no substance to the Virgo horoscope

“I don’t want to complain, but there’s no substance to the Virgo horoscope this week…” But upon review, I had to beg a second opinion. Just goes to show what I have to put up with on some days. This morning took a little extra time to get going because I had to go back and decimate a column of ants crawling across the kitchen counter. My carefully executed pogrom is merely a holding action, and I’m not sure that I’m really winning at all, merely stemming the flood. And that’s the “decimate” in the truest sense of the word, which means to reduce by one–tenth. Statistically, decimate is usually used the in the wrong sense, and using the same statistics, I don’t think I even got close to killing that many. I just wiped out single column that had split into two, and both sides of the ant front were pushing across my kitchen. The message I hoped they got was simple: not on my kitchen counter. It’s not a counter that’s big enough for all of us. It’s either me or the ants. I won this morning’s round. Although, I seriously doubt that I really wiped out one–tenth. More like a fraction of a percent, but it felt like victory.