January 13, 2025

The person you are helping


There will be days when the person you are helping couldn't find their way 
out of a paper bag even if it was cut open and laying on the floor in front of them. 
You will just have to accept that they can not be helped.

With kindest regards,
The Translator

January 10, 2025

Todays Horrorscope for Friday January 10 2025

 



Greeting from the Blotters Blog Horrorscope.

May you have a week of affluence that is copiously full of opulence!
Please remember that this is all in good fun.

Pisces

February 20 - March 20

By the stars and their light! Pisces your day that will be swampy with
 many frogs is going to be a delight!
Yesterday the Haunting moon will soon bring forth that with which you seek. Be alive!
The light that shines upon you is spooky like an abandoned brutalist building
 that is being taken back by nature.
The Sun and the Moon have whispered to thee, your lucky numbers are 43, 65, 73, 14, 60, 3, 86

A quote for your week. 

“The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and everyday confirms my belief of the inconsistencies of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.” 

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
 

Aries

March 21 - April 20

Forsooth Aries! Woe to thoughts that cross your path as your day will be bad!
The New moon from yesterday will soon bring forth that with which you seek. Be warned.
The light that shines upon you is spooky like an evil Christmas Tree.
Look left! Look Right! And here arn't your lucky numbers a sight? 
Your lucky numbers are 5, 15, 12, 74, 82, 18, 63

A quote for your week. 

“To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.” 

― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey


 
Taurus
April 21 - May 21

Anger an wrath to salvage your day of running from infants.
Yesterday the Famished moon will soon bring forth that with which you seek. Be asleep.
The light that shines upon you is invisible like a jet.
Better keep an eye out on the counter tonight! Your lucky numbers are 20, 73, 72, 19, 96, 58, 43

A quote for your week. 

“When you don’t have the skill you need, you hire someone who does; and when you can’t do that, you find a way to fake it. Some days I think that explains most of my career.” 

― Steven Brust, Hawk

 

 

Gemini
May 22 - June 21

Hmm, bit of a bad turn Gemini. You are going to have a relaxing day.
Pity be what pity is, such a shame that yesterdays Moon was Partial!
The light that shines upon you is good like the decisions you haven't made.
Be not afraid! For your lucky numbers are as follows! 93, 58, 96, 28, 54, 90, 42

A quote for your week. 

“There’s nothing to tell.” I gave her a brief discussion of fertilizer. She seemed unimpressed with my agricultural expertise. “Believe what you like,” she said. It was good to have permission, but I resisted telling her so.”

 ― Steven Brust, Iorich


 

Cancer
June 22 - July 22

As the sun is juggled by the clouds so to will your heavenly day.
Yesterdays moon was Stoned. Better luck next time!
The light that shines upon you is heaven like the first taste of your favorite meal.
The winds of luck have shined upon you! Your lucky numbers are 53, 11, 36, 22, 51, 19, 63

A quote for your week. 

“Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the year upon the tawny leaves and withered hedges, and from repeating to herself some few of the thousand poetical descriptions extant of autumn--that season of peculiar and inexhaustible influence on the mind of taste and tenderness--that season which has drawn from every poet worthy of being read some attempt at description, or some lines of feeling.” 

― Jane Austen, Persuasion

 

Leo
July 23 - August 22

Such a shame Leo! Your day looks like it's going to be a day 
when The Swamp Hag has cursed you. Better luck next time!
Beckoning, dancing and twirling under the stars and during 
your waxed moon as it lit up the night last night.
The light that shines upon you is terribly full of stress.
Be aware! Your lucky numbers are 2, 30, 32, 86, 62, 49, 47

A quote for your week. 

“Why do you work so hard to make yourself disliked? I should think you'd find it happens enough on its own without putting yourself to any extra trouble.” 

― Steven Brust, Tiassa

 

Virgo
August 23 - September 23

Oh what luck! For Virgo your day is going to be a day of cursing the elders.
Your Wanting moon has taken a vacation, please check again later.
The light that shines upon you is bountiful like a bosom.
Your lucky numbers are said to be 34, 48, 65, 2, 9, 57, 86 by the sky and the stars that soar in it.

A quote for your week. 

“I cannot make speeches, Emma...If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me. I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it.” ― Jane Austen, Emma
“That's what does it-- that moment where you think you're lost, and then discover that you're not, that you've never really left. There's something that happens in that incredible tiny no-time, and that something is like the revelation of learning.” ― Steven Brust, The Sun, the Moon, & the Stars
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.” 

― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

 

Libera
September 24- October 23

Congratulations Libera! Your day is going to be a day 
when The Swamp Hag was watching you! Isn't that a gas?
Yesterdays Moon was Devoured! Yikes!
The light that shines upon you is spooky like the cutest little kitten.
 One day your lucky numbers will win a lottery. 18, 25, 11, 92, 58, 19, 35

A quote for your week. 

“There was a sergeant at a desk. I knew he was a sergeant because I recognized the marks on his uniform, and I knew it was a desk because it's always a desk. There's always someone at a desk, except when it's a table that functions as a desk. You sit behind a desk, and everyone knows you're supposed to be there, and that you're doing something that involves your brain. It's an odd, special kind of importance. I think everyone should get a desk; you can sit behind it when you feel like you don't matter.” 

― Steven Brust, Iorich


Ophiuchus
November 29 - December 18

Congratulations Ophiuchus! Your day is going to be good!
Yesterday the Relaxing moon will soon bring forth that with which you seek. Be festive!
The light that shines upon you is famished like a starved dog.
Little lucky numbers 12, 87, 36, 52, 32, 99, 16

A quote for your week. 

“Paarfi undertakes a detailed examination on the virtues of brevity: It would seem, therefore, that if we allow our readers, by virtue of being in the company of the historian, to eavesdrop on this interchange, we will have, in one scene, discharged two obligations; a sacrifice, if we may say so, to the god Brevity, whom all historians, indeed, all who work with the written word, ought to worship. We cannot say too little on this subject.” 

― Steven Brust, The Phoenix Guards

 

Scorpio
October 24 - November 22

The goddess has granted Scorpio a day of haunting!
Looks like you Lucky Moon for yesterday was Doubled! Gnarly!
The light that shines upon you is flickering like a rave.
Your lucky numbers look to be 89, 93, 40, 57, 79, 98, 9

A quote for your week. 

“If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.” 

― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

 

Sagittarius
November 23 - December 21

Your day looks like it's going to be a day when The Swamp Hag has blessed you. 
Better luck next time Sagittarius!
Bet you weren't expecting for your lucky moon for yesterday to be Missing? The horror!
The light that shines upon you is cursing the elders.
The wind and the tress have whispered that your lucky numbers are to be 59, 82, 68, 23, 71, 93, 42!

A quote for your week. 

“But here’s the thing, when I’m in a place, with nothing between me and a long, long fall, one long enough that I know I wouldn’t survive, it isn’t that I’m afraid I’ll fall, it’s that I’m afraid I’ll jump. It’s not like I want to die, I don’t—if I wanted to die, I’ve had plenty of opportunities. But there’s something about being one step away from death that makes me want to take that one step. It’s an almost palpable temptation, and that scares me.” 

― Steven Brust, Lyorn


Capricorn
December 22 - January 20

The bees have whispered their song to the Sun and Sky! Today Capricorn your day will be so fetch!
Time to start planning a garden for fun because according to yesterdays Moon Lustful!
The light that shines upon you is full of the fury of the ages.
Lucky numbers are such a tricky thing! Yet yours appear to be 65, 28, 72, 92, 10, 58, 13

A quote for your week. 

"Perhaps I shall. Yes, yes, if you please, no reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.” 

― Jane Austen, Persuasion
 

Aquarius
January 21 - February 19

These days go by but for today your day is full of finding out.
Yesterday the Envy moon will soon bring forth that with which you seek. Be full.
The light that shines upon you is bright like a hamster.
You lucky numbers seem to be 37, 5, 36, 26, 71, 53, 76

A quote for your week. 

“I’d forgotten to close the shutters again, and so woke with the Furnace burning painfully into my eyes. I cursed for a little while, then got up and closed them, because it is better to close the shutters than curse the light, or however that goes. I tried to sleep some more but it didn’t take.” 

― Steven Brust, Jhegaala

 



January 6, 2025

The hunt for the house

 


The hunt for the house! 
They wonder why millennials arn't buying, when really they should be asking why. 
But they know why they don't ask the right questions, because they do not like the answers that they caused. They do not want to take responsibility for ruining lives of the younger generations. 
They won't pay a living wage. they don't want to let go of the power structure that they created that is destroying themselves. 
They are the problem but refuse to take reasonability and let the answers be true once more!

  

With kindest regards,
The Translator

January 3, 2025

Todays Horrorscope for Friday January 3 2025

 



Greeting from the Blotters Blog Horrorscope.

May you have a week of affluence that is copiously full of opulence!
Please remember that this is all in good fun.


