My Thanksgiving visit to Texas went exactly as the stars said it would: Venus in Libra ensured happiness and tranquility with my family and friends, and MERCURY RETROGRADE forewarned me that the flights would be a shitshow of cancellations, reschedulings, and lost luggage. Also, I don’t know what the astrological sign of tacos is, but there’s a taqueria right off of 290 in Giddings that is just the platonic ideal of what a taco shop should be.
Speaking of MERCURY RETROGRADE, it’s quite busy being a bastard this week. First of all, it’s hanging out in Scorpio indicating sexual dysfunction. Second of all, it’s part of an alignment with Venus also indicating problems with your love life. However, that alignment intersects with another one through the sun of Sol-Jupiter-Terra. Now this leg is a good sign, indicating that things are going really well in one’s home life. So maybe… you get hammered and approached by a hottie, but you will be too drunk to fuck and this saves your marriage? Your pool boy suffers a groin injury and suddenly your partner pays more attention to you? Honestly, I’m having trouble with some of these interpretations. MERCURY RETROGRADE is causing all sorts of inexplicable self-contradictory problems at work and the insomnia been acting up as a result. Since the sun is the intersection of these two alignments, the end result should generally be good. So under the horses-not-zebras principle, this pair of alignments probably means that there will be an incident of coitus interruptus, but one which will result in a good story that winds up making you closer to the party with whom you were interruptus-ed.
I accidentally submitted this incomplete. Here’s the rest of the horoscope:
This is the last week for Venus in Libra. Which is a shame, because that’s a really under-appreciated residence. All the good aspects of Jupiter, with none of the downsides. Anyway, this week Libra also hosts the moon. Typically these two are at cross-purposes, but with the presence of Venus mediating, it just makes this week a really good time to be around women.
Mars in Pisces = “Times of Intrigue.”
Saturn in Capricorn – avoid cabrito and turtle soup.
Sol and Jupiter in Sagittarius – good hunting omens. Interestingly enough, next week is a good week for poaching but for this week, only shoot things you have a tag for, because the stars are also in favor of the game wardens.
There was also some speculation as to the economics of taquerias, but that has been omitted
There was also some speculation as to the economics of taquerias, but that has been omitted
I would have tuned in for that. There is a hundred Mexican restaurants around here, but one legit taqueria specializing in tacos which is what I assume a taqueria should be doing. Buck fiddy a taco. They need to cook their tortillas more, but other than that it is tasty stuff. The taco truck that does the Hispanic festivals here charges 10 bucks for a plate of three, or four bucks a piece sold single.
Where in Texas ?
Parents in Houston, friends and lovers in Austin. Giddings is between them.
“We Should Say ‘Womxn’ Not ‘Women’ To Be Inclusive. Wait, No, That’s Racist.
A spokeswoman (spokeswomxn?) for the university told the Standard the new spelling “is used to demonstrate our commitment to inclusiveness. No student has complained about its use.”
Okay, got it? “Women” is not inclusive at all. “Womyn,” the spelling adopted by 1970s feminists, is not inclusive at all. But “Womxn?” That’s inclusive enough.
Or maybe not.
A month before the two London schools made the change, the Mirror reported that “womxn” is actually a racist term.
Record scratch. What?
“The word has been called ‘racist’ because it has been defined as ‘including trans women and women of colour’ on various websites, including the Urban Dictionary,” the Mirror reported. “Objectors argue trans women and women of colour do not need a new word as ‘women’ does not only refer to white, cis women.””
https://www.dailywire.com/news/38924/we-should-say-womxn-not-women-be-inclusive-wait-no-ashe-schow
I refuse to use “Laatinx,” but I will gleefully go with the absurdity of “Latin@.”
I never understood how “Latino” was an appropriate term since it is derived from the term “Latin America”, which was used by Napoleon III’s government in part to justify its colonial ambitions in the region.
Not to mention that southern Europeans have more of a claim to the term “Latino” than anyone residing in central or southern America
I’m sure the people debating this issue are charming and are definitely not going to die alone
Yeah, the norms are busy studying and avoiding struggle sessions.
This is the kind of dysfunctional rationale that will be their downfall. It’s what I was talking about in the previous thread, the incompetence that the left cultivates. Their heads are full of scrambled shit. They cannot think rationally. These institutions will collapse.
The stars must not know Taurus exists.
The region of the sky from Virgo to Taurus is completely clear. Even of those bullshit “stars” like Pluto and Ceres that charlatans like to pretend have meaning.
