First, Holy Fuck! Where did the month go! I still have books to unpack! I have family coming over to criticize and break visit the new place in just a couple of weeks!
Second, I took my employer’s “Implicit Bias” training and lemme tell you, what a bunch of pseudoscientific garbage. They started off “I know there are a lot of really technical people here, so let’s start with the science. Each moment, your senses are bombarded by 11,000,000 bits of information, but your conscious mind can only process 40.” I was tempted to say “A moment isn’t actually a unit of time, humans are analog so I’m not sure that “bits” is the correct way to express sensory information, and if you think you can represent what is currently in my field of vision with only 40 bits then you’re giving up a hojillion dollars by not selling your compression algorithm.” But I did not say these things, because I like my job. I just don’t react well to junk science. So let’s talk about real science — Astrology!
This week is all about infidelity. The core of this is the classic illicit love alignment of alignment of Sol-Mars-Venus. But will this happen for you or to you? There is a second-harmonic cross-alignment of Terra-Venus-Jupiter indicating that it is more likely to happen to a cousin of yours, rather than to you, but that you won’t be happy about it. This is reinforced by a tertiary alignment Saturn-Terra-Luna (all bad luck signs) that is in opposition to the root alignment (which would make it something like… quaternary submediant to the crossalignment? I’d have to figure out where my protractor and which box of books contains my celestial tables to make sure). Anyway, someone’s getting screwed, and you won’t like it. I know it should have been mentioned last week, but there will be (will have been by the time this is published) a major divorce on September 28, when the moon drops into a four-light alignment with that previously mentioned alignment of Jupiter-Venus-Earth.
That yummy combo of Sol-Mercury? It’s moved into Libra. Enjoy your good fortune to all the librarians out there! For the rest of us, the combo of strengthened balance coupled with change will make things unsettled. It gets even worse with the moon in Gemini increasing indecision and ambivalence and possibly dilemmas as well. The short, short version: of you were born in Libra, you’ll have a great week. Everyone else will have a lot of anxiety. Possibly wondering about who is cheating on whom.
Everything else is the same as last week, so if you could handle that, you can handle what’s coming.
Well Venus is one hot rock.
Dresses like a slut though. All those sulfurous clouds…shameful really.
Everything else is the same as last week, so if you could handle that, you can handle what’s coming.
*breathes sigh of relief*
So you’re saying I better prepare even more rusty tin can lids?
Check!
Oh, and don’t feel too bad about the unpacked books. We moved here 6+ years ago and still have boxes we haven’t unpacked.
#metoo
It’s an easy way to find out what I don’t really need to take with me next time.
I had a couple of bookcases that were too ratty to make the move with me, so the problem is exacerbated. I want a really basic, simple 6′ high adjustable shelf bookcase with full length glass doors. Unfortunately the nearest IKEA is in Brooklyn, and their delivery charge for an $89 bookcase is $200.
Yeah, WTF is up with Ikea’s delivery charges?! You’re in the middle of a city where half+ of us don’t have a fucking car.
I refuse to shop there for that reason alone.
That’s probably where they make up the margin.
Yep.
Just added the Billy Bookcase to my cart, $119 + $39 shipping. Not TOO outrageous – I am only 5 miles away – but still too much considering I’m kind of cheap.
Rent a pickup from Uhaul? Or is even that too expensive in a bastion of civilization?
Yeah their delivery cost sucks, paying freight would be cheeper. I live 300 miles from the nearest one which is probably a good thing for my home and wallet.
Craigslist.
Knowing the area where Not Adahn resides, that’s probably a non-starter.
Even the college towns in mostly-rural Upstate NY (where I grew up) barely have a Craigslist presence. Unfortunately, it’s mostly Facebook groups. Ugh.
I can build you a custom adjustable shelf book case with any doors you would like and I work for beer. Let me know what you want and I can even deliver for the right amount of beer. Granted a custom piece paid in beer will exceed the cost of any piece of shit Ikea shills but I guarantee it would be custom and of quality. I can copy anything out there and make it better with better hardware.
My kind of man. Same here. Looking at furniture in stores never fails to piss me off.
I am a decent electrician and shade-tree mechanic, but I am ass-horrible at any kind of finish work.
When we move back to Montana, you’re hired!
We are perpetually short of bookcases.
I am intrigued by your offer. Most of my furniture was built by people I know, so it would be nice to keep that tradition going.
