother’s Day next Sunday, likely with my belated Bday thingy on Saturday. (I should send an update of that digital map to Colin (my bro) to see how that looks.)
Sir, this is a Wendy’s.
In that case, I’ll have a baked potato and chili. And a pocket 10mm.
I can’t help you with that, but I just found out today that GunBroker is hosting a huge post sample machine gun auction.
I wonder how the super safety/FRT market is going to impact the NFA transferable machine gun sales?
First local 2-gun match was yesterday.
Pro tip – don’t install a new muzzle brake and the go out and shoot a match without re-zeroing.
Still a good time though.
Aquarius: Queen of Wands – A dark woman, countrywoman, fan of the leader of your country, love of money, success in business
Mmm… Only thing on the plate is needing to offer my tenant 5K (first and last in a new place) to get out quicker, as they are starting to cost me money in selling the place.
Ouch.
Repost
https://www.reddit.com/r/OregonStateUniv/comments/1su3dv6/why_are_all_corvallis_landlords_selling_their/
Death, failure, miscarriage, delay, deception, disappointment, despair.
I’m guessing I fall of a ladder this week instead of the back of a box truck like last week and die.
The heavily pregnant house leopard loses her litter (she’s due in the next two days according to my wife), the kids are dismayed and heartbroken over that, and I don’t get any of the very important projects finished I’m working on, cause I’m dead.
Sounds about right.
Damn, dude. Better weeks always to come. Sorry about this or these few. And about your fall. That got me proper jittered.
Benevolence, compassion, credit, confusion to enemies, obstruction, immaturity.
Not bad for the other half of house imprudent.
Inertia, fixity, stagnation, permanence.
Guess I’ll sit tight until next week.
Some people know how to ruin their lives more than others….
https://nypost.com/2026/05/09/sports/padres-humberto-cruz-self-deports-after-pleading-guilty-to-human-smuggling-charge/?utm_campaign=nypost&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social
They obviously wernt paying him enough to avoid a life of crime.
Everyone knows that making a living wage will eliminate criminal behavior.
but could reapply after five years of good behavior
No, permanent lifetime ban. No appeals. There are 6 billion non citizens on this planet. Let’s go with one who doesn’t have a history of facilitating invasion.
Damn. Good cover for an operative, though. Modern world compromise for new policy, twinged w nostalgic US immigration stories: Have plenty of immigration, but ensure it’s through tightly-controlled (and much changed, from present) immigration policies and procedures. End anchor babies. Many other, deeper issues to sort, but not for a public campaign.
“Pro-immigration. With much more careful eyes.” <– Currently, I'm very pro the deportation movements. Team Blue forced enforcement to be 'on the streets' and 'brutal' on purpose. Sell the public by pushing it all through police and courts when possible, but since DNC *didn't* make it possible, uh. Immigration's fucking *Federal.* Whoops, Dems!
It does seem a simple Sell, not hard for Red, MAGA or Trump to articulate to The People. I'm curious why it isn't.
Since the movement of the planets is completely predictable, couldn’t you write horoscopes years or even decades in advance?
Okay, Nostradamus, I’ll let you in on something – it’s not about the motion of the planets.
The motion of the celestial bodies aids in the motion of the ocean.
+1 Mayan calendar.
So this is the afterlife then, right? Didn’t that calendar end a few years back?
Lasted longer than the empire. Good enough I’d say.
The Mayan Calender is designed to roll over to a new cycle.
Doom porn
The excess heat brought to the surface by El Nino, combined with the planet’s warming due to climate change, will lead to record-breaking global warmth, Swain said. He expects to see record global warm temperatures later this year, next year or both.
“All indicators are, at this point, that the next year is going to be a pretty wild year from a global climate perspective,” Swain said.
Michael Mann, a University of Pennsylvania climate scientist, said that while El Nino boosts global temperatures a bit for a year or two, it’s basically a “zero-sum game.” It typically oscillates back toward La Nina, which in turn lowers global temperatures for a year or two, he added. The thing to worry about is the longer-term, steady warming trend that will continue as long as people continue to burn fossil fuels, Mann said Friday.
One way or another, we’re screwed.
Are they sure that isn’t just Godzilla?
It’s his boy.
pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge related to receiving money for the transport
“Impersonating a cab driver”?
“Leo: 2 of Wands reversed – Surprise, wonder, enchantment, emotion, trouble, fear.”
Why does this post remind me of my wife and our survey work?
Off-Topic: Ted Turner is no more. Yachtsman, cable TV entrepeneur, baseball owner, conservationist – the eclectic list of things he did and/or attempted goes on and on. And he didn’t mind making a fool of himself in a ‘good’ cause, recalling the peanut he pushed around the bases with his nose to honor a bet. Dementia turned his last years into a fog. The only thing wrong with the article is he definitely didn’t found cable TV (that honor likely belongs to John Walson, founder of Service Electric),
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/05/06/us/ted-turner-death
I hope his heirs auction off all his land and not a square inch ends up as another damn government albatross.
Obligatory recitation of the liturgy
Chronic overuse, drought and rising temperatures linked to climate change mean there’s less water in the river than what was divvied up among states more than 100 years ago.
Yes, of course.
With vast majority being siphoned off to California doubling what any other state except Colorado recieve.
Homemade spinach and parsley pasta with a rich red sauce and browned italian sausages will be the mother’s day dinner tonight.
Sauce is a Sunday sauce so its been on for a bit.
Pasta was made and is resting for a bit before I roll it out and cut it.
Sunday sauce.
Chocolate or strawberry?