[Part 2] Grand Lenormand (…in rough translation, continued)

[Part 1] – [Part 2] – [Part 3] This is a continuation of my (rough) translation of a French book concerning the Astro Mythological Lenormand, AKA “Grand Jeu de Mlle. Lenormand.” I’m posting this directly from MS Word, so it may not look terribly pretty, but hopefully it’s at least functional. Once the project is complete (in the far distant future, lol), I hope to post it as a singular PDF file. This posting covers the Ace-Four of Clubs. Interpretation of the cards: Ace – 4 of Clubs Ace of … Continue reading

[Part 1] The Grand Lenormand (…in rough translation)

[Part 1] – [Part 2] – [Part 3] Finding information in English on the unique deck known as “The Astro Mythological (Grand Jeu) of Mlle. Lenormand” is quite difficult. However there are several books out from France that do cover this particular (and peculiar) deck. I’ve decided to put my decades old minor in French to the test to try and render a passable translation of one of the more popular books out there on this subject: Le Livre du Grand Jeu de Mlle. Lenormand; Les 54 cartes et leurs … Continue reading

Slow Weekend…

As much as I hoped to make some real headway on the packing and other moving preparations, I didn’t get hardly anything done in that arena.  I ended up reading a couple of books instead, and playing a bit of Warhammer here and there.  The books were most excellent, however. The first was a very short, but engrossing book on web “psychology,” for want of a better explanation. Neuro Web Design: What Makes Them Click?  relates many different psychological studies and how their conclusions relate to web design, and what … Continue reading

A New Week, and a New Month

Here it is February and I’m already a little bit behind.  So without further ado, here are the January stats and roll up. Most popular: “Home Page” – I think WP has changed some kind of measurement, ‘cuz I don’t recall this ever being in my stats before… Anyways it garnered 233 Hits Enochian Tablets… Building Your Own with 136 ScreenShots with 86 EVE 2009 with 65 EVE Multibox Mining rounds out the “Top 5” with 63 January this year was significantly more busy than last year with 886 visits compared with only 353 … Continue reading

Here Comes Old Man Winter (November Wrap Up)

Month end stuff for November My top posts this month were: Enochian Tablets… Building Your Own with 115 views (!) ScreenShots with 74 views More Dragon Age (and possible spoilers) with 56 Gardening Bug with 45 EVE Multibox Mining rounds out the Top Five with 42 I had a total of 850 visitors this month, bringing my annual total up to just shy of 8,500 – last November I only had a measly 276 visitors, but that first November I had the blog back in 2007 I had a whopping 2,000+ visitors due to a … Continue reading