Pisces

February 20 - March 20

As the sun is juggled by the clouds so to will your day is one that the stars have bequeathed unto you.
Yesterday the Lustful moon will soon bring forth that with which you seek. Be sure to double check your lucky numbers.
The light that shines upon you is missing and listed on local milk boxes.
Be not afraid! For your lucky numbers are as follows! 24, 89, 99, 18, 3, 63, 25

A quote for your week. 

“How despicably I have acted!" she cried; "I, who have prided myself on my discernment! I, who have valued myself on my abilities! who have often disdained the generous candour of my sister, and gratified my vanity in useless or blameable mistrust! How humiliating is this discovery! Yet, how just a humiliation! Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly. Pleased with the preference of one, and offended by the neglect of the other, on the very beginning of our aquaintance, I have courted prepossession and ignorance, and driven reason away, where either were concerned. Till this moment I never knew myself.” 

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

 

Aries

March 21 - April 20

You day will be bountiful just as the unicorn farts in the forest.
Yesterdays moon was Bountiful. Better luck next time!
The light that shines upon you is good in a nice comforting way.
Whispered from the shadows say that your lucky number are today! 21, 86, 53, 18, 48, 77, 75

A quote for your week. 

“Grand," I said. "Just grand. I get myself into the army, stand up in battles I have no business in, get nailed in the back by sorcery, accept an impossible assignment to be carried out in the middle of it all, and then, just to top things off, I have to go have a mystical fucking experience. This is just great.” 

― Steven Brust, Dragon


 
Taurus
April 21 - May 21

Forsooth Taurus! Woe to thoughts that cross your path as your day will be swampy with many frogs!
Looks like you Lucky Moon for yesterday was Wanting! Gnarly!
The light that shines upon you is wanting so much you could hear it screaming.
Congratulations! Your lucky numbers are 11, 57, 7, 88, 51, 20, 5

A quote for your week. 

“A stupid person can make only certain, limited types of errors; the mistakes open to a clever fellow are far broader. But to the one who knows how smart he is compared to everyone else, the possibilities for true idiocy are boundless.” 

― Steven Brust, Iorich
 

 

Gemini
May 22 - June 21

Oh woe is be Gemini! For your day seems to be one of cursing the elders!
Good thing that Yesterdays Moon was Relaxing! Or else you might have had to go to work or some other such silly nonsense.
The light that shines upon you is haunting like a bad B grade movie that will never be a cult classic.
You lucky numbers seem to be 44, 50, 68, 94, 79, 40, 31

A quote for your week. 

“I will do you one last favour, in the name and memory of the figment you have replaced. I will clarify a misapprehension of yours. Circumstances did not conspire against me. I was not led into anything, nor did I fall. I chose my life and my course. I chose to do wrong in the hope that right might come of it. I regret it. I would choose differently now. But the choice was mine. Deny that, falsify it, tinsel it over with pious, pitying justification, and you deny everything I am and every scrap of what little good I have been able to do in my life. Good or bad, give me credit for what I have done. I would rather go honestly to Hell, admitting that I leaped knowingly into error and folly, than enter into the sweetest Heaven men can dream of by whining that I had been pushed.” 

― Steven Brust, Freedom & Necessity

 

Cancer
June 22 - July 22

The bees have whispered their song to the Sun and Sky! Today Cancer your day will be a day when The Swamp Hag has blessed you!
Bet you weren't expecting for your lucky moon for yesterday to be Waxed? But maybe things will turn about.
The light that shines upon you is hell like failed revenge.
No more waiting with baited breath as Your lucky numbers are 77, 94, 56, 52, 67, 92, 59

A quote for your week. 

“I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is, I believe, too little yielding— certainly too little for the convenience of the world. I cannot forget the follies and vices of other so soon as I ought, nor their offenses against myself. My feelings are not puffed about with every attempt to move them. My temper would perhaps be called resentful. My good opinion once lost, is lost forever.” 

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

Leo
July 23 - August 22

You are going to have a hot day! So good luck with that Leo!
The Missing moon from yesterday will soon bring forth that with which you seek. Be worried.
The light that shines upon you is twinkling gently between the branches.
Your lucky numbers look to be 39, 7, 28, 77, 10, 92, 71

A quote for your week. 

“There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.” 

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
 
Virgo
August 23 - September 23

Anger an wrath to salvage your day of relaxing.
Pity be what pity is, such a shame that yesterdays Moon was Shiny!
The light that shines upon you is shiny and sparkly.
Your lucky numbers are 14, 95, 18, 10, 42, 47, 28. But you don't have to take our word for it.

A quote for your week. 

“Oh, c’mon, Boss. Where’s your sense of history?” “I like to read about history, not make it.” “You see, Boss? It’s because of attitudes like yours that there are so few human heroes.” “And so many humans.” 

