Let the scabbies begin

As I expected Grey's cut had a lot of scabbies this morning. In my attempt to pluck off really loose ones I made the wound bleed. Well good blood flow is not a BAD thing. I sprayed more aluminum stuff on it. Grey doesn't like it, I think the aerosol makes it feel COLD as my finger tip was cold where I got a lot of backspray from the can. I put wonder dust on the oozing blood as I figured the spray would not stick.

I am toying with asking the girl to come out and ride Lady Paloma and/or ride her for 'exhibition' to potential places for nominal pay. Trying to decide what would be a sum to offer and so on. I feel that I really have to assemble the paperwork I have and see if I can get a brand inspection before I can make any kind of plans.

C offered me a possible out of taking Lady to AL to her SIL's place! Very sweet offer but I would want to have the kids try Lady here and see if they get along with her and even if they loved her and Lady loved them I hate the thought of sending her so far away, poor mare has had quite a lot of travel and changing 'homes' in her life already. Hopefully someone much closer will love the idea of a smooth riding trail horse. I don't think she is endurance fast (IMO she could be an LD finisher, not sure about 50's but not a front runner) but she could sure keep up with most trail riding groups, and perhaps I don't have a good feel for how fast she is going.

Brrr

No snow here, but a cold raw wind blowing. How nice that the cold held off until after the 4 day weekend :)

Grey's cut looked pretty good, lots of sand under the bandage and with the cold I decided its a good time to see what happens with no more bandage so I sprayed some alumashield on it to hopefully have some barrier for germs and grit. I had thought I would do a dry bandage for a day or 2 but if sand is getting in there it would be counter productive to have a wrap to rub that sand against the wound and skin. Crossing fingers that things continue to heal. At least he hasn't been sore to walk on it since the first 2-3 days.

OMG, I have got to just be more careful to avoid known 'my button' pushers or avoid some places altogether. I was this || close to dragging something to a different board with some redacting to make situation more anonymous. I need to worry about my own life instead of seeking out a sympathetic ear for my thoughts about some bad situation all around and party A shares some blame and should not just be getting sympathy. For heavens sake I know how groups operate and the group is almost always sympathetic to the viewpoint of one of their own, why am I letting this fill me with angst? I would have said that I do not place any of that group on a pedestal now if I ever did; but perhaps I was lying to myself because I am sure having difficulties in just MMOB.

Rode Shade twice this weekend

Thats the highlight. I've been emailing myself to vent low thoughts that I needed to release but were too low for public view. I still can't bring myself to stay away from the place that leads me to such angst, don't ask me why. We are getting the edge of a snow storm, I didn't feed before dark so am now not bothering to rush at all but I need to get out within the half hour. The wind was coming up as I rode but it wasn't too cold yet and it was one of those times when riding in the wind was exhilarating rather than a negative.

Yesterday I rode Lady Paloma after my blog post. One definite thing: I do not desire to ride her myself. She is a sweet little horse, a bit uneasy when being worked but just seems to be expecting demands to GO GO GO and will relax a bit when I say we are just dinking but she does NOT do a flat walk for crap, always puts a bit of eggbeater footwork in after just several seconds of good walking - she'll keep the speed to walking levels and isn't sneaking up the pace like Cindy would do when she jigged but its not relaxing for me and dammit I want to be relaxing when the horse is just walking.

YAY - beautiful sunny weather

I have not checked freezer but I do not think we are cooking any big meal, there has been no mention of it. I rode Sadie on thursday. It was a bit cold so I grabbed her since she is at a 90% stuff on the ground stage. Since I am prone to over heat fairly easily it is really working out for me to have this super green stage during winter. I rode her for maybe 10 minutes, resisting getting greedy and asking her to trot. She was steering well, walking ok but not quite striding out with confidence. She thought about scooting when I dismounted but I checked her up with the inside rein like Jo showed me and she responded and stopped and then I got completely off and gave her atta girls. I think it may result in teaching Sadie to stop if I am falling off, that would be a bonus.

