Dr Mike found a couple of bone chips when he x-rayed. One of the better outcomes one can get when you have to x-ray I guess. I set up a noon appointment at CSU vet school for her intake exam. If they agree that surgery is a good treatment option and I'm pretty sure they will they operate on Friday.
4-6 months to recover. That was to fully recover and be ready to do what she was before. I don't know how long before I have to start doing rehab riding to get her knee in shape. I thought they might email me some detailed instructions but I'll have to call them if Dr Mike doesn't know if I need to stop using the Surpass and other pre-surgery things. Not the best way to 'run a railroad'.
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Monday, April 22, 2013
8 meters? Thats really quite an error
Arrghh. I should have fixed the stupid software guru's code years ago. But it is in his typical obscure coding style and I thought the errors were more like up to 1 meter which is not a huge deal for heights for the atmospheric folks. GPS gives a cm level height but thats wrt to a an ellipsoid not the actual MeanSeaLevel height of the earth which the atmosphere folks use. So we have to have a conversion and ssg's thing was to use his much loved PDL and an out of date and too coarse set of grid point geoid offsets to get an interpolated value. Now for his on SV work where their coords are changing all the time so they may need to accept up to 8 stinking meters of error to get a really speedy response.
But I don't need that kind of speed for ground-based stuff with fixed coordinates and I really should not live with over 25 feet of error. So I need to figure out how to implement a proper spherical harmonic computation of geoid height in the framework of ssg's module that spits out the netcdf format files. I thought if I web serached a bit I would find a perl library module pre-built to do this but I'm not having any luck.
What I want probably exists if I had the search term(s) that would bring it up but I'm very close to giving up and just coding things up myself. The algorithms are pretty simple, its the slurping up the coefficients and saving them until each sites offsets have been computed that might be tricky to do in an efficient way. Maybe I should dump the perl altogether instead of thinking its worth it to get the netcdf output. But netcdf can be a tar baby and I don't want to write new code for it if I don't have to.
But I don't need that kind of speed for ground-based stuff with fixed coordinates and I really should not live with over 25 feet of error. So I need to figure out how to implement a proper spherical harmonic computation of geoid height in the framework of ssg's module that spits out the netcdf format files. I thought if I web serached a bit I would find a perl library module pre-built to do this but I'm not having any luck.
What I want probably exists if I had the search term(s) that would bring it up but I'm very close to giving up and just coding things up myself. The algorithms are pretty simple, its the slurping up the coefficients and saving them until each sites offsets have been computed that might be tricky to do in an efficient way. Maybe I should dump the perl altogether instead of thinking its worth it to get the netcdf output. But netcdf can be a tar baby and I don't want to write new code for it if I don't have to.
Friday, April 19, 2013
Surprise Surprise Surprise --NOT
The Boston Marathon bombers are Chechnyan Muslims. Media is officially saying they are from "southern Russia" some media adding "region close to and sympathizing with Chechnya. Of course no mention of the fact they were JIHADIS grrr. Hell, I even took down a post stating the facts and that the media would barely mention the Muslimism because one member is married to an Iranian "barely practicing" Muzzie. He is practicing enough to be sympathetic to some of the terrorist scum.
Makes me so mad. Islam is about as legit a religion as Marxism. Its a political goal of a world-wide caliphate with forced charity/wealth sharing like Marxism but with the leaders getting exemptions and a totalitarian government enforcing the 'moral rules' and oh yeah breaking the common religious rules of don't lie, cheat, steal or kill is OK as long as the rule breakage is done in the name of expanding that caliphate, forced submission of the whole world to your 'religion'.
I don't know what the answer is. I do understand not wanting to declare any religion as illegitimate lest the next group of slimy politicians in charge declare that Methodist and Orthodox Jew are also illegitimate and so on; but the Jihadists are using our principles of freedom of religion against us and with every intention of declaring Islam as the only legit religion the minute they have enough power (already the case in i.e. Saudi Arabia)
Makes me so mad. Islam is about as legit a religion as Marxism. Its a political goal of a world-wide caliphate with forced charity/wealth sharing like Marxism but with the leaders getting exemptions and a totalitarian government enforcing the 'moral rules' and oh yeah breaking the common religious rules of don't lie, cheat, steal or kill is OK as long as the rule breakage is done in the name of expanding that caliphate, forced submission of the whole world to your 'religion'.
I don't know what the answer is. I do understand not wanting to declare any religion as illegitimate lest the next group of slimy politicians in charge declare that Methodist and Orthodox Jew are also illegitimate and so on; but the Jihadists are using our principles of freedom of religion against us and with every intention of declaring Islam as the only legit religion the minute they have enough power (already the case in i.e. Saudi Arabia)
Thursday, April 18, 2013
So worried about Shade's knee.
I think it was a fresh injury when Dr Mike was out on the 9th. Seems like it got more swollen after I started treating it and I don't think that it is just me looking at the knee although its possible. Tomorrow will be day 10 of the Surpass(tm) ointment that says to not use more than 10 days. I guess I'll give her bute for a couple of days and then go back to the Surpass(tm).
