| | I know it's not that weird to get snow in April in MN, but I'm ready for some warmer days, especially now having caught Ted's latest cold after avoiding all the others this winter. Apparently invoking the Goddess of Spring by playing Gjallarhorn yesterday didn't quite do the trick. Hope I can get this bug on its way out by tomorrow since I had a sick day Thursday, not sure if that stomach upset might have been the beginning of this or not...Anyhow, besides needing part of Thurs. off anyway for a furnace inspection, the extra time allowed an urge for a long Tarot reading to come through. The significator card was the Emperor, about building, doing , organizing, so this must have been about career dilemmas. The Fool in the near future position points to leaping off in a new direction, and the last card for the outcome was the 3 of Cups, shared joy, celebration. I am not at all clear what the new direction is yet, it kind of feels like using health coaching with something else. I am starting to wonder if there would be a market for learning basic cooking skills, especially for people who are finding they can't afford to rely on convenience food and restaurants. The flip side of that is could they afford then to pay for lessons? I could practice on my kids if they could be torn away from their games.  I was rather astounded to overhear a woman slightly older than myself at my co-op yesterday, asking the clerk how many cups were in 32 oz! So I checked with Ted when I got home; he didn't know either! I'm pretty sure I had that down cold by 3rd grade... Muse has been giving me a bit of excitement, first by announcing tour dates supporting U2 this fall, but sadly , it turns out , not anywhere near me. I can think of several places I could stay, especially the Tampa date, I'm sure I could get my dad's condo for free with some advance notice, but getting there would be the real problem, especially mid-week. Then Muse or one of their minions pulled off a great April Fools stunt, and since it began on Mar. 31 for me, I did not catch on right away. When I logged in to the messageboard, I got a notice saying Warner Music Group had suspended my account for excessive use.  I could not get around this logging in other ways or find any indication this was a joke on related sites. The notice said I had to accept new terms of service to be reinstated, so I started reading to see if this was for real, but I was pretty wound up because thought I'd lose touch with all these fun people I'm starting to know, but do not have email addys for. The notice began with the usual legalese then got progressively sillier: we must refer to band by their academic titles of Dr. Bellamy, Dr. Howard, and Dr. Wolstenholme,  only 10 posts allowed per day, but if you particpate in the Pornogenic Matt Thread, 5 of these must be used to properly worship him, and no discussion of sex outside of wedlock since it's a family messageboard!  Kind of wish I'd printed out the whole nonsense now, someone went to a lot of trouble to yank our chains! |
