What to do when there's nothing to do

Sounds like you've found yourself in quite a conundrum. If that's even how you spell it. Well the first thing to do is to make a list. The second thing to do is to throw away said list and sit down on a comfortable couch. Breathe. Listen to the sounds around you. If someone is yelling at you, then you should find a new comfortable couch in another place to sit quietly. If you are too cold, put on a jacket. If it's too hot, then take off your shoes and socks and grip the floor with your toes. It was in a Bruce Willis movie once. It works. The next step is highly controversial and could be seen by many as a terrorist act. Turn on the TV. Ignore all the news channels and cartoon channels and find the sports channel. There you've done it. You've found something to do.

Time and Energy

Writing takes time and energy. Sometimes you don't know what to write. Other times you have a lot to say. Then we edit ourselves too much. Somebody famous once said you need to vomit on the page and then sort it out. I've got to look up who said that. BRB. Katherine Parkinson. She said it. ALso another famous writer, who actually spent some time here in Northern Italy has this to say. Hemmingway “Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done,” he said in an August 1935 letter. So yea, stop beating yourself up about your writing and write more.

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EXCITING NEW BLOG POSTS FROM THE ITALIAN DESK There's nothing really to be too excited about. I have a 4 year gap in my resume plus throw in the Covid shutdown and that's five years. Should I make the word "five" in a numerical way just to stay consistant? Oh, it's too late and I'm further down the paragraph. We'll just have to stick with it. Where are all my homies that started blogs 15 years ago and haven't updated. Did you forget? Did we all forget that writing was so important. So lethargic, that's not the word, the word I'm looking for eludes me because I stuck too much pot in my head all those years, long long ago. In a galaxy not too far away, but let's face it, it's pretty far and the way they're moving we'll never get there. Elon Musk needs to build better rockets that stop exploding, and put an end to his political ambitions if we're to catch this galaxy. So yea, In a galaxy not too far away and around the same time as it is now in our galaxy; there was a group of humanoids fairly similar to us, but they've been around much much longer and have evolved to a peaceful society and in peace and harmony with the planet they live on. They're rad. Let's face it. They've gone threw all the dumb mistakes that we've made here on our planet and they're still moving and grooving and cutting and slicing and they've got it together. They farm the land and eat and drink yummy drinks. Yummy. I'm unhappy with that word choice. Why can't I make better word choices? Their drinks are divine? Did god make them or something? No. They had to pick the fruit and juice it themselves, so divine is a little far reaching. The drinks are cool and refreshing. There. That makes for some good word choices. SO... They're drinking and eating and mingling and taking care of business. But what kind of business? It's Business chat. They've got meetings about all sorts of things. Marketing. Costs. Sales. They've got to fire that wanker Phil for one thing. He says he's busy all the time but all he does is talk, talk. Talk, talk, talk, talk, all you do to me is talk talk.

There. So they've fired Phil and now can get on with the next important thing to do and that's to buy a 3D printer and start printing fake fruit to put in their beautiful hand weaved baskets. They've got a contract with ZANNY PANNY to sell as many baskets as they can make. And everyone knows that ZANNY PANNY is the place to shop for baskets.

New life. New Stuff. New New New.

The End of June

And like the end of all things, it's exhausting.

The Summer Solstice is here

Get excited.

An Ode to Fathers Day

  You've got the nerves of steel to help get the family thru those tense moments.  Good Work Dad!  Keep getting out there and adventuring and showing off the world to your kids.

All the stars are coming into alignment.

Should I pull the trigger on Pioneertown? I hired a writer and then had to fire a writer.  Enjoy the last days of Spring while they last....

June 17th

Yes.

Max is gonna die

Still enough time to get in a post about how Max fell and broke some ribs but won't admit it and is still drinking and partying with Erin and he hasn't even gone to see a doctor.

Tonight is the night

Thanks 4 the fun.

Dangit

We missed posting on the 27th

Viva Prince

Wheels get locked in place
Stupid look on my face
When it comes to making a pass, pretty mama
I just can't win a race

I'm Delirious

The Cult to End All Cults

The Cult leader will practice modern socialist agendas, like free school, free health care and sharing the wealth.  There will be festivals and work projects that will benefit everyone.

We will also have really cool club jackets made out of denim.

The Council of 8 shall deliberate on all items of interest.

Once a week there will be a battle of the bands where you get to show your artistic merit.

Starting a Cult story isn't easy

I don't know where to start.

Well. We went up to Tiki Camp

Out past Garths
Out past the Atomic Ranch
Grows the Tiki Camp

Tonight at Midnight: Gemini in full effect.

In the midnight hour, she cried more more more ~ Billy Idol.