Friday I rode Shade and Ole got to come along and play in the prairie dog patch. We just went a few miles, I don't get very ambitious this time of year but it was fun. I would have liked to have an electric collar on Ole for the last bit of the ride; we had passed a guy riding with his dog. I was about to the spot where I put Ole's leash on to make sure he doesn't harass the one neighbor's wild rabbits in her pasture and yard when I met him so hopped off and put Ole's leash on a bit early, no big deal, walked Ole past the rabbit place driveway and hopped back on Shade to ride the last bit home. We were nearly home when Ole started hesitating --the guy and dog were coming back and about to the corner into the neighborhood road, I had to get behind Ole with Shade and then the cur went in the ditch and was heading back towards that corner so I asked Shade to hustle a bit and jumped off and grabbed Ole's leash. I sure would have liked to just be able to give him a jolt for ignoring me, but my general experience with electric devices, especially battery ones has so many failures that I hate to shell out money buying a new collar and I think buying new batteries for his old one is a waste.

Happy Thanksgiving

We may actually have a big meal sometime this weekend. Mom has called me twice asking if I needed anything from Stockyard Supply and then from Walmart, did we need dog or cat food. I prepared this year by buying a DiGiornos pizza at my weekly target run. Last year I bought a small turkey and a spiral ham, heated the ham over thanksgiving weekend and cooked the turkey around christmas, dad invited his buddy over. Turkey wasn't thawed yet that morning so I combined brining and thawing it. I would brine turkey for future roasting, it didn't go all dry like it sometimes does. This year I don't care what I eat this weekend, just looking forward to 4 days with no more stress than logging in to work to see if the automated stuff is running.

Thankful for list:

I am thankful for my sister, that her melanoma had not spread and that her breast cancer was caught early.
I am thankful for my brother and for his wife Margaret and her son S who make bro happy
I am thankful that my parents are still going, lord help me realize they are not youngsters and not everyone is spry until age 90.
I am thankful for my horses (you knew I was going to get there)
Thankful that Grey's cut seems to be healing and does not seem infected, nor painful to him. Lord just give me guidance and patience to pursue wraps as long as needed and then let it scab and look ugly while healing works underneath.
Thankful that Shade is over her cough and seems to feel lively and very thankful that she enjoys her job even though she doesn't really like 'the commute'
Thankful that Sadie is so level headed so far and seems to enjoy the idea of 'being worked'
Thankful that Cindy had good health for all the years she enjoyed and passed peacefully when I had her euthanized.
Thankful that Lady Paloma is getting along nicely with Sadie and does not have special needs. Lord please guide me in selecting her future. Is she meant to lead me to mentoring or something?

Grey update and good grief

I used triple antibiotic + cortizone cream on Grey's cut today. I am wondering why I did not start this a week ago, such is life, sometimes having too many tools leads to grabbing a wrong one a couple times before getting things correct.

It is tuesday before thanksgiving. One would think it was two days before christmas based on this office. People taking time off to do things with their kids that are having the entire week off school, taking off to extend the 4-day break into 5.5 days etc. I really should have gone to the talk at NOAA but I didn't feel like doing security theatre today after having forgot to respond to the original email.

Holy cow, I may need a tax consultant

The Nov. oil check is nearly twice as big as the october check was. Thank goodness I already did the equal shares split but it just didn't go through yet, lawyer is waiting on the return from sister, I didn't ask if she got that done yet, having a mastectomy today I'm sure she has been pretty distracted. I am going to send the siblings 1/4 each of what I received for Nov. With having just put previous 'extra' into savings I should be fine for taxes and then I can decide if I'll do any more divvying up or just not bother after the taxes are filed and I know how much the government will take. Thankfully I don't think my sibs are going to calculate every dollar it would have been since I have done the right thing and divided shares/future payouts equally since the royalties have already paid back the purchase price -- and aunt Julie was able to have the nice funeral she wanted last year and I think she'd be pleased to know her nieces and nephew are getting a nice inheritance out of the oil shares she hung on to through some fairly lean years for her.

grammar pet peeve

and I know --people in glass houses shouldn't throw rocks. But I do hate the misuse of reins vs reigns.