Dr Mike is scheduled to come and do x-rays on Thursday the 25th and then I'm gone for 4 days for mom's ND memorial. Sucky timing if he finds something serious on the x-ray. I'm not good at not worrying about worst cases ahead of time. Have gotten better over the years and I was not freaked out when he found the sore knee last week, but it has not gotten better and possibly is worse. She was walking pretty gingerly on the uneven frozen ground this am.
I have gone from worrying about the pastern arthritis and can I get rides this year and next to qualify for Decade Horse to just hoping she will be OK for pasture life, maybe very light riding after a year or 2 off. She is a sweetie who enjoys just getting scritchies, and her appetite is still great, its just worrying me to see the careful steps and ouch when she turns or something in case there is more damage happening. Horses can't use crutches and stay off a bad leg so it can heal darn it.
Dr Mike is scheduled to come and do x-rays on Thursday the 25th and then I'm gone for 4 days for mom's ND memorial. Sucky timing if he finds something serious on the x-ray. I'm not good at not worrying about worst cases ahead of time. Have gotten better over the years and I was not freaked out when he found the sore knee last week, but it has not gotten better and possibly is worse. She was walking pretty gingerly on the uneven frozen ground this am.
I have gone from worrying about the pastern arthritis and can I get rides this year and next to qualify for Decade Horse to just hoping she will be OK for pasture life, maybe very light riding after a year or 2 off. She is a sweetie who enjoys just getting scritchies, and her appetite is still great, its just worrying me to see the careful steps and ouch when she turns or something in case there is more damage happening. Horses can't use crutches and stay off a bad leg so it can heal darn it.
Thursday, April 11, 2013
argghhhhh
I really hate working with my interim sys admin. He probably has average error rates in his software but the smugness rather than "oops I'm sorry" whenever I get bitten by one of the bugs makes me want to scream and throw things. But I'm the underling not the boss. Well could not anyway because the HR dept would come after a boss for being uncivil. But smug is pretty well impossible to quantify so no chance he will get his.
Monday, April 8, 2013
Vaya Con Dios AJ
My weekend started well. I rode Sadie fairly early on Saturday and then I let AJ join the big group for some pasture play and grazing time. He had a blast running around but was not too wild and the others were not being run around. I filled 5 tractor buckets with composted manure from the corrals and did a rough dump spread in the pasture were we have a section that is barely nasty weeds and no grass.
Sunday I rode Sadie again, got a later start, had thought of riding AJ too but it was getting late and I wanted to get some more manure moved because we are supposed to get snow tonight. So I decided I would skip riding and just let the horses out again and work on moving more manure. I decided I would let CJ have grass too.
That was a rodeo with CJ hanging in AJs pen and the mares staying with him -- I had led AJ down almost to the gate but he was all angst about the mares back up with CJ so I just let him go. Then when the horses finally dashed to pasture AJ was behind and went sprinting to catch up, went to the corner and jumped the dividing fence rather than going around to the gate and never got up. Its a low spot so I could not see him after he jumped. I hurried down there wondering what kind of mangled limbs I would find and if I should grab dad/or at least some tools first. Found AJ laying flat on his side and not breathing. I may have seen his last eye blink.
My first thought was he broke his neck, but I'm now inclining more to he had a stroke or cardiac arrest because he was not tangled in any fence wire, and he had not been somersaulted but was laying like he landed ok but then dropped to his left side. I feel somewhat bad, because he might have been fine if I had not let CJ out and had led him out to the gate and the other horses had followed. But OTOH even a good euthanasia could not have gone more quickly and quietly and he was having fun that weekend. Maybe mom and he are jumping big hunter jumps just for giggles in heavenly meadows right now. I don't have any recent pics, but I do like this one I took in Dec 2007 for the holiday letter.
Sunday I rode Sadie again, got a later start, had thought of riding AJ too but it was getting late and I wanted to get some more manure moved because we are supposed to get snow tonight. So I decided I would skip riding and just let the horses out again and work on moving more manure. I decided I would let CJ have grass too.
That was a rodeo with CJ hanging in AJs pen and the mares staying with him -- I had led AJ down almost to the gate but he was all angst about the mares back up with CJ so I just let him go. Then when the horses finally dashed to pasture AJ was behind and went sprinting to catch up, went to the corner and jumped the dividing fence rather than going around to the gate and never got up. Its a low spot so I could not see him after he jumped. I hurried down there wondering what kind of mangled limbs I would find and if I should grab dad/or at least some tools first. Found AJ laying flat on his side and not breathing. I may have seen his last eye blink.
My first thought was he broke his neck, but I'm now inclining more to he had a stroke or cardiac arrest because he was not tangled in any fence wire, and he had not been somersaulted but was laying like he landed ok but then dropped to his left side. I feel somewhat bad, because he might have been fine if I had not let CJ out and had led him out to the gate and the other horses had followed. But OTOH even a good euthanasia could not have gone more quickly and quietly and he was having fun that weekend. Maybe mom and he are jumping big hunter jumps just for giggles in heavenly meadows right now. I don't have any recent pics, but I do like this one I took in Dec 2007 for the holiday letter.