We're excited to be working it out over here and moving into the Gemini of things.

The 19th of May.

Nothing but good times coming down the pipe.

We are 2 days until Gemini.

The Story of the Constellation "Gemini"

Alright.

So we have Zeus turning into a Swan and seducing Leda, who was the Queen of Sparta, married to King Tyndareus at the time.  She had 4 Children in 2 eggs.  Castor & Polydeuces who would later become the constellation Gemini were her boys.  Helen of Troy and Clytemnestra were the daughters.

It occurs sometime between  1300 BC and 1100 BC.  It happened so far back in time and the Battle of Troy was the last great Mythological thing that happened and is also the beginning of the Historical text in Western Civilization, so it's mired in Myth and Fact and that's how they told their stories back then.

There aren't many texts to compare it with, but the Hittites and the Egyptians have some texts that talk about it.  

Well, here's the rest of the story about the Twins, who died before a dozen years before the Battle of Troy:

Twins, Castor and Polydeuces ; were the most famous Spartan heroes. Some recorded them both as sons of Tyndareüs (Tyndareus) and Leda, daughter of Thestius, while others say that they were sons of Zeus, thus they were called Dioscuri.  But most writers say that Castor with his sister Clytemnestra were Tyndareüs' children, while Polydeuces and Helen were Zeus', by Leda. Zeus visited and seduced Leda in the form of swan. So Castor was mortal, while his twin was immortal. The mother of Helen was quite often said to be Nemesis, the goddess of retribution, whom Zeus had seduced in the form of a swan. According to the Homeric Hymna, to the Dioscuri, Leda bore the twins on the peak of Mount Taygetus, but it doesn't state that their sister, Helen was born there too.

Castor became renowned as a horseman, and was given a title of Tamer of Horses. While Polydeuces was renown for his skills in boxing. The Dioscuri were identified riding a pair of white horses.

Castor had trained the youth Heracles in fencing. They sailed with the Argonauts, where Polydeuces killed Amycus, king of the Bebrycians, when challenging the crew in boxing match. They also joined with several members of the Argonauts in the Calydonian boar hunt. The Dioscuri and Jason also helped Peleus in capturing Iolcus from Acastus.

When Theseus and Peirithoüs (Peirithous) abducted their sister Helen, the Dioscuri captured Athens and returning Helen to Sparta, with Theseus' mother held as captive. Theseus also lost the throne to another Athenian named Menestheus whom the Dioscuri install as king of Athens. (Menestheus was later a suitor of Helen. He led fifty ships to Troy.)

Their main rival and enemies were their cousins: Idas and Lynceus, sons of Aphareus. When Idas and Lynceus were going to married their cousins, Phoebe and Hilaera, daughters of Leucippus, the Dioscuri abducted them and married the girls themselves. Hilaera bore Anogon to Castor, while Phoebe bore Mnesilus to Polydeuces.

When they raided some cattle with Idas and Lynceus, they decided on the contest of who get all of the cattle. Idas and Lynceus won the contest and drove their prize back to Messene. Castor and Polydeuces decided to take the cattle back in a raid. Lynceus warned Idas of their approach and ambushed the Spartan twins. In the fighting that followed Polydeuces killed Lynceus, but was felled by rock hurled by Idas. Zeus protecting his son killed Idas with a thunderbolt.

Polydeuces was grief-stricken by death of Castor at Idas' hand. The immortal Polydeuces wanted to die with his brother. Taking pity on his mourning son, Zeus decided that the twins would share their immortality: they would spend their days living alternately both (or separately) in Olympus and the Underworld.

Zeus placed them as constellation, Gemini, in the heaven. They became gods in Sparta, where they were patrons of warlike youths and sailors in the stormy sea.

According to Homer in the Iliad, Helen wondered where her brothers were, because she did not see them among the Greeks fighting in the war, not realising that they had already died. This suggested that her brothers, Castor and Polydeuces, had died after she ran off with Paris to Troy.

Almost Gemini, what does it mean and what it's like to live for May 21st to June 21st

     This zodiacal constellation represents the twins Castor and Polydeuces (Pollux to the Romans). These were born from an egg after their mother, Leda, Queen of Sparta, had been seduced by Zeus, disguised as a swan. Although only half brothers, Castor, the mortal son of Leda's husband, King Tyndareus, and Polydeuces, immortal son of Zeus, were extremely close and together took part in many adventures. Sadly, on one of these Castor was killed. Polydeuces avenged Castor's murder, but was so overcome with grief that he begged to be allowed to be with his brother in the underworld. Zeus, knowing the strength of their feelings, and for once showing some compassion, granted this request. He placed the twins side by side in the heavens so that they could alternate their time together between Hades and the home of the gods.