The heavens apologize for the inconvenience.
So if it’s clear, that means no trouble on the horizon? If so, I can live with that.
Considering that most astrological signs are negative, that’s a good way to look at it.
I call bullshit.
No, they buy better cars.
Ugh. My first car was a Tempo, Taurus’s illegitimate younger brother.
1st car has one job: to get you around. I barely remember my first car.
I think my mom had an early model Taurus.
I doubt it was much better.
My first car was a Honda Civic. It liked to stall out going from 1st to second, stall out when you hit the brakes, and had a clutch so picky that it would not want to shift outside of a one milimeter range. The starter motor burned out twice, and the frame rotted out.
I don’t buy Hondas anymore.
I had a Honda CRX hatchback. It had a ton of problems but I loved it.
My biggest problem was that my dad thought he was a good car picker, he picked all my cars, and he really sucked at it, which meant I had to pay the repair bills. After he and my CRX died a couple years apart, my mom gave me her car (that she picked). I’m still driving it 20 years later
The only serious problem I had with my Ford Focus was the Buick that parked in my wheel well. If not for that Buick, I’d still be driving it. The biggest problems with my C-Max were tire punctures from road debris.
It’s pretty rare for me to hear anything like that about Hondas. I would guess that maybe a previous owner didn’t take very good care of it?
My first car was also a Honda, a ’92 Civic Hatchback. My mom bought it used, drove it all throughout law school and her early legal career, passed it down to my brother for a while, then I got it when he moved out and got a new car. It had about 400,000 miles on it when I crashed it into a tree, but it still ran fine. Some guy bought it and said he was going to fix it up, and I’m pretty sure I’ve seen it around town before.
I think my Honda was mistreated by its previous owner and to be fair, I put a shit-ton of miles on it. But it couldn’t be set to rights on my salary at the time.
My first car was also a Tempo. What a piece of garbage. I haven’t even considered a Ford since.
I would like this Taurus.
Holy cow, this stuff is real. I, a picses, have some intrigue going on. My plumbing is SNAFU, and I couldn’t figure out where in the system it was plugged. As this was being posted, I figured it out!
Now, what do the stars say about cleaning up 10 gallons of shit-water off the basement floor?
Well, Pisces is the only water sign with any activity, so you’re SOL there.
Virgo also has nothing going on, so no general cleaning tip available.
However, the signs associated with hard work are ALSO empty so… shop vac?
I’ve spent a large part of the day replacing a faucet (and I’m still not done). This would be an hour, maybe 2, for someone who has experience. I don’t so I’m going on 3+ hours.
I just came up for a little break. Still trying to unplug the main line. I tried dumping some drain cleaner into it from a feeder line. That didn’t work. Next try (once I re-drain the water I put in the tub to test my “fix”) is to snake it from that feeder line. Because of the angles needed to get there I am not super confident it’ll work.
Part of me wants to call in a pro, but I know exactly what is wrong, so all he’d have is slightly better tools and experience using them. Can’t decide if that is worth $100/hr or not…
Every time my ego says, I don’t need a pro for this – I slap that bitch into a corner and pick up the phone.
I managed to get it done. No leaks so far — fingers crossed.
Your issue sounds like the one I have at work. A pump broke — electrical part they think — and for a while a building of 200+ people had 3 stalls. Luckily they could turn the pump on manually so we could use the restrooms.
No pump here…all gravity. The main line was plugged, I was able to snake it ope, so we are good to go for now.
I think the ultimate problem is decades of gunk build-up has created bottle-necks which are raising havoc. In this instance, the shower was draining slowly so I gave it some Draino and let it sit for a long while. I think what happened is the Draino loosened some gunk in one location and it flowed a ways and then got caught in another location. Add two #2 toilet flushes on top of it before I realized things were plugged up and it makes for a very unpleasant day.
Complete re-do of the plumbing is in my future. ugh
I’m glad you got a win with your new faucet. It’s always great when a plan comes together.
I just got laid, so Mercury and Scorpio can kindly fuck off.
You just banged two fat chicks named Mercury and Scorpio?
1. But trust me, she’s big enough for two
Jugsy is A Whole Lotta Rosie?
42-39-56. You could say she’s got it all.
Not Adahn, is Sol is strongly associated with Leo?
Yes it is. The Sun rules the skies, the Lion is King of the beasts, etc.