― Steven Brust, The Book of Dragon: Dragon and Issola

 

Libera
September 24- October 23

Such a day, one of revenge Libera is going to have!
Your Devoured moon has taken a vacation, please check again later.
The light that shines upon you is empty like the void in the empty ribcage that can be found in the woods.
Your lucky numbers are probably 60, 99, 71, 66, 44, 28, 18 but who is to know for sure?

A quote for your week. 

“I certainly have not the talent which some people possess," said Darcy, "of conversing easily with those I have never seen before. I cannot catch their tone of conversation, or appear interested in their concerns, as I often see done.”

 ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
 

Ophiuchus
November 29 - December 18

The moons will wax and wane but your day will be swampy and missing frogs.
Hodgepodge and perfect lines. Slimy sneaks and runway models. Yesterdays Moon was Partial.
The light that shines upon you is spooky like a goth girlfriend.
Your lucky numbers are said to be 20, 36, 26, 81, 12, 58, 83 by the sky and the stars that soar in it.

A quote for your week. 

“Have you never understood more than you could put into words? Many people only have their slogans--but they respond because the slogans are true and touch a spark in their hearts and their lives. And as for the ones who don't want to think for themselves, we teach them to anyway.” 

― Steven Brust, Teckla

Scorpio
October 24 - November 22

Congratulations Scorpio! Your day is going to be a day when The Swamp Hag has cursed you!
Beckoning, dancing and twirling under the stars and during your New moon the night lit brightly last night.
The light that shines upon you is full of envy.
Your lucky numbers are 2, 13, 76, 16, 40, 37, 14. Better luck mext time!

A quote for your week. 

“...so I walked down to the operation nearest my office, a brothel, and found the manager. Before he could say anything, I pinned the right side of his cloak to the wall with a throwing knife, about knee level. I did the same with his left side. I put a shuriken into the wall next to each ear, close enough to cut. Then Loiosh went after him and raked his claws down the guy's face. I went up and hit him just below his sternum, then kneed him in the face when he doubled over. He began to understand that I wasn't happy.” 

― Steven Brust, Yendi

Sagittarius
November 23 - December 21

Hmm, bit of a bad turn Sagittarius. You are going to have a day full of finding out.
Yesterday the Invisible moon will soon bring forth that with which you seek. Be alive!
The light that shines upon you is screams for the harvest.
The winds of luck have shined upon you! Your lucky numbers are 42, 34, 24, 82, 54, 18, 85

A quote for your week. 

“When you have understood the piece of the world you want to change, and aligned your will with the world as it actually is, then and only then can you begin to change it;”

― Steven Brust, Issola


Capricorn
December 22 - January 20

Weep for Capricorn! For their day is to be foggy.
The moon is looking like it would have been full of cheese if not for the clouds hiding it yesterday.
The light that shines upon you is spooky like the Not A shadow.
Your lucky numbers are 42, 68, 22, 26, 61, 44, 45

A quote for your week. 

“I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle. As a child I was taught what was right, but I was not taught to correct my temper. I was given good principles, but left to follow them in pride and conceit. Unfortunately an only son (for many years an only child), I was spoilt by my parents, who, though good themselves (my father, particularly, all that was benevolent and amiable), allowed, encouraged, almost taught me to be selfish and overbearing; to care for none beyond my own family circle; to think meanly of all the rest of the world; to wish at least to think meanly of their sense and worth compared with my own. Such I was, from eight to eight and twenty; and such I might still have been but for you, dearest, loveliest Elizabeth! What do I not owe you! You taught me a lesson, hard indeed at first, but most advantageous. By you, I was properly humbled. I came to you without a doubt of my reception. You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased.” 

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

Aquarius
January 21 - February 19

Oh what a day you shall see Aquarius! As it will be rainy with a chance of unicorns.
Yesterday your moon had swung in on a low hanging vine and it is Blinking at you.
The light that shines upon you is bad like the decisions you haven't made.
Lucky numbers for you! 48, 25, 54, 29, 58, 63, 30

A quote for your week. 

“No, sarcasm aside, life is always worth living. Even when sometimes it seems like more trouble than it’s worth. Oh, who am I kidding? It’s when it seems like more trouble than it’s worth that I want it the most. I mean, isn’t everyone like that?” 

― Steven Brust, Hawk

January 1, 2025

2025



Happy New Years 2025!
Just a quick Blot to let you all know the world didn't end.

The press churns on regardless of the days that have gone by.
The ink renewed and the paper filled.

Listing breezes and temporary freezes will not stay the hands of time.
Ticking, clicking & dripping away.

With kindest regards,

The Translator