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TOMORROW’S HOROSCOPE
Workout friend feels snubbed
Dear Annie: I have a friend friends, and I thought that was very
in her early 60s who has been weird. I have never asked to meet
my workout partner for about 10 any of her friends, and why would
years. We usually meet up three she want to see whom I associate
times during the week for a 5:30 with?
a.m. workout because we are both
I believe she is jealous, and I
employed. I also belong to another can’t make myself apologize for
facility, which I attend two
doing nothing wrong.
DEAR
to three times per week for
There are plenty of other
group training classes.
members who go at 5:30
ANNIE
In the summer, I enjoy
a.m., and being a mem-
ber there for 10-plus years,
being outdoors and do a lot
she should be able to make
of walking; therefore, my
conversation with others.
5:30 a.m. workouts are not
I’m the type of person who
so frequent. My so-called
is very friendly, and my
friend knows my routine,
objective is to get my ses-
and I reminded her that I
Lane
sion done and leave, not
would not be showing up Annie
Creators
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socialize. — Gym Member
regularly before summer
in Connecticut
began. Last week, I made
Dear Gym Member: Your
it to the gym two days, and both
days she was very cold to me. On friend is acting childishly. You
the second day, I approached her were very upfront and mature with
and asked whether everything was her about your upcoming sum-
all right, and she put her finger up mer schedule. She is acting more
and said I should know what was like 6 than 60. Try not to say that
wrong. When I said I didn’t, she you feel she is jealous. There could
said I embarrassed her at this gym be a whole host of reasons that
by leaving her “alone” to work out she is being cold toward you. Try-
for the past month. I told her she ing to figure out which emotion is
could join me and another friend the cause of her coldness won’t do
for a walk at night, but she flat out you or her any good. Instead, have
a conversation with her about how
said no.
About a month ago, she asked you feel, all the while sticking to
to meet another one of my recent your schedule. You could always
look at it as a huge form of flattery.
She misses working out with you!
And you should be commended for
being so diligent about your work-
outs, whether you do them alone
or with this friend or with another
friend.
Dear Annie: I’d like to add to
the letter from “Exhausted in Mon-
treal,” who is tired of loud music
at restaurants and in stores. The
thing that bothers me the most is
that so often when I am watching a
movie on television, I cannot hear
the dialogue over the music score.
I’ve turned off many movies lately
because of this. I wish cable com-
panies could install separate volume
controls for the dialogue and music
score. — Charlie in Louisville
Dear Charlie: I know exactly
what you’re talking about, and
I’ve been frustrated by that myself.
Most TVs now come with different
sound modes. Hit the “menu” but-
ton on your remote and see whether
yours does. It might also allow you
to adjust the equalizer. Turning the
bass down and treble up might help
you hear speech more clearly. I
should also mention that struggling
to distinguish speech from back-
ground noise can be an early symp-
tom of hearing loss, so it’s always
worth asking your doctor about that.
THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, JULY 30, 2018
By Holiday Mathis, Creators Syndicate Inc.
ARIES (March 21-April 19). There’s a job
that needs doing and you’ll be assigning duty.
Keep in mind that not all confident people
are capable and some of the most capable
people are severely unconfident.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). The usual
self-help advice says you can either react
emotionally to events or use them as lessons.
Why then, in the moment, does it seem like
you don’t have a choice? Maybe because
you’re not a robot. And that advice is overly
reductive.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). When opportuni-
ty knocks, it’s your chance to show initiative,
charm, brightness and the intention to under-
stand and help. These are the qualities that
will encourage opportunity to come around
more often.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). It’s one thing
to help people who don’t help you back, and
it’s quite another to help people because they
can’t help you back. In that helper lives the
heartbeat of kindness.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Don’t get caught up
in measuring yourself to anyone, not even
your former self. You are, after all, not that per-
son either. All you can be is the best possible
version of your current self.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Social circles,
much like solar circles, run on principles
of attraction and repulsion. Your conscious
awareness of what some people are attracted
to will play into this and you’ll make a choice
about what to present.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). To lay your heart
on the line would normally require courage,
though today it just may be a matter of math.
The potential gains from confessing your
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THATABABY
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feelings are greater than the risk.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Make the right
choice, learn, make the wrong choice, learn
... and it will keep going back and forth ping-
pong-style today. You’re awake and so you
can’t help but come out of the game smarter.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). People’s
tests for one another are not often conscious.
They run one another through obstacles and
observe the results in order to figure out who
is worthy of attention, how much and what
kind.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). If all you
do today is understand a little more than
you did yesterday, it’s a good day. And if you
somehow diminished the suffering of others,
too, you can count the day as great.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). In life and art,
the value of framing cannot be underestimat-
ed. The obvious focal point is for amateurs.
Also, consider the scale of things. What if you
went bigger? What if you zoomed in?
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). You lost some-
thing back there. At the time you thought it
was everything, and now you’re perfectly
content (if not better off) without it. In that
light, maybe today’s stress needn’t affect you
much.
TOMORROW’S BIRTHDAY (July 31). This
year is like traveling on a gigantic cruise ship.
You’ll make yourself at home, live it up, have
your needs taken care of while barely noticing
that you’re also on your way to an adventur-
ous destination unlike the last. The opportu-
nity to start a new business or change jobs
happens in October. Romance and fun in
2019. Capricorn and Virgo adore you. Your
lucky numbers are: 4, 44, 38, 1 and 9.