Thursday, April 4, 2013
The good, the bad and the funny
Good- AJ and Sadie are being fun to ride. Bad- Shade's fetlock is just not right and I'm worried she is only going to be very light riding sound. Funny- I've been pumping the MSM to Grey and Shade + oral glucosomine for her fetlock and I think Grey is feeling several years younger with the extra joint juice. Maybe I'll take him and Sadie to some rides together if Shade needs to be retired or given several months off with that fetclock.
The ugly. My supervisor at work. He is so lucky that I am not his supervisor. I would rip him a new one for the emails he sends to the partner agency. The latest gem was sending a request for them to do a procedure ONLY to their big boss and the person that has been our dedicated contact --when it was the middle of the night their time. We have aliases for various operational groups, and if one sends to all of them and just includes the boss and contact the night crew can do things that are routine and don't require special approval from a boss within a couple of hours. Plus to me it just comes off very arrogant like we think this high level VIP person over there is supposed to be at the beck and call of our rinky dink processing group all the time. I hope the partner agency is not reading things quite the way I am and getting pissed off at us.
The ugly. My supervisor at work. He is so lucky that I am not his supervisor. I would rip him a new one for the emails he sends to the partner agency. The latest gem was sending a request for them to do a procedure ONLY to their big boss and the person that has been our dedicated contact --when it was the middle of the night their time. We have aliases for various operational groups, and if one sends to all of them and just includes the boss and contact the night crew can do things that are routine and don't require special approval from a boss within a couple of hours. Plus to me it just comes off very arrogant like we think this high level VIP person over there is supposed to be at the beck and call of our rinky dink processing group all the time. I hope the partner agency is not reading things quite the way I am and getting pissed off at us.
Monday, April 1, 2013
Ole feels better.
The vet thought he might have run across a rabid skunk or caught up to a pack of coyotes and ended up having to run for his life as she found more bites on both back legs. I had to coax him to get up and come outside Sunday morning. He was not volunteering when I was heading back out mid morning to grain after doing the hay earlier.
But I gave him a chicken drumstick after we came back in and he perked up and decided he should come out every time I did so I rode Sadie and AJ in the paddock and small arena. Today he bounded up the stairs when I went up for a few minutes after feeding and is otherwise moving great; he is being a bit clingy and doesn't have his normal appetite yet but he is definitely on the mend so far.
AJ was good when I rode him. I'm trying to find a lease rider for him but no nibbles yet. Seems like I've had more interest with past CL ads and I expected there would be more riders that cant afford to board or buy hay to own for themselves but perhaps the Oconomy is so bad they can't even afford gas and a few dollars per ride now. ..... so I am beyond frustrated at idiots reposting shit from "being liberal". Especially people that are not full spectrum liberal/insane but they are buying into this or that BS point and re-posting it.
I rode Shade just briefly this morning. I think her fetlock is better but it is still not working 100% right. OR she has something else going on and I'm missing it, but I think its the fetlock. I'm trying not to get all agitated about it. I'm having Dr Mike come out to vaccinate the horses for rabies next week since the vet told us Brighton had 2 skunks killed and tested positive for rabies Saturday and then that night the local news mentioned a rabid fox in Loveland. I have vaccinated at least the traveling horses for rabies before but last time was Sep 2011 so they need to be redone to have protection and I will do even the mini's now.
I do not want to end up going through the after-exposure series of shots. I'd rather pay to vaccinate all the critters than take even a small risk of going through that; as well as wanting to protect the horses I have sentimental attachment to from possibly getting a miserable disease.
But I gave him a chicken drumstick after we came back in and he perked up and decided he should come out every time I did so I rode Sadie and AJ in the paddock and small arena. Today he bounded up the stairs when I went up for a few minutes after feeding and is otherwise moving great; he is being a bit clingy and doesn't have his normal appetite yet but he is definitely on the mend so far.
AJ was good when I rode him. I'm trying to find a lease rider for him but no nibbles yet. Seems like I've had more interest with past CL ads and I expected there would be more riders that cant afford to board or buy hay to own for themselves but perhaps the Oconomy is so bad they can't even afford gas and a few dollars per ride now. ..... so I am beyond frustrated at idiots reposting shit from "being liberal". Especially people that are not full spectrum liberal/insane but they are buying into this or that BS point and re-posting it.
I rode Shade just briefly this morning. I think her fetlock is better but it is still not working 100% right. OR she has something else going on and I'm missing it, but I think its the fetlock. I'm trying not to get all agitated about it. I'm having Dr Mike come out to vaccinate the horses for rabies next week since the vet told us Brighton had 2 skunks killed and tested positive for rabies Saturday and then that night the local news mentioned a rabid fox in Loveland. I have vaccinated at least the traveling horses for rabies before but last time was Sep 2011 so they need to be redone to have protection and I will do even the mini's now.
I do not want to end up going through the after-exposure series of shots. I'd rather pay to vaccinate all the critters than take even a small risk of going through that; as well as wanting to protect the horses I have sentimental attachment to from possibly getting a miserable disease.
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