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Sagittarius Horoscope for week of November 6, 2014

P. G. Wodehouse wrote more than 90 books, as well as numerous plays, musical comedies, and film scripts. When he died at age 93, he was working on another novel. He did not suffer from writer's block. And yet his process was far from effortless. He rarely churned out perfection on his first attempt. "I have never written a novel," he testified, "without doing 40,000 words or more and finding they were all wrong and going back and starting again." The way I see your immediate future, Sagittarius, is that you will be creating your own version of those 40,000 wrong words. And that's OK. It's not a problem. You can't get to the really good stuff without slogging through this practice run.

I didn't even think about NaNoWriMo this time around. But my problem is that my long spans of quietude aren't long enough for actual work. They come to crashing halts when the furnace fires up.

Sagittarius Horoscope for week of February 20, 2013

The Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich wrote his Eighth Symphony in a mere two months during the summer of 1943. He worked on it in an old henhouse on a former chicken farm. The location helped relax him, allowing him to work with extra intensity. I wish you could find a retreat like that for yourself sometime soon, Sagittarius. I think you would benefit from going off by yourself to a sanctuary and having some nice long talks with your ancestors, the spirits of nature, and your deepest self. If that's not practical right now, what would be the next best thing you could do?

Some would say that Rather Manor is a good place to start if you want a creative retreat. But I have found over the years that we tend to bring in a lot of our own noise without realizing it. So I don't know what the answer is here.

Horoscope for week of February 28, 2013

Sagittarius (November 22-December 21)
"Don't think the garden loses its ecstasy in winter," wrote the Persian mystic poet Rumi. "It's quiet, but the roots are down there riotous." I think you're like that winter garden right now, Sagittarius. Outwardly, there's not much heat and flash. Bright ideas and strong opinions are not pouring out of you at their usual rates. You're not even prone to talking too loud or accidentally knocking things over. This may in fact be as close as you can get to being a wallflower. And yet deep beneath the surface, out of sight from casual observers, you are charging up your psychic battery. The action down there is vibrant and vigorous.

There were times I thought there was a lot of white noise in my bedroom. Now I think it's the sound of the sap running in the trees outside my window. This is the time of year for that to happen. Are you due for a Sugar Snow?

* Because my brother got me a smartphone to replace my flip-phone this week, I felt I had to return the favor and find a toy for him. I'll tell you all about it after I give it to him.

* Because my brother got me a smartphone to replace my flip-phone this week, I'm trying to figure out how to use it. So far, I'm way behind it and the whole touchscreen nonsense is somewhat counterintuitive to me.

* Because my brother got me a smartphone to replace my flip-phone this week, I went through Precious's soundfiles (and made some new ones by using a decompiler to loot soundtracks from .SWF files I downloaded over the years) in an ongoing attempt to generate ringtones. I still only partly know what I'm doing.

* In my travels to procure the toy for my brother, I saw a late-model Audi sedan outside Strange--the interior comprehensively burnt out. I started brainstorming hot rod ideas almost immediately.

* Still dabbling with reverse-engineering old Eastern-bloc paper models of aircraft carrier ships into much larger mixed-media models. I have seven downloaded patterns of a planned eight...but my internal math estimates that each "plate" in the scale I'm working with means $10 in materials. So I'll need funding of one form or another.

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Barking canines. At about 2AM overnight, EVERY SINGLE ONE in a two or three mile radius had to go berzerk and howl or scream or belch or whatever.

Phone Rings...

The party on the other end may or not may be recorded. She talks fast in a carefully-constructed statement words to the effect that you won a prize and that you have to call back to a 1-800 number (with an extension) to claim the prize. You don't hear what the prize is, who the prize is intended for, or how come they have your number. (She made have said something, but it isn't very clear on this end.) There is no possibility that you can get her to repeat the information or just push a button on the phone to switch it to the number/extension she means.

How is this supposed to succeed?

AT&T has the best customer service system in the world. I mean it. They hire terrific people and you can reach some of them 24/7.

But that nice, ardent, professional woman and her good work is lost on me today because her phone makes her sound like she's way in the back of a shipping container she shares with a stepdown power transformer.

Still, in spite of this difficulty and others I've endured over the last few weeks, I was able to on this day:

*) Pay the first Wireless Internet bill for Rather Manor (although it was past due)
*) Correct the billing information for the Wireless Internet account (so it wouldn't bounce back like the first bill did)
*) Link the Wireless Internet account with the Landline account for Rather Manor so
*) We might be able to BUNDLE services and save some moolah

And I did it on ATT.com, whose veracity measures are needlessly difficult for legitimate users while still leaving gaping holes for cyberfraudsters. Tho' I doubt there can be a lot gained from the information available to the phone company and the individual endusers.

( Good Friends--You And Me! )

You know how school is; one day it's the firehose, the next day it's water torture. Worked two hours at the house to complete my classwork, and wound up getting done before everybody else...but still had to sit around the classroom all day. Granted, we did see a video--of Mr. King of King Instructional Videos explaining the Math questions on the FAA exam. (It's like your local TV news' weather segment, only somewhat less interesting.) Tomorrow's the exam and I hope to do better than average. Yes, I will bring my calculator this time.

Meanwhile, my dad got his hearing aids today. Now we'll see if he understands us better from here on.

FP

Current Music: Joni Mitchell -- Good Friends

An Earthquake Happened Near Here. It sounded like a very loud truck going past. I didn't feel it so much, but I was seated in a castered chair and if the earth moved I could have blamed the chair.

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