Reins --straps attached to a horse's bit to direct it. Also can be used as a verb --reining in excessive spending (if only Chris Christi had more company doing that!)

Reigns. Rules over. The monarchs reigned for several centuries, partisanship still reigns in american politics.

LOL

Mom " I stayed home and took care of CJ and the farm and cooked two meals so you could have FUN hunting, so the least you could do is give CJ his medicated grain since I'm sick"

riiiggghhhhtttt: Taking care of horses up there, riding just a bit and trying not to get chilled while sitting around waiting for elk to come past was FUN. Not to mention the joys of white knuckle driving home on slick roads. Sis and I didn't do a fun trail riding trip this year because dad was talking about doing the MaahDaahHey trail and then mom wanted that to definitely wait until she might be healthy enough to to along --yeah, like she was going to get healthy enough to commit to something that would keep her away from her boob tube for that long. We are talking about someone that watched European and sucky college football on gorgeous weather days instead of riding even before she had any health issues.

More on Grey

Too bad I'm not into the photo thing, having a set of pics would be useful for gauging progress, forwards or backwards. The povodone salve resulted in a lot of cellular fluid or what have you. Wound does seem to be closing on the end towards the frog. I think Grey is going to end up having some 'lovely' proud flesh lump in the end. I am forcing myself to stay with salve for a bit longer. Healing will be delayed if I try to force a scab while the body is still expelling crap from there. I may switch soon to mixing neosporin and cortizone cream to try to keep the flesh down and let skin form while I'm still scared to encourage scab formation.

typing one handed

I may have to abort this - no injuries just trying to drink coffee at same time. I am dreading Greys bandage change, my fingers got so cold yesterday they hurt, but the real dread is not knowing if things are helping. There is a patch of missing skin where I thought there was only a thin cut earlier. Overall the cut does look like it is healing. Not angry red, but getting some blood flow, flesh filling in the deep area in the middle of the cut and so on. I think I need to use a draining salve a bit longer before I encourage scabbing with wonder dust. I switched to povodone salve yesterday. It is too cold for saline and I think telfa pad and this salve will be easier on the skin too. What I don't like is the skin rub and generally feeling like the duct tape is keeping his skin and hoof moister than it should be but I think its still the lesser evil at this point, dang I wish I had just detoured around the stupid carcass.

I've been avoiding a blog, because I don't know if my fragile ego could handle it if life is still overwhelming them after I made a small gesture to help by paying an unexpected car repair bill. I've felt badly for the author and unable to do anything as she struggles with a life situation -and the car repair was just tip of the iceberg of her stresses. Hopefully god gives her help with other areas and she rebounds to being the super-capable woman I was following last year, or even if she feels like she is muddling along she'll feel like she will make it through the maze anyway.

Thank you Sadie (and Jo-trainer)

I just rode Sadie for the first time at home. Lets see, need to try the Wintec saddle because Shade's barefoot was wanting to tilt off to the side. Wear slicker soled boots so my foot doesn't stick when I abort getting on because the saddle is slipping towards me. Then when I tighten the cinch and try again it would be good if dirt bikes don't ride by right after I get centered in the saddle ....

But Sadie handled everything just as calmly as an old school marm. We walked around for a couple minutes after she was done watching the bikes go down the road. Then I got off, let her eat a bit of grain while I untacked --needed a vise grips to get my cinch undone -- never had a problem with Shade but the billets were not wanting to come loose another reason to see if the wintec will work.

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posted this a bit ago. MOM had to go and harsh my mood by whining "did anyone feed CJ his medicated grain yet, or do I HAVE to" Well if you cannot ask me nicely as the FAVOR that it is to do it then you will have to do it yourself. I am DONE taking on extra care for her and dad's horses just as a matter of course. I work full time and they don't even work part time.