Contact SP for my email address and we can begin. The first project I have in mind is similar to a bookcase — I currently have my DVD/Blu-rays in bookcases, but that is wasted space, considering how much smaller a DVD or a Blu-ray package is compared to a book. Also, the trim around my transom windows is 68″ off the floor, so It would be good to replace the 72″ bookcases II’m currently using.
It gets even worse with the moon in Gemini increasing indecision and ambivalence and possibly dilemmas as well
YES! Not Adahn finally mentions the one sign smiled on by the gods.
This week is all about infidelity. The core of this is the classic illicit love alignment of alignment of Sol-Mars-Venus. But will this happen for you or to you? There is a second-harmonic cross-alignment of Terra-Venus-Jupiter indicating that it is more likely to happen to a cousin of yours, rather than to you, but that you won’t be happy about it.
I have several cousins I would………never mind.
“Devil’s Triangle is NOT a drinking game.”
https://twitter.com/Alyssa_Milano/status/1046196568888659968
Alyssa Milano, Drinking Game Expert
There’s an awesome gif on that feed with the mom talking to her son.
That woman needs help.
Submitted w/o comment, just cause ad hominem attacks are beneath me.
/sarc
“I’ll just leave this ” here.
I had the Bermuda Triangle board game. It was awesome. I barely remember it, but you rolled to move your ship, but also rolled to move the “cloud” which if went over your ship would suck it up due to magnets. Now that could have been turned into a great drinking game.
Note to self: Marketing idea. Investigate creating a line of Devil’s Triangle thongs and swimwear for ladies.
The short, short version: of you were born in Libra, you’ll have a great week.
SUCK IT, Y’ALL
Q Continuum,
How’d the search go?
It went pretty well. Saw a place over by the Butte that I liked quite a bit. Already had electric, and a community well. Nice flat, buildable site with a view of the river, but up on a hill and not in a flood zone. That’s the front runner now. Gonna head out and look at a few more places today. They’re further out; Willow area, but larger plots. Saw a great one in Chugiak, but the slope was so severe that it would cost a fortune to build anything on it. Too bad, because it was the best location by far.
Right on. The bar in Butte closed like 5 years ago, which is too bad because it was a dump but one hell of a place to get day drunk with the Butte locals. I have some friends that live out there and they’re real salt of the earth people, but god help you if you cross them. Good People.
Willow is good, but kinda flat. But hey, enjoy the search and once the fogs lifts, it should be another gorgeous day.
Yeah, I’m looking out my hotel window right now at the fog. Earlier I could barely see across the street.
Does he have a legal case here?
https://twitter.com/FSplintie/status/1046427975460302849
No, too famous.
Then again, consider the idiocy judges have used to let anti-Trump stuff go forward.
Legal case, I don’t know. But now and then shit reaches the point where just beating the bejaysus out of somebody is the best response.
That cartoon from the Illinois times. Maybe a little over the top?
Wow. Stay class, the left.
*classy
Like the proverbial scorpion, it’s not in their nature.
And they are getting noticeably worse.
Hoe.Lee.Fuck
Maybe Trump is right about relaxing slander/libel (?) laws. That is downright fucked up.
The fact that who you are alters your ability to recover when somebody lies about you is idiotic and should be fixed. It would seem that publishing lies about “public issues” regarding “public figures” should be subject to more scrutiny than fucking up an obituary.
I dont remember the campaign against Thomas being this nasty. It was bad but geez. They really are outdoing themselves.
The smell of smoking Hickory is wafting through the house. Pork chops and chicken thighs are on the grill. More pork chops and sausages for chili dogs are on deck.
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Anybody have any suggestions for some cheap but somewhat durable patio furniture? We could get the super cheap plastic crap from Lowes for $20, or get something that will last starting around $120, but there seems to be nothing in between. All I want are two somewhat comfortable patio chairs and optionally an end table.
Find an Amish store. Wood Adirondack chairs and tables. Last forever if you keep them painted.
Are they usually fairly reasonably priced? There’s a place walking distance from my house that sells teak patio furniture every Saturday, but I was afraid that it’d cost hundreds of dollars.
Perhaps I need to go to the Amish store a couple towns over and check their prices, too.
The Amish store I visited last week when home in the Finger Lakes had them for about $50. Side tables were about $15.
Harbor Freight occasionally put their adirondack chairs on sale for about 25 bucks. They are all solid wood and pretty durable. They are good chairs. Unfortunately they are made of fairly soft wood, probably pine from ten year old trees, and my dogs loved to chew on them. Mine turned into splinters. They are a good buy if you dont have young dogs. Now that my dogs are past the chewing up shit stage I may buy some more.