Thx. Thought that’s what I’d heard.
Dammit. Now I have to get out of my pajamas, put clothes back on and go buy vodka.
*sigh*
I hate getting out and nearly every time I do get out it reminds me why I dont like getting out.
Hey, it’s noon. Booze sale time.
But that would involve getting dressed.
*brews more coffee*
“booze sale”
My email is flooded with CheaperThanDirt and PSA sales every weekend. Too bad I can’t afford to buy anything.
Public service announcement, or prostate-specific antigen?
Palmetto State Armory
Today’s mead recipe — ginger lime mead
15.4 lbs of basswood honey
6 gallons of water
14 small limes, zested and juiced (yielding 1 7/8 cups juice)
1.5 lbs of crystalized ginger slices
1 pkg Wyeast 1318 London III Ale yeast (1,600 ml yeast starter)
SG 1.074 18 degrees Brix 10% potential alcohol.
Smacked the pack of yeast on Tuesday.
Put half the volume of the yeast starter on the stir plate on Wed. 4 oz of honey; 20 oz of water; 1/8 tsp of yeast nutrient.
Doubled the volume of the yeast starter on Fri. Another 4 oz of honey; 20 oz of water; 1/8 tsp of yeast nutrient.
Pitched the yeast on Sunday morning.
Wait, what?
“”Dr. Snipes hereby rescinds her resignation,” attorney Burnadette Norris-Weeks told media, adding that the governor’s efforts to remove Snipes from office before January were nothing more than an attempt to “tarnish [Snipes’s] record.””
We wouldn’t want that.
Wesley Snipes for election commissioner, please.
IRS head honcho.
Now there is a stellar idea.
“Snipes, who presided over an utterly embarrassing recount effort…”
Since when have democrats been shy or embarrassed about election rigging?
They were embarrassed not to manufacture enough votes to steal the election.
Mrs. Dr. Snipes’ effort to hang on a few more weeks is nothing more than an attempt to bilk taxpayers out of $170K a year (WTF?!) for the rest of her miserable life.
If she’s a doctor, so am I.
I was curious myself, doctor of what?
Love.
The stars must not know Taurus exists.
No Saturday Night Specials, please. Get something legit.
This is really random off-topic, but…
To listen to audiobooks on my drive, I have to rip them to mp3s, load them on a usb drive and plug it into the car.
One of these files randomly switched mid-file from what was the actual content in the original to a section of a previous book. It took me a while to figure out how this happened, since none of the software used in the process had this kind of bug. It was the most bizarre confluence of happenstance.
To make the occassional lost place in the file more managable, I break books down into half-hour chunks. Being the same duration and bitrate from the same encoding software, these end up having identical file size and occupy the same number of blocks on disk.
One of my replacement usb hubs on the desktop had an issue where it would randomly disconnect briefly, cutting off the access to anything plugged into it. This happened during the copy of the files. Since the error on-screen was about being unable to copy file 15, I restarted the copy from there and finished. But file 14 was in-motion when the disconnect happened. There were six minutes of data from that track on the disk. But because the previous files were the same exact size, when that track was played, it just picked up the data from the previous occupant of that space on the drive.
The funny part of it all was that the book that got interrupted was “Monks Hood”, the third of the Brother Cadfael series, and the data that got included was from “One Corse Too Many”, the second of the same series. Moreover, it was the sequence where the supernumary body was discovered.
I’ll take my aux plug over the USB port. When I borrowed dad’s car for a few days, I couldn’t get the bluetooth receiver to see my phone, much less interface. Who says technology is getting better?
Stunning
But even at the state level, politicians aren’t particularly responsive to what voters want as the minimum wage. That’s been underscored in research published this month in the American Journal of Political Science and showing that in every state in the union, the minimum wage is well below what that state’s residents say they prefer.
Hard to believe, I know. But there it is in black and white. People want the government to force their employers to pay them more money.
This is the sort of in depth reporting which makes the Washington Post one of the pre-eminent news sources on the planet.
Former Brookings Institute researcher thinks a higher minimum wage is a cost free benefit. News at 11.
Wow.
The researchers characterize the resulting gap as a policy bias: the difference between what voters prefer and what legislators enact.
Not mentioned: actual business owners and managers with access to information related to costs and profitability.
Good gravy, what a mammoth steaming pile of commie bullshit.
Clearly we need to get rid of legislative bodies and simply conduct all such business on the basis of nationally representative polling.