TGIF

Except I have to get up tomorrow, hook up to my little trailer and take off at a somewhat early for me time - I should be rolling no later than 9 am. Yeah laugh, but I've been moving slow, especially in the mornings all week. I'm fetching two horses home. One is Paloma, the Paso Fino from Kansas. I feel badly that Barry's crusade to hurt the U.S. has hit the family that was leasing her so hard. Oh well we have enough hay I can feed her and perhaps I can find someone to come ride her occasionally since she is gaited. I'll have to carve out time to ride her a few times myself to assess what level experience she needs though.

I am actually excited to be fetching Sadie home --or I would be if I didn't feel so ass-dragging tired. I am looking forward to a little ride at the trainers to see how Ms Sadie feels and get input from the trainer. When I get those girls home I probably will not ride. I'll have to change Grey's bandage, the tape was somewhat in place yet this morning so I put an easy boot on and I won't try to mess with that before I go, I'm too slow in the mornings. Plus I'll have to get the girls set up with a water tank. I might take the one from AJ's pen since he shares the big tank. I probably will run the dogs with the car on saturday, must try to get through a car wash tonight, passenger window is so dirty I feel like I can barely see through it.

I got the mineral rights stuff divided up. Lawyer finally billed me, only $300.00, + $19.00 for filing fee in ND. I was worried they would pull a stunt like the rich OC person who posted that the DH's laywer/church friend way over-billed to tune of 5 figures after doing some work for them with no contract --and threatened to sue them when they didn't just pay the hyper inflated bill right away. I Hope the court gives that lawyer a fine instead of any settlement, but OC and especially her DH as she describes him seem quite snobby so I don't feel terribly badly for them like I would for just plain folks that a slimy excuse for a lawyer attempted to cheat in that way. Well I didn't expect the ND firm to try to bilk me, but I was nervous not knowing what it would cost and they had just done the work first rather than giving me an estimate and letting me authorize the work. I'm glad the bill was so reasonable.

friday night fun. As I check a few things to see about possibly launching jobs before leaving I find that there is limited space on the /pub disk. After perl jammer++ CF did rm -rf on /pub1/user he never removed the /pub/user area after the cp of all those directories to /pub1/user had finished and that is the critical disk that needed more space. I called the SA but he had a home repair situation so I had to call the CF and request him to do it --well I did say he could just give me the root password --but he didn't go for that. In the long run it is a good thing for me to not have any root access but tonight I would have felt safer doing things myself. Ah fun when co-workers have family stress.

The trainer emailed me and asked if I wanted to foster and/or adopt the 4.5 year old race horse rescue she has. Well at least I will be showing up with my excuse why I cant do it right now with Paloma. Last thing I would need is TWO young very green broke horses anyway. I like my horses spaced several years apart in age thank you very much.

its not even friday yet?

That sounds SO whiny, but I do feel a bit whiny. I am not getting up early after the time change but I am feeling tired at work well before the end of the day. Maybe I need to take super duper vitamins or get one of those fancy lamps but I'll probably adjust in a bit. Just going to feel blah for a few weeks. Too bad the holidays tend to feel like extra stresses to me rather than a pick me up to counter the shortening days. Just call me MS grinch LOL I am not a miss or mrs.

Grey's cut is probably healing ok. The duct tape is tearing off within 24 hours so I'll have do daily bandage changes until I either take a strap out of a size 1 boot and see if that can be kept on or I decide the cut is ready to scab over and help it along with wonder dust. I put a saline wrap on again today. The cut does seem to be healing at the edges but lots of 'plasma' or something in the center yet. However unless I buy some maxi or mini pads tonight I am out of absorbent materials, plus I have to get going earlier on saturday to get Paloma picked up and then proceed to Larkspur to get Sadie before the trainer has her birthday party to run at 1 pm. Hmm, I think I need to fix up an easy boot tomorrow regardless of whether I go with dry or wet dressing for the bandage.