I checked Harbor Freight, but couldn’t find anything but camp chairs. I’ll have to check again next time I’m there.
Just looked at their site. I’ll be damned, they dont have them anymore.
Not to doubt SP or Suthen but how do they sell decent chairs for $50 or less. My cost for the Hyperbondack® chair was $43.47 (treated pine) or $73.02 (cedar). My costs, no labor, no profit.
I’d be wary of anything under $75-$100.
Meant to say was in 2016, the last I priced them out. and material prices have been rising.
Congrats, you broke Google.
Harvesting their own wood is a good start. It’s an entirely different economy.
Also surprised. Seems like most of that sort of thing is more expensive than store-bought. Like those grills someone posted a while back.
Like I said The Hyperbole, the wood was very cheap but it was serviceable for a chair. It was light almost like balsa wood and soft. I am guessing they pay chinese slaves to cut out the parts. The chairs required assembly so all they were doing was cutouts and throwing a handful of bolts in a box. Also, it was a promotional sale. I am sure Harbor Freight takes a loss on the sale items hoping you will buy other stuff while y ou are in there.
Also, that was seven years ago when we first moved in here.
Insanity
https://www.oregonlive.com/commuting/index.ssf/2018/09/trimets_arrest_of_latina_schoo.html
Fare inspections are now unconstitutional under the state constitution.
I can’t wait to see Multonoma County go bankrupt.
To be sure.
What a load of horseshit. Hon, they’re treating you suspiciously because you’re a fucking criminal.
Comrade Deblasio is trying to decriminalize fare theft too. He is determined to bring the city back to the good old days of the 70s.
“Mat dos Santos, the ACLU of Oregon’s legal director, called the ruling a ‘tremendous victory’ and predicted it would have wide-spread implications for the transit agency and its passengers.”
He got that right.
I’m guessing the higher taxes will impact almost everybody.
I ride the train to work. A couple weeks ago I was running late so I didn’t punch my ticket before getting on the train. As soon as I saw the conductor I told him what had happened. Normally they are cool about it and just mark up the ticket, but this dick gave me a written warning and told me that a second time he’d have to give me a fine. I should have cried racism since I’m white and he’s Polynesian.
I knew upstate NY was conservative, but I was not expecting to find William Buckley Farm 15 minutes away from me. Excellent butcher shop there. You can get bacon made from the belly, jowl, or shoulder.
So you’re not originally from around here?
I still am actively impressed by how beautiful everything is here. It’s like living in a summer camp/Leatherstocking tales/Tolkein mashup.
Mmmmm bacon!
H must be F’s woker ancestor.
I still am actively impressed by how beautiful everything is here. It’s like living in a summer camp/Leatherstocking tales/Tolkein mashup.
Is the Saratoga Performing Arts Center still in business? I saw a lot of concerts there when I was in high school.
Every summer.
Actually, I didn’t realize they have multiple venues and events outside the summer:
Site
Comrade Deblasio is trying to decriminalize fare theft too.
Making people pay to ride the bus/subway is unfair.
Making
peopleriders pay to ride the bus/subway is unfair.Making people pay through taxes is perfectly fine.
Also, just want to thank you for these posts. They always make me smile.
You are most welcome.
they have multiple venues and events outside the summer:
The first W C Fields movie I ever saw (You Can’t Cheat an Honest Man) was in the theater there.
Making people pay through taxes is perfectly fine.
Not many of the people in that group actually ride, though.
They do in New York – more than half. Not to say it isn’t a huge subsidy to the middle class, of course.
According to our model, you’re a bunch of poopyheads.
Britain’s decision to leave the European Union has cost the government 500 million pounds a week, wiping out for the moment any future savings from stopping payments to the bloc, according to a study published on Sunday.
The economic impact of the Brexit vote has been the subject of intense debate, with supporters and opponents of leaving the EU seizing on positive and negative data to reinforce their case.
The Centre for European Reform, a research group that focuses on the European Union, said the British economy is about 2.5 percent smaller than it would have been if the public have voted to remain in the bloc in June 2016. Its findings were based on the impact on the economy until the end of June 2018.
Public finances have been dented by 26 billion pounds a year, the equivalent of 500 million pounds a week and a figure that is growing, the group said here.
The Centre for European Reform, which describes itself as “pro-European but not uncritical”, said it created a model of how Britain’s economy could have performed had the campaign to remain in the EU won the referendum in 2016.
Sounds legit.
“So what do you do for a living?”
“I pull numbers out of my ass.”
“Cool.”