Up the creek “Monday Monday….” That’s how the song goes, right? Sure. I looked at the schedule and realized I had an afternoon reading at Romeo’s and decided that soaking my body in cool creek water was the way to go. I showed at the appointed time, still damp from a dip in Barton Creek. … Up the creek

Astrology business model There are no books on how to be a financially successful astrologer. I’ve got one, out-of-date handbook for writing and selling science fiction, but other than one story I successfully marketed in my undergraduate career, I found I did better working for a newspaper. That makes all of this rather experimental, on … Astrology business model

Happy eclipse Eclipse action this coming Monday evening. Last eclipse I watched was in the fall of 1996, I think. I sat on the balcony of my north Austin apartment, and watched the moon disappear in the east, just after sunset. Unrelated news from “page six” [via red headed cap]. Sunday consisted of a lot … Happy eclipse

Computers, Reading Glasses, and Mercury Ron Carlson’s \\At the Jim Bridger: Stories\\. Mr. Carlson was teaching at Arizona State when I was an undergraduate. During his tenure, one of his stories got picked up by \\Playboy\\, and that put him, the university, and its programs on the map. He has three or four collections of … Computers, Reading Glasses, and Mercury

The way this works Apple system software, the guys who organize the way my computer responds, has this “automatic update” feature. That’s good. What’s not so good is that the automatic update I installed, which, in reality, I had very little to do with its installation other than typing in a password, and clicking a … The way this works

I’m about tired of Mercury, but I find myself even more tired of the complaints. It’s quite simple, really, just take it easy. Don’t panic. Go slow. Everything takes three times as long. Listening to another reader, I heard the main points need to be stressed three times in a reading to get the client … tired of Mercury

Mercury Bunkers I had an early airport run Tuesday morning, and with the windows down, passing that big, convoluted intersection, where the highways become a spaghetti mess, I could smell rain. That aroma lightened my heart. Coming back from the airport with a Capricorn in tow, we did run into a few big drops of … Mercury Bunkers

That Space Shuttle story El Paso’s history is, in part, best told through the army base [Ft. Bliss], and by extension, its airfield. Goes back at least 400 years, probably much further than that, and with a timeline like that, modern-day airplanes are excluded. One of the jokes off my joke list, one of those … That Space Shuttle story

The clown A clown visited the fair, I guess, to get a reading. I did pop his chart, a Sagittarius. Marcus Aurelius notes [Book 4, the beginning of verse 48] “Remind yourself constantly of all the physicians, now dead, who used to knit their brows over their ailing patients; of all the astrologers who solemnly … The clown