Grey's cut today

His cut is on the inside heel bulb of his LH foot. The outside heel bulb looked bruised today so I left the easyboot off after I had the new saline pad & wrap on. I hope the duct tape will hold up without the boot, but I couldn't be having the treatment cause worse problems. The cut itself does not look horrible and Grey is walking better. I syringed his tucoprim into him. I was not ready to even risk 1/2 dose on whether he might eat it with a more molasses sweet feed instead of his usual grain.


Mom announced last night that they want to go up to ND for two weeks starting Nov 29. Will this work for me?

Work for me how? Yes I can cover farm chores while they are gone. No I wont blow two weeks of precious vacation doing this. One week tops is what I would be willing to do. Sis has surgery Nov 23. Mom is thinking this will work good for her still being off work and recuperating. How can I frame to mom that I think sis will NOT WANT to be a hostess so soon? So mom and dad better just get a motel unless they are prepared to be helping sis out with things, not be expecting to be entertained in any way, including visiting or help with the getting the football game they want going etc etc --- and for god sakes not creating a mess that sis will have to clean up eventually. I'm not even sure how much buffering I can do if I go along for first part of trip, sis doesn't need to listen to rest of family squabbling either.

missed it by this much

I was all set to wrap up stupid mineral rights stuff tonight but found I did not have check blanks. I thought I had grabbed a box and put in my purse in case I had to write a check for something during the hunting trip. Oh well, now I must write a check tonight.

I must also make some fudge for my SA sailor. Gulp I believe its been over 3 weeks since any letter or anything. I cant decide if I need to just not get a new soldier adoptee when this one's deployment is finished or if it will be easier if I can believe that chips and jerky will be much welcomed treats with a field soldier as opposed to someone on a ship whose list had no food items on it. Its always hard going through letter writing motions when I feel like my letters are so boring to them.

Mom just called and wants a rent check. Now I must figure out what is the last month I paid. So much fun not having a set due date or receipts, just my carbons of my checks. Yeah I should keep better track of my spending in general but "I should" do a whole lot of things that I dont.

Blargh, I am not messing with the KP survey tonight. I may well pitch it. If I haven't canceled my plan with them or sent a complaint I am satisfied enough. I hate companies asking me to take surveys; I waste my time in multiple ways but I resent being asked to give it up taking a dumb old survey.

I used a saline pad on Grey Moun's cut today

I have been worried about infection starting because he seems so tender with it, and the location with cut extending to his frog is just horrible for getting contaminants in there. So I changed his wrap today and put a surgical pad soaked with saline next to the owie. I may change wraps again tomorrow and then every 2 days for a bit. Works better with my schedule and this first pad is probably full of wonder dust from the edges of the cut and so on. He ate some of his feed from yesterday but did not finish it so I syringed him a dose of tucoprim. I may have to stop by the vet clinic tomorrow or thursday and get some more since both Grey and CJ are getting it right now. I should also buy another bunch of vet wrap or flexus bandage wrap as I'm using nearly a whole roll every time I change the wrap. It is raining in Boulder. Usually I hope for us to get some rain at home too but I'd rather it stay dryer with this cut. Oh well whatever will happen will happen.

OH CARP!

I feel so terribly responsible. I told the perl genius with root permission that we needed more disk space on /pub. I had previously asked folks to move /pub/user/folk files to the /pub1/user area. Conceited bastard did not follow my suggestion of how to copy files to /pub1/pub/user which would have for sure preserved them. Instead he used some fancy cp -i -a /pub/user to /pub1/user.

-i should have asked for interaction before overwriting and -a should preserve files but golly gee whiz. the empty /pub/user/niceguy area has wiped out all his files on /pub1/user/niceguy.

Its not really me that did this; but because I said we needed space and just voiced things and the fancy pants root permission guy did things not quite the way I said the files are gone. DAM DAM DAM!

Addendum --example of a liberals mindset. repetition because I am doing a copy/paste from posting on a bb.


