11:43
With Saturn trine Mars, Mister Pesavento says that it is best to be long whenever Jupiterâs Red Spot is visible from Earth. Well I live in Florida, you know, The Sunshine State, but itâs just my luck that itâs cloudy today, so Iâm not sure how Iâm going to know when that damn Red Spot can be seen!
And then he gets to talking about some guy named Gartly or Gotlieb, or something and Bullish Butterflies. Well entomology was not my best subject in school, so already I am lost.
So Iâm sitting here with star charts all over my desk, and on the floor, everywhere â I damn near put my eye out with the calipers, pinched myself several times trying to use the sextant, and even worse, eating all those sunflower seeds has given me âthe runsâ.
I keep hoofing it outside, looking up to see if the cloud cover has passed â it hasnât. I donât have one damn trade to show for my efforts, but now my frickinâ neck is stiff from all the looking up at the sky!
Maybe I better look into some other methods â does anyone know anything about Merry Math? I mean, can you really make any money with it?
I called Mister Pesavento to tell him about all the trouble I was having. He suggested I get a neck brace, and then the line went dead,