Late yesterday afternoon the perl/database guru who has root permission along with the sys admin was in a hurry to get files moved over to a working area. I announced we were out of space on the raid where the data would go and suggested he copy /pub/user/people directories to the other raid (/pub1/user/people) since not everyone had moved files over as I asked them to do before I went on vacation.

Instead he did a rm -rf of /pub1/user and then started copying /pub/user over to that raid.

Today's response from him. Well we cannot back that up as a system admin level. People know they have to use mass store for secure backups and /pub is subject to user (or root errors)

Yeah -- people also know that raid disk arrays are fairly resistant to disk crash losses of data and pushing files to mass store takes time. But it is our (I am one of the people that had been using the raid with more space ) fault that the data is gone. He cannot even feel responsible and apologize for screwing up.

This is exactly how Rush is always describing leftists. They are not capable of even admitting to themselves that they were wrong, it is always someone else's or fates fault. Still interesting to see it in action in a real life scenario vs. the more abstracted public policy stuff.

>>>Oh WOW>>>> it is 3:40 the day after he removed all these directories and there is still no email about it>>>
Perhaps he called people and told them directly or emailed them directly but I am rather surprised that there is not an email with possible remedies for missing data, and I would be included in that list since I also had a data area removed. How strange; does he and the sys admin think that ignoring this will make the problem recede?

>>>As he walks out the door he says "sorry about your data" Well what about all the other data? I am not going to inform everyone that I think may have had a data loss. What would I write 'Oh sorry but "not me" erased your data? and I dont know if he or sys admin will even try to do a restoration' Umm I am not gifted in PC speaking/writing at the best of times, I'm pretty sure anything I would write would come off 90% or more as finger pointing.

Grey Moun casualty on hunting trip

Hopefully not a serious casualty. Perhaps I should have Dr Mike out. It does not feel like there is anything to be done by the veterinarian at this point but I am not sure what I am dealing with. Grey did not seem real sore on saturday when he did it but he was a bugger today when I changed the bandage. Oh well, for now I am going with wrapping it for now and see what things look like after a few every other day wrap changes. I don't like that the cut goes into his frog/back of his hoof area. He would not eat his tucoprim this morning so I gave him a penicillin jab, which he stood for with only a shoulder twitch.

Perhaps he was sensing my mood. I was not happy with getting my nose jabbed by his hock when I was trying to clean out the cut and my general feeling of not knowing just what to do for this injury. I can deal with it taking months for Grey to heal up; but I don't know if I can deal with the possibility of not healing up at all right now.

I guess I should have stated that Grey was injured on saturday when I STUPIDLY tried to get him to go past Vern's elk carcass instead of just going around thru the brush and Grey got into the fence on the other side of the elk. I KNEW better than to try to push it and went around on thursday but I had to be dumb on saturday. Poor Grey, paying for my dumb mistake.

survived the retreat I think

they didn't have karioke (how is that spelled then.) Threats of having it next year or something to increase participation in the entertainment. PUHLEASE NO! --it was not bad this year with just a few people. I ducked out for a beer at the start of the 'performance' I knew would not be much fun. Then I sat on the floor for their 2nd guitar selection so I could make faces w/o being seen :P Is classical guitar just 80% melancholy stuff? Someone else was roped into playing and it was like that too. Then good singer with more rock guitar stuff but he was choosing ballad lyrics too. Depressed that the R's flipped 60 seats and control the House? I was still kind of pissed from the NOAA guy saying the lame duck congress might pass a much belated budget (with spin that the lame dems would be saving NOAA and NSF from the GOP vs the truth that Pelosi and the rest of the marxist D's unconstitutionally passed HCtakvoer (I refuse to call it reform) to cripple the economy instead of passing a budget as they are tasked to do by the constitution. So if they had had karioki I might have queued up Johnny Paycheck IIRC. I swear if Barry gets re-elected and those fools crow about it I might do exactly that in 2-3 years.

Todays fun was listening to control freak data expert whine that we cannot put data on mass store or ldm so more people can easily get to it without the hassle of our web interface and limited bandwidth. BULL PUCKY we can't do it, he has not been ready to relinquish any control. I hope user demand forces him to do it. He is the biggest, dumbest liberal in the bunch too. I mean even other most liberals condemned OBL after 9-11; but CF literally told me "I'm sure OBL had no idea so many people would actually be killed"

I am just so thankful that I will be on vacation now for about 10 days with no internet and no TV. Dumbass infighting about how 'tea party' people cost the R's seats better not show up either. again PUH-LEASE. Before the tea party the GOP might have just barely pulled out 40 house seats to take that branch just because the dems have been so nasty to the country but it was the tea party that kept the GOP inline to barely take part in the HCT (thanks Snowe or Collins for letting it out of committee before Brown could be elected) and it was people's feeling that the tea party can reform the GOP and actually make them shrink this bloated gubermint that flipped 60 house and 6 senate seats from D to R.

got rid of the fuel tank, getting a generator

I finally called the guy back that was interested in my fuel tank. He gave me $150 for it delivered to him. I think I paid $150 for it and picked it up myself but still, hardly any loss on it (except the new cap I bought that didn't help with the sloshing) and its GONE. WooHooo, I love CL, I got rid of my stair stepper, found Lady/Paloma a home for a couple years, the wood chipper I bought via CL was a bust but at least with reselling it on CL it was NOT taking up space forever after I bought it and it didn't work out, that was a $ hit but chalk up to learning experience.

This morning I overheard dad calling to see about renting a generator. Way $$ so I told him we should just buy one, then I proceeded to do a quick search on CL and dad will pick up a honda 2500 watt model tomorrow on his way to Meeker --hopefully. With luck it will be a generator I am happy with, I have debated getting myself one and had been watching CL somewhat but wasn't sure what I wanted. With dad breaking his generator I pulled the trigger. Hopefully this Honda works out for me but I feel like if it doesn't I'll resell it and have a better idea what I really want.

Ugh, this stupid state! --better now but still stupid

wednesday ** Bennett won it**** rats rats rats. no senate race in 2012 and I believe Udall is a better politician so the state will probably have 2 liberal senators for the next 6 years. --especially if we get a good conservative presidential candidate who wins in 2012 ( or even a medium campaigner 'moderate' republican will probably appeal to the nation in 2012 ---please don't be wishful thinking, and please let us have a truly fiscal conservative who will have some national security sense. Still I had better prepare 'bunker' in WY. The entitlements and entitlement mentality are not just going to gently release their death grip on the country.


Well at least its not Bennett ahead by 5% but the senate race is too close to call at 1 AM on Nov 3. Buck leads by less than 7K votes still nearly 1K precincts not reporting yet and some are in liberal urban (ie DUMB areas)

R's do win Sec of state race, AG, and state treasurer -yay. 2 districts swing from D to R here for U.S. house. (3 remain blue, we should have been able to flip one of those, need a really great candidate in 2012)

***below in my rant at 9 pm.

Wisconsin came to senses but CO is going to elect Bennett --unless the early results are heavily urban weighted, but 5%. I think the scare the women crap must have worked enough. This is as much 'thumb in your eye tea party rebels' for not choosing the nice safe establishment Norton person as the 25 million Soros et al poured into the state IMO and I am not happy about it.

But then the state is so STUPID they are voting down amendment 63 to block Colorado from enforcing any Obama care provisions so far. Fucking bunch of socialist whiners much?!


Frazier is loosing to Perlmutter too. and it looks like we will lose Sec of state as well as Hickenlooper is governor. --he is over 10% ahead. Will the state legislature get swung back to R at least? Arghhh!!! Caring about elections sucks.


On a happier note several congressional races are going GOP. Nanzi WILL lose her gavel and with some luck there will be a bigger flip than in 1994. Just no celebration for me stuck in an idiot state until I retire or unless start my own business --could I overcome my